ORT Argentina Technical Schools provides suggestions for emphasizing the value of technological education. Some key points include: - Technological education should involve hands-on activities like building or solving real problems, and applying lessons learned. - It should be taught as an independent subject that also scaffolds other technological disciplines. - The curriculum should include areas like arts, social sciences, hard sciences, and technological disciplines like computing and electronics. - Principles of technological education include customizing tracks to individual interests and emphasizing soft technologies like management and entrepreneurship.

1. ORT Argentina Technical Schools

2. Framework Pedagogical approach It's perception!: What Technological Education brings to the table? Some suggestions to emphasize value

3. Stakeholders Students Parents Teachers Teachers from other subjects Education experts Former students Education experts

4. Expectations In Technological Education we… Do stuff Build something Solve a real problem Transfer what we just learned…

5. Areas of curriculum Arts and expression Social Sciences Hard Sciences Technological disciplines (Computing, Electronics) Instrumental subjects (Math, Language, Drawing)

6. Principles Technological Education is as an independent subject but: Think in Technological Education as a Vigotzkian scaffolding for technological disciplines Call technological disciplines by his name in higher grades (IT, Electronics, Industrial Design, Building)

7. Principles II Technological education as an independent subject but: Tracks!!!! ( customization taking into account individual interests) Put some accent in soft technologies (managing, marketing, entrepreneurship?, new ICTs)

8. Quotes about two challenges About groupwork and networks : “Build the ecology of the class” (John Sealy Brown) About constant change : “…not changing is the risk…” (Nicholas Negroponte)

9. Use of Web 2.0 The future workspace use forums and wikis, blog projects and reports, use RSS feeds, and social networks. If we do not use them, who will?

10. About content… Make accent in trend analysis and breakthroughs from the industry Study the history of technology (without history, no discipline) Split form science, but keep science in mind (the black box affects perception)

11. About content… In your projects look for real data, real situations, real users … Do not borrow content from technological disciplines, join them . (enforcing their techniques and transferring them to other areas, favoring induction)

12. About the students In the beginning take in mind the learning curve, but keep it interesting (think modules and groupwork) Use genre perspective . Take the girls into account! Use groupwork, but with personal accountability .

13. About the activities Use Case Studies : Look for examples of technological implementations, take account of the stakeholders, see all the points of view, think as a manager, make simulations, role-playing, cost analysis. Use Comparative Perspectives : Look for examples of similar situations in different times and places (favor induction and transfer!)

14. Transferring… Social Networks Folksonomy Read/Write web Collective Construction Visibility

15. Questions? Guillermo Lutzky [email_address]