These days, Talavera hosts an international congress of software programmers from all over the world, which is held at the Smart Technologies Center for Technology Applied to Education. About 35 IT professionals update and improve the software that will be used in the future in educational centers, defines its functionality and the digital aspect for teachers and students “and that is expanding in Spain and Talavera for the rest of the world”.

This was explained by the director of education for Smart in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, José Luis Castaño, and the vice president of products of the Canadian company, Dan McMahon, who, together with the adviser for the information and communication technologies, Daniel Tito, reported on the functions of this meeting.

During these days, Castaño indicated, the digital tools for current and future students are defined, focusing on the methodological aspect, which has little or nothing to do with what was taught ago. years.

Talavera hosts global meeting of software programmers – Photo: LGCFor this, 35 developers from Spain but also from Canada, the United States or the United Kingdom, meet at the CTAE to shape the new software that will be used in the next courses. They do not do it alone since they have the valuable collaboration of the educational community, teachers and students, with whom they work together in their mission.

Yesterday, it was the fifth year primary students of CEIPHernán Cortés who, tablet in hand, showed how they work and demanded what they need for the future, in collaboration with the developers who directly verified these needs.

It is, according to Smart Technologies, interactivity software “designed for use in interactive panels, digital displays, teacher devices and especially student devices”. With this, they promote an active methodology within the new way of teaching, with teachers as “mediators, we put the tool based on the methodology and the students build their knowledge with the media”.

This new software, they added, comes with the knowledge base and experience of Smart Technologies, a company with more than 30 years of experience and creator of the first interactive whiteboard. Currently, they continue to apply the new methodological concepts to update their products.

More activities. In addition to this type of international event, the center hosts other types of activities that open Talavera to the rest of the world in terms of technology and education. An example of this is the hybrid session that a teacher from the Valencian Community will give this afternoon, which from the city will be broadcast worldwide via streaming, thus reaching the entire Spanish-speaking educational community, and that for teachers from Talavera and The Estate is taught in person. These types of activities “have been a big boost for this digitization process.”

For his part, the Councilor for Information and Communication Technologies, Daniel Tito, once again thanked Smart and the Center for Technology Applied to Education of Talavera for their commitment, which places the city on the map of technologies in the world, positioning it at the forefront of the sector and specializing in technology applied to education, “which is reflected in the quality of teaching, of our teachers and of our students”.

It is the first major global event of these characteristics but it will not be the last, said the city councilor, who stressed that the city will work to continue being a reference in the field of new technologies.