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The Councillor for Education, Catalina Perez said yesterday the importance of analyzing the relationship has been established at present between new information technologies and education, as proposed by the School Board of the Region of Murcia who devotes his XI Meeting to study the issue under the title "Growing up between Screens" with a conference program in 11 municipalities in the region, including San Javier.
San Javier which hosted yesterday the first of these events with the presence of the professor of the UCAM, Irene Melgarejo, a specialist in New Information Technologies for Education, which noted that "today the children's bedrooms have become real centers of high technology. "
Irene Melgarejo presented statistics showing 40% of children and young people have televisions in the room, the computer 26% and 40% other devices like mp3, mp4, consoles, etc..
None of these devices, even the computer has supplanted airtime on television.
According to Melgarejo, the time a child dedicated to the TV during the weekend amounts to a school day.
The speaker advocated effectively introduce the teaching of media, traditional and new technologies in school, since childhood, with the goal of "digitally literate children, ie consume media teaching and encouraging them a critical eye. "
In this way, the media would be teaching in another subject such as mathematics or language.
Melgarejo Irene mentioned the media as "agents of socialization" that are not harmful in themselves, but for the improper use made of them.
The media and new technologies must be part of education both at school and the family.
Consuming media family, not during meals, monitor content, respect and time slots of consumption are some of the advice offered Irene Melgarejo, Bachelor of Communication Studies, to make responsible use of them.
As an idea, proposed cineforum foster family, in order to comment on the frames, and if necessary fix the positive values ​​that abound in children's movies.
Tomorrow marks the second conference entitled "Means and ends: media groups in Spain Today" with Javier Orrico at 20:00 h.
in the auditorium of the City of San Javier.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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