Today, many teachers, mothers, fathers, pupils ask themselves, are textbooks necessary/compulsory (specifically in the teaching of the measure)? I reflect, most educational centers, dragged by the day to day, devote little time to deciding what they want to be and how they want to live their educational experience. Many do not even consider whether what they teach is really useful, whether it is of interest to the pupils or not, and whether the way they teach it is appropriate. They are more focused on teaching than worried about students learning.
These teachers have assumed their role as "teaching", the schools designed, organized and equipped for a world that no longer exists. The world we live is flexible and will become more and more flexible. For each activity there is more than one option. New technologies make it easy for you to search for information of any kind. The new educational model should be, at least as the world it is supposed to prepare for; open, collaborative, innovative, flexible and personalized. Having said that, I believe that textbooks should play a small role in the learning process, not having them as absolute truth.
The good news is, the teacher is no longer required to be the epicenter of information, nor does it make sense that a textbook is. The teacher has the opportunity - and the obligation - to become the one who, with his experience, encourages a critical look from a new role as an accompanying guide or expert in discovering the knowledge of the measure. Where then will be the resources or contents through which students will have to travel to acquire this knowledge? a traditional physical substrate will be maintained: books, lectures, contact with physical reality, participation in projects and experiences of active learning in and out of the classroom, etc.
In adittion to we will have everything the digital media offers: tutorials through podcast, online modules, youtube and other platforms or applications. The Internet offers tremendous possibilities for personalising learning and acquiring digital skills crucial to inclusion in tomorrow’s social, economic and working life. And, above all, it leads us to interaction. With it we are given the opportunity to train in thinking skills and critical spirit. This is, in my opinion, one of the two great real opportunities offered by the Internet. ; the other is to give the student an active role to become the coproducer of his own learning content in collaboration with others.
These teachers have assumed their role as "teaching", the schools designed, organized and equipped for a world that no longer exists. The world we live is flexible and will become more and more flexible. For each activity there is more than one option. New technologies make it easy for you to search for information of any kind. The new educational model should be, at least as the world it is supposed to prepare for; open, collaborative, innovative, flexible and personalized. Having said that, I believe that textbooks should play a small role in the learning process, not having them as absolute truth.
The good news is, the teacher is no longer required to be the epicenter of information, nor does it make sense that a textbook is. The teacher has the opportunity - and the obligation - to become the one who, with his experience, encourages a critical look from a new role as an accompanying guide or expert in discovering the knowledge of the measure. Where then will be the resources or contents through which students will have to travel to acquire this knowledge? a traditional physical substrate will be maintained: books, lectures, contact with physical reality, participation in projects and experiences of active learning in and out of the classroom, etc.
In adittion to we will have everything the digital media offers: tutorials through podcast, online modules, youtube and other platforms or applications. The Internet offers tremendous possibilities for personalising learning and acquiring digital skills crucial to inclusion in tomorrow’s social, economic and working life. And, above all, it leads us to interaction. With it we are given the opportunity to train in thinking skills and critical spirit. This is, in my opinion, one of the two great real opportunities offered by the Internet. ; the other is to give the student an active role to become the coproducer of his own learning content in collaboration with others.
To sum up, the content measures with which our educational system has traditionally been regulated no longer reflect reality, which cannot be limited and subject to a single pattern of behaviour, use and enjoyment. So, while our regulation endeavors to solidify these dimensions in order to define how things have to happen in the classroom, and in the school in general, All it does is add paralysis and confusion to the already complex situation. Neither the Internet, nor technologies will change schools; so will the will of the people.
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