MS. JOANA TOMOVA

The publishing house that she manages was founded in 1945, specialising in Bulgarian textbooks and educational materials covering all academic subjects and grade levels. In 2003 they developed their first multimedia products, today they have 48 digital e-text books on different subjects incorporated into the educational curriculum in the Bulgarian schools. By 2016 they plan to develop electronic versions of all products.
Technology makes education more operative and effective. The importance of technology today corresponds to the huge impact of the ancient script creation or the invention of good and bad printing press six centuries ago. Through technology we could distribute knowledge more effectively, we could learn faster, deeper and better.
A teacher is one who guides young people to the point where they could start paving their own path through the forest of knowledge.Experience proves that first and foremost teachers should be creative, devoted and planning. Technology combined with good teaching will lead to better education. The unity is East and West. Technology with good teaching leads to good education, or to paraphrase Plato – better education leads to a better life.

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• If the product is more interactive and dynamic we could also acquire 90% of new knowledge and skills. New technologies offer fast connections, and transfer of ideas, they create partnership and mutuality.
• In Bulgaria, more than 90% of the teachers are women and mothers. This is a great combination.
• Any Ayurvedic healer in Kerala masters pulse diagnosis by listening to his inner voice. At the same time a top medical doctor in Frankfurt achieved similar results relying on expensive medical equipment. Therefore technology is most needed where doctors are not intuitive enough, their progress is worth their senses.