Sunday, July 8, 2018
10 -Year -old children may not know what that of ‘cloud computing’ is about which elderly people talk when they refer to technologies and services such as cloud storage. But they are one of the most important users.
With the aim that they are aware of all the possibilities that these technologies offer and that become technological ambassadors of other classmates, Amazon Web Services carried out a workshop with students from the Santa María la Blanca College in which these students first allowed -what technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) alle
It is increasingly common for children to get all types of technological teachings in classrooms. In communities such as Madrid, programming is even a compulsory subject of high school. In general, these matters are taught by adults. But what if we let it be the children themselves who show their classmates how to use technological tools? This is the big challenge of the workplace of work.
The students of the 6th grade and the 1st high school therefore received a theoretical and practical workshop in which they were explained what was hidden after the concept of ‘cloud computing’ (or the cloud), they told them practical and real cases of different initiatives who could use and saw how they could do their own solution, design and produce their own solution of the internet solution).
Oihana Llovet Díaz is a professor at Santa María La Blanca College and is working on the innovation project. He defends that the goal of his center, through personalization, is to achieve established skills and “bring students to find a meaning in learning.” Among those fundamental competencies -such as personal and social development -is the digital part one of the most important. «We are in a digital environment and that helps them a lot to make students autonomous. We know that the student’s source of information is not only the teacher, but that they have many resources, “he says.
«Experiential learning»
This is therefore responsible for the innovation area of this center that teaching topics is adapted to the learning speed of each of his students. Something in which the cooperative work of the students and their relationship with the environment plays a lot of weight. «Because they are small, we strengthen these social competitions. In the 4th of ESO they complete a week of experience in companies to discover their concerns in different professions, ”explains Llovet Díaz. That is why learning the students is very important because it is an active challenge to learn in school.».
In this workshop, those who are responsible for Amazon Web Services also explained some social projects that would not be possible without the ‘cloud computing’. “It is very interesting that they know how to use technology well, that they see that it is not just for fun, but that we can help people who are in another part of the world,” he emphasizes.
This workshop is an experimental and unique project for the time being, but it is not excluded to extend it to other centers. Carlos Sanchis Salmerón, manager solutions architect of Amazon Web Services, was responsible for explaining children “what they have not yet heard (the cloud), but they use it for thousands of things.” Although he will suffer many changes throughout his life, he explained that “the cloud can be used to improve that change.” Examples? “We have swept the ground, but now we have robots that do.”
