Technology and education

The new technologies resources have been assembled to facilitate the pursuit of excellence in the University's missions of teaching, research, and service. The opportunity to use computing systems and software is important to all members of the University community. The information technology is a new paradigm in the education, and because of this we need to regulate their use and to make to the technologies a real instrument for the study. For example, the technological resource must be used for educational and administrative purposes, however the Government School don’t use the new technologies in their administration. Anyway, the students also need to learn , since also they use badly the resources of computation.

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In the Government School we need to make the computarisation as something very important in the educational process, and because of it, it’s neccesary to integrate matters of computation in the diverse areas that we study in the university career. For example, in English classes, we write in an Internet blog and we use computers for the interactive and entertaining learning of the language. In another subject that I had the past semester (Theory of the Science), also we use the computation as the principal tool of work. It was in this occasion where I could measure the extensive thing that could be the topic of the communications online, since it was necessary to learn to mention what one was reading in the web as well to begin to use more the resources that I have.

In relation with this new learning of the students, the University of Iowa indicates in his web page that we need to learn individual responsibilities regard to the use of the new technologies. If first time, we need to use resources appropriately, because the inappropriate use of the computer system cause viruses and the next destruction of files. In second place, is appropriate to respect the rights of others, because the privacy of the personal files is very important in the University: the labor and creativity is vital to academic discourse, and the plagiarism and copyright violations, may be grounds for sanctions against members of the academic community.

The platform U-cursos it is a part of this new vision of the learning, providing tools rapid and easy to develop learnings, both for the student and for the teachers. The university created this platform in order to improve the administration of the resources, arranging this way the matters, notes and materials for the pupils. There was developed by the Faculty of Engineering, which gives to understand his notable quality.

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In view of everything previous, we can conclude that it is necessary that the university, and in specific the School of Government, could have more technological tools that assure a great quality of the education of this Public University, providing ideas for a good functioning of the schedules, rooms, matters and availability of the teachers, and this way to achieve that we could overcome the problems of administration that we have. For this, it is necessary to write principles that could govern this reform, as well as the University of Iowa was indicating in his web: the only difference is that it will have to be collective, not individual principles.