International Award Educared

Until next May 2 will take place entries to version 12 of these awards, aimed at teachers and students from around the world. This is an opportunity to work with Information Technology and Communication (ICT), conducted in classrooms not be anonymous and that, contrary to this, is recognized internationally.

How can you participate? Very easy: blogs, wikis, webquests, google docs, speaking images, podcast channels or YouTube, educational uses of social networks, among others. Methods and categories depending on whether or not students have had an active role in the development work, you can compete in the following ways: • Teachers with students: in this mode will accommodate all work involving students actively, either by creating and updating a blog, the development of wikis, doing social networking, among others. • Teachers without students: In this mode open to all work performed by teachers without student participation. For example, if you have a blog that publishes content and activities of common interest to the educational community can participate. • There is also the modality Tools Lab: In this mode faculty may participate with or without a group of students do more advanced work and create their own tools, educational applications or widgets. The categories of participation for these modes are defined by the age of the students as follows: Category I (3 to 5 years), Category II (6 to 8 years), Category III (9 to 11 years), Category IV (12 to 14 years) and Category V (15 to 17). What the jury will evaluate? An international jury will award 3 prizes for each category and modality, which includes a gift for students, teachers and educational institution. For its part, the mode "Teachers with students" will have 3 finalists per category will receive a prize for all this to encourage collaborative work between teachers and students. In addition, the jury may award up to 3 special prizes from among all papers presented in each of the following sections: • Works that seek to facilitate access to ICT and education to children with special educational needs. • Work carried out using mobile technology. • collaborative work between teachers and students different countries. • collaborative work between teachers and students from different centers of the country. The work submitted by participants will be evaluated from a pedagogical sense, therefore you must attach by a mandatory specification that is equivalent to 50 percent of the evaluation the end. The memory can be made virtually through a form installed on the website of the 

International Award Educared . Recommendations Awards Registering is easy and there are several channels created by the award to address the concerns and suggestions from teachers and students . Therefore, pay close attention: • Registration Process to Award: Once admitted to the Prize website, you can initiate enrollment by 2 steps. The first is to register as a teacher participant. You only need to enter your email and receive with this information how. Once registered you can submit their work and begin to develop their pedagogical memory. In order to facilitate the registration process and delivery of work, the prize had before it a tutorial that explains step by step to make these processes. To meet click 

• Social networking and contact: To follow step by step process of the Prize, you can make use of social networks, for both teachers and students in participating can use these tools.  Through Facebook , Educared Colombia ordered an information space. You can visit 

. Following the official account on Twitter @ Premio_Educared Award, you can also get information. Visit this social network profile 

The official Messenger Award is premiointernacional @ educared.org and certamen.educared Skype.

Myth of perfect student

The myth of the perfect student school failure and questioned how the French educational supports. Engendered by the teacher / pupil relationship?

In France, the school has historically been the symbol of Republican values ​​and culture inherited from the Enlightenment. Yet since the early twentieth century with the beginnings of compulsory schooling, school failure affects approximately 10% of students, regardless of the time and methods. School failure is stigmatized, and often, instead of blaming the education or the teacher is the student who is beckoned. However, learning is based primarily on the relationship of the student to his master.

Blame it on Voltaire
French pedagogy sometimes seems to want to erase the differences between individuals. Despite his borrowed glances of jealousy toward the North, true role models of academic success and personal well-being, France remains blind to the knowledge of the humanities: chronobiology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience itself. The debate around the four-day week is a good example: we have known for decades the times of day and the rhythms of the week are most conducive to learning. But the question posed seems more for adults (organization weekends, holidays ...). So when the child is tired, demotivated or difficulty, it is easier to blame rather than the nonsense of the school system.

Students will perfect that which the master would have wanted to be
The population of teachers is very varied, nearly 65% ​​of women (75% in private), mostly from the middle classes. Pierre Bourdieu is one of the first to loudly denounced the reproduction of the social hierarchy through the school. This application of homogenization is mainly through language: a way of talking (and writing) is recovered, the others are denigrated, particularly because they represent social classes devalued. More generally, there would be one good way to learn and reproduce this knowledge. But learning is an intimate operation that involves more than cognitive skills: personal history, the ability to accept other sources of learning that parents desire to give or not to the adult that he asks ...

Interest of errors: parallel between phylogeny and ontogeny
Adults often tell children that they have the right to be wrong, that's how we learn. This truth does not always hold true in reality where the error may be stigmatized or penalized. However, the error is central to the history of ideas. Zero is a very good example is the basic mathematical concept that has more time to emerge in the course of history (phylogeny) and one that is more complicated to understand for children (ontogeny ). However, the error of the student comes to symbolize the extent of explaining the master and it can be difficult to accept for it. Between what is said explicitly to the students and what they are implicitly asked, there is often a large margin.


The didactic contract: Pride and Prejudice
The didactic contract is an ongoing negotiation and implicit mutual expectations between the teacher and student. This concept has been used to study elective failure: why some students are in great difficulty in a particular subject or why some fail where the majority is success? We've all experienced "darlings" and then "heads of Turkish" attitude and demands of the master are not the same according to the students, as students do not behave identically with all their teachers. The educational relationship is above all a human relationship where communication is also based on implicit information and a dynamic unconscious. Indeed, the relationship of authority which takes place between teacher and student can be an avatar of parent / child relationship.

Our dear soldiers of the Republic Pedagogical deny it enough, they can not do everything: play the role of parents, to be nurses, psychologists, sociologists and educators, in a word always be perfect. However, the plurality of master / child should be better taken into account. Lack of resources is often put forward but the training is now more than ever questioned. The quality of working conditions but it suffers especially students who pay the price: being a student is becoming more and more not to be subject.

Violence among students in schools

A study by the Observatory on school violence showed that 11.7% of students are harassed at school. The ministry is implementing a parade.

Overall, students from ages 8 to 12 feel good about their school. But who said it was a pleasure for all? 11.7% of boys and girls live in a veritable hell on the playground, to the point of having nightmares at night and get going backwards. More than one in 10 students, in fact, suffer all kinds of harassment, abuse, violence, moral, physical and even sexual, even racketeering. This is shown by the study of the International Observatory on Violence in Schools , conducted from late 2009 to end 2010 with 12,326 students in 153 schools and funded by UNICEF .

Noelle, a girl died of harassment
Eric Debarbieux these amazing results presented Tuesday, March 29 at a press conference. What move the Minister of National Education, Luc Chatel, who decided to create a "Scientific Council against discrimination in schools" . Chaired by François Heran, a demographer, former director of the National Institute of Demographic Studies, the Council will rely in particular on the proposals of the Centre of Violence at school.

"According to the study, the phenomena of" victimization "are rather limited since almost nine in ten students (88.9%) report feeling" very well "or" fairly well "at school and more seven in ten say they are "never" abused or "very occasionally", says Agence France-Presse .

"They have always existed, " heads of Turks , wrote France-Soir , a child who, without knowing why, becomes the scapegoat of a group, class. " Europe1 and cite the example of the sad little Christmas, a girl of Haitian descent who died in force harassment. First there was racial abuse, racketeering and then finally chokes in the school yard: "I told him to defend himself," says the mother of Noelle . "Well, she was punished for defending herself and when she complained to her teachers, they answered him:" do not worry, we'll see it later. " A few days before her death she had told the victim of strangulation by another child. "She had a headache. We did not know why. She ended up falling into a coma. "

All kinds of harassment
The first stage of the violence is psychological. A child is a little different, for example, he stutters, is a bit too closed, or too wise during class, or an original or a different culture. This is sometimes enough for him to find marginalized. "Fluffy", "nerd", "rouquemoute" names for birds are not lacking in the playground (...) writes Le Parisien . "We knew qu'enfance does not mean innocence. One could doubt that primary schools are not sanctuaries Care Bears. " Le Figaro proves accurate: "In detail, a little over 16% of children respond to a decked bad name, 25% were abused and 14% have been rejected. "

The second stage, these are the blows delivered during interclass or racketeering between large and small who became his scapegoat. "For physical violence," continues Le Figaro , 17% have already been hit often or very often "tanbdis that" theft and extortion affecting less than 3% of students. "

Followed attacks apparently innocuous but sexual: 20% of students confide they were the subject of voyeurism to the toilet, 14% were forced to undress and 20% forced to kiss another child. Acts whose victims are both boys and girls.



New forms of violence
Dangerous games have emerged in the schoolyard, including the headscarf, this autostrangulation expected to cause strong sensations, or those of the aerosol, salad, silence or vicious circle. Very often it is the scapegoat who are the first victims and sometimes they die, as shown in this survey of TF1 .

Internet also excites the imagination of stalkers. "This phenomenon extends to new technology, says Europe1 : today at 8 years, some students settle their account with Facebook. " This confirms that the blog bigbrowser. Lemonde : "Another cause of depression (Youth) online harassment. (The agency) AP recalls the suicide of this 15 year old girl last year, harassed on Facebook. We also remember the suicide of a young American when his homosexuality was revealed on social networks.

7sur7.be tells his side of the hoax which was pitiful victim a young girl on the Internet: "The friends of a teen class will create a fake profile on Facebook and masculine pose as the lover of the girl. They are going to orchestrate the fake suicide fictional boy, accusing their comrade's death (...) The girl was devastated, decides to contact the family to offer condolences and apologize, but in vain. " After several weeks of guilt, the girl learns the truth: this silly game that destroyed was organized by her best friend.

School dropout, truancy, suicidal tendencies
Eric Debarbieux believes it must act quickly to help child victims of such harassment, "A survey of 50 adolescents who attempted suicide showed that all had experienced harassment at school," he says. "Child psychiatrists who inherit adolescent self-esteem have devastated already sounded the alarm," wrote Le Parisien , in an open letter in January to Luc Chatel. Which mandated the same Debarbieux to suggest avenues for prevention in a report to be presented April 12 and is expected to announce measures at national conference held in early May. "

"The authors discuss the consequences of repeated harassment, says his side Le Figaro : school dropout, truancy, loss of self-image, depressive tendencies and suicidaires.Une strong correlation also exists between the act of abusing his classmates during the years spent in school and that experience problems with the law as an adult. "

However, one should not conclude that these cases of harassment occur more in the peripheral problems: "This is another great teaching of the study, said Eric Debarbieux: there is no more harassment schools classified as "PTA" (educational priority, the more difficulty) than in normal schools. "

How to combat bullying?
"If teachers are alerted and trained harassment tends to decline, confirming in an interview with AFP Jean-Pierre Bellon, co-author of Harassment and bullying among students (1). Early sensitization is necessary "because it is a phenomenon that often arises in elementary school before structuring a teenager," he adds. "

On 26 January, a group composed of the particular child psychiatrist Marcel Rufo, the philosopher Edgar Morin and other intellectuals, anxious to see the development of bullying at school, sent an open letter to ministers of National Education, Health, social cohesion, but also to the Halde and the Children's Ombudsman. "We want to draw your attention to the issue of children harassed at school, abuse at the origin of the phenomena of" whipping boy "or" scapegoat. " We therefore take your instances to identify specific and concrete solutions to protect these kids and the entire educational community, "they write.

Eager to fight against this "school bullying (bullying at school), Minister Luc Chatel, chose the same day as the revelation of the study by UNICEF to announce the establishment of the Scientific Council of the cons discrimination at school. There is probably an emergency.

Pros Cons of Online Education

The Internet has provided an incredible opportunity for education easy through online programs, but not a real alternative to the traditional academic environment.

There is growing interest in the field of online education, as it has some obvious advantages, but also has some serious disadvantages, which are usually ignored. In fact, online education is an opportunity for some people who have some limitations, but generally can not replace traditional education, in all circumstances.

The advantages of online education 
Flexibility: The first interesting feature of online education is its flexibility. "And very ideal for workers who have limited time for study, and you can easily manage your program.

Cost: With the cost of education is an important issue for most students. Thus, low-cost training online is a great advantage over traditional training.  ( Debate on Universities act )

Accessibility: online training is, in fact, a part of globalization, and offers educational opportunities without geographic boundaries and distance. This represents a real opportunity for everyone to participate in online classes from anywhere in the world. This is a golden opportunity for students from developing countries wishing to study in universities in developed countries.

The disadvantages of online education
Cost: Yes, even if the cost is considered as an advantage to online training, is also a disadvantage for the following reasons:

Most students get a classical education system support the various funds from different sources (eg, scholarships, university, government, etc), but there are only a few sources of online students.
A significant portion of the costs of education are related to the classical student life (housing, for example) and online students can pay some extra charges (which are not part of the study or daily life), and high-speed Internet speed, software, postage, etc.

Campus Life: Another objective of higher education is to live in an academic environment, and this helps students to experience new life in polite society (and education dedicated to the study.) In fact, students do not participate in technique classes, but also actively participate in social activities in the community. Even from the technical point of view of education, informal discussions outside the classroom contribute significantly to improving their ability to solve problems. ( Online Education Guide )

Social Issues: By online education, people need to spend much time on the computer and have less to do with the company (not only academic society, but also the public company).

Controversial issues in an online degree
There are also some controversial opinions about online education. For example, accreditation of academic online degree is an important issue in the subject, and indeed the main obstacle to the development of online education. Contrary to common belief that accreditation is an ongoing problem related to the nature of online education, many problems are due to the fact that online universities are very young. Several older universities have launched the Online Campus can offer according to their accreditation as traditional degrees.

On the other hand, the implementation of an online campus is not difficult and expensive: therefore, many online universities without qualified education systems were established in recent years. In addition, some of them, this is a type of business to make money and not for purposes of education. The existence of examples of this type had a bad reputation in the public sector (as some employers do not accept online degrees.)

The main objective of this paper is to stress that online education is not to replace the classical education, in all circumstances, as traditional universities have some essential services that can not fail in the areas of education. Moreover, some serious limitations of online learning, can not be used for all disciplines.

Ideally, online education is an opportunity for those who need that service, especially to get a degree. If someone wants to learn a discipline or to enjoy all aspects of education, there is an appropriate way. When someone is working, do not have enough time to attend traditional classes, and the need for a degree with a general knowledge of the regulation, then online education can be a perfect solution.

Online Education Guide

Online Education means the education in which scholars, teachers and students participate remotely via computer networks, making intensive use of facilities that provide Internet and information and communication technologies, thereby achieving highly interactive learning environment, anytime and from anywhere.

Interactive distance education is based on the concept of e-learning, which is defined as: "a delivery system for distance learning, supported by the Information and Communication Technologies (technologies, telecommunication networks, videoconferencing, digital TV, materials multimedia), which combines various teaching materials, classical training (classroom or self-study), practices, contacts (real-time, videoconferencing or chat) and delayed contacts (guardians, discussion forums, email) "

What do we mean by educational virtual space?
 Virtual Education Space is an environment that does not physically exist, it is a heritage site also facilitate the sharing of information, related to a particular area of knowledge, allows remote interaction between users interconnected via a computer network.

    It is a meeting place that allows students (learners) and teachers (facilitators) to interact with the aim of achieving a common instructional goal without the constraints of space or time.

    It is a system where you perform the activities involved in the teaching-learning process.
  

    An educational virtual space can be used

    As Information Distribution System In this case the virtual space is used as a complement to the classroom to enrich them with different information materials (notes, pictures, articles, papers), which can be accessed by students anywhere, allowing you to have to update them.

    As System Training in this case the medium or virtual environment takes the central role of teaching-learning process as it is in itself where it concentrates and develops the whole process.


      Program design and development of interactive distance learning in the ULA:

    The design and development of the courses offered in the form of interactive distance learning in the ULA, are modeled Montilva, Barrios and Sandia (2002). This model is based on Software Engineering and Object Oriented model of Instructional Systems Design (ISD).
    This model considers that any training course based on virtual spaces should consider the following aspects:

    a. - Appearance Teaching:
    The space is understood as an instructional medium, which allows the process is done teaching and learning. You must set educational standards to follow that will determine the strategies and activities to be implemented through instructional Web site.

    The space also must be understood as a communication medium that supports different types and modes of interaction.

    b. - Technological Aspect:
    From this aspect, the space is understood as a collection of interconnected Web pages stored on a server, which can be accessed from any computer connected to the Internet.

    c. - Functional aspects:
    This issue focuses on the operability and functionality of virtual education. The site should allow a number of tasks of the course developers, facilitators, and students.

    d. - Structural appearance:
    This issue focuses on the major components of virtual space educational, instructional Web site. It consists of:

        1.- The platform or operating tools of the course.
        2.- The plan of the course (study guide) by which the student is guided along the field and get detailed instructions on the contents to be studied, the activities undertaken with their respective resources, and self-assessments need perform to accomplish its initial goal of learning.
        3.- A series of interactive tools.

      Features of the online training

    Interactive the student takes an active role in relation to the pace and level of work. Interact with content, the facilitator, and other users.
    Multimedia Incorporates text, still images, animations, sound.
    Open Allows updating content and activities permanently.
    Accessible There are no geographical limitations. Potential uses of the Internet.
    Synchronous and Asynchronous, Allows students to participate in tasks or activities at the same time wherever they are, real time (synchronous) or at the particular time of each (asynchronous).
    Online Resources (on-line)Allows access to any number and variety of resources and teaching materials on the net.
    Distributed Allows the use of resources scattered in different Internet servers, have instructors, tutors located in another geographic region.
    Collaborative, Collaboration and teamwork is part of the training techniques. Horizontal communication among students.
    Student tracking The training plan based on tasks that students must make and forward in time and manner prescribed.

   
      Characteristics of online students

      1 .- Highly motivated
      2 .- With great organizational skills and time management
      3 .- Willing to work and independent study
      4 .- With the possibility of dedication to the study than in a traditional classroom course
      5 .- basic domain tools using information and communication technologies (email, forums, chat, web browsing and search, etc.)