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Juan José Blanco

Service Chief of Technological Media in the Institute of Educational Technologies (ITE) at the Ministry of Education in Spain.
A primary and secondary school teacher in Mathematics, Science and Technology, Juan José Blanco began working in 1986 in the Central Services of the programme for New Information and Communication Technologies (PNTIC), the first unit at the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science devoted to educational informatics.

He has coordinated the spheres of teacher training and technological equipment in the Atenea project, Aldea Digital (the introduction of ICT in rural schools), Tele-education in hospital wards and Nets in Education. He was responsible for the development of educational software in the Internet in Schools Programme and in the areas of development of educational applications and standards for e-learning as part of the Internet in the Classroom initiative. At present he is the coordinator of the technical committee which is developing the Agrega Platform, the federated distributed repository of educational contents, within the programme School 2.0.

José Blanco explained that there were difficulties “when trying to guess the technological scenario in the next few decades” and also what skills and abilities will be required from students. It is therefore necessary to create digital competencies which are independent of both software and hardware, and that are focused on problem solving. He also underlined that training should be “methodological and technological” and that businesses “should participate in the implantation of ICT in the classroom”.