The educational instruction in Mexico

The educational instruction in Mexico.

We can speak of the system educational Mexican in two big dimensions the escolarizada and the open one; these can be given in present form or at distance. Traditionally the education had been imparted in form escolarizada and present, used in 95% of the different educational levels in our country, the innovation is given when beginning the modalities of open educational Instruction and at distance. (So alone 5%)

We will leave of defining the education, as a process of mutual interaction, educate-educator, where both simultáneamente;(Cara is influenced to Face), so that that process is effective, the communication should be bidirectional and it should be open to the critic and to the reflection stiller when it is of an educating adult.

In the present Instruction or also called face to face. We know that Education Escolarizada or traditional it is that that is carried out in a certain physical space (school) and he/she gives a high-priority importance to aspects like the daily attendance to classes, the teacher's presence like main informant, study plans governed in the number and order of the courses, unique curricular design, evaluation approaches and established acreditación institutionally and a previous calendarización to which the students should undergo. It has been conceived as a process to acquire knowledge in a period of the life, going to an institution specifies dedicated for this end. (Very effective even in our days and governed by the system of the SEP).

The Opened Education in tally, he/she is carried out in diverse physical spaces (not necessarily a school), he/she stops in freedom to the student to attend or not to receive information or explanations on the part of the professor or tutor, he/she makes emphasis in the autodidactismo, it eliminates the rigidity in the handling of the currícula and flexibiliza the evaluation approaches and acreditación. Being this model the one that takes every day more I impel in the degrees and graduate degrees.

The Present Education Escolarizada, (Instruction face to face), it is that that requires of the student in the classroom of classes, facilitating the I dialogue and the exchange of information in a personal way or grupal and in opposition to this the Education at Distance, will be that that is carried out in a habitual way without the physical presence to regulate and systematic of professors and students in the classrooms of a center using anyone of the capable media to establish the educational action.
Although the concept of open education understands each other as opposed to that of escolarizada and the concept at distance as opposed to the present one, this doesn't imply that an open system is necessarily at distance or vice versa since in fact in our country institutions that operate with system at distance exist and in a way escolarizada, such it would be the case of the telesecundaria of the SEP or of the Technological Institute of Superior Studies of Monterrey, in those which, operating at distance, the student has to fulfill a calendarización and evaluation approaches the same as in the traditional school.

Would we have to wonder which educational system is more efficient?

The on-line courses or the on-line instruction.

The on-line courses according to Crown and Zatarain (2002). They are based on the enriched Teaching (where the students interactúan with tip technology and the educational ones use them like support to the docencia, in traditional educational spaces (classrooms, libraries, laboratories) and the education at distance (where the means have a preponderant paper in the elaboration of study materials and in the establishment of an appropriate relationship with the individuals that usually not this in a classroom and that it transforms all the elements of the educational process, through education for correspondence, radio, television, videoconferences and multiple means). To the view this whole combined multimedia wants it to undertake the project of Enciclomedia, undertaken by the federal government of Fox.


The on-line Courses at distance. They are a group of thematic contents, strategies and resources that are Structured methodologically, in an integral way and by means of the internet, to provide the student an appropriate atmosphere of learning. He/she should offer the essential points, the topics and the activities; to offer specialized consultantship; pertinent, continuous evaluation and to the student's own rhythm, administrative and institutional information; personal orientation and of support; spaces to share experiences and restlessness and to publish works; as well as the access to resources (readings, magazines, outlines, audio, video, etc.) and necessary tools during the trial of learning. We have the vivencia of these learning atmospheres, in META.

Some fundamental characteristics of the courses at distance. (Fernando Mortera 2002)
To be able to operate in any locus in quo is students or even where there is a single student, with or without present professors in the same place or at the same time. ( Synchronous or asynchronous communication)
To grant an important responsibility to the student during the learning. ( To be disciplined, self taught, and to be very motivated)
To liberate the professor of duties of surveillance and it guards of the student, in such a way that is devoted more time to the truly educational tares. ( Aspects presénciales in the classroom or laboratory of I compute)
To offer the students and adults a wide range of options (more opportunities) in the classes, in the formats of the courses, and in diverse methodologies. ( To use different material multimedia)
To use of appropriate way, all the technological measures and teaching methods that have demonstrated to be effective. (educational platforms, as WebCT, Moodle, AVA, Blackboar, etc.)

Other important aspects would be the following ones:

The student and the teacher can be separate. ( as it is the working, mixed pattern or totally at distance)
The normal processes of teaching and learning should be carried out in writing or through some means.
The teaching should be individualized or collaborative.
The learning should happen by means of the interactions and the student's activities, to the interior of the course
The learning should be adapted so that the student this in its own atmosphere. (to generate a space of harmony and cordiality.
The student should take the responsibility for her own rhythms and progresses when learning, with the freedom of to begin and to stop in any time. (Great advantage of the 24 hrs. For every day of the year)



Among the qualities that it possesses the non present formation it is that of flexibilizar the spaces and times that are dedicated to the formation as well as a change in the attitudes assumed by the professor and of the student before the knowledge and their socialization, resignificando professor's paper to advisory educational, of the student to student, of the teaching and of the learning. However, the same as the present pattern, it can fall in the simulation and desentendimiento of the institutional objectives, getting lost the direction or pedagogic idea that it sustains it.


The learning nets are scenarios of interactions among subject of territorial different sociocultural and linguistic, distanced contexts and spacely that use Communication in Computer Environments (CEI) to learn low colaborativamente the rhythm and style individualized initially and collective later on (Harasim; 2000). The educational interactions just as they are giving in the school, they have character of present, in the vicinity and corporal relationships “face to face”, in spaces, times and very defined knowledge through a pedagogic speech centered in the scientific certainties. On the other hand, the CEI breaks up with the relationship time-space to configure a digital environment it doesn't only stop the information and communication, but space of emotional, sentimental expressions and of entertainment.

Instruction with open code.

In their presentation" Scenario for the open code 2005", Mark Driver, analyst of Gartner, explained that in 2006 you/he/she exists 70% of probability that the products of open code are considered in 40% of the technology investments focused to the infrastructure. For what is necessary to learn how to determine where and when to use the applications of free software, for what is necessary to establish evaluation approaches and procedures to maintain them and to adopt them to take advantage of them as competitive tool, in all the different educational levels.
The tendencies that Gartner exposed show that it is very possible that for the 2008 more responsibility is demanded for the installation and administration of changes for the applications with free disbandment, for what will be necessary that the service industries of YOU offer support and, finally that it is probable that its reach is superior to 50% of the applications. Categorically, Driver assures that it won't replace to all the applications.
In the category of open code they are the operating system of Linux mainly and some educational platforms as Moodle.
Moodle is a learning platform at distance in free Software. He/she has a relatively big and growing base of users.
Moodle is a system of administration of the teaching (course management system or learning management system in English), that is to say, an application designed to help the educators to create courses of on-line quality. These types of learning system at distance are sometimes called also atmospheres of virtual learning or on-line education.

Summations
The educational pattern of the present instruction (face to face), it will be used in the preescolar levels to the superior means, being this the one that contributes an entire educational machinery.
On the other hand the instruction of the on-line courses, they are more managed at the superior level and of graduate degrees. You grieve this intruded in the virtual universities.
And the handling of the instruction of the open code, even this in diapers, since our country is a great market of the united states.
It considered that the three intrusion aspects, they are not fought among if, if not but well they offer us certain opportunities of educational complement, so necessary in our multicultural mosaic of Mexico.

For their attention. Thank you.

Attn. Rafael Aguilar Vélez


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Weblog

¿Qué es un blog?

Un blog es un diario personal. Una tribuna de orador. Un espacio de colaboración. Un estrado político. Una fuente de noticias impactantes. Una colección de vínculos. Un medio para expresar sus opiniones personales. Comunicados para todo el mundo.
Su blog será como usted quiera que sea. Existen millones de ellos con diferentes formas y tamaños. No debe seguirse ningún patrón.

Un blog puede definirse de forma sencilla como un sitio Web donde el usuario escribe periódicamente sobre cualquier tema. Los últimos escritos se muestran en la parte superior para que las personas que visitan el sitio sepan cuál es la información más reciente. Una vez leída esta información, pueden comentarla, enlazar con ella o escribir un mensaje al autor, aunque también pueden optar por no hacer nada de esto.

Desde el lanzamiento de Blogger, hace prácticamente cinco años, los blogs han transformado Internet, han influido en la política, han revolucionado el periodismo y han permitido a millones de personas expresar sus opiniones y ponerse en contacto entre sí.
Y estamos prácticamente convencidos de que esto es sólo el comienzo.

Publique sus opiniones.

Un blog le permite expresar sus opiniones en Internet. Es un lugar donde puede recopilar y compartir todo aquello que le parezca interesante, ya sean comentarios políticos, un diario personal o vínculos a sitios Web que desee recordar.

Muchos utilizan un blog sólo para organizar sus ideas, mientras que otros lo emplean para hacer llegar sus opiniones a miles de personas de todo el mundo. Los periodistas profesionales y aficionados utilizan los blogs para publicar noticias impactantes, y hay personas que recurren a ellos para expresar sus pensamientos íntimos como en un diario.
Si tiene algo que decir, Blogger le ayudará.

Obtener comentarios

Los blogs no son sólo un método para expresar sus opiniones en Internet, sino también una forma de conocer otros puntos de vista y entrar en contacto con personas que comparten sus ideas.

La opción Comentarios de Blogger permite a los usuarios de todo el mundo que visitan su sitio expresar su opinión sobre la información que usted comparte en su blog. Puede decidir si desea recibir o no comentarios sobre cada entrada (y borrar todo lo que no le guste).

Los grupos de blogs pueden ser excelentes herramientas de comunicación para equipos reducidos, familias u otros colectivos. Confiera a su grupo un espacio propio en Internet donde compartir noticias, vínculos e ideas.

Los Perfiles en Blogger permiten buscar personas y blogs que compartan sus intereses. Además, gracias a su perfil otras personas le encontrarán a usted (sólo si usted lo desea).
Su perfil de Blogger refleja sus blogs, sus entradas recientes y más. Al hacer clic sobre un interés o una ubicación, verá los perfiles de otros usuarios cuyos blogs pueden serle de utilidad.

Enviar fotografías

En ocasiones, simplemente desea compartir una fotografía. Hay un botón para subir fotografías en la interfaz de Bloger. Basta con hacer clic en el botón de la fotografía para subir la foto desde su equipo. Si la fotografía que desea poner en su blog ya está en la web, tampoco habrá ningún problema. Sólo díganos dónde está.

También puede subir fotografías adjuntándolas a un mensaje que haya recibido en su propia dirección Mail-to-Blogger. Asimismo, puede enviar fotografías realizadas con su teléfono móvil directamente a su blog cuando se desplace con Blogger móvil.

Vuélvase móvil

Con Blogger móvil podrá enviar fotografías y texto directamente a su blog en sus desplazamientos. Basta con que envíe un mensaje por teléfono a go@blogger.com. Ni siquiera necesita una cuenta de Blogger. El mensaje es suficiente para crear un blog nuevo y publicar la fotografía o el texto que haya enviado.

Si desea solicitar su blog móvil o cambiar sus entradas a otro blog, basta con acceder a go.blogger.com y utilizar el código Blogger enviado a su teléfono.

Aunque actualmente Blogger Mobile se encuentra sólo disponible en Estados Unidos, si puede enviar mensajes de correo electrónico desde su teléfono móvil, también puede crear entradas en su blog utilizando Mail-to-Blogger.

La función AudioBlogger permite llamar a Blogger desde cualquier teléfono y dejar un mensaje, que se publica inmediatamente en su sitio como un archivo de audio MP3 (resulta muy divertido en las fiestas).

Inicio

La manera más rápida de entender cómo funcionan los blogs es utilizándolos. Nos hemos esforzado para simplificar al máximo su uso. Basta con hacer clic en el vínculo de abajo y, en menos de cinco minutos, entrará a formar parte de un fenómeno que está transformando Internet y los medios de comunicación en una actividad participativa. Hablamos en serio.
¿Qué sucederá después? Quién sabe. Pero puede ser divertido.

Y recuerde: Blogger es completamente gratis. Si tiene algún problema, haga clic en el botón Ayuda de la pantalla donde se encuentre y obtendrá una solución. Incluso podrá ponerse en contacto con el dedicado equipo de asistencia del programa.

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Assignment 1

1. Your perspective: From what position or role in society are you viewing the education system?

In a nation, the education is the first revolution that it is necessary to undertake in favor of the progress. The experience of the countries that you/they have grown with justness demonstrates that one of the most successful forces to achieve it is the education.
An education that is not privilege of some, but of all.

For Mexico it represents the human capital that will allow us to compete with the world.
The Technologies should be constituted in effective tools for the teaching and a resource more for the learning. However it is not enough with providing from technology to the schools, it is indispensable to generate contents of value that allow the construction of the knowledge.
The education that we have is not still the one that we need to build the country that we want: a democratic, free, fair Mexico and I prosper; proud of its ancestral and at the same time competent culture to participate in the contemporary international community.
To improve the public education and deprived in all their levels and modalities we should create a national culture that identifies it as the fundamental means to achieve the freedom, the justice and the individual and collective prosperity.

2. Your general opinion (based on evidence) of the status of education in Mexico: the strengths and weaknesses.

At the present time, our system educational Mexican presents weaknesses, in different measures, articulation flaws; rigidity in the study programs; insufficient diversification of the institutions; repetition and desertion; use lack; covering problems; as well as inequalities among the states, the regions and the diverse social sectors.

In the drop quality of our education they intervene, among other, the following factors:
Focus concentrated in the teaching that you/they pass for high the necessities of the student's learning;
Mismatch relevancy levels and relevance of the contents of the programs regarding the expectations of the families as well as of the sectors producing of goods and services;
Professors' existence with inappropriate profiles for the appropriate acting of their function;
Weak motivation of the educational community toward the innovation;
Lack of instruments of integral evaluation and, in general, an insufficient advance in the culture of rendition of bills;
Mainly bureaucratic and vertical administration forms;
Insufficient infrastructure for the good development, of the educational task;
Inadequacy of resources economic publics and private dedicated to the education;
Little interest and scarce social participation in support activities to the education, the investigation and the culture.

Strengths of the educational system.
The implementation of the national Plan of Education.
The Incorporation of several treaties and educational exchanges at international level.
The educational linking of quality among the three government levels
The incorporation of the tics, at the different educational levels.
Educational projects at national level, as enciclomedia
The participation of international indicators, as the OECD.
The incorporation of educational models of on-line education and at distance in the IES, UNAM, U of G, ISTEM, IPN, etc.

3. your personal view of the adequacy of training programs in Mexico. Are there enough programs? Enough institutions? Can Mexico compete with the rest of the world?
In this context, the great axis for the educational transformation in Mexico is to improve the quality and to assist the inequity problems prioritarily to make possible that all the Mexicans learn for the life and along a lifetime.
It is had a certain quantity of institutions that you/they toast or they satisfy an educational demand. But that they are not enough, neither the institutions, neither the effective programs.

So that Mexico can be competitive with the other countries, they will create the opportunities so that each who he/she carries out its aspirations and achieve a worthy, productive life and solidarity.

To advance in this sense, we require to have an education system laid the foundation in the universal human securities. A system that is pertinent, integrated, diversified, flexible, innovative and dynamic; coordinated with the society in their group, with the science and technology system, with the cultural sector and with the productive apparatus.

4. Are there any groups in Mexican society who are not being adequately educated or trained?

Only in the Mexican capital, every year 160 thousand are rejected young of degree; in 2005, a total of 122 thousand applicants to high school didn't find place in facilities of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN).

As for basic education, the panorama is not better. Although officially he/she makes sure that the country has to the infantile population's 99.4 percent in primary education, the Secretary of Public Education (SEP) and specialists admit that the real covering is of 93 percent.

In superior education, according to a recent analysis of the Mexican Fund for the Education and Development (FMED), while the industrialized countries duplicated their covering to assist between 70 and 80 percent of their youth in university age, the educational institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean they don't have space for four of each five youths in age of attending them, and who are able to study superior studies they should face the ghost of the unemployment.

As for secondary, the perception is the same one. With a net rate of 72 covering percent and an advance rhythm yearly of little more than 2 percent, 15 years they would be required more to arrive to 100 percent. This way, for 2015 the universal covering would neither be reached.

Of this we can conclude that all the educational levels are below the educational covering that you/they should have, besides presenting serious problems of terminal efficiency, as well as the recognition of education of quality at international level.


5. What can be done to improve the status of education and training in Mexico?

To impel the commitment with an education of quality and equal. That it implies, for the different educational levels, to meet us to the development of" committed communities with the learning." These communities have, among other the following ones characteristic: a clear and shared vision of the educational objectives; collegiate organization of the work; concentration of the effort in the continuous improvement of the quality; bigger margins of autonomy for the organization and resource management; professors determined to serve as discipline example, respect and creativity; the family parents' participation to make of each home a learning center and to involve to the families in the activities of the school; supervisors that facilitate the improvement of the educational practice, by means of the formation of learning groups and autoevaluación processes.

This will imply to approach working lines as the following ones:
• To build effective outlines for the recognition interinstitucional of credits, the student mobility and the exchange of students.
• The educational focuses centered in the learning to generalize.
• To propitiate the intensive use of the technologies of the information and of the communication in the educational programs.
• To multiply the efforts to diminish the I leave behind accumulated in the infrastructure of the schools.
• To have a program of upgrade and professors' formation that it incorporates the advances of the science, the humanities, the technology and the innovations of the education guided to the learning and the formation in labor competitions.
• To achieve that the schools have development plans to improve their operation and the quality of their services.
• To strengthen the cooperation mechanisms among the institutions, to favor a better use of the human resources and of the available infrastructure.


6. If you feel that you would like to focus your attention on one professional area or one state, please do so.

To speak of educational Software in a time characterized by multiple changes in the different scenarios of the daily life implies to recognize how the processes of modernity for those that is crossing the current society, have generated novel and very diverse forms of human interaction that, in an or another way, they have affected the practice and the exercise of the process of teaching learning.

With the result that the educational one in asset has to face the Technologies of Information and Communication (TIC), to those that you go as the solution to their teaching problems in numerous occasions.

In this sense, the education conceived as fundamental element in the human, social, ethical, cultural, political development and vivencial has like challenge to face one of the sharpest obstacles that arises in all process of teaching learning: to know how to use the TIC like support tools.


Atte. Rafael Aguilar Vélez.