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Preguntas y respuestas de enfoque estratégico sobre las tics en educación.

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1. ¿Qué es el ciberciudadano? Es la persona que se comunica e interactua a través de las redes sociales de manera constante. 2. ¿Nos consideramos ciberciudadanos? SI / NO  ¿Porque? Sí, porque nos comunicamos diariamente a través de las redes sociales y hacemos uso de Internet en todo momento. 3. ¿Los modelos pedagógicos actuales son útiles para motivar a los estudiantes con el aprendizaje?  SI / NO ¿Porque? Sí, ya que se le da la oportunidad a cada estudiante de enriquecer sus conocimientos a través de la relación con los conocimientos previos, adecuándolos a sus habilidades y destrezas, para que ellos se sientan involucrados en el proceso educativo. 4. ¿Están los sistemas escolares formando para estos cambios tecnológicos? SI / NO ¿Porque? No, porque no se cuenta con personal realmente capacitado para poder innovar e introducir la tecnología como parte del proceso de enseñanza.Hay sectores que no cuentan con una estructura mobiliaria adecu
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Does technology improve Education?

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By: Fran Garcia Google for Education Fran Garcia explains how technology has to be applied in the correct way.    Positive Negative Technology is a way that teachers use to improve education. Technology makes that our students don`t share their ideas orally. Technology helps to students to create doubts and teachers have the interactive role to solve them. There are not preparing teachers and schools to face the technology age. Technology helps to improve abilities and capabilities. Technology is not the change, is how teachers apply it. Technology offers different kind of contents to children and teachers. People don’t give the correct usage to technology. Technology helps to make Collaborative work in the classrooms. There are countries that don’t have the enough technology resources. In my opinion, technology can help in our classrooms
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MindManger

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MindManager  is a commercial  mind mapping  software application developed by  Mindjet . The software provides ways for users to visualize information in mind maps and  flowcharts . MindManager can be used to manage projects, organize information, and for brainstorming. MindManager provides ways for users to visualize information using mind maps, and with the release of MindManager 2016 for Windows, now includes flowchart and concept map creation tools. The digital mind maps can be used as a “virtual whiteboard” for brainstorming, managing and planning projects, compiling research, organizing large amounts of information, and for strategic planning.  MindManager also has features that allow budget calculations and formulas, Gantt chart views of project timelines, and guided brainstorming. Documents can be attached to mind map topics and viewed within the MindManager application. Links, images, and notes can also be added to mind map topics and viewed and searched in a side panel.
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Chat

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Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other text-based online communication forms such as Internet forums and email. Online chat may address point-to-point communications as well as multicastcommunications from one sender to many receivers and voice and video chat, or may be a feature of a web conferencingservice. Online chat in a less stringent definition may be primarily any direct text-based or video-based (webcams), one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat (formally also known as synchronous conferencing), using tools such as instant messengers, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), talkers and possibly MUDs. The expression online chat comes from the word chat which means "informal convers
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SlideShare

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SlideShare is a slide hosting service, acquired by  LinkedIn  in 2012. It allows users to upload files (PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote, or OpenDocument presentations) either privately or publicly. The slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself or can be embedded on other sites. Just as YouTube allows users to upload and share videos, SlideShare allows users to upload and share slideshows.  Although the site was originally intended for businesses to share slides amongst employees, it has  expanded  and now hosts a huge number of slideshows which have been uploaded for anybody to view.  Here are some of the benefits of using SlideShare: Using SlideShare means you won’t have to worry about hosting content on your own site since you can just embed content from SlideShare. A far more practical and less time-consuming process.  Using it means you will be able to tap into the large number of SlideShare visitors and raise your own profile.  It is low cost since there is both a fr
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Voki

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Voki is an educational tool that allows users to create their very own talking character. Voki characters can be customized to look like historical figures, cartoons, animals, and even yourself! Give your Voki a voice by recording with a microphone, using our dial-in number, or uploading an audio file. Voki characters can be emailed, shared on social media, and embedded on websites! There is a  Voki Classroom, and is a student assignment management system for Voki. With Voki Classroom, teachers are able to control their students' privacy settings. Visit our Products page to see the benefits of upgrading to Voki Classroom. Voki is a free service that lets you create a talking avatar to help students share their learning. The other excellent feature is that it can then be embedded onto a blog. Voki gives to teachers the opportunity to engage students in any topic area through a simple to use and free resource available anytime and anywhere for almost any purpose. 
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Prezi

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Prezi  is a web-based tool for creating presentations (called  prezis  for short). It's similar to other presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint, but it offers some unique features that make it a good alternative. In recent years, it has become popular in schools and businesses. If you're looking to create a presentation that's a bit more eye-catching and engaging, Prezi may be for you. Prezi's visual storytelling capabilities make it a popular choice for speakers at large functions. Prezi's interactive nature makes it a popular classroom tool. The company worked closely with the ConnectED initiative since its inauguration by President Barack Obama in 2013, providing free Prezi licenses to hundreds of thousands of Title 1 high school teachers across the nation. Most types of presentation software use a slide-based approach, where you move back and forth between individual slides, kind of like pages in a book. Prezi, however, uses a canvas-based ap
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