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Digital Technology and its Impact on Education

The Present
Many believe a revolution is taking place in education in the way people learn and the way instruction is given. The education community has been hearing of reforms and revolutions for the past few decades, but most of them have been nonexistent or without any long-term merit or real value. Some believe the method of an instructor lecturing while students listen and "absorb" is really the only viable way to teach or learn. About two decades ago, when personal computers started to become affordable, many thought that computers would revolutionize education, that computer-based teaching and learning would become the savior of education and the solution to falling test scores. This has never really happened. Over the past two decades, many teachers have successfully prepared students, some with computers in the classroom and some without. Teachers could avoid computers, either because they chose not to learn how to use them or because they had none in their classroom or school to use. Teachers entering the profession have not been required to understand computational technology in order to graduate from college.


The Future
This paper focuses on applying information and collaboration technologies to K-12 schools, although the issues discussed, with very few exceptions, also apply to community colleges and universities, undergraduate through Ph.D. As used in this paper, the term "teacher" refers to a K-12 teacher or college professor, and the term "computer" includes any current desktop computing platform Macintosh, PC, UNIX, or other unless specifically stated. All new technologies discussed in this paper either run on all these platforms or will very soon, and all require a reasonably fast processor (68030, 486, or faster), with 8 to 16 megabytes of RAM and a hard drive of at least 500 MB. Thus, older desktop computers may not be as useful in the classroom of the 1990s.

Workplace of the Future
NCSA has just finished the beta version of a new framework for collaboration on the World Wide Web called the NetWorkPlace. Completed for Vice President Gore's National Performance Review, this environment of asynchronous communication and collaboration tools allows distributed team members to work on the Web in a new and potentially revolutionary way. Some of the current tools include a Web-based group calendar, chatting capability, capability for threaded discussion and group meetings, writing tools, document storage and publication tools, a project management tool, a forms tool, workspace management tools, and more. New asynchronous tools are currently under development, and the synchronous tools being developed through the Habanero effort will become features of this workplace very soon. NCSA is also implementing tools and capabilities for classrooms and schools to use the new collaborative framework, and within a few months we plan to produce a framework for a "virtual school."


Conclusion
Technology is affecting education in revolutionary ways, and the momentum toward these changes is irreversible. Teachers who have begun to use the Web see this change occurring, even if they only have experience with static information-gathering and display capabilities. Most of these educators have not yet used or even seen the potential of collaborative technologies for their classroom and their school. The majority of the capabilities discussed in this paper have not yet become functional in the classroom, but they will very soon.

Itinerant Bar: beer and headed for the streets of cities

Imagine going out with friends to drink and bring the bar to take a spin? Weird? The streets of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, you can find mobile bars, known as Fiestcafe, ensuring fun while customers ride through the streets.

The idea has spread to several countries. In the United States, for example, earned the name of Pedal Pub and has become a tourist attraction in Minneapolis and Saint Anthony.

Interviews

Name: Eduardo "Garotinho"
Occupation: Mathematics teacher

1)the good side of the profession: the knowledge exchange
2)the bad side of the profession: it's very tiring sometimes
3)difficulties in the profession: Understand that all pupils
4)What changed in your profession: The teaching methods





Name: Marcos "Marcão"
Occupation: Physics teacher

1)Good side of the profession: the joy of sharing ideas and feelings
2)Bad side of the profession: lack of requirement to perform the function
3)difficulties in the profession: the lack of family structure of the society
4)what if you could change in schools: the structure of the school in general



Name: Murilo "Murilo Jaga"
occupation: student

1)good side of friends in college: meet new people and share knowledge is always good
2)bad side of friendship: envy is the worst part of the false friends
3)what do you think of an English class in college: it will Help in the future
4)what would you change in people: i would like people to be more generous





Name: Joana "Juh"
occupation: student

1)Good side of the English outside of school: the good side is that the emphasis in class is much higher in extra-school courses
2)bad side to English outside of school: requires a certain time
3)What do you think that you will provide busy time in the future: Certainly will help me gain priority in the choice of officials for curriculum.
4)What would you do if you had the power to change the world: to extinguish hunger and provide education to all.

Summary of "Freedom Writers" movie

The movie "Freedom Writers"discusses, in a touching and instigating way, the challenge of education in a social context problematic and violent. This movie begins with a young teacher, Erin (played by Hilary Swank), who enterS as freshman IN A School" to teach English Language and Literature for a group of teenagers considered to be "turbulent" and involved with gangs.

To understand the major problems faced by such students, the teacher Erin starts to adopt new teaching methods, even without the concurrence of the director of the college. For this, the teacher gives the students a notebook for them to write , daily, aspects of their lives, from family problems to internal conflicts. Moreover, she said that the reading of different works on crucial episodes of humanity, such as the famous book "The Diary of Anne Frank" with the goal to make the students realize the need for mutual tolerance, without which many cruelty occurred and can inflict.


Over time, students are engaged in their writings in newspapers and by exchanging experiences of life, now more tolerant, overcoming obstacles in their own routines.

So they gathered their diaries in a book that was published in the United States in 1999 after a series of difficulties. It is clear that innovative projects like this, in the case of schools with few resources, facing several obstacles, from bureaucracy to the resistance to new educational paradigms.

In countries like Brazil, where the difficulties are immense, but overcome, if the commitment and effort. In this sense, the film "Freedom Writers" should be seen as present, especially for its emphasis on the role of education as a mechanism for individual and community transformation. With these considerations, it is that education and educators have emphasized the large strain of Paulo Freire, has an indispensable role in implementation of new social realities, from the consciousness of every human being as architect of possible progress in their lives.

Girl hits record of 11 years to catch fish of 2.74 meters

A British student Jessica Wanstall of 11 years, set a new record in Europe to become the child who caught the biggest fish. It measures 2.74 meters and weighs 87 kilos, the second report of the English newspaper "Daily Mail".





According to the journal, the girl was almost dragged into the water when the fish-cat bit the bait. She fought about 20 minutes with him and needed help from his father to get him to get river.

Jessica, from Sittingbourne (United Kingdom), a feat achieved for a fishery in the river Ebro, during a trip to Spain.


"I do not understand how it was great to see the photos later," she said, emphasizing that it was beside the tiny fish, which is almost twice bigger than her - Jessica measured 1.47 meters.

Thailand "Transform" elephants pandas to the audience

To receive pandas of truth, which invested about $ 1 million.
Government attempts to draw attention to the pachyderm, symbol of the country.