The Basque Government confirmed on Friday that students from 5th to 2nd Baccalaureate will have their own computer in class after presenting the Digital Transformation Plan.
Andrea Alfaro, author of the ‘Survival Manual for mothers and fathers in technologies and social networks’ and Paul Garaizar, member of the Deusto Learning Lab, psychologist and doctor in Computer Engineering, have analyzed the use of new technologies in the classroom on the Radio Euskadi program “Boulevard”.
Last Friday the Department of Education of the Basque Government presented its Digital Transformation Plan de classrooms where the goal is to strengthen students’ digital skills. One of the initiatives is students from 5th to 2nd Baccalaureate have their own computer in class.
Counselor Jokin Bildarratz offered the details of the first challenge of this plan that tries to modify the classrooms and incorporate the digital tools with which the students will work.
Pablo Garaizar has his vision of this new situation, “it seems to me that he is focusing a lot on technology and little on what happens in the classroom. Technology should have its space as other areas have.”
He also stated that in leading educational centers around the world, work is being done to remove computers from classrooms, “technology is very intrusive and sometimes misleading. Leading schools are removing screens from classrooms“.
Regarding social networks, he believes that they have to be used in “a legal context” and to work on educational content in schools. should be done “in a timely manner”.
Source: Eitb
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