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Moving Toward a New Vision of Education

The goals of the study have been to draw up theoretical proposals to help to improve educational practices. (SINC)

The goals of the study have been to draw up theoretical proposals to help to improve educational practices. (SINC)

Successfully introducing Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) into classrooms is one of the biggest challenges proposed by new educational plans. A research group from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) has studied substituting the current way in which education is structured for a new one that takes full advantage of the potential of new technologies.

Little by little, Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have started to penetrate the educational sphere. A few years ago, the experts thought that the arrival of computers and the Internet in classrooms would have a drastic effect on the way that classes were given and received. However, “the studies carried out at compulsory education level were not able to show the transformation and improvement of learning in schools that had been promised as a result of incorporating technology into the classroom”, Asun Martínez, one of the authors involved in the UPV-EHU study, tells SINC. (more…)