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Event held on the 22nd, in Florianópolis, presented trends
and technological solutions for the schools of the future

 

How to innovate in a context of students born in the 21st century, teachers born in the 20th century and schools that often refer to the 19th century? What are the educator's competences and the role of the school of the future? How to conceive a school without serial classes, where smartphones are part of everyday learning?
 
Speakers and discussion groups took up the three issues at the National Meeting on Innovation in Education, with the theme Education Outside the Box, which mobilized 350 educators this Thursday (22/10), at the ACATE Innovation Center – CIA Primavera. The event promoted by the Santa Catarina State Secretariat for Sustainable Economic Development (SDS), the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), the Santa Catarina Innovation Network (RECEPETi) and ACATE's Vertical Education also aimed to present the results of the first diagnosis and portfolio of the Innovation in Education Cluster for the improvement of teaching in Santa Catarina.
 
Under the articulation of SDS, RECEPETi and ACATE, the Cluster mapped for a year demands and solutions to innovate in education in Santa Catarina. The mobilization involves technology-based companies, government and state educational institutions.
 
"The consolidation of the portfolio of technological solutions for education in Santa Catarina was the discovery stage. We carried out international benchmarking, mapping of companies, of the demands of education in the State, we brought together the actors and managed to organize a production chain to develop the demanded issues", he explains. Silvio Kotujansky, director of Vertical Educação and manager of the Cluster.
 
In the view of the Secretary of Sustainable Economic Development of Santa Catarina, Carlos Chiodini, the performance of companies together with educational and government institutions increases the potential for return to society.
 
"The Cluster will have the important role of complementing education needs, aimed at tools for improvement. But it also brings opportunities for our entrepreneurs from different technology-based companies to develop their businesses", he evaluated.
 
The president of RECEPETi, Rui Luiz Gonçalves, justified the investment in the sector with a look to the future: "Education is raw material for innovation. We need to invest in it to the fullest to guarantee sustainability and the creation of new businesses in the coming years", stated.
 
 
Innovation room showed SC technological production
 
The results of the Santa Catarina portfolio were demonstrated by the companies of Vertical Educação da ACATE in the innovation room set up for the event. Software and tools for educational management, pedagogical use, prototyping and robotics could be tried out by teachers and managers participating in the event.
 
For the Secretary of State for Education, Eduardo Deschamps, the initiatives meet an urgent demand across the country. "Brazilian education desperately needs innovative solutions. It's not possible to solve problems that increase with traditional solutions", he declared.
 
 
New free platform for teachers in the State
 
The Secretary of State for Education, which supports the National Meeting on Innovation in Education, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Telefônica Vivo Foundation and will now make available to educators the Sala Web platform, a website with more than five thousand ideas and multidisciplinary educational practices for application, free of charge. in the classroom. In addition to being able to consult and interact with the authors of the practices, educators from Santa Catarina will be able to submit their practices to evaluation so that they are shared with the whole country.
 
On the proposal, Diego Calegari, director of Science and Technology at the Secretary of State for Education, reinforced: "We came here to talk about practices. We need to show that it is possible and that it is not expensive to make an innovative education for the 21st century".
 
 
World experiences discussed at the CIA
 
The international workshop “Technologies for Co-Learning: the use of mobile resources and collective research” filled two web conference rooms at the CIA, taught from the Open University, in England, by Brazilian professor Alexandra Okada.
 
In the stands of the ACATE Innovation Center, the Learning Circles involved specialists from leading schools in innovation in the country, as well as professors from the Department of Engineering and Knowledge Management at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (EGC/UFSC). Themes included creativity, immersive education, social networks, innovation in teacher training, fablabs and schools of the future.
 
The National Meeting on Innovation in Education – Education Outside the Box had as supporters: State Department of Education (SED), Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), Santa Catarina State University (UDESC), Research Support Foundation and Innovation of the State of Santa Catarina (FAPESC), the International Institute of Innovation (I3), Federation of Industries of the State of Santa Catarina (FIESC) and the Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE-SC).

 

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