The activity was developed under the context of the cooperation agreement that the ULS and CRESUR of Mexico have maintained since 2016, where they are working to carry out the “Technological Classroom 4.0” project.

In order to generate a space for discussion and reflection on the use of information and communications technologies and the impact it can generate in an academic context, the Department of Education of the University of La Serena and the Regional Center for Teacher Training and Teaching Research and Educational Research (CRESUR) of Mexico held the First International Seminar “Education and Technology: Building the Education of the Future”.

The activity included the participation of the Academic Secretary of CRESUR, Dr. Víctor Avendaño; from the academic of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Dr. Joaquín Paredes and from academics and researchers from the ULS, Dr. Héctor Bugueño, Mg. Jean Mery, Dr. Francisco Roco, Dr. Jaime Montes, Francisco López and Dr. Hugo Tapia, who through various presentations and interventions in a conversation panel, reflected on the education of the future from the new multimedia context of new technologies.

For the Director of the Department of Education, Dr. Jaime Montes, it is important that these spaces for reflection have the participation of the university community. “It is good that academics and students are part of these events, since it allows us to train, through spaces like this, future critical professionals who can speak out and present their ideas in various situations,” he said.

For his part, for the Academic Secretary of CRESUR, Dr. Víctor Avendaño, activities of this type generate spaces for relevant dialogues for the training of future professionals. “It is important to hold this event to know what the teachers and students think in order to work according to what the university community needs, and the important thing is to build and debate so that future teachers who graduate from the University of La Serena have the tools to work with XNUMXst century students,” he stated.

The activity took place between September 5 and 6 in the auditorium of the ULS Humanities Teaching Support Center, and it is expected to be held twice a year.

Teaching with technology

This seminar was carried out thanks to the cooperation agreement between the University of La Serena and CRESUR of Mexico, since 2016.

This agreement has developed a series of programs, where the “Technology Classroom 4.0” project stands out, which seeks to install at the ULS a room with high technological standards that allows teachers and students not only to learn about the use of new technologies, but how to put them at the service of the problems of the educational system.

In addition to this project, both institutions have worked on the development of other programs, such as the Interdisciplinary Journal of Latin American Studies, and the book collection “Pensares”, which will contain various presentations and pedagogical texts available to ULS students.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom