What should be our school today

Sad song about the quality of our education was performed on these pages several times and no one is not questioned. The world is changing right before our eyes, knowledge and information have become the only real currency, and in our schools and colleges still running the show tired teacher retirement age and strongly pragmatic teachers, students change money on your autograph in zachetke. What kind of knowledge, we can speak about a breakthrough?

Nevertheless, progress is inexorable, and sooner or later will come and new trends in the industry such as the ossified education. We want to share with you a few recipes as you can work the school does not even tomorrow, not today! All the technology for this already exist and work on every computer.

It remains only to start using them.

Previously, the biggest obstacle to the use of modern digital technology in the classroom has been their relatively high cost and poor circulation. Today everything has changed significantly, and almost every urban family has at least one computer connected to the Internet. With regard to software solutions, here there is a huge choice from a variety of commercial and free solutions. We stopped on the popular, free and easy-to-use office suite Google Docs and considered several options for its use in the learning process.

schedule

In the first week of the cycle of training a large problem for the pupils and students of the training schedule. First, it often changes utryasut until all negotiation with teachers and administration, and secondly, no one else really does not remember. To avoid all these problems, it is sufficient to Google spreadsheet editor to create a simple table with a grid and share the lessons it with all the students. All changes will be instantly available and brought to the attention of students.

The magazine estimates

I am sure that very soon the children will perceive the stories about the "forgotten diary," "torn page" and "miraculous transformation of some figures in the other" as a kind of school folklore. It's enough to just lead a statement of all estimates in the public (read-only :) table in Google Docs. And let talented Losers experience on Google defense strength.

Hometasks

Tell me, how many times you have heard from their children, "and we did not asked?" And how many times it proved to be true? Can solve this problem in just ten minutes. A simple table containing the names of objects in rows and columns - Date, students will be able to deliver on need to rush at the end of class to record tasks and will allow parents to easily accomplish control homework.

Additional materials

Despite all the efforts of our education system, we still found the children who are able and willing to learn. Many of them have grown considerably measurements averaged over the training system and strive for more. But for them the teacher may well spread to separate daddy additional materials on the subject. Links, video, audio, text. Teach the Earth's crust - here's a documentary film about the most famous volcanoes. Studying the work of Pushkin - see "Eugene Onegin" in the best possible setting. Interested physics - here saytik describing different phenomena and experiences.

Reports, essays, term papers

Writing independent work is a great way to develop the skills of individual work, search and processing. But, as it happens, it is a fun example of the absurdity of our school. Pupil searches the web for information, processes it and prepares a file in a text editor (possibly in the same Google Docs), then print, stitched into a beautiful daddy and relates to the teacher. Let's save the trees, printers, and the time and we just fumble their work with a mentor.

Polls

Some educational and extracurricular issues require consideration of the opinion of each student or their parents. If you want to know the teacher who wants to take part in school competitions, who will go on the next tour or parents' opinion on the organization of the learning process, it is enough to just create a survey form and send it to all participants.

parental control

Most of the children in school, and even some of the older students need to be controlled by parents. The presence of the network and the easy availability of all of the above materials will make it possible to easily check schedules, homework, current and final grades. And, if necessary, a simple conversation with the teacher in Google Talk will be able to completely replace a hike to a meeting in the school.

As you can see for yourself all the above solutions is quite commonplace, easily reproducible and does not require any investments or training.

Everything is already there - take it and use.

However, it will take a lot of time, while our school will take existing instruments into service. Our children see on the computer only a source of endless amusement, and teachers are generally afraid to approach this "devil-machine."

Or I'm wrong somewhere and something like that is already in use? Please let us know in the comments, it's interesting.