Leonardo Loureiro, President of Cuti, and members of the Board held a meeting with Robert Silva, President of CODICEN; Juan Pereyra, General Director of UTU and Jenifer Cherro, Director of Secondary School.
The Chamber addressed the unsatisfied demand for talent in the sector of approximately 2,500 jobs in various roles and the need to train more talent at all levels. At the same time, the importance of introducing computational thinking from an early age was highlighted, so it was proposed to include it in the training of children and young people and to work on it throughout the formal education process. As well as considering "Programming" as another subject in the curriculum, like science, mathematics or language, which in an increasingly digitized world has become a natural competence.
For their part, CODICEN, UTU and CES agreed on the need to transform the curricular proposal at all levels of education, from pre-school to high school, in order to update them and adapt them to the practical reality that the world requires. At the same time, they presented two initiatives that will be implemented from UTU linked to this issue, inviting social dialogue with the aim of reviewing and building training paths. Initiatives that are applauded from Cuti and in which it is proposed to work on strengthening careers such as Information Technology.
We highlight the work done in the Development Plan presented by ANEP, which highlights issues such as "Digital Literacy", understood not as "learning how to use computer tools (computers, tablets, etc.) or the software that inhabits them". On the contrary, ANEP refers to digital literacy as "the mental configuration that citizens must acquire, and the ideas they must manage, to operate in a virtual world, where the way in which information is created and disseminated changes substantially". A concept that we consider already represents a change in the paradigm of education and technology.
During the meeting, we also highlighted the positive impact of the b_IT Program, which in 2020 has trained 250 IT Analysts in 100% online mode, a number considered relevant when compared to the training capabilities of technicians at the level of the formal education system. We also pointed out the need to train IT trainers, which would undoubtedly allow to expand the teaching of technology, accompanying the training processes from different roles. Currently, worldwide there is a lot of training content available and from Uruguay there is the ability to generate high-value digital content to teach classes, optimizing resources and where the role of the teacher becomes another.
Robert Silva emphasized the "need for a deep dialogue for the urgent process of transformation and change in education". And from all the institutions, the desire and commitment to work together and collaborate actively to contribute to the educational transformation of Uruguay was conveyed.
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