American classrooms need to enter the 21st century.
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To show the way, I suggest the president take a look at a modest country across the Atlantic that's turning into the world leader in rethinking education for the 21st century.
That country is Portugal. Its economy in early 2005 was sagging, and it was running out of the usual economic fixes. It also scored some of the lowest educational achievement results in western Europe. So Prime Minister Jose Socrates took a courageous step. He decided to invest heavily in a "technological shock" to jolt his country into the 21st century. This meant, among other things, that he'd make sure everyone in the workforce could handle a computer and use the Internet effectively.
Fonte: The Huffington Post, aqui.
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To show the way, I suggest the president take a look at a modest country across the Atlantic that's turning into the world leader in rethinking education for the 21st century.
That country is Portugal. Its economy in early 2005 was sagging, and it was running out of the usual economic fixes. It also scored some of the lowest educational achievement results in western Europe. So Prime Minister Jose Socrates took a courageous step. He decided to invest heavily in a "technological shock" to jolt his country into the 21st century. This meant, among other things, that he'd make sure everyone in the workforce could handle a computer and use the Internet effectively.
Fonte: The Huffington Post, aqui.
O especialista canadiano em tecnologia Don Tapscott aponta Portugal como um exemplo a seguir na educação, elogiando o investimento em computadores individuais nas salas de aulas. Num artigo de opinião publicado no blogue Huffington Post - onde já escreveu Barack Obama -, Tapscott dirige-se directamente ao presidente dos Estados Unidos da América: "Quer resolver os problemas das escolas? Olhe para Portugal!". Para continuar a ler o artigo do Público, clicar aqui. Apesar de uns tantos -quase sempre os mesmos - criticarem as reformas promovidas no sector da educação, alguns especialistas nesta matéria, como Steve Ballmer e Don Tapscott, apontam Portugal como exemplo, até para os USA.
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