300 Technology professors and teachers from and secondary education will meet to share and discuss the importance and the orientation of Technological formation under the motto “Technology and Society”.

Next February 24 and 25, the School of Engineering in the Burjassot Campus will host the Second Technological Formation Conference organised jointly with the Technology Teachers Association of the Valencian Country and the UV’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with the UV’s Staff Development Service and the UPV.

The APTCV is a secondary education teachers association established in 1995 to think and produce alternatives for the teaching improvement of Technological formation in secondary education, Bachillerato and vocational training courses. It has promoted diverse initiatives like the creation of teacher working teams to study and improve technological formation in secondary education and the teaming with university professors to study the educational needs in order to prepare the transition to Higher Education. Among these activities stands out the Technology Formation Conference, which was celebrated for the first time in 2010 at the UPV and which is now holding it’s second edition.

The UV’s School of Engineering, which gathers the engineering degrees and specialists of the UV is developing a coordinate project with secondary education teachers with the aim to join forces in order to improve the teaching quality in the fields of Computer Science and Technology and to encourage students to take on experimental and engineering projects and degrees, the fruits of which are the production of a number of workshops and activities aimed at students and secondary education teachers.

This second CEDUTEC’12 Technological Formation Conference will focus on the motto “Technology and Society”, and will follow the thematic lines of:

1. Innovative Technology Projects and Experiences
2. Technological Culture and Citizenship
3. Technological Formation and Career Prospects
4. Inclusion of competencies and interdisciplinarity

The conference, which will be opened by UV’s principal Esteban Morcillo, will also count on the conference opening lead by professor Mariano Fernández Enguita of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, education sociologist, with the paper “Educación, tecnología y sociedad: productores, prosumidores y profesores”. The closing ceremony will be lead by UV professor Isidre March Chordá, expert in innovative technological business development and management, under the motto of “Empresas de Base Tecnológica: una oportunidad para la Comunitat Valenciana”.

Further information in: http://www.uv.es/cedutec12
 

Last update: 19 de february de 2012 21:22.