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The challenges of school due to Technological Revolution

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Friday, 12 February 2010 08:32

{mosimage}The learning process revolves around the conditions of public schools, the attitude of the teacher facing the challenges of school due to the Technological Revolution and the changes in Western society.

Alonso said:

"The structural basis of the current school is the bureaucratic model of functionalist design, faiolista, with emphasis on production, understood as the accumulation of" knowledge "(read more / reproductions) [...]. Administrative and teaching are separate, independent, providing levels of action and different authorities. "(2003, p.25).

Alonso (2003, p.26) states that the current school still retains characteristics of a traditional model of education that meets the needs and expectations of society in other periods of history, in which learning was to acquire knowledge from outside, and the function of school is limited to be only the player model existing society.

Since the beginning of the century, Western society is going through significant changes that influence the way we think and we act. Therefore, changes the traditional procedures of Fordism, able to transform from the technological development in order to bring about changes in the way of living, social interaction, in short, in all aspects of human life. (ALONSO, 2003, p.27).

Litwin, notes, "The technology available to students aims to develop the ability, both cognitive and aesthetic, through the multiple uses that teachers can perform in areas of group interaction" (1997, p.10).

With the technology available to students, there is greater demand in relation to teaching practice.

Litwin, said:

"The processing and transmission of information has evolved over the history of mankind. Since the treatment manual, with the use of recorded marks in wood, tabulinhas and alphabetic writing, the mechanical treatment, with the rise of the press in the year 1439 in the West, to the automated processing nowadays with the advent of computers (1997, p.79).

This begins a speech in which he believes, technological innovation and modernization of the school. This view considers that the incorporation of new technologies to education itself is crucial for improvement of teaching. "(1997, p.80).

The incorporation of new information technologies and communication in the educational field has consequences for teaching practice and to learning processes. (Litwin, 1997, p.78).

Litwin also states that:
"New technologies and the exponential increase of knowledge led to a new organization of work, where it is necessary:
- The essential specialization of knowledge, giving rise to the figure of the specialist;
- The disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration;
- Easy access to information (files, databases, etc.).
- Consider knowledge as a precious value, measured in terms of production, cost, utility, productivity and transaction in the economic life, etc.. "(1997, p.83).

According to Litwin (1997, p.83), in this context the educational projects revolve around a dual problem:

a) respond to the demands of the production system on the basis of scientific and technological advances today;
b) develop a curriculum (in the broad sense) to ensure a quality basic education for all citizens.

We consider that there is greater demand for quality teachers and quality education, in which there is mutual learning, and yet prepared to deal with responsibility and competence a new reality as experienced by us all.

Surely in a society where change is constant, we need to act professional pro-active, engaged, seek goals, which are persistent and able to recycle whenever that can be matched according to the need for a society that requires a lot professional, not only because it requires many technical and theoretical knowledge, but mainly because it requires that this theory fits with the realities on the daily work, this must be accompanied by the practice.

The school should be a learning space for the formation of citizens, nurturing the values, the development of intellectual abilities and feelings and attitudes that contribute to formation of the type of man and society that wants to build, not limited to simply providing and perpetuation of the selected elements (ALONSO; QUELUZ, 1999, p.89).

Alonso (2003, p.29) states that "The way school is organized, the structural model in which sits the pressures of governing bodies for the bureaucratic routines, all this confirms the persistence of traditional conceptions Dominant expense of other more consistent with modern proposals of teamwork and the development of a joint proposal to the school. "

The schools are organized in a way that allows the persistence of traditional views, so we, education professionals, we need to raise the educational institutions and all that they belong to assume a new position in front of the educational process and thus need also innovate and adapt our schools according to the reality of our modern society. Therefore, it is an essential transformation that seeks a new way, more creative, less accommodating, more participatory, more ethical, more democratic, more technologically demanding, with teachers and administrators are able to adequately promote and conduct the necessary changes.

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