“The leading centers are taking the screens out of the classrooms”

Andrea Alfaro, author of the ‘Survival Guide for Mothers and Fathers in Technologies and Social Networks’ and Paul Garaizar, member of the Deusto Learning Lab, psychologist and doctor of Computer Engineering, have analyzed the use of new technologies in the classroom in the Radio Euskadi program “Boulevard”.

Last Friday, the Ministry of Education of the Basque Government presented its Digital Transformation Plan de classrooms where the aim is to strengthen students’ digital skills. One of the initiatives is students from 5th to 2nd Bachillerato have their own computer in the classroom.

Advisor Jokin Bildarratz offered the details of the first challenge of this plan which seeks to adapt the classrooms and integrate the digital tools that the students will work with.

Pablo Garaizar has his take on this new situation, “It seems to me that he pays a lot of attention to technology and little to what happens in the classroom. Technology must have its space as other areas have.”

He also stated that leading education centers around the world are working to remove computers from classrooms, “technology is very intrusive and sometimes misleading. Leading schools remove screens from classrooms

As for social networks, he believes they should be used in “a legal context” and to work on educational content in schools. must be done “on time”.