The Internet in the classroom - Part I
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Education could not be outside of the digital revolution. Many schools have realized the effectiveness of new technologies in education and take the computers into the classroom and teach students to correctly search using the Internet as a tool.
But experts warn: teachers and parents need to know the background and update these new features. Working hard in the midst of conflict of generations that are drawn: on one hand the students, accustomed to broadband and mobile, to another teacher that he wanted a modern VCR in room.
For the Master of Education Marcia Di Palma, the Research Center for Interactive teaching of Tuiuti University of Paraná, a solution to this dilemma is the inclusion and empowerment of the teacher. "The preparation has been using. To create a new technological resources and must first master it. It is a natural process, "he says.
And the numbers show that teachers need to be included in the field of access and technology. According to the latest census of the Professional Teaching of Basic Education (2003), conducted by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anisio Teixeira (INEP), from 1.54 million teachers interviewed, 585 thousand have computer at home, against 700 thousand that have no contact with the equipment.
"If you do not have training, the area of laboratory informatics is underutilized," said the teacher Marcia, researcher of the use of technology in the classroom 14 years ago.
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"Children can better understand the content when they see a video, an animation, than when they hear talk about the content or see an illustration in the book," says the teacher Sílvia Regina Darromqui that USA and videos that low content of the Internet to teach sciences in the State School of Victor Amaral, in Curitiba.
Sílvia USA TV with a USB port, which allows display material stored in a pen drive in TVs appropriate to that function. She noted that the concepts of physics and chemistry are more real to the students of the 8th grade with the use of technology. "We show, for example, the first time that an electron was shot, presenting a video on YouTube (www.youtube.com), says Silvia.
The teacher says that the use of content available on the Internet in the classroom arouses the curiosity of students to look for more content in their own network. "I choose carefully and make all content that they always ask where they can find more about that issue," he says.
Positive Environmental Garden in school at least once a week classes are in front of the computer. Disciplines such as physics and biology are taught in the monitor, with animations and simulators. "Access in room, a portal that simulates an electron microscope, an extremely expensive equipment to get into a school. On the site students view slides of actual tissues, "says Juliana Augusta Dadaz, professor of computer science in school.
The 6th grade students of the college, Izabela Mara Isadora Martins and Bruna Bastos, 11 years, say the lessons of science in front of computer help to better understand the content. "You already have a defined vision of what the teacher is talking, do not need to be wondering," says Bruna.
The students have already used the Internet at home, but the use is more for entertainment than for education. Even so, the network is the only source of research. "My mom would prefer me to do research with books, but with the Internet is easier and faster, and you type it appears now," says Izabela.
The very class of new-style computer won. If at the beginning of the 1990s was learned principles of MS-DOS text editor, and in green-screen monitors, today, children are the 5th series concepts of organizing information and in 6th grade, classes of search on the Internet and production of video. "This is a hi-tech generation. They dominate the equipment and are very easy to learn, "says Juliana.
Information filtered
The concern with the veracity of information found on the network or the inappropriate content that search systems can provide a simple search, creates some reluctance to educators on the use of the Internet.
To help guide the navigation through the network, some portals provide content prepared by educators and specialists, aimed at teachers and other information "extraclasse" for students.
"Schools in general are not prepared to offer a single multimedia material and make the orientation of the student to navigate," said Betina von Staa, coordinator of educational technology educational Positive Group, which maintains the portals and Learn Educational Brazil, in registered schools which can access supporting material, build blogs for teachers, keeping projects on-line and to maintain projects with schools in other parts of the country.
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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