RedCLARA News - 2004/2010
Arandu was presented at Virtual Educa
ARANDU was presented last month at the Virtual Educa Cono Sur Paraguay, an event that aims to involve teachers in the task of adapting the school to the realities of the XXI century and became an important window to give understand the benefits of advanced networks.
The Ministry of Education and Culture of Paraguay, the Organization of Iberoamerican States (OEI) and Virtual Educa multilateral initiative, coordinated the holding of a meeting between South American teachers last month.
With the theme "Teaching in the XXI century: new skills, new roles", the Virtual Educa Cono Sur was carried out in Paraguay, 11 and 12 November, and had important exhibitors from various countries, who shared research, experience and application development of information and communication technologies in education.
The topics discussed were part of the thematic lines of Virtual Educa, with special emphasis on teacher training "in an education system that raises the transformation of teaching and learning processes by the introduction of ICTs and intends to organize an educational model for future generations, "explains the website of Virtual Educa.
One of the topics covered were the "New Paths for Learning: Technology and Education ", which were discussed national experiences. Among these, highlighted the advanced networking project in Paraguay, ARANDU, driven by CLARA.
The talk was provided by Emily Serafini, Coordinator ARANDU and Jorge Cabañas, Director of the National Computer Centre National University of Asuncion, and it was announced that the project aims to create a new national academic network generation for the development of science and technology.
Teachers heard about the benefits of advanced networks, which not only have to do with having a high capacity network, but also quality service infrastructure, which enables the use of innovative applications, mainly real time.
In the last quarter, ARANDU has participated in various activities to be known, details Serafini.
