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Simuladores de Formación Profesional

11 Juni 2012

El Ministerio de Educación, a través del Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado (INTEF), está desarrollando recursos educativos digitales interactivos y multimedia, publicados en su portal educativo en Internet, que se adaptan al currículo de distintas áreas y materias de Educación Infantil, Primaria, Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Necesidades Educativas Especiales.

Fruto de esta acción, en colaboración con la Subdirección General de Orientación y Formación Profesional, se han desarrollado una serie de Simuladores para diferentes Familias de Formación Profesional, [...]:

Artes Gráficas

Edificación y Obra Civil

Fabricación Mecánica

Hostelería y Turismo

Industrias Alimentarias

Madera, Mueble y Corcho

Mantenimiento y Servicios a la Produc.

Sanidad

Servicios Socioculturales y a la Comun.

 

En ellos se desarrollan, mediante simulaciones interactivas, contenidos incluidos en los currículos oficiales, planteando casos reales que podrán suceder al alumnado en su futura vida laboral.

 

Projekter

One World Learning - Virtual Classroom between Kenya and Hungary

05 Juni 2012

One World Learning (OWL) project is designed to provide nonformal education for secondary school students in developed and developing countries to learn about the world as they have never done before. It aims to deepen their knowledge of foreign cultures and universal development issues and to establish lasting international relationships. The project is composed of regular real-time interaction of two culturally different groups (OWL teleclasses), an interest-driven and flexible curriculum, and the use of the telepresence technology in secondary education environment.

 
The pilot project was implemented between the Magnet High School (Ongata Rongai, Kenya) and the Berzsenyi Dániel Secondary School (Budapest, Hungary).

 

 

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The One World Learning (OWL) project approaches timely issues within the international development agenda with a non-traditional perspective. It follows the main points of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and focuses on those development issues which have to be addressed through conventional education. The OWL teleclasses emphasize the needs and interests of the actual participants, rather than relying on a general curriculum.
 
After completing a comprehensive preparatory course, the supervising teachers are able to support the participants in conceptualizing abstract development issues using entertaining and engaging activities. The students are encouraged to discuss some of the “big questions of life”. Meanwhile, they receive continuous assistance to help them dealing with matters, which are beyond the sphere of their comfort zone.
 
The primary aim is to promote understanding cultural difference amongst persons and groups. The specific objectives are to broaden the knowledge of students on issues that have high priority in the global development agenda (e.g. human rights, gender equality, multicultural knowledge, health and environmental awareness, economic way of thinking etc.) and to lay down a foundation for a sustainable, nonformal development education method.
 
The project is designed for secondary school students as they are the most inclusive members of the society and they are about to make important decisions regarding the continuation of their studies or beginning their career. Experiences people undergo between the ages of 14 and 18 will fundamentally determine their personal and work attitude that will further influence their environment and the community.
 
OWL is based on telepresence technology that enables the participants to have a realistic face-to-face communication experience and to use most elements of verbal and non-verbal communication. They take their seats around a virtual table and engage in discussion, as they would do in real life. The biggest advantage of the technology is that it remains practically invisible and that is does not require any technological experience from the users. Moreover, the realistic communication experience is also ensured by the fact that there is no delay between picture and sound.
 
The pilot project was implemented between the Magnet High School (Ongata Rongai, Kenya) and the Berzsenyi Dániel Secondary School (Budapest, Hungary). Eighteen students and two teachers participated in an introductory session and three 2-hour teleclasses. The objective of the pilot project was to determine the feasibility of the project concepts. Cisco Hungary and Cisco Kenya provided access to the telepresence facility used in this project. The teachers of the participating schools and ICDT developed the content of the sessions based upon the interests and development needs of the students. This process was the simulation of the content development method that will apply in case of the actual project.
 
The analysis of the foregoing teleclasses showed that the dialogues between the participants contradict in many ways with the existing concepts of multicultural encounters and development cooperation. The meetings had brought attention to many – often surprising – issues that have been previously ignored, while other “important” problems seem to have less relevance in practice. Interestingly, none of the students had problems to get accustomed to the special environment. There was no sign of discomfort and they dealt with the situation naturally. Furthermore, it can be concluded that during the pilot project the students were extremely open and non-judgmental. Even topics like religion and sexuality did not create conflict. After the sessions the students referred to these issues as natural differences of opinions and they were interested in understanding the background instead of judging the other side. All in all, it was found that today’s youth need an entirely different education approach to address their needs and interests than the one which is used in traditional education.
 
Illustration by József Vitáris
 
Photo by István Csákány

 

Projekter

Europa 2111

25 May 2012

Through the work of the partnership – 9 members coming from different European countries - it focuses on the development of new Educational tools and new forms of Training, combining the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the need to explore in its complexity the developing concept of European Identity.

Digital media have an important role both in everyday life and in Culture and therefore a role to play in Education and Training, offering the opportunity to learn within both informal and formal approach and responding to the needs to improve and update an educational system in a Europe living a great generational change.
The project seeks to develop a pedagogical approach for Key/Transversal Competences acquisition, which is based on the use of media production and specifically on the production of Audio-visual Documentaries. By creating the methodological basis for this technical product, the project translates a specific technical process, into a learning tool.
Moreover, in order to satisfy the need to study the changing perception of European Identity at its various socio-geographical levels, the main theme underlining the project is “Imagining Europe in 2111”. The different partners will apply these principles within the boundaries of their respective countries and will exchange information and know-how in order to draw a comprehensive outline of the evolving European consciousness, projected into the future.

 

The objectives are:

  • To develop a new pedagogical tool applicable to different target groups and, what is more important, to both informal and formal learning contexts. The “Video-Doc Making” becomes a new learning model, through which the project develops an educational method designed to promote growth and enhancement of the person. Referring to social constructivism, the product must work as a cultural heritage. Each step of the process allows to acquire knowledge and to live constructive experiences.
  • To promote key competences acquisition, both for the partners and the target groups: each of the necessary steps for the Audiovisual product corresponds to a specific competence area. Besides, the complementary nature of the Partnership is functional to the development of a shared activity based on the exchange of information and know-how.
  • That applies also to the promotion of a new didactic path: the sharing of knowledge is the foundation of the model promoted by the project. Not a traditional vertical approach to teaching but a network environment breeding on the exchange.
  • Accordingly, the partners will provide training to different target groups in order to promote both ICT use and Key and Transversal competence acquisition throughout the whole lifelong learning domains.

 

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e-Skills Week 2012

23 March 2012
Katalog

IMPACT Centre of Competence in Digitisation

24 January 2012

The IMPACT Centre of Competence in Digitisation is a not for profit organisation with the mission to make the digitisation of historical printed text “better, faster, cheaper”. It will provide tools, services and facilities to further advance the state-of-the-art in the field of document imaging, language technology and the processing of historic text.

Katalog

Quijote interactivo

17 January 2012
El Quijote interactivo es un proyecto que permite un acercamiento innovador a la primera edición de la obra cumbre de Cervantes, conservada en los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. Gracias a esta iniciativa es posible disfrutar del Quijote como si tuviera el libro en sus manos, al tiempo que se puede acceder a contenidos multimedia que ayudan a contextualizar la obra. Se ha partido de la digitalización a muy alta calidad de los ejemplares que conserva la BNE de la primera edición del Quijote: la de Madrid de 1605 y la de Madrid de 1615; alrededor de esta nueva digitalización se ha construido un portal interactivo al que se han incorporado mapas, ilustraciones, grabados y otros contenidos procedentes de 43 ediciones distintas del Quijote y de otras 21 obras más, todas pertenecientes a la BNE