Piriz Mariana’s essay

Among the last years, the implementation of technology in different fields such as politics, science and education has provoked a shift in our society and culture. But without doubt technology has provoked the greatest twist in education, aiding teachers to catch their students’ attention and to enrich the learning-teaching process through the usage of ICTs in the educational field. However, the usage of ICTs in educational institutions is far from being fully implemented due to the great amount of money that governments have to invest in order to introduce technology at school.

With the aim of promoting the usage of ICTs at school, the governments of different American countries carried out an array of projects that fostered the ‘One laptop per child scheme’. This project was created by Nicholas Negroponte, and it consisted in distributing netbooks to every student so that they could have access to explore and express their ideas. In Argentina a similar plan was carried out with the name of ‘Conectar igualdad’ in order to foster cooperative learning and the interaction of learners within the classroom.

By providing each learner and teacher with a netbook, a new model named ‘Modelo 1.1’ is trying to be implemented in Argentina since 2010. According to this model, students and teachers can use computers not only at school but also at home in order to enhance the teaching-learning process. Having netbooks in the classroom is paramount in this digitalized era, since it gives students the possibility of watching videos, using power point presentations, using blogs, hotmail, moviemaker and many others software to learn.

All in all, I consider that the implementation of technological tools at school is very useful since they are meant to facilitate the teacher’s labor and enhance students’ motivation and creativity. Yet, it is also true that in order to continue improving; teachers should become acquainted with all the software and technological devices that students can use, so that they can guide students to use technology properly.