The future always generates curiosity and awakens the imagination of all of us at some point. Either the cars fly, which people can replace their bodies with machines, that time travel is possible, we’ve all dreamed of what it will be tomorrow. However, there are cases striking in the present as the fact that Argentina is implementing educational robotics in elementary schools of Buenos Aires.
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Educational robotics in Argentina: it is a reality
Maybe some day you came to see The Jetsons, an old animated series about a family futuristic. In she perhaps did you get to see robots teaching classes and you seemed like an attractive possibility, but remote. Are we really so far away as to incorporate robots in our educational system? Argentina can give you an idea. The Educational Robotics and the opportunities that can provide the future we are attracted to. According to a recent report of the InterAmerican Dialogue, Argentina analyzed the implementation and execution of the Plan Robotics in the Province of Buenos Aires. This organization is a center of analysis of public policies established in Washington D. C. This Provincial Plan of Educational Robotics, it was decided by Resolution 645 of the Directorate-General of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, this is still very far from being the reflection of what we saw in the series. They may not be having robots as teachers, but not by that means that this Plan is not significant and worthy of replicating. In the report it speaks of the initiative and the challenges it represents. The Provincial Plan for Educational Robotics promotes the development of content and pedagogical resources and teaching aids for primary school children. According to InterAmerican Dialogue, this plan is presented as a way of addressing the robotics in education. Furthermore, it seeks to show it as a contribution that in the future can be considered a universal strategy for the region.
“The Plan of Robotics proposed is presented as a comprehensive strategy that goes from the acquisition and processing of the material to the work with the teacher in the classroom.”InterAmerican Dialogue’s 2020
This Provincial Plan set out by Resolution 645 of the Directorate-General of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
What is included the Plan?
According to the report of the InterAmerican Dialogue, the exact purpose of the Provincial Plan is in the first instance “to improve the low performance of elementary students in basic subjects like language and math.” To clarify, it was robots teaching classes, because we are still very far from this regionally. However, the focus of this provincial plan was to promote at the federal level Priority Core Learning in Digital Education, Programming, and Robotics. That is to say, to make updates to curriculum. Also, the report indicates that these changes allowed to modernize the content that should be taught in schools. Also, these modifications were institutionalized and prescribed the progress in this regard. So, despite the challenges, the benefits of the Provincial Plan were evidenced according to the report. It also speaks of the development of content and pedagogical resources and didactic; training strategies and workshops for robotics in the classroom using robotics kits and programming with progressive access to the Internet.
What problems does it answer?
With this program, Argentina aims to tackle the educational crisis facing Latin America. The goal is to “harness the transformative power of technology to change the way in which children learn”, and with this, improve the systems of public education. This would not be the first time in the world to explore the benefits of Information Technologies and Communication (TICs). But, we reiterate that it is something worth looking at to have originated in the region. Without doubt it has wide-ranging potential benefit for the future of education. Sociocultural changes produced in more than a century we require transformations that challenge the way in which it organizes the transmission of knowledge. From CriptoTendencia we advocate the exploration of alternative and innovative solutions to the problems that afflict us in various kinds.