ORT Argentina Digital School Project

ORT Argentina Digital School project has been designed to expose students and teachers, the key assets of our educational organization, to collaborative tools usually known as "Web 2.0" applications and services, and also to achieve a richer and stronger interaction between students, teachers, administrators, the Internet as a learning platform and the school community.

For that purpose, looking forward to aggregate the collective production, we have incorporated a series of Web 2.0 tools. These tools needed be flexible, easy to learn, available to every person in the community, and built using free Internet services.

The aim was to make public, transparent, flat, ubiquitous and adaptable the actions that happen within our organization, our schools and classrooms, and also to give teachers and their students the freedom to develop the solutions and carry out the adequate processes to be prepared for the 21st century Society.

We have proven that the implementation social technologies should be starting engine for change in education. We feel that this experience may be a step in the right direction, and the social impact of this initiative is significant.

The experience achieved higher standards than expected. A "network effect" trend started, based in the open nature of the production and its permanent beta philosophy. 600+ Internet media outlets are active, all of them using free Internet services.

Students and teachers have taken ownership to their daily productions in class, emphasizing the "doing" and "telling" as a unique action.

Web Presence for the organization (almost inexistent before the project) and classrooms production are stronger.

In the 21st century, students have changed.

The present model of school is dying. A more intelligent, connected, cooperation-oriented, relationship-focused, school paradigm is being required by the society.