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“Los chicos ya saben más que yo”, un vuelco en el paradigmahistórico entre educador y educando.“Esto te tiene que gustar”, comenta al pasar Liliana, en veladareferencia a otras colegas renuentes u opositoras alingreso <strong>de</strong> las tecnologías <strong>de</strong> la información y la comunicacióna las aulas. “Es que para aprovechar la creatividadque te brinda la PC los docentes no estamos tan preparados”,advierte esta mujer, encantada con el uso <strong>de</strong> losjuegos educativos en la pizarra digital.Al igual que Alejandra, su colega <strong>de</strong> 1º grado, Liliana, queda clases en 6º grado, en el otro extremo <strong>de</strong>l ciclo educativo,señala un problema recurrente: los retrasos e inconvenientesque se producen cuando algunos alumnos nopue<strong>de</strong>n utilizar sus propias netbooks por distintas causas.Aprovechamos la presencia <strong>de</strong> los dos técnicos <strong>de</strong> la <strong>ULP</strong>en la escuela para consultarlos sobre el tema. Mientrasrevisan una <strong>de</strong>cena <strong>de</strong> Classmate en una oficina pequeña,estos dos jóvenes resumieron así los problemas máscomunes que <strong>de</strong>ben enfrentar: “Pantallas y teclados rotosy sistemas dañados”.<strong>La</strong>s Classmate se distinguen por su robustez, pero noson in<strong>de</strong>structibles. Se caen <strong>de</strong> los pupitres y en algunoscasos son usadas como armas en juegos <strong>de</strong> peleasentre alumnos, a<strong>de</strong>más <strong>de</strong>l mencionado empleocomo postes <strong>de</strong> arco en partidos <strong>de</strong> fútbol. Los técnicosse concentran a<strong>de</strong>más en rehabilitar el sistemaoperativo Windows XP, presente en estos equipos. “Esmuy raro encontrar algún virus”, aseguran.<strong>La</strong> revisión también incluye la memoria caché <strong>de</strong> losprogramas <strong>de</strong> navegación (“browser”) <strong>de</strong> las computadoras,allí don<strong>de</strong> se almacenan los datos duplicados<strong>de</strong> los sitios web que se visitan. El motivo <strong>de</strong>esta búsqueda es comprobar si en los hogares <strong>de</strong> losalumnos se utilizó la netbook para intentar navegarpor páginas con contenidos para adultos. “Si encontramosalgo lo borramos y notificamos a la ‘Autopista<strong>de</strong> la Información’ para que bloqueé el ingreso aesa página”, explican los técnicos. Cada computadoraeducativa se conecta a Internet a través <strong>de</strong> esaautopista, administrada por el gobierno provincial.38 |We take the opportunity and ask the technicians, who are at the school,about this. While they check tens of classmates in a small office, thesetwo young technicians summed up the problems: “Broken screens andkeyboards and damaged systems”.The classmate is well known for its solidness but they are not in<strong>de</strong>structible.They fall from <strong>de</strong>sks and sometimes they are used as weapons infighting games among stu<strong>de</strong>nts, besi<strong>de</strong>s being used as goals posts duringsoccer games. Technicians focus on restoring the operating systemWindows XP. “It is not common to find viruses”, they assure.Revision also inclu<strong>de</strong>s the cache memory of the browser, which iswhere duplicated data from the web sites they visit is stored. The reasonwhy they do this search is to check if at home the stu<strong>de</strong>nt tried tobrowse through web site with adult content. “If we find something we<strong>de</strong>lete it and call the Information Highways so that they block the accessto that site”, the technicians explain. Every educational computerconnects to the internet through the Highways which is managed bythe provincial government.Technicians repair minor problems during their visit to the school andgive back the computer to the stu<strong>de</strong>nt on the same at school. Hardwaredamages force technicians to take the computers to <strong>La</strong> <strong>Punta</strong>University to be repaired and that can take a week or a month <strong>de</strong>pendingon the kind of damage. While the stu<strong>de</strong>nt is in primary school,repairs are paid by the University.“The computer in the classroom is a revolution”, Miriam Gauna (44)the school director, tells us while she sits in a small office surroun<strong>de</strong>dby bookshelves full of books and an old computer with a tube monitorand two netbooks which are observed by San Martín, Sarmientoand Belgrano whose pictures hang on the wall.Having 16 years of teaching experience, she knows that the arrivalof netbooks, something new is introduce into the process and thatis out of her control: what children do with the netbooks at home. Inrelation to this, she comments: “We are working on the awareness of

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