Resumen de Using communications and multimedia technologies in a new approach for computers in education in developing countries
Pedro Hepp K., María Inés Alvarez H., Enrique Hinostroza S., Ernesto Laval M.
The use of computers in elementary education in developing countries has been usually centered on learning about computers and on using programming languages and a few unproven educational software packages. Modern trends emphasize the computer as a media or as an empowering tool for teachers and students, centering the focus on the people that use it and on ways of using the technology as a means of making the school a more attractive and effective place. This paper presents a national project that is presently under way in Chile and which was designed on three basis: the knowledge about the people and schools that will eventually use the technology, the reported world wide experience in computers and education of the last decade and the new opportunities of modern technologies, mainly multimedia, communications and human-interfaces. The project started as a prototype in 1991 and will gradually expand during the next 5 years.
