Overseas Digital Education Experience

It should be noted that the transition to the universal digitalization of education begins when a wide discussion of the catastrophic consequences of the introduction of e-schools begins in the West.

Recently, the New York Times published information on the topic: " A school without technology in Silicon Valley." The article reports that in the educational process of the school, which is attended by children of employees of such technological giants as E-Bay, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, technological products are not used at all, and preference is given not to computer screens or interactive boards., and old wood planks, chalk, paper, pen. Why does a person protect his children from what he produces himself?

The answer to this question can be found in the expression of Google’s high-ranking employee Alan Eagle: “The idea that using the App or iPad will better teach my child reading or math is just ridiculous.” Eagle notes that his daughter, a student of the 5th grade, still " does not know how to use Google." Instead, like her other classmates, she is trying to improve sewing skills.

According to Alan Eagle, learning how to use technology is as easy as learning how to brush your teeth. Eagle sums up: “We simplify Google or some other product to such an extent that even people with the lowest intellectual level can use it freely. The fact that, as adults, our children will not be able to use technology, even speech can not be.

Evan Williams, founder of Blogger and Twitter, says their two sons also have similar limitations. There are hundreds of paper books in their home, and each child can read as many as they want. But with tablets and smartphones all the more difficult - they can use them no longer than an hour a day.

The New York Times journalist Nick Bilton during one of his interviews with Steve Jobs asked him if his children loved the iPad. “They do not use it. We limit the time children spend at home on new technologies, ”he answered. In the Jobs family, there was even a ban on using gadgets at night and at weekends. Other " gurus" from the world of technology do the same.

4. They will learn less about spelling, punctuation and grammar, because in all gadgets and browsers there is an autocorrection function. Therefore, a person who will not be able to write by hand, most likely, will not be able to write correctly.

 

US federal educational standards in 2010 are recommended to teach writing only in kindergarten and first grade, where children are given in five years. In half the states they did. That is, since the age of six, many American children no longer write with their hands, but the alphabet is taught on a computer with tablets.

In the fall of 2016, the first children went to school in Finland who are not forced to write with their hands. In Sweden, too, they began to abandon writing and provide children with devices that convert printed text to written. Swedish scientists believe that children's motor skills are not suitable for writing, so first-graders should press the keys: the child types text on the computer and sees how it looks in words.

In the UK, no recipes were refused, but first-graders are immediately taught to write and print. As soon as the child learns to somehow write, he passes the test on them and almost always switches to writing in block letters - the whole of the UK is written by them. Some Britons may not even understand the text recorded by the hand of a Russian é migré who taught English letters in a Soviet school.

African Virtual University The African Virtual University uses satellite technology, the Internet, telephone lines and e-mail to connect university branches across Africa into a single network for real interaction with an instructor. Instructors support students and facilitate two-way communication in the interaction process. At a virtual university, thousands of students, including technicians, engineers, managers, and scientists from more than 15 countries, are successfully trained (African Virtual University 2001 website. Http: //www.worldbank.org/knowledgebank/ facts/avu. html) [9]. For example, in Botswana, it is planned to introduce several new distance education programs for vocational education. Now in Botswana more than 20, 000 Internet subscribers. This is a relatively high level of access to ESM, which contributes to the implementation of the government's plan to provide high quality vocational education to various groups of the population using flexible distance learning methods [10]. The Ethiopian Media Education Agency has partnered with World Space, which provides one broadcast channel and 50 digital receivers for more than 400 programs from African countries. This satellite can transmit sound programs and multimedia information; you can download text, video, audio, graphics, and radio. Files can be sent to the computer. The media agency intends to use the system for data transmission via satellite resource centers throughout the country [9]. The system of open and distance education in Namibia, through a number of providers, the most important of which are the Open Education College, the National Institute for Educational Development, the Namibian Polytechnic and the University of Namibia, provide training to students in various parts of the country. Suppliers have established quite a few training centers throughout the country in order to reach people in rural areas with distance education. Schools and colleges became centers of learning in the evening. The number of those enrolled in them has tripled in three years and is 52%.

Canadian schools Canada has four national programs that support virtual education and training. The first is the “management of technology education” (http: //olt-bta.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/indexx.html), which works with the government, institutions and organizations of the private sector, promotes research, evaluation the use of technology in education; raising awareness of the opportunities, challenges and benefits of technology-based learning, and acts as a catalyst for innovation in innovative learning technologies. The second is a network center created by the initiative of the government, business community and the educational community. It provides a large amount of information and contributes to the organization of the learning process using the Internet. The third is the telecommunications network center for advanced training, located at the base of Simon Fraser University, the Center conducts research, develops and demonstrates effective distance learning in various areas. The fourth program is presented by the Canadian Association of Distance Education, which promotes research, organizes conferences and seminars for professionals working in the field of distance education. Exemplary programs for the implementation of ESM in the vocational education system are: Mount Royal College in Calgary, and George Brown College in Ontario, which developed a complete training package for obtaining an electrical technician certificate through the use of a CD-ROM. Technical College in Louisiana In 2008, the Technical College of Louisiana launched an online initiative to implement two strategic goals: to provide state residents with access to all college training resources, and to serve as a catalyst for further online consolidation 16 public educational institutions of louisiana. The project was created at the initiative of the president. Currently 63 general education courses are available on the Internet in the humanities. But the project is expanding in other areas of study and has about 700 students. Each of the colleges included in the project offers online programs. One of the main tasks is to establish the standardization of hardware platforms and software applications among 16 colleges. Recently, it was decided to merge all colleges on the basis of the SunGard Higher Education’s Banner ERP system to provide free access to the open source platform. This was helped by the company IMS. With the help of the IMS, the system transfers the content of training in an electronic college to a common cartridge in order to guarantee that the information can be accessed and used with the help of various hardware and software. Introduced by IMS in 2007, the common cartridge provides for the integration of digital content with autonomous learning tools. In addition, teaching aids are used, such as games, testing, simulations, and assessment tools. Thanks to the Campus IMS program, project developers hope to collaborate with the creators of related online institutions in solving the problem of integrating learning applications in order to provide more reliable learning in the online environment [13]. The studies of the Danish Institute of Assessment obtained the following data on the use of ESM in the NGO system: 82% of teachers participated in advanced training in the field of ESM; 87% consider access to the ESM convenient and comfortable, both for them and for students; 85% use good quality ESM; 87% - preparation for lessons; 84% - during lessons; 69% - for communication between themselves and students at least every week; 80% - to complete their written homework assignments.

 

Thus, a graduate of a modern school who will live and work in the coming millennium, in a post-industrial society, must possess certain personality traits, in particular:

• adapt flexibly in changing life situations, independently acquiring the necessary knowledge, skillfully applying them in practice to solve various problems so that throughout life you can find your place in it;

• independently think critically, be able to see the difficulties arising in the real world and look for ways to overcome them rationally using modern technologies; to clearly understand where and how the knowledge acquired by them can be applied in the surrounding reality; be able to generate new ideas, think creatively;

• competently work with information (be able to collect the facts necessary for the study of a specific task, analyze them, put forward problem-solving hypotheses, make the necessary generalizations, compare with similar or alternative consideration options, establish statistical patterns, formulate reasoned conclusions and, on their basis, identify and solve new Problems);

• to be sociable, contact in different social groups, be able to work together in different areas, preventing conflict situations or skillfully leaving them;

• work independently to develop their own morality, intelligence, cultural level.

 

⇐ Предыдущая1234Следующая ⇒

Поделиться: