The Internet UNESCO Leaders(上)

时间:2022-09-27 05:09:46

1. - the computer dialogue

the education is not the only cause of the social changes; but the social transformations have never done without the education.

nowadays, the education has experienced the new impact coming from the computer science massive intrusion in their perfectly certain and assumed environments. the barriers that were reserved just for the social elite have been broken so the education is at hand of the population.

the computer science is not the only cause, but it is a “trigger” [1] that has accelerated the processes in a sort of democratisation and the development of synergy of the providing state.

this acceleration will be underlined in next century, but we will see more and more the appearance of systems willing to cover the principle of the education during a lifetime.

in the next century, also, the tendency for a generalisation of the education will be accentuated this will provided knowledge for the creation of wealth and the improvement of the quality of life.

the development of the information and the communication technology will revolt the concept of time and space, and it will ease the appearance of a kind of a planetary intimacy.

the computer revolution offers such a new the education possibilities that the traditional educational institutions as, for example, the university will have to keep up the pace with competitors that have been formed in programs that focuses more on the style and the appearance that on the information and the technical knowledge. they have integrated the user- friend and the virtual methods in some educational processes that have been governed by the laws of the market.

whatever it is, we will have to stop teaching too many useless things. but it will be necessary to avoid a decaffeinated teaching, as well as the appearance of anti-cognitive values, and to strengthen the common and traditional intellectual values.

it will also be necessary to avoid the multiplication of the technology in the educational processes. it doesn't seem exaggerated to affirm that, particularly in this matter, part of the history of the correspondence education, for example, has arisen with the enthusiasm caused by the technologies. however, having overestimated the capacity of the technologies to solve the educational problems, a kind of frustration has appeared. this is a warning advise for moments like these in which we have surprising means in what they offer, so much to change the education systems like the very process of creation of knowledge. after all, we are aware of the consequences coming from the idea that the technologies can give the solutions that education itself should give.

having said that, when the unesco training centre - florida eskola, in its cdfaun project, decided to utilise what the computer offers to stimulate the fast and comfortable communication, was looking for a better approach among the students separated by the distance. regardless that internet, the new technology, was not the best environment for a good interpersonal communications.

the unesco training centre - florida eskola just adopted that new dialogue form -that could be denominated computer dialogue - where the interactivity substitutes the traditional passivity of the listener, by means of the possibility to actuate in the environment, personalising the contents, asking, dialoguing and acting with others. everything was in the web.

to be in the web was understood also, as an additional education element. to actuate in the web was to be in communication with it, to know it, to control its information flow and to take a tool that, properly used, could make a favourable change in the world, a new harmony among the human beings. as a matter of fact, that is the aim of the unesco professional leader. in short, to create the main characters of the communication and the dialogue between cultures and the tolerance in the xxi century.

to create them using internet; experiencing in internet the elements of a community; working in internet like a community of unesco leaders to impel communities; being the main characters of the participation, as their mission commended them of to help in everything, also making the human beings of the communities participate in their professional work.

all this was very clearly explained in the united nations observatory magazine, number 64, dated of march of 1999. the participating way of the internet and its value as an instrument to create a community was underlined. specifically, the section titled “ the unesco leaders community in internet” read as follows: “the initiative and the common project related to the unesco leaders is the bond of the union, an approaching element among people that are separated by thousands and thousands of kilometres and they are cultural, economic, social and politically different". the unesco training center - florida eskola does not only believe that it is necessary to be familiar with internet to adapt it to ease the tolerance and the respectful coexistence of all culture, but also it is an opportunity to ease the growth of the unesco leaders community with one to one relationships based on the dialogue, the respect and the mutual acceptance. through the ‘computer dialogue ' is possible to build communities where everybody is the main character and can participate. this experience for unesco leaders will guarantee them their application in their professional task, which is not another than making the others be also the main participating characters.

“the unesco training centre - florida eskola has already created its own training virtual campus. it also has created an internet city for the unesco leaders internauts. little by little the unesco leaders have been aware of what internet means; but their participation should be bigger. to be a unesco leader means to take part, so the educational structures must be designed to enhance the participation.

“for that propose the electronic magazine united nations observatory was created. it is really a highway -more that a bookstand - where you can easily obtain a huge amount of information from any place in the planet, about the functions and activities of the system of the united nations, from the different media placed in internet and from the most unexpected places -webpages of institutions and people -.

“the chats were created in internet and now, specifically, the unesco leaders chat club, where you can talk to other unesco leaders in real time using the keyboard of the computer as the sender and the screen as the receiver. in the unesco leaders chat club any unesco leader can talk about all the matters they are concerned with another unesco leader in the cyberspace.

“in all this, there is a very precise purpose: to make the cdfaun be more and more -with the support of the fantastic internet - a story-teller that broadcasts stories; a billboard of announcements and of experiences; a press-bottom to work and connect with news, newspapers and webpages, a sign post guides to where one can choose and to where one can be informed about the matters of interests; a center where you can easily find what you are looking for.

“the idea is to create a community in which everyone, contributing their links or their connections or using those that are available or interfacing, can participate as part of a community. this community is possible by the existence of a mental community, people identified with a common idea: unesco leader. the identification with this virtual community is not based on the place you belong, but it is based on the unity to a common will and a project.

“the community of the unesco leader internauts informs of its resources. it is placed in the world because of its own identity and it projects its reality to the international environment. for that reason this virtual community is created. to enter in this city is the fastest and most effective way to understand the meaning of the unesco leader profession. the contained information multiplies among the visitors.

“the idea is to group resources and information that are interesting for the unesco leaders in the entire world; as well as to create a community in internet and to strengthen the structures to achieve the maximum participation of the unesco leader.”

2. - the cdfaun on-line

when the unesco training centre at florida eskola decided to place in internet the unesco leader training distance course unltdc (cdfaun), its intention was to overcome the time and distance obstacles.

the on-line training system that the center sought to offer should comprise databases services; any sort of orientations and, of course, the specific topics of the education as a upl.

the creation of a webpage gathered in that virtual place, clicks -connections - to permit the access to the products and enrolment applications. it has also been designed so that the students could discharge the cdfaun, as well as to obtain personal complementary help through the electronic mail.

also it is possible to find supplementary information on electronic libraries, investigation centers and the activities developed by the agencies, funds and programs of the united nations system that work the twenty-four hours of the day, as well as the possibility to do exams, to deliver exercises, to celebrate tutorships with a professor, to have contact with other unesco leaders. this composed net ease the use of the cdfaun, while being comfortably installed at home.

the possibilities to obtain multimedia documents, that is to say, documents in which you can combine text, image, sound and images in movement just by a simple act of executing an application in the own computer, meant a new dimension for the education capabilities of the cdfaun. through diverse protocols -rules or communication conventions that two computers should continue to exchange their messages - the world’s web, the www -world wide web -, the web, with their hypertext connections to get to different places, to put in contact different parts of a text or to be connected with other texts, transformed the cdfaun into a new space, a virtual place of encounter of those unesco leaders using the electronic nets. in short, the cyberspace, the ciberfaun.

the cdfaun entered in the virtual reality, the interactive and three-dimensional simulated reality. the virtual cdfaun acquired a new existence: the existence in the context of a simulation; but very active, promising and real where some simple buttons, activated by a mouse click, activated the connections with physically separated pages in remote machines in the internet.

texts, hypertexts, information from the most varied sources, searches in databases became transparent to the unesco leader. the unesco leaders could inter-actuate, participate, and gather the necessary information for the improvement of their aptitudes and attitudes from remote servers.

3. - the structure of the cdfaun on-line

the florida is, then, the first experience in the world of the unesco institutions in the on-line education field. it is an educational center that actuates in the communication field, in the transmission of knowledge, in the academic and personal relationship, in services, etc. it is a virtual campus, as an alternative to the services that the unesco leader can find in a campus in a university or in a non-regulated educational center.

in this campus, there are services like the secretary, for the formalisation of registrations or academic files procedures; a library; a bookstand full of magazines; a announcement board for use of everyone interested; also tutorships, an inter-cultural auditorium where to approach to the most varied expressions of the culture, beginningwith the art, the folklore and the traditions and finishing with the most current conferences on science and education; a chat club and the so called "unesco eskola debate, an information center" .

what’s more, besides the campus, there is a virtual city established preferably for those unesco leaders in their training process. it was thought mainly for those who have already covered the unesco leader educational institutional cycle.

this virtual city, although it is growing with new services, it has for the moment such offers as the unesco leader association information center, the unesco leader’s professional exchanges office, the development agency, the public square and the news mailbox.

the background of all this is the principle of the solidarity development community, the co-operation, the understanding, the respect, the justness, the dignity, the development and the safety for the human beings and the international peace.

in the 1999 memory, dated on the 20th of march, there is a certification note about these active points in the webpage of unesco center of san sebastián and of the florida eskola that connect to servers, to texts and multimedia elements in webpages. the links with other pages allow to navigate, to explore, to jump from one point to another in the page, or from one page to another according to the desires of the users.

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