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The classroom with new formats in digital times

03/05/2013

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Students of the College Notre-Dame in Recereio are released phones and tablets to use as study tools in classroom Photo: Eduardo Naddar / Eduardo Naddar

RIO - famously the video on YouTube in which a teacher, annoyed with the touch of a student's cell phone, take the phone from her hand and shatters on the floor. But it was "for centuries", in 2008. Today, with the popularity of smart-phones, mobile phone no longer prohibited object in room often becomes a welcome research tool. It is a further sign of transformation by which the classrooms are going through.

While struggling to establish a new model of education, with experts criticizing the conventional process, changes have occurred naturally. Some institutions are investing in video classes, labs and innovative games.

At PUC-Rio, for example, students use mobile phone to take photo frame or even to shoot an explanation of the most important teacher. College Notre-Dame in the Playground, all gadgets are released as study tools. They are used by students to make notes and research on the internet. The idea is to delve into topics teaching, with teacher's guidance.

- I like to take pictures of the frame. So, I am free to pay attention to what the teacher says. If necessary, I record explanations on mobile too - Rogério Braga account, student of Geography at PUC.

The schools and universities alone have experimented news to boost education. The tools are very new and do not yet know where to focus investments. A partnership between the International Relations course at PUC-Rio and the Department of Distance Education, for example, allows you to use video and interactivity in the chair Introduction to International Politics.

Another experience is developed in the U.S., where the School of Medicine, Stanford, California, embraced the concept of "inverted classroom", in partnership with the Khan Academy, academy virtual educator Salman Khan. According to this model, students watch video lessons at home and going to school to discuss the topic, ask questions and share findings. "It's a way to make teaching more interactive and allow the construction of a collective knowledge," said the director of the college, Charles Prober, after announcing the news at the end of last year.

Director of the Polytechnic School of UFRJ, Professor Ericksson Almendra says that only 25% of their classes in Principles of Materials Science are face. The rest happens in virtual learning environments, in which he takes questions via chat, provides content, exercises, audio and even video conferencing promotes.

- The classroom is leaving the four walls. My class ends, but I and the students always keep in touch - states.

Sharing, interaction and flexibility. A new classroom project designed by a professor of pedagogy Uerj to boost education is being adopted in different institutions, as the state university, the PUC, the Polytechnic School of UFRJ and CAp-Uerj in Tijuca. This is the Revoluti. The portfolios of the students have laptops coupled and fixed to the ground, rotate around its own axis, allowing different formats within the room.

- One reason the computer has not been fully accepted in the classroom because students are isolating themselves from their colleagues. The class is a place to exchange ideas. With Revoluti can stimulate interaction because the teacher can move through space and arrange the room in groups - explains Professor Henry Sobreira, UERJ.

Not everyone in academia are enthusiastic about the constant search for changes with digital bias. Many teachers do not want to know smartphone classroom. Economist and Education Specialist, Gustavo Ioschpe is skeptical when it comes to changing the teaching model:

- The traditional method has been around since Plato's academy. No model without a hard both intrinsic genius. Several alternative pedagogies have emerged, but proved ineffective. If some method will be revolutionary, the benefits need to be proven empirically.

Digital books in 2015

One of the obstacles the spread of technology is the lack of infrastructure. From 2015, digital books will begin to be distributed in public schools by the National Textbook Program (NPDB), the Ministry of Education (MEC). But you need to solve the serious problem of Internet access. In Rio state schools received a set of didactic games Sesi Mathematics program, launched by FIRJAN. But its implementation is blocked by the low broadband capability. Undersecretary of management education from the State Department of Education, Antonio Paiva Neto explains that increasing the banda was requested and depends on the operators:

- Broadband is limited in Brazil. But we have alternatives like 3G modems for distribution to teachers.

The department provided 350 mediators to teach teachers how to use new tools effectively.

- No use giving notebooks and tablets for students and teachers and class continue to be a reproduction of the nineteenth century.
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