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MISTICA: RE: MISTICA-T: Re: La escuela en la sociedad red

From: [email protected]
Date: vie mar 19 2004 - 22:16:04 AST

Me disculpo, pero siento muy mejor ahora :-)
Estoy non segura quien es moderadoro por este tema, pero se es muy, muy
demasiado largo. Tengo que mandar, puedes tirar :-)

Buenos noches toda/os mi amiga/os
Quizas esta noche estoy un poco desilusionado. Miercoles trabaje muy
duro editar un articulo desde 3300 palabras a 1500 palabras. Ahora dicen
que unas 3000 es bueno :-(

"La escuela en la sociedad red." "Red" no es machinas, es gente.
Nosotro/as todo/as sabemos este. Necesitamos dicer a otros, no a nos.

MISTICA is Methodology and Social Impact of the Information and
Communication Technologies in America, but we rarely speak about
television, radio, films even books, only computers. Perhaps we are
guilty of what we blame others for. Here in St. Lucia too it seems that
people believe if you put a computer/computers in a school - Eureka! You
have education. For about 15 years I have been awed by the potential of
computers to help, to facilitate the communication of information, but I
become sadder and sadder at the terrible things that are done in the
name of the computer. They are enabled to make us slaves in the worst
way because we are not allowed to think for ourselves, and this is
because we refuse to recognise that they are NOT omnipotent, that they
are tools, wonderful tools, but they need us more than we need them.
This is a tiny country, 150,000 people. But we could look at our
situation and ask ourselves what needs to be done, and what is the best
tool to do it. We could write much of our own software, to do the jobs
that we recognise need to be done here. We could create a real network
to disseminate information, using computers, radio, television, the
newspapers, PEOPLE, all together. We could streamline the work that has
to be done by cutting out a great deal of duplication, and so we could
do a lot of other things that there is no time for at the moment.
We could use this wonderful tool to share problems and solutions with
people like us. About 4 years ago on the GKD list I "bumped into" a man
in Islamabad who was sitting under a tree watching a mechanic trying to
fix his car. I'm not a man, I have never been in Islamabad, but I knew
exactly what he felt like. And I would bet that he feels the same way I
do about idiosyncrasies of the electricity and water supplies, or the
fact that there is NO printer ink anywhere on the island, or that the
phone goes out in wet weather. He probably doesn't get in a fuss when
something breaks down, because he expects that it's going to, and he is
probably very good at thinking up ingenious ways of dealing with
unexpected problems. I can remember when the drains backed up all the
way to the roof of the new library building, which is on the top of a
hill, (the men who fixed the road had tarmac-ed and concreted across the
outflow) and we rigged a wonderful Heath Robinson arrangement with
garbage bags to save the computer centre - three floors up in the
building - from being flooded.
So networked schools are wonderful if they can make more palatable
multiplication tables and irregular verbs, can provide access to vast
stores of information, can allow students to "meet" and get to know
others, who will then cease to be other, but these things often require
other technologies as well as computers to make them successful, and
ALWAYS require people, if only to recognise a need and suggest an
appropriate technology to supply the need.
I wish so much that I could be fluent and passionate in Spanish - I'm
trying, but I have a very long way to go. But I KNOW that there are
things I can learn from you/vosotro/as/you others, and I suspect that
there may even be things that you can learn from me, and I am quite sure
that the whole point of "La escuela en la sociedad red." is that we
should talk to each other, that this IS "la escuela".

Deirdre
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Nota de la moderaci�n:
Thanks Deirdre for your perseverance and let us know that we were
missing the messages from mistica-t.
We do also appreciate your good will to write in Spanish most of the
times.
Those are two good reasons to pass this message from you even though it
is a little bit longer than usual in this neighborhood. Seguimos.

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