In addition to technology, pedagogical proposal must be consistent, says … – Paraná-Online (press release) (Blog)

In schools and colleges where technological bet is old, teachers report increased learning and student engagement. The risk, experts say, is to invest only in the use of equipment without a consistent pedagogical proposal.

In Trevisan Business School of Sao Paulo, most of the rooms is equipped with digital blackboard. In class, every student takes a notebook or tablet. “The movement that the teacher runs on the board, the student can follow the computer itself,” explains Renato Tavares, coordinator of school course in Accounting. “He gets everything is played on the screen. No need to be dispersed by copying the matter.”

In addition to better prepare for the technology that will find in the labor market, streamline equipment classes. “It is possible to exemplify a mathematical calculation much faster and have time to discuss the matter,” said Tavares.

The technology is also in the routine of Dante Alighieri, traditional private school in São Paulo. In high school, each student gets a school tablet and rooms have digital whiteboards.

“In today’s world it is impossible to think of the student’s education, social and work without this bias technology, they bring before school,” argues Valdenice Minatel, Dante’s technology coordinator. “And while digital natives, they are still naive. We need to discuss ethics and critical in this universe,” he says.

The school also uses the platform “adaptive learning”. The hits, errors and time spent on each question, registered in the virtual environment, give clues to plan classes and map the most common difficulties in the class.

“The teacher gives exercises and the system data, you know what to prioritize, before starting a new content,” Valdenice says.

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Educators see the use of technology at the same time with optimism and concern. “It is positive because it speaks the language of youth, which is now connected to technology, and makes it the most attractive school,” says the director of the Catholic University Education College of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Neide Noffs.

But she says fear that educational groups to use innovations to reduce the number of teachers or to turn them into mere system operators. “This can not precarious the role of the teacher. It is essential to maintain the knowledge promoter function.”

For Roberto Lobo, former dean of the University of São Paulo (USP), the technology should be better integrated the educational project. “If well used, not only as a marketing show, can improve and the learning process,” he said.

The technology also streamlines classes. “It is proven that the traditional lecture 50 minutes with a monologue not always interesting teacher, does not hold your attention for more than 20 minutes,” says Wolf.

The information is the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.