Week 13. Blogpost by the facilitator, Stina

Hello Everyone! This week I was the facilitator.

The roles of this week has been a bit unclear we think we have been a little bit of everything and anything this week, just because of illness and our different schedules. But any how, this week we have been working with the complexity of the school organization and what the factors are that makes it so complicated.

The complexity of the school organization is the most interesting thing for me as a future teacher. I love to face this kind of "problems". This is also one of the reason almost anyone is a great fit for the school life, because of the complex ways the school is ruled anyone can join with their ideas and creativity, it all depends on, where, when and how.

The reading this week I could only participate in the english texts, which I thought was really interesting. It got me to think about what century we really live in. A complex one, where the technology has occured in the centre of school, or daily lifes and in many other jobs and events. Most of the things are created through the web today which leads us to the conlcusion that this is what the school needs to develop, the technology usage. As they brought up in  the texts there is still many schools who are not ready to adapt the newest technology and this is a problem. It is a problem that the school is somehow a bit slower than society today and I guess that is why todays schools are getting a lot of criticism (at least in Sweden). They have not adapt  the right technology, information, resources or knowledge about how the technology affects our society. Even if many people are aware and use instagram, it is not enough to being able to develop och emerge the students learning and knowledge. Which is the main mission.

My last thought about this task is that I believe that in ten or twenty years the school will hopefully understood the importance of the pace that the technology has and has get rid of the factors that slows down the progress of ICT in schools, which also has been slowing down the learning. The factors could be anything as, unnecassary technology (that does not give the effect of learning as hoped), staff or the way the schools thinks about the technology use. Do not get me wrong though. I, myself believe that we all need to take a break from the usage of social media and so on from time to time, because of the stress it is showen to give us. But I also believe that schools need to enhance all the important and good things about technology so the schools can be effective and a place where learning is in centre. And who know, by that we might create a total new society??

Hasta Luego!