Many schools have dropped out of master classes exclusively to transform education. The idea is for students to leave the classroom with more knowledge than theorists.
We are talking about spaces where children learn to be critical and to accept only ideas based on solid arguments or proven empirical evidence, they are betting on comprehensive training with new methodologies, as well as a cooperative and collaborative learning method.
- Teachers stop conveying so much knowledge and try to extract more than to introduce it.
- Teachers guide students by proposing the topic to address and tell them what they want to know.
- Which in most cases transcends what is in textbooks.
A methodological bet that renounces the manual, favoring human development, which among other means allows the use of mobile phones and tablets in the classroom, breaking with the times and spaces traditionally established in the daily organization of the school, responding to many consolidated patterns. rationally arouse fears and doubts.
This methodology requires more effort than traditional conference. In addition, textbooks are a comfort zone. Any other bet means more work, more resources, more time and, above all, more uncertainty.
The student researches and the teacher is the guide, the counselor, the learning is built little by little, the student creates content from different sources of information and, in doing so, also learns to distinguish between what is reliable and what is not.
The emphasis is on an assessment that serves to learn and not just to succeed, contributing to the personal and academic development of students.
Therefore, these alternative methodologies and many others are options to transform education and develop a teaching/learning process in which not only is memorized to pass a test, but in which it goes further, making the student the protagonist and earn a lot. more meaningful learning.
While most of these educational strategies are decades old, today, thanks to new technologies, they have been reinvented and disseminated.
ICTs have become commonplace and young people have lived with them since they are born, so they quickly become natural in their lives.
Therefore, new technologies present beneficial opportunities for the teaching/learning process, to adapt knowledge to the reality, interests and objectives of students.
School and education cannot remain static or outside of these social changes. The integration of ICTs into the classroom is a necessity for young people to develop smoothly in this new society.
There is not yet an educational model that is considered the perfect formula for learning, so new challenges require training young people as citizens of the future.
There are methodologies that require greater effort than this explanatory class in which students take a passive and responsive position, are not evaluated solely by a test, and in which students must participate in a more active and motivating way.