Dear all,
My name is Sofía García Cabeza. From the age of 16 I had a vocational crisis. I loved sciences but also humanities. After taking a scientific baccalaureate I started studying communication because I wanted to be a journalist.
In the last year of the career, I discovered the educational communication and fell in love. I was a informatic teacher in elementary and secondary schools and education had always been a passion for me.
I started working in a company of continuing medical education. Year 2007. The virtual environment was a repository of files. Many doctors didn't even have emails. The exchange forums were manual, we compiled emails we received and sent them back to the list. Almost immediately Moodle arrived. I got to work in courses with more than 1500 doctors from all over Latin America. The greatest lessons learned during the 10 years I was there were: 1) interdisciplinary work, 2) continuous innovation and 3) documentation (research and publish).
During this period I completed my master's degree in technology-mediated educational processes, as well as various training in topics of ICT pedagogical use, quality management and project management.
Then I continued working in virtual education but oriented to teachers and professors, in Flacso, where I continue until today. For a year and a half I worked as a researcher at Fundación Ceibal on big data issues, and then I applied for the position that I now hold at UdelaR: ICT Articulator at the Faculty of Information and Communication.
I have had to work with many different learning environments: moodle, desire2learn, tailored based on wordpress, schoology. I am interested in this course and in learn more about smart environments because I consider that:
Can break down barriers and promote educational inclusion.
Are potentially tools for reduce student drop out in the educational process.
Can favor a personalization of the teaching process.
I am interested in knowing the real potentialities, beyond the hopes placed in the concept by the scientific community.
Challenges me to always continue improving my own courses.
About best learning experiences (particularly in lifelong learning), I think they should mainly promote reflection and exchange with others, and above all they must be based on needs, anchored in professional practice.
I hope this course will be helpful!
Regards,
Sofia