subject: School Or Not That Is The Question [print this page] We live in a flood of dataWe live in a flood of data. The difficulty increases as assimilate increasing complexity and diversity as well as the channel through which is discharged. The level of information available tin completely blocking us, we get it from websites
Were talking about information and info to highlight a special characteristic of our time The confusion between information and info and between the latter and knowledge.
The civilization medium level required for compressing a text is increasingly high. We are in the information age and yet the level of confusion seems to be growing. Hence the importance of the function of the school to contribute to the exchange of cognition and info communicating technology.
student have to find at school all that is present in society and civilization in which they live the school must be the incentive fortune of person life within society itself. In a knowledge society and communication school's mission is to provide the elements to the development and the ability to learn: a school we will start learning to learn. Knowing how to learn is the best fruit that tin offer schooling.
In this sense the school must be present all the agency that society HA to offer info book newspaper radio communication telecasting computer . .. nothing tin be outside the school because nothing is outside the student life.
In any of the area in which is divided the academician landscape no matter whether language language math physics morals and music they all tin make the training exercise in search of info or information about appropriate to approach a situation or a real context. This means, by teachers, a change in perspective that sees its role, in providing more search elements that previous solutions, to propose activities that present scholastic exercises contextualized and anachronistic. It is simple but challenging trying the balance between strict and conventionally academician and these new shipway of doing.
Moreover the development communicating activity the contact with other group in geographically distant school is an activity that deserves special attending if it is to the student live and learn as real the virtual presence of different culture as tin be seen in all program offered indiscriminately broadcast media.
Aware of these feature of our time must discover new walking way by which to teach new valued activity with a high potentiality for pupil learning. And as the poet said: "Learn to differentiate / things that are lies / of those things are true.
