ORT Virtual Campus at LA NACION Newspaper

From the School to the Internet and from the Internet to the School

ORT Argentina has included in its Virtual Campus a web of weblogs through which the school community is interconnected. Each course, workshop, extracurricular activity, special event, class, track, etc., has its own blog. At each of them -and in special subjects- students produce, organize and edit what they did with their classmates from their ‘subblog’ and then share it with the rest of the school. In this way, the classroom is no longer a closed room, where the teacher dictates and students copy. "Now, teachers and students work all together", explains Guillermo Lutzky, Director of the Virtual Campus. Prof. Lutzky now wants to carry out a digital literacy training: "Not only does everybody have to learn to handle the tools, but also to find and process the information in the best possible way; they have to network. It is important that students understand that everything they ‘upload’ on the Internet is their responsibility".

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