good afternoon everyone happy to be in
costa rica once more
talking about education because the
education has to change
I think there is a big agreement between
all but does not change is published things in
the newspapers
we chatted in our family with the
friends but it does not change
there is a lot of information every time we have
more data but not change that is my
great obsession why not change the
education
I am going to share with you a
hypothesis that I have is personal is
known but I think it ‘s very
powerful
I think we are living a change
phenomenal between industrial society and
society knowledge but the
education accompanied and that means
that the knowledge that is inside
of the school system and that it distributes is
obsolete squeezed is not the one that serves
they remember when we went to the secondary
that taught us that there is a time of
the great inventions when the
locomotive the steam engine the
printing and these inventions because
appeared below that is the
advance of knowledge appears the
experimental science positive science
what is commonly called physics
Newton Newton believed that the world was
a mechanism
very affected with universal laws and
permanent and that science had to
know those those universal laws
this was so so that at the end of the century
19
the scientists believed that everything
had discovered that there was nothing
more to know now
today we live what is called an era of
innovation
I would say more than it was the
innovation is the second time of the
great inventions because now you know
many more things than in the 19th century the
20th century is called the century of the
Silent revolution of knowledge
there are three great successes in this
first revolution 1905 before the
public his theory of relativity
second and 2,915 the theory appears
quantum
all that of the underworld the microcosm already
mid twentieth century and thirty
and the forty and the fifties
develops what is called the theory of
complex non-linear systems
complex nonlinear systems as was
that the world was a mechanism as
organized with permanent regions
it seems that today what is known is that
the universe is in permanent
expansion in permanent movement that
there are laws but they are not laws
universal and there is a component of chance
there would be no microwave
Internet would not exist gps no
nuclear medicine exist if
humanity would have stayed with the
Newton’s physics
that is the relevant knowledge today by
supposed that this phenomenal change
he also defended the education that
change and that is the problem
how do you change when you
they armed school systems
in the late 19th century society will
I asked for education that will teach to read
and write the elementary calculus to the
children at school and that was the
old school systems what we have
until today but what society asks for today
of education learn that all
learn not so much emphasis on
teaching the 21st century competition
that are more than just describing the
elementary calculus and general concepts
of science not only to children
but today we ask for learning as
throughout life and then not
only in school but in multiple
learning environments
the social mandate in exchange in such a way
that 19th century school that was
very successful that he fulfilled his
task
today she is chained she does not know she can not not
they have the elements to be able
respond to this new demand and as
the base of support dropped
and now it ‘s a shell is a skeleton
who wants to survive but who has
many problems
today then we are in the middle of a
era where the old very of the
new leaves all the countries of the world
They are making a lot of efforts for
innovate by changing education the
first world latin america all the
regions
Now be careful, let’s not do what
we did at the end of the 19th century when
we want our school systems that
we made a kind of copy paste of what
that made the countries of the first world
and we could not solve what we
needed in latin america is very
good to be inspired is very good to look
you have to be in tune with what happens in
other parts but the solutions
you have to start from us from
what the characteristics of our two
characteristics so that we start
think first feature that we
difference of advanced countries not
we have the budgetary base that
they have those countries to be able to finance
the school models that they have
We need to be able to have a proposal
good quality education but more
efficient achievable with our
second feature budgets
latin america has a cultural base
much more heterogeneous than the first
world means we need
flexible solutions that can
adapt to different characteristics
of our populations
but also that they have something that the
old school does not have to is mechanisms
to close the gap all our
inhabitants have the right to a
quality education do nation
they arrive born and that has to be something
be part of this new proposal
that’s why with our features it ‘s
very important that we do not lower the rod of
the quality that we do not lower the rod of
think that what we require are
significant deep learnings
competencies that allow you to do
let’s solve problems not memorize
the theory but use the knowledge
to solve problems and in the
problems that we are going to solve not
solve them from the science of
19th century
if you can not solve them from the
21st century science that is to say no
we need a head full of information
we need heads with procedures
intelligent minds that are capable
to learn to learn that they are capable
to learn throughout life
that they can think outside the box
because what is asked is creativity
so they are thinking or wanting that
but how difficult is difficult but the
good news is that it is already happening
is happening and is happening in
Latin America
I am going to tell you a case that to me
it seems very interesting that they are networks
of Mexican tutoring that is a
proposal that started about 10 years ago
to resolve the issue of
Mexican rural telesecundaria consists
in which the boys the students teach
among them they learn according to a
very demanding protocol that not only
teaches them to learn but that
teaches to teach and how much when
have finished learning the subject are
able to teach it to others
comrades to the people of the community
adults who want to learn and
also to their own many monitors
of which are not teachers
The good thing about this proposal is that
its efficiency is proven
four years ago when it was the last
test link that is the Mexican test
which measures language and mathematics in all
boys
these guys from the 8 thousand schools
Mexican farmers took better
results in language and mathematics that
urban and cheaper guys
closes the gap and also has another
characteristic that I did not mention to you that
is that it has already broken the resistance of
old system to accept them today
is in 30 thousand rural schools of
Mexico having a very successful
important is a true emerging from
the new education
what a fantastic
if it’s so good because it does not generalize
because we do not know each other
we put into practice
I ‘m going to what it would be in three
words to recognize it you have to
remove the blinders or move the
cassette or open the head
that is, we have to stop thinking that
these heterodox solutions that are not
the school we met only once
of second education of fourth
we have a mental model that does not
lets see that beyond the banks
blackboard and teachers can be learned and
that we have to look for how we put the
proposal for this
that’s why it’s very important to think that
these are not solutions for the poor
these are the space of creativity that
we have to be able to invent another
education and not just to be able to
Put another chance to help
that everyone from the population
the leaders who are
dealing with education all
we are able to have more demand
qualified is not enough to say the
education is important not enough with
say we want quality education or
with being scared by the results that
we have Latin Americans in the
international tests
we have to ask for concrete things
we have to help policyholders
decisions to be encouraged to face
the difficulties of changing
education you have to have a voice
organize to ask for things
specific and to work between the
public opinion answering the
organized groups that defend
corporate interests that does not allow
change and that less less than nothing
It allows
the deep ones in the society of
knowledge
changed the rules of the game today the
wealth of nations is measured by what
that its population has in its head
how much do you know what kind of knowledge
he knows but what his whole population
has not what a little group what all
its population is therefore the
new educational systems have to
bet on that quality education
knowledge of the 21st century for all
fairer systems that are capable of
close the gap and this must be done
already
this is urgent we do not have much time
to wait
look argentina which is a country that happens
for having good education from his
origin
it took a hundred years a century to fulfill the
objective that was proposed is a
original idea to alphabetize all his
population and that all end the
primary a century we do not have that time
now you have to help from society
civil so that decisions are taken
what to take
so be difficult that is our
commitment
the politicians the leadership does not the
can take if society does not wrinkle
because they are complex decisions are
complicated decisions that generate a lot
turbulence
if we do not
latin america as a region will not be
sustainable
if we do not do our children our
grandchildren our youth has no future
thank you very much
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