New Technologies Applied to Education

New Technologies Applied to Education

1. Unit 1 The media as a support of new technologies applied to education.

   • Specific Objectives
     • That the participant acquires the necessary methodological tools so that they can rigorously analyze the reality of educational learning processes and the development of new technologies.
       • 1.1 Conceptualization of the teaching media.
         • They have served as support to increase the effectiveness of the teacher´s work.
           • 1.2 Teaching-learning processes as comunication processes.
             • They constitute a key factor within the didactic process.
               • 1.3 Role played by the teacher and the student in a traditional teaching model and in an alternative model.
                 • Teacher: the role of the teacher must also stimulate the students to go beyond what they have adquired, criticizing and pondering the knowledge acquired and generating new ones.
                   • Students: your active participation is essential.
                     • 1.4 The media and the curriculum.
                       • The media and the curriculum are considered fundamental and essential resources for te practical development of the school curriculum.
                         • 1.5 Clasificación de medios. Medios audiovisuales: ventajas y limitaciones.
                           • Audiovisual education, teaching method that uses supports related to image and sound, such as films, videos, audios, slides and CD-ROM, among others.

2. Unit 2 New Technologies Society and School

   • Specific Objectives
     • That the participant begins to develop an educational sense of the media and teaching methods related to information and communication technologies, understanding, analyzing and ethically valuing their implications.
       • 2.1. New Technologies Concept
         • Information Technology (TICS) is understood as a diffuse concept used to designate everything related to computing connected to the internet and, especially, its social aspect.
           • 2.2 Today´s society, the information and knowledge
             • Society technological innovations but also the tools that allow a radical redefinition of the functioning of society
               • 2.3 Sociocultural effects of technologies.
                 • Thus we have that new technologies in education:
                   • A- They bring students closer to the reality of what they want to learn. B- They specify and illustrate what is customary to expose vrbally.
                     • 2.4 The digital divides
                       • The digital divide is an expression that refers to the socioeconomic difference between those communities that have internet and those that do not, although it can also refer to all the new information and communication technologies.
                         • 2.5 Challenges for education in the society of the information.
                           • The new information and communication technologies are those computational and computer tools that process, store, synthesize, recover and present information represented in the most varied way.

3. Unidad 3 - La alfabetización icónica: lectura de imagen.

   • Specific Objectives
     • • That the participant continued in some cases, iconic, computer and telematics literacy as teachers, developing their own thinking about the different themes that are addresed, in such a way that the information collected and worked is a support for such thought and never replace it.
       • 3.1 Concept of iconic literacy
         • In short, we can consider that a person has adequate audiovisual training if he can understand the messages supported by images and is also capable of communicating through images.
           • 3.2 The significance of iconic literacy in contemporary culture.
             • Literacy is the learning of the alphabet understood in a signic and symbolic sense, but not only of the traditionl alphabets, but of any system of more or less abstract signs and symbols.
               • 3.3 Reasons for iconic literacy
                 • In the handling of complex texts where iconic and linguistic text intervene books, magazines, adertisements.In the appreciation of all kinds of artistic manifestations painting, photography, dance, crafts, cinema, theater, etc.
                   • 3.4 Image definition: Manual image and technical image
                     • Many authors have defined what they consider an iconic image, emphasizing one or another of its aspects, but all agree that it is a representation, which can be material or digital, of a reality embodied on a surface.
                       • 3.5 Image reading methods: Still image and moving image.
                         • The single image is a type of sign with only one replica, This characteristic of uniqueness has served to give a value to the artistic work in the art market.

4. Unit 4 The still image: from the overhead projector to the power point.

   • Specific Objectives
     • • That the participant develops the ability to design media based on the possibilities of didactic integration of written media, image and sound in teaching.
       • 4.1 The fixed image and use of teaching
         • The images are motivating, they sensitize and stimulate the interst of the students towards a certain topic. They facilitate instruction, complementing verbal explanations with specific iconic content that easy to understand and contributes to fixing the content.
           • 4.2 Advantages and disadvantages of using the overhead projector in the classroom
             • Advantages that the sound media can provide.
               • • The devices with which the sound media are managed are cheap, manageable and easy to use. The recordings can also be used for student evaluation purposes.
                 • 4.3 The overhead projector: technical operation.
                   • The overhead projector is a relatively cheap and very easy to use device that appeared in the 1940 and is the only audiovisual device designed specifically for education.
                     • 4.4
                       • Las transparencias son gráficos, fotografías y esquemas impresos o fotocopiados sobre unas hojas transparentes de acetato, normalmente de tamaño DINA4 pero también en formato de rollos continuos, que se pueden proyectar sobre una pantalla mediante el retroproyector o proyector de transparencias.
                         • 4.5 Principios del diseño de transparencias. ¿Cómo se hace y cómo se usa una transparencia
                           • Los documentos, fotografías, dibujos y textos en general impresos sobre un papel (periódicos, revistas, libros, postales…) también pueden proyectarse directamente sobre una pantalla mediante el opascopio o proyector de cuerpos opacos
                             • Ventajas e inconvenientes que comporta su uso • Comparte las ventajas propias del proyector de transparencias, aunque debido a su baja potencia luminosa exige el oscurecimiento de la sala donde se utiliza con lo cual se dificulta la comunicación con los alumnos y la posibilidad de tomar apuntes.