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De: Guillermo Fernando Cámara <guillofca@yahoo.com.ar>
Fecha: 8 de julio de 2011 07:41
Asunto: [gene_camara] Rv: ICT and the future of education
Para: Nuestro Grupo <gene_camara@gruposyahoo.com.ar>
Asunto: Re: ICT and the future of education
From: Francisco Javier Troncoso [mailto:francisco.troncoso@unwin.cl]
Sent: 2011-07-07 19:07
Subject: Re: ICT and the future of education
Dear Colleague:
Computer sciences, computer abilities and advanced use of computers are
among the generic competences of any technician, as before were math and
reading. So you will need plenty of computers. And of software!
A cheap way to get the computers you will need is to recycle second hand
computers, replaced by large and richer institutions. In Chile a
Foundation (http://www.chilenter.cl/) has been created to direct large
business to donate their old computers for schools. Some can be used with
Linux without changes; other can be updated very cheaply and used for more
advanced tasks.
Another way as you say is to make large procurement, putting prices down
for large numbers of students. And don't forget your instructors!
Why notebooks or netbooks? They are fragile, easily stolen or lost,
difficult to service and unable to be updated. Old PC are cheap, solid,
hard to steal, easy to maintain, and you can update them twice or trice.
And the contribution of netbooks at classrooms is still to be discussed.
And then the software! You can use Microsoft's School Agreement or
Campus Agreement to get very cheap legal software, for the institutions,
students and instructors. We shouldn't teach our students to steal. So
we should use legal software!
Or else, use some Linux application, there are aplenty, need few
processing capacity and are virus resistant. You could perhaps also get an
agreement with Apple.
But as computers and software become commodities, they become both
indispensable to have, but not necessarily needed to be studied and
invested in depth, unless you are training into computer science.
It seems that the challenge is double: to make good use of ICT in training
and to keep up dated with the technologies used at the workplace.
That is likely to take every resource we can mobilize, as often "new
technology is given the task of the old one" (McLuhan). Making good
educational use of ICT is not so self-evident.
regards
Francisco Javier Troncoso Unwin
cel 56 9 8137 3929
res 56 32 212 2319
Skype: fco.javier.troncoso
The Unwin Team
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De: Guillermo Fernando Cámara <guillofca@yahoo.com.ar>
Fecha: 8 de julio de 2011 07:41
Asunto: [gene_camara] Rv: ICT and the future of education
Para: Nuestro Grupo <gene_camara@gruposyahoo.com.ar>
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Asunto: Re: ICT and the future of education
From: Francisco Javier Troncoso [mailto:francisco.troncoso@unwin.cl]
Sent: 2011-07-07 19:07
Subject: Re: ICT and the future of education
Computer sciences, computer abilities and advanced use of computers are
among the generic competences of any technician, as before were math and
reading. So you will need plenty of computers. And of software!
A cheap way to get the computers you will need is to recycle second hand
computers, replaced by large and richer institutions. In Chile a
Foundation (http://www.chilenter.cl/) has been created to direct large
business to donate their old computers for schools. Some can be used with
Linux without changes; other can be updated very cheaply and used for more
advanced tasks.
Another way as you say is to make large procurement, putting prices down
for large numbers of students. And don't forget your instructors!
Why notebooks or netbooks? They are fragile, easily stolen or lost,
difficult to service and unable to be updated. Old PC are cheap, solid,
hard to steal, easy to maintain, and you can update them twice or trice.
And the contribution of netbooks at classrooms is still to be discussed.
And then the software! You can use Microsoft's School Agreement or
Campus Agreement to get very cheap legal software, for the institutions,
students and instructors. We shouldn't teach our students to steal. So
we should use legal software!
Or else, use some Linux application, there are aplenty, need few
processing capacity and are virus resistant. You could perhaps also get an
agreement with Apple.
But as computers and software become commodities, they become both
indispensable to have, but not necessarily needed to be studied and
invested in depth, unless you are training into computer science.
It seems that the challenge is double: to make good use of ICT in training
and to keep up dated with the technologies used at the workplace.
That is likely to take every resource we can mobilize, as often "new
technology is given the task of the old one" (McLuhan). Making good
educational use of ICT is not so self-evident.
regards
Francisco Javier Troncoso Unwin
cel 56 9 8137 3929
res 56 32 212 2319
Skype: fco.javier.troncoso
The Unwin Team
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