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Nowadays pedegogy needs to focus on real world problems to set in a basis of understanding so learners can engage and react to what is happening around them. Learners want relevant and applicable knowledge. This means that as educators we need to extend beyond our areas of expertise, collaborating with our peers in other subjects to link and bind the learning in one area to the other.

Projects should be encompassing, bringing together and reinforcing the learning in the disciplines. The sum of their learning will be greater than the individual aspects taught in isolation. This is a holistic overview of the education process, building and valuing each and every aspect of the XXI Century learners education.

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Networking and Quality Education?

I find that education today is a new frontier. Educators must consider using as many options as possible to understand the digital natives. Networking is one common feature among teenagers. Take for example Facebook and Blackberry Messneger. You create a digital community. Information and data at the tips of your fingers. You create a network of people who have one or several devices to be in contact, connected or in touch, why not say updated.

I have discovered that learners value educators who use these devices because we can understand what they go through, the addiction of being "connected" "engaged" to people who share, tasks, activities, or work in common.

Once learners sense your true interest in being part of a network for real, that what they produce is being read, graded and valued by others they tend to become fond of learning. You are no longer a guide nor a coach but a motivator for activating the urge for knowledge.

What is blogging to me?

Blogging is an innovative way to carry your personal journal or learning/reflection log. It will allow me to keep my thoughts and doubts in an organized way.


I think I will be able to put my career into perspective and organize my writings and readings in one single spot.
 
I recently read a comment on a blog about how students have no social skills what-so-ever beingraised in a computer generated world. I find this a bit disturbing, because social skills include being able to communicate with others f2f and why not digitally. I find that the focus is more on the form and not the depth. Spelling and computer skills have nothing to do with social skills. A student of mine recently posted an article "Are computers female or male". She received so much reaction. One "female" closed her reaction with "indignated woman". The 'Indiganted woman" had so many mistakes yet she was able to understand and react to a post. Isn't that socializing?

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"Casos" On-line

All this is challenging and thrilling. I find that there is so much that can be dine, yet I realize my limitations. Building a on-line/virtual course means to implement a variety of gadgets. Technology is growing on us like it or not.
Technology involves society around the world. It speeds up our timetables and daily routines. There are no longer excuses for not being updated or informed. A high percentage of students have access to information from their cellphones.
What I find intriguing is that once educators start catching up with the digitally native, some new system appears which distances us from our students. Creating a virtual class implies that it needs to be "technologically friendly" for the educator and needs to be catchy and mesmorizing for learners.
I find that technology speeds up the learning teaching process and interaction among society. We network into creating student-student , student-class, student-world, student-information, teacher- student, parent-teacher connections at the tips of our fingers. So, information flies in microseconds.
Do we really want this? Are we preparing our learners emotionally to overcome being competent digitally? How?
Educational Paradigms are shifting from locally to globally citizenship. How can we possibly do this if locally citizenship is a weakness?

"Transformerssite’s vison of the XXI Century Education is a holistic human ecological focus which challenges educators, learners and parents to contribute to society’s progress by forming critical, professional, competent, social citizens into building possible proposals to transform our traditional pedagogical reality into a global technological pedagogical perspective. Our continuous and systematic improvement creates a sustainable effect in educators to convert the teaching learning process into a paperless networking which its main objective is to develop collaborating life long skills."

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Este es un espacio para poder realizar todo tipo de actividades y refexiones.