Smart technolgy week

From Monday, May 24 to Friday, May 28 (2010) ULACIT celebrated the "Smart technology week" during this week a lot of activities and conferences took place in the university; We as students had to participate in those activities, some of them were:

• Educative Spaces. Expositor Silvia Castro
• Learn to Learn. Expositor Andrés Leiva, Manpower
• Home automation (Domótica). Expositor Jairo

In this entry I will focus on the first conference (Educative spaces), this activity took place on Wednesday, may 26 at the University Auditorium and the activity duration was 2 hours. The expositor Silvia Castro talked about different topics taking as base her experience. The main topics were how students learned and how a professor should teach by using neuroscience as a base?  

She talked about the different kinds of brain technologies, those are:

1. TEP. Tomography by positron emission
2. IRMF. Magnetic resonance
3. EEG. Electroencephalogram
4. Autopsies.
5. Hemifestomies. Is done with medic's population.

She said that learning are neuronal red connections that will last through your entire life, is also a process that satisfies our needs and interests, is physical process because it has to be significant changeable, updated, and practical to use.

An educational process must be enraged or something that student must do is:

• Experience it is something that comes before the theory
• Is not a lineal process but parallel
• Actions take place in different directions, this mean that it has to function through the senses (hearing, listening, seeing, touching...)
• Different activities should be a part of the process at all time, for example debates, tours, laboratories and more
• Interaction is a basic must, because through practice the student obtain: problem solving
• In order to be a good student you must believe that what you are seeing is very important otherwise your teacher input will not make that much
• Teacher cannot use just one method
• Making questions it is the best way to understand a subject

Something that calls my attention a lot was when she showed us a percentage table that said how much our brain is able to remember.

 

Education must seek:

• A real and a social environment, incorporate videos, music, searchers, differences to classes
• To encourage motivation, respect...
• To avoid stress
• An effective learning experience (how, when, where, amount of time)
• Students to do things due to respect and not because the grade they might get
• Teachers must care about the results and not the used method
• Teacher who construct concepts with the students, not someone who transmit concepts