Santo Domingo;- The Juan Pablo Duarte Magisterial Current successfully developed the Symposium “Transforming Learning through Technology, Challenges of Dominican Education”, held at the Auditorium of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo UASD Mao Campus, with an extraordinary presentation by the expert Maestro Pedro Acosta, where teachers and students from different areas of education participated, interested in the knowledge of technology and the use of artificial intelligence in schools.
Professor Pedro Acosta highlighted the importance of this type of symposium because it will change the traditional teaching method centered on the blackboard, chalk and eraser, with new technology that includes a digital whiteboard, data shows, presentations, video, simulations and the Internet, “it will include communication with systems that are online worldwide, that will allow you to have a very different vision of what education is, that will change the way students learn because they will include tools that they did not have before” said Acosta.
As for the greatest weakness at present to achieve this transformation in education, according to Pedro Acosta, it is access, equipment and training, since not everyone has access to the Internet, nor do they have technological resources. As the digital gap improves and is closed, students will learn more and teachers will work more comfortably, emphasized the technology expert.
Representing the symposium of the northwest region was Teacher Miguel Ángel Fernández, who is also a candidate for the national presidency of the Dominican Association of Teachers ADP for the commission of next October 9, he emphasized that this symposium is always held prior to the National Teachers’ Gathering that takes place every year, this time it will be on October 11, 12 and 13, that is why with the same theme adapted to each region it is shared with the teachers so that they have the opportunity to participate because not everyone attends the national event since it has a cost in a hotel in the country that for some teachers also makes it difficult to travel due to the distance.
“The issue of transforming learning through technology is key because today’s generation of teachers is young and from the digital age, plus the enrollment of students is digital from this era and therefore teaching, regular educational action in schools urgently needs digital skills and competencies to have greater success in facing the challenges of education in this country,” said the teacher candidate for the presidency of the ADP, Miguel Ángel Fernández.
