38 MOBILE AND MULTI-FACETED TECHNOLOGY
CASE STUDY:
Sistema UNO - SANTILLANA Santillana/Moderna is the leading educational publisher in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets. Santillana’s “Sistema UNO” is an innovative education programme in Spanish, Portuguese and English that is working towards modernising teaching, designing and articulating digital and printed academic content for all grades of preschool and primary education. Sistema UNO has a particular focus on digital supplementary materials designed specifically for classroom work in all subject areas, teacher training resources, school management optimization, assessment, and family participation. The Sistema UNO programme originated in Brazil, created by education publisher Moderna
(Santillana), where traditional education systems (Sistemas de Encino) have been operating for years. Sistema UNO aims to change education by providing schools with new education methodologies, centered around technology. UNO provides students with critical thinking skills that enhance their problem solving abilities as well as educating on key subjects that create responsible and ethical universal citizens. Sistema UNO’s process involves inserting new teaching practices into schools and classrooms which generate new teaching strategies for students immersed in a digial culture. Sistema UNO’s digital platform provides a Virtual Learning Environment, known as “Moodle,” for each school, which provides reinforcement activities, expansions,
research and evaluation tests/quizzes. In addition, they provide programmes for teaching English (Sistema UNO’s programmes have a particularly large focus on billinguality), with access to video, audio, graphics, and supplemental online materials. Finally, their platform also provides digital resources for teachers, and facilitates communication between members of the educational community.