fifth Instructional Innovation Congress at UCAB Attracts Over 200 Academics: Highlights, Insights, and Impression

Throughout the assembly held on the UCAB, greater than 200 academics had been current, andSpecialists added components to the controversy concerning the benefits and downsides of utilizing expertise within the school rooms. As well as, the attendees skilled instructional improvements in fields resembling robotics, physics, chemistry, programming, microbiology, geology, synthetic intelligence and video video games.

Throughout the morning and a part of the night Wednesday 15 Mighta gaggle of Venezuelan academics met on the UCAB to take part in some fifth Instructional Innovation Congress.

The day was set by the Faculty of Schooling, the Heart for Instructional Innovation and the college’s Heart for Analysis, Innovation and Tutorial Growth, along side the Heart for Schooling Planning and Considering (CERPE).

some 200 academics from private and non-private establishments attended the occasion, the place they had been in a position to take heed to displays at three consultants within the case and took part in iteducating experimental stations, positioned at varied places on the Montalban campus.

“Presently, instructional innovation is not only an possibility, it’s a necessity. “, mentioned the Dean of the College of Humanities and Schooling, Luisa Angelucci, in the course of the welcome speech.

The instructor remembered that the society goes by in the intervening time accelerating technological, social and cultural modifications which immediately impacts training. Due to that, he mentioned, they’re obligatory progressive methods and approaches within the school rooms.

«We want an training that’s inventive, vital, collaborative, that encourages impartial pondering and prepares new generations for the challenges of the longer term. (…) This convention is a chance to mirror on the challenges going through present training, additionally, to seek out progressive instruments and progressive strategies that may rework our school rooms into locations of studying extra dynamic, inclusive and efficient”, Angelucci mentioned.

Subsequent, mentioned the director of the Faculty of Schooling, Carlos Calatrava, reference to the Schooling Innovation Congress as a second for “settlement” to the Venezuelan instructor, for being a possibility to resume themselves in instructional issues, outdoors the precarious circumstances and context underneath which they work right this moment.

«On the worst time within the historical past of the nation – and I don’t say it however the United Nations – when now we have been in a scenario of advanced humanitarian disaster for 5 years, the place training and being an educator appear to be retro just like the boxing membership, the truth that we meet right here speaks extremely of you and our Faculty«, casting

Highlights and shadows of South Korea’s instructional success

The primary presentation was given by Hanuk Chung, chargé d’affaires of the embassy Republic of South Korea in Venezuelato speak about how his nation achieved, after going through a 3 yr struggle (1950 to 1953), overcoming the catastrophe and financial progress due to training.

“The Korean folks’s ardour for training is predicated on their absolute must survive and escape the poverty attributable to struggle. Schooling has performed an important position in creating certified human capital and in fast financial and social growth.«, Chung mentioned.

The diplomat additionally spoke concerning the instructional challenges which are the results of fast progress in expertise, the disaster of public training and the demographic decline of his nation.

Nevertheless, he acknowledged the ““disadvantages” that the Korean emphasis on training leaves in civic, household and private life.

“The Korean training system generates damaging results from the scholars’ standpoint, the competitors is more and more unsure to enter the college and this causes a sense of loss, destruction, even results in excessive conditions resembling suicide. From the dad and mom’ standpoint, they can not sit idly by and proceed to put money into their youngsters and household spending on personal training is growing unabated, leaving adults with out youngsters to bear the brunt. to keep away from personal training. From the academics’ standpoint, there may be dissatisfaction with their work and so they have misplaced their rights,” mentioned

The Korean Chargé d’affaires he concluded by saying that his nation ““lengthy method to go” on the matter, however he admitted that he needed to transfer on, «as a result of training has been and can be a key challenge for survival for the folks of Cornwall.”.

On the finish of the dialog, Professor Calatrava provided some temporary feedback. Amongst different issues, he identified that “honorable acceptance that Korea has of training as a supporter of the nationwide growth course of.

«Korea isn’t filled with oil wells like we’re in Venezuela – which is simply attainable -; lhe determined Koreans on the alternate good of the twenty first century, that’s data. With out data, there is no such thing as a economic system and for data to exist, colleges, curricula and academics are wanted. Calatrava famous.

Schooling and expertise: debates, myths and realities

The second presentation of the V Congress of Schooling Innovation was ordered by Victoria Tenreiro, diploma in Schooling with a serious in Philosophy (UCAB) and a doctorate in Ethics and Democracy from the College of Valencia (Spain), who related from that European nation, through Zoom, to speak about ethics and citizenship within the digital world of training.

The professional talked about the using units resembling tablets or smartphones within the school rooms and the way are completely different Spanish instructional establishments They restrict these groups and returns to a extra conventional educating.

«We will see how in a really brief time period – two or three years – the variability in worth and performance that’s nonetheless given to new applied sciences right this moment was decided. The controversy remains to be open. And so how essential it’s to ask ourselves and mirror on the that means and affect of latest applied sciences in studying processes aimed toward skilled growth and with a confirmed affect on the kind of society that – in the long term – to construct it. One of many reflections has to do with the moral facet of expertise. It is just by understanding why and why it’s in folks’s lives that we will reply extra sensibly and suppose for ourselves, what advantages and harms it might have. “ Tenreiro observed.

Lastly, Gustavo Hernández – director of the Communication and Data Analysis Institute (I mentioned)- convention supply entitled «Benefits and downsides of AI inside the framework of a obligatory pedagogical basis.

Within the speech, the physician additionally within the Social Sciences, social communicator, researcher and instructor talked about a number of myths associated to this matter, with the rationale “encouraging vital reflection on the best way we join in digital communication and questioning some beliefs we take as a right.

The factors he launched for dialogue had been:

1. The State ensures media and data training
2. Applied sciences clear up previous issues
3. Within the info society there may be freedom of communication
4. Data of digital pedagogy
5. Digital training opens doorways to the data society.
6. We will dwell with out the cellular phone

“I imagine that we dwell in a society of unrest, which manifests itself in extreme publicity to social networks and an extra of digital info that causes a sense of saturation and issue in processing it environment friendly,” point out, amongst different issues, the professional.

He known as on academics to to not fear, however to cope with ubiquitous technological advances. He additionally invited them to consider how they’re affected features resembling synthetic intelligence, cyber mosaic, telecracy and data leisure in on a regular basis life and, due to this fact, in training, and to work in a training which leads the “lively studying, collaboration and data constructing”other than vital fascinated about technological instruments themselves.

“We have to acknowledge using expertise in class to keep away from instrumental use of the Web and digital media; set up bridges between training and communication to optimize info media training; “Encourage the varsity to the digital age to register a technical perspective on the Web and to know the scholars to plan instructional methods,” Hernandez famous.

An experimental day

After listening to the seminars, and after a big assortment of questions and solutions, the educators current on the V Congress of Instructional Innovation of the UCAB had been divided between 15 completely different “workstations”.organized in several components of the college. There they may get info and take a look at new educating strategies to breed of their courses.

Professor Calatrava defined that the workshops had been targeted on science-related subjects for a selected goal.

«We favor to emphasise the pure sciences, arithmetic, and the precise sciences. And that isn’t a coincidence: giving choice to science and expertise has to do with the truth that logical pondering is the idea of non-productive pondering and that is the idea of hypothetical pondering. If we don’t create assumptions that we aren’t reflective, we can not query actuality. With the seasons we are going to query what now we have in entrance of us and suppose whether it is applicable or not. he identified.

On this means, academics actively participated in experimental and theoretical actions that included fields resembling robotics, physics, chemistry, programming with Scratch, microbiology, geology, synthetic intelligence, digital actuality, using video video games and aesthetics in training, amongst others.

Calatrava introduced that after the fifth Instructional Innovation Congress, The Faculty of Schooling will maintain new conferences to mirror on the Venezuelan training system and supply options.

These inquisitive about listening to the Congress displays can click on on this hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-wljR8MMw

♦Textual content: Grace Lafontant León / Images: Christian Lazo and Educación UCAB (X)