The City will open the first TUMO educational center of Latin America in 2025. The learning space focused on technological training and creative for secondary students will be located in the Metropolitan Design Center (CMD)in the neighborhood of Barracks. The head of government Jorge Macri plans to open two more in the short term.
The government announced this Tuesday that the initiative originating from Armenia, With headquarters in Europe and North America, it will arrive in Buenos Aires territory starting next year. It will be the first Spanish speaking city in incorporating this optional and extracurricular initiative into the Buenos Aires educational teaching.
The first center will be located in the southern area of the City and will have four classrooms for simultaneous teaching, a Laboratory of Robotics and Programming, a Recording Studio for learning music and audiovisual production and a Self Learning Space. The spaces will be fully equipped so that students can develop their learning.
From the Buenos Aires administration They announced that they are planning the construction of three TUMO centers. The one they will place in the CMD will be joined by another in the north and one more in the city center. over there It is expected that between 10,000 and 12,000 students will pass through each space per year.
The City plans the opening of three TUMO centers to promote education in creative technologies
The TUMO centers They are considered educationally worldwide for allowing the development of industries linked to technology and creative areas. The first was created ten years ago in Armenia. Currently there are headquarters in at least eight countries throughout the world, among which are Portugal, Germany, France, United States, Switzerland, Ukraine, Lebanon and Albania.
You will be able to pass through their classrooms students between 12 and 18 years oldfrom schools public and private, that can be applied for at the beginning of next year. The peculiarity of the TUMO center is that it is an environment without fees, without exams and without titlessomething they consider “key” for the education of the future.
Once their admission is approved, students will be able to attend to independently advance their projects. The Government highlights that each student will be able to use the Center for as long as they wish and will be able to adjust their learning process to their own schedules and needs.
Recently, on his visit to Europe, Jorge Macri toured the facilities of a TUMO Center in Lisbon and made contact about teaching and work modalities. Its objective is to develop technological and creative skills in adolescents, a key aspect for the challenges of the future of work taking into account the dynamics of today’s world. In addition, it promotes an autonomous and personalized learning approach.
What disciplines can be learned in the TUMO Centers of the City
The initiative will have eight disciplines about which students can study. According to Jorge Macri’s administration, at the CMD they will be able to learn “Robotics”, “Programming”, “Music and audiovisual production”, “Animation”, “Film Production”, “Graphic Design”, “3D Modeling” and “Development of Video games”.
The modality of Teaching will be focused on three components. On the one hand, self-learning with the encouragement of educators. “Students begin with interactive exercises that develop specific skills. During this process, coaches provide support and motivation, but the emphasis is on student autonomy,” they explain from the City.
Secondly, it will have workshops which will be taught by specialists in the 8 learning areas and will have basic, intermediate and advanced levels. At the end of each cycle they will culminate in the completion of individual or team projects.
Lastly, the initiative will also include “Project Laboratories” which will be led by international experts in technology and design. “We work on more complex and collaborative projects” where students “apply what they have learned in real situations.”
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According to studies carried out on the learning of TUMO spaces, he 83% of the students who pass through their classrooms improve their academic performance. In addition, they claim that 97% master software tools. More than 80% of the students assure that their time in this type of education helped them enter the labor market, in an increasingly complex environment for adolescents.
Since its founding, the program already has 14 active centers in large cities around the world and 23 TUMO Boxes, smaller spaces in rural or urban communities but with a smaller population. There are currently 28,000 active students and more than 80,000 have completed their trainingwhich made it possible to promote more than 10,000 young jobs in the technology sector.
The plan to open the three centers comes days after Macri announced the launch of a new learning system in primary schools starting in 2025 through which the focus will be on new teaching methods and more hours will be added in basic subjects like Language and Mathematicsamong other changes.
Source: Ambito
