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COMENIUS PROJECT DEBATES IN TEACHING DEPARTMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS ON “WHY WE ARE ON THE MOVE” CONSIDERATIONS ON THE SUITABILITY OF THE HIGH SCHOOL BEING OPEN TO NEW WAYS OF TEACHING BASED ON THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES The necessity of using ICT in everyday education can be defended in two ways: firstly, because of its utility as a way to facilitate communication with the student (email, etc.) and motivate the student (the presence of more audiovisual sources, digital blackboards, etc.), which allow access to content and cultural aspects that weren’t previously available or were too expensive (through websites, blogs and virtual classrooms) and that even make possible distance teaching and evaluation (online courses); secondly, its use introduces, illustrates and teaches the student to live in a world in which technology is necessary in almost every context (professional, social, personal, etc.), as it was before with reading and writing, etc. However, we believe that there must be clear that the backbone of the education should be knowledge and comprehensive training for students. For this purpose, new technologies are not an end but a means in itself. In a secondary school or high school the principle idea of using ICT—and it is not always this way—should be the utilization of ICT as a servant to our educational purposes, avoiding that the unquestioning fascination with technology takes hold of us and becomes an end in itself. On the same line it is also our job to orient students to the conscientious control of these tools and promote the reflection its advantages, its disadvantages and its rational use. In conclusion, the use of new technologies in our teaching practice is a need and vital to get: o Teachers and students updated o Syllabuses wholly integrated into our current society and labor market needs o Our students motivated since we are using the same language and communicative channels they usually use in their own daily lives HOW DO WE USE IT TO OBTAIN AND REINFORCE THE IDEA THAT OUR SECONDARY SCHOOL IS OPEN TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE USE IN ITS TEACHING PRACTICE? ¾ The best approach is to integrate ICT into every single aspect and fields dealing with education and training, including administrative issues ¾ Teachers of this high school mainly use ICT as a complementary source to other methods of teaching in and outside the classroom, as a way of distributing materials (and sometimes as a substitute of textbooks), and as a way to follow the students’ work (for the submitting of work and to control the activities), in support of the work of the tutor and as an additional tool for evaluation.

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COMENIUS PROJECT DEBATES IN TEACHING DEPARTMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS ON  

“WHY WE ARE ON THE MOVE”  

CONSIDERATIONS  ON  THE  SUITABILITY  OF  THE  HIGH  SCHOOL  BEING  OPEN  TO  NEW WAYS OF TEACHING BASED ON THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES 

  The necessity of using ICT in everyday education can be defended in two ways: 

firstly, because of its utility as a way to facilitate communication with the student (e‐mail,  etc.)  and motivate  the  student  (the  presence  of more  audio‐visual  sources, digital  blackboards,  etc.), which  allow  access  to  content  and  cultural  aspects  that weren’t  previously  available  or were  too  expensive  (through websites,  blogs  and virtual  classrooms)  and  that even make possible distance  teaching and evaluation (online courses);  

secondly, its use introduces, illustrates and teaches the student to live in a world in which technology is necessary in almost every context (professional, social, personal, etc.), as it was before with reading and writing, etc.  

However, we believe  that  there must be clear  that  the backbone of  the education should  be  knowledge  and  comprehensive  training  for  students.  For  this  purpose, new technologies are not an end but a means in itself. 

In a  secondary  school or high  school  the principle  idea of using  ICT—and  it  is not always  this way—should  be  the  utilization  of  ICT  as  a  servant  to  our  educational purposes, avoiding that the unquestioning fascination with technology takes hold of us and becomes an end in itself.  

On the same line it is also our job to orient students to the conscientious control of these  tools  and  promote  the  reflection  its  advantages,  its  disadvantages  and  its rational use. 

In conclusion, the use of new technologies in our teaching practice is a need and vital to get: 

o Teachers and students updated o Syllabuses wholly  integrated  into  our  current  society  and  labor market 

needs o Our  students  motivated  since  we  are  using  the  same  language  and 

communicative channels they usually use in their own daily lives  HOW  DO WE  USE  IT  TO  OBTAIN  AND  REINFORCE  THE  IDEA  THAT  OUR  SECONDARY SCHOOL IS OPEN TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE USE IN ITS TEACHING PRACTICE?  

  The best  approach  is  to  integrate  ICT  into  every  single  aspect  and  fields dealing with education and training, including administrative issues 

Teachers of this high school mainly use ICT  as  a  complementary  source  to  other methods  of  teaching  in  and  outside  the 

classroom,   as a way of distributing materials (and sometimes as a substitute of textbooks), 

and   as a way to follow the students’ work (for the submitting of work and to control 

the activities),   in support of the work of the tutor and as an additional tool for evaluation.  

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In no way do we use IT as an alternative to other forms of work, communication or more conventional evaluation techniques, but always as a way of complementing these. 

  TYPES OF STRATEGIES 

Daily use in the classroom: o Google Earth,  o youtube videos,  o own themed blogs and other ones from education professionals. o WIKIS 

Incorporation into cooperative work.  Using  email  to  send  syllabus,  schemes  and  supplementary  classes  at  the  high 

school level (at this level we have renounced the textbook) item   Participation in training of new web tools (dipity, prezi, ...)  Scientific pages from which we can see as useful images and animations  Access to virtual laboratories from which students can simulate some processes 

that we are possible, due to the necessary material available in our laboratory.  Using the website of the institute in which hung work done by students.   Virtual classroom, where we hung notes and web resources where students can 

review the different animations we've seen  in the classroom. They also appear to have work to do, directing support pages to perform the work safely.  

Digital Whiteboards  Short scientific videos from youtube.  Social networks  Web pages  Collaborative suits (google drive)  Skype and sharing lessons  Projects made using multimedia 

  WHICH ARE THE MAIN PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF IT IN THE CLASSROOM AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL? 

  ICT is helpful but also present some problems, even risks. 

   First of all, there are the problems with the functioning of the tools themselves. 

IT  is  socially  in  constant evolution and  its updating—what gives  it educational value—requires resources and technical capacity that the school doesn’t have. 

 •  Frequently  problems  of  obsolete  technological materials  threaten  the 

planned  activities  in  the  classroom  or make  the  activities  ineffective because  the materials are outdated. With  respect  to  this  there  is  little that the teacher can do about this.  

The wifi network does not always work properly and the connection speed is low in many  occasions.  There  is  a  high  number  of  persons  using  internet  access, which slows usage.  

There aren’t enough devices (laptops, PC, software...)  

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Another thought on the topic of ICT is one of the effects that the implantation of the use of IT strategies can produce in our work as teachers and in the results of students. 

 • It has already been mentioned that we should never forget that the use 

of  technology  should  always  be  supportive  of  our  educational  goals, avoiding that the unquestioning fascination with technology might take hold of us and become an end in itself.  

  We  should  realize  that,  by  itself,  ICT  usually  produces  collateral  and  negative 

effects  in some students, which starts with a gap that can open between them because  of  its major  and minor  resources  in  domestic  access  to  IT  and  these technologies (laptops, internet connection, etc.).  

Students are so used to handling social networks, but most do not know access to information sources, and critically discern what are appropriate and which are not. 

  Other associated effects  that usually occur do  to  the use of  technology by  the 

students  are  deficiencies  in  the  domain  of  their  oral  and  written  language, problems with  concentration  in  the  classroom and  reading,  less persistence  in the work, motivated by the habits of the rythyms (accelerated) typical of audio‐visual, etc.  

  Teacher  training  is  not  enough  or  accurate.  We  need  more  support  from 

Administration to participate in training courses.  

Another  problem  is  the  dense  schedule  of  all  teachers  that  prevents  the coordinated use of tics. It takes time and a  lot of work to prepare products for teaching and every time we have more teaching hours and therefore less time to prepare new teaching strategies in class action. 

 

HOW CAN THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DISTINCT MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY BE IMPROVED THROUGH THE USE OF IT? 

  By using email and other systems of communication.  

E‐mail  and  other  systems  of  communication  in  real  time  (the  virtual classroom)  streamline  the  communication  between  members  of  the school community, but  their easy access can be a double‐edged  sword because it can overwhelm everyone.  

  Norms  of  use  should  be  established  (regarding  channels,  times, 

messages); in one word: rationalization of their use.   

We should have enough time to an effective coordination. 

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