UNESCO Executive Highlights Use of ICTs in Cuban Schools

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 27 (acn) David Atchorena, Director for Learning Policies and Systems of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), expressed on Tuesday his satisfaction with the use Cuba makes of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in schools.

Atchorena, who participates in the 14th edition of the International Congress on Pedagogy (Pedagogia 2015), praised that the island's educational system provides guidelines so children and youngsters approach computer sciences, since their development should be followed closely in today's highly tech society.
Technologies are not neutral, he specified; their use marks the way in which teachers approach their students today. This is the reason why it is fundamental that Cuban teaching trains, first of all, pedagogues-to-be in the use of the ICTs.
Time has demonstrated that producing a large amount of devices for schools does not guarantee the increase of teaching results. The difference is made by the use teachers give to them, he stated.