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Ambicioso proyecto de educación estadounidense sobre el clima, energía y educación ambiental. The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) Portal was launched in 2010 as a National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathways project. It is led by the science education expertise of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. As of 2012, CLEAN has been syndicated to NOAA's climate.gov portal. CLEAN's primary effort is to steward the collection of climate and energy science educational resources and to support a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy. The three key components of the CLEAN project are: The CLEAN Collection of Climate and Energy Science resources- high-quality, digital resources---including learning activities, visualizations, videos, and short demonstrations/experiments---geared toward educators of students in secondary through undergraduate levels. Guidance in Teaching Climate and Energy Science pages designed to help educators understand and be equipped to teach the big ideas in climate and energy science. The CLEAN Network a community of professionals committed to improving climate and energy literacy.

A resource of free educational web tools and mobile apps for educators.

"What does that mean exactly? It means you play in a multiplayer world that has the possibility of being permanently destroyed, resulting in server-wide perma death. What's more, the reason it's destroyed would be the players' own fault. It's not that different from our own world in that way. "This ecosystem is your only lifeline in a race against time." It works like this: a new server is started, and players enter at the beginnings of civilization. There's a world-destroying cataclysm looming, like a drought or a flood or a meteor heading for the Earth, several real-time weeks away. In order to prevent that catastrophe from happening, you need to build a civilization and advance technology and resources to the point that the crisis can be averted. However you're not alone in this world. Besides the other players, you'll be sharing the world with a detailed wilderness simulation full of plants and animals. They simulate 24 hours a day, living out their lives with or without human interaction, growing, feeding and reproducing. Together they form an ecosystem rich with resources, resources that you must use to survive and develop a civilization."

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use. Our research, recently published in Nature Sustainability (and summarised in The Conversation), is the first to quantify the national resource use associated with achieving a good life for over 150 countries. It shows that meeting the basic needs of all people on the planet would result in humanity transgressing multiple environmental limits, based on current relationships between resource use and human well-being. The chart below demonstrates the profound challenge nations currently face. National performance on seven environmental sustainability indicators is plotted against eleven minimum social thresholds for a good life (see About page for further details). Ideally, nations would be located in the top-left corner with no biophysical boundaries transgressed and all minimum social thresholds achieved."

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, m

"To mark last month's World Teachers' Day (sponsored by UNESCO , the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), photographers from Reuters took pictures around the world of educators with their students in a telling exhibit of the very different circumstances under which children attend school. Here are 15 pictures taken by Reuters photographers, revealing the spectrum of "classrooms" - from those with literally no resources to those well-stocked and housed."

"Our smartphones enable-and encourage-constant connection to information, entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides. Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost. In this research, we test the "brain drain" hypothesis that the mere presence of one's own smartphone may occupy limited-capacity cognitive resources, thereby leaving fewer resources available for other tasks and undercutting cognitive performance. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention-as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones-the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare."

"As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today's post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. Using these tools will enable students to engage in a wide range of learning tasks that are all driven by a sense of inquiry and questioning."

"As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today's post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. Using these tools will enable students to engage in a wide range of learning tasks that are all driven by a sense of inquiry and questioning."

"25 RECURSOS PARA TRABAJAR DE FORMA COLABORATIVA Durante el proceso de trabajo los integrantes de un grupo deben comunicarse entre sí y con el profesor, compartir documentos y editarlos en tiempo real o establecer tareas y asignarlas a cada miembro del grupo. Los siguientes recursos ofrecen la posibilidad de realizar muchos de estos pasos en cualquier momento y lugar a través de Internet y con la ayuda de las nuevas tecnologías. Entornos de trabajo 1. Office365. El entorno colaborativo de Microsoft proporciona un espacio para la creación de minisites, grupos de trabajo, almacenaje en la nube, chat o edición online de documentos, entre otras herramientas útiles para trabajar de forma colaborativa. 2. Zoho. Grupo de aplicaciones web que permiten crear, compartir y almacenar archivos en línea. También incluye chat, videoconferencias, mail, calendario y herramientas de ofimática en línea. 3. Google Apps for Education. Entorno colaborativo enfocado especialmente al ámbito de la educación, en el que se incluyen diversas herramientas de Google que permiten trabajar en línea: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Docs o Sites. 4. Edmodo. Plataforma educativa que permite compartir documentos e información y comunicarse en un entorno privado, a modo de red social. Recursos para comunicarse, debatir y colaborar 5. Blogger. Herramienta de creación de blogs de Google, sencilla y eficaz, para todo tipo de usuarios. 6. WordPress. Una de las herramientas de creación de blogs más completas, ya que permite personalizar y adaptar la bitácora a las necesidades de cada usuario. 7. Tumblr. Plataforma de microblogging centrada sobre todo en la imagen, aunque permite también incluir textos, videos, enlaces o audios. 8. Wikia. Sitio web que permite al usuario crear de forma sencilla su propio wiki en el que incorporar contenido de forma individual y colaborativa. 9. Wikispaces. Espacio para creación y alojamient

"25 RECURSOS PARA TRABAJAR DE FORMA COLABORATIVA Durante el proceso de trabajo los integrantes de un grupo deben comunicarse entre sí y con el profesor, compartir documentos y editarlos en tiempo real o establecer tareas y asignarlas a cada miembro del grupo. Los siguientes recursos ofrecen la posibilidad de realizar muchos de estos pasos en cualquier momento y lugar a través de Internet y con la ayuda de las nuevas tecnologías. Entornos de trabajo 1. Office365. El entorno colaborativo de Microsoft proporciona un espacio para la creación de minisites, grupos de trabajo, almacenaje en la nube, chat o edición online de documentos, entre otras herramientas útiles para trabajar de forma colaborativa. 2. Zoho. Grupo de aplicaciones web que permiten crear, compartir y almacenar archivos en línea. También incluye chat, videoconferencias, mail, calendario y herramientas de ofimática en línea. 3. Google Apps for Education. Entorno colaborativo enfocado especialmente al ámbito de la educación, en el que se incluyen diversas herramientas de Google que permiten trabajar en línea: Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Docs o Sites. 4. Edmodo. Plataforma educativa que permite compartir documentos e información y comunicarse en un entorno privado, a modo de red social. Recursos para comunicarse, debatir y colaborar 5. Blogger. Herramienta de creación de blogs de Google, sencilla y eficaz, para todo tipo de usuarios. 6. WordPress. Una de las herramientas de creación de blogs más completas, ya que permite personalizar y adaptar la bitácora a las necesidades de cada usuario. 7. Tumblr. Plataforma de microblogging centrada sobre todo en la imagen, aunque permite también incluir textos, videos, enlaces o audios. 8. Wikia. Sitio web que permite al usuario crear de forma sencilla su propio wiki en el que incorporar contenido de forma individual y colaborativa. 9. Wikispaces. Espacio para creación y alojamient

"Nowadays teachers and students have a variety of ways to show what they know and to express themselves. Take a look at some of the hottest online and mobile tools for showing, explaining, and retelling in my infographic, "Show What You Know Using Web & Mobile Apps." These web and iPad apps can turn students into teachers and teachers into super-teachers! Furthermore, most of the apps listed in the infographic are free of charge. Updated February 2015 with 11 of the 44 apps in "Show What You Know" replaced with even better apps! New additions include Chatterpix Kids, RecorderHQ, Vocaroo (to replace the defunct RecordMP3), Shadow Puppet Edu, Pixlr, TeleStory, Toontastic (now that it's 100% free), and Purpose Games. You can download the infographic as a PDF by clicking the image below. Web links and app names are hyperlinked within the PDF for one-click access to the apps and resources."

Wiki with explanations and resources of the web 2.0

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,

"Burden of Poverty Lacking money or time can lead one to make poorer decisions, possibly because poverty imposes a cognitive load that saps attention and reduces effort. Mani et al. (p. 976; see the Perspective by Vohs) gathered evidence from shoppers in a New Jersey mall and from farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. They found that considering a projected financial decision, such as how to pay for a car repair, affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks. Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low, whereas higher-income individuals performed well in both conditions, as if the projected financial burden imposed no cognitive pressure. Similarly, the sugarcane farmers from Tamil Nadu performed these tasks better after harvest than before. Abstract The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks. These data provide a previously unexamined perspective and help explain a spectrum of behaviors among the poor. We discuss some implications for poverty policy."

"Burden of Poverty Lacking money or time can lead one to make poorer decisions, possibly because poverty imposes a cognitive load that saps attention and reduces effort. Mani et al. (p. 976; see the Perspective by Vohs) gathered evidence from shoppers in a New Jersey mall and from farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. They found that considering a projected financial decision, such as how to pay for a car repair, affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks. Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low, whereas higher-income individuals performed well in both conditions, as if the projected financial burden imposed no cognitive pressure. Similarly, the sugarcane farmers from Tamil Nadu performed these tasks better after harvest than before. Abstract The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks. These data provide a previously unexamined perspective and help explain a spectrum of behaviors among the poor. We discuss some implications for poverty policy."

"La pedagogía inversa o flipped classroom es una de las metodologías educativas que más revuelo están causando. Desde que los profesores de química Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams la llevaran a la práctica por primera vez en las aulas del instituto Woodland Park High School, en Woodland Park, Colorado (Estados Unidos), ha ido sumando seguidores de manera progresiva. Este nuevo modelo de enseñanza propone darle la vuelta a la case, de modo que los alumnos adquieren los conceptos teóricos en casa, a través de la visualización de un video, una presentación o cualquier otro recurso; y después, en clase, resuelven sus dudas y trabajan de forma individual y colaborativa. Si quieres innovar y llevar a la práctica esta metodología, te recomendamos 40 herramientas que te servirán para poner tu clase del revés. Crear videolecciones, murales virtuales, cuestionarios interactivos o presentaciones; controlar las tareas asignadas a tus alumnos, facilitarles un entorno para desarrollar trabajos colaborativos, utilizar herramientas para comunicarse con ellos y divulgar lo aprendido; evaluarlos mediante rúbricas… aulaPlaneta te facilita la realización de muchas de estas tareas. Te permite seleccionar actividades y recursos de todo tipo, asignarlos a los alumnos, controlar si los han revisado, crear tus propios guiones y resolver sus dudas con numerosos materiales de apoyo. Pero además, en la Red hay multitud de recursos que pueden servirte para darle la vuelta a tu clase. Te recomendamos 40 clasificados por su funcionalidad. Herramientas Flipped Classroom Descarga en PDF la infografía "40 Herramientas para aplicar la metodología Flipped Classroom en el aula" Crear videolecciones o videos interactivos 1. Panopto. Para grabar imágenes webcam, presentaciones o screeencast; e incluir actividades, encuestas u otro tipo de interactivos en la grabación. 2. Movenote. Permite seleccionar los materiales didácticos que necesitas de base y grabar tu propia im

"Cómo evaluar sitios y recursos educativos de Internet Algunos indicadores que pueden resultar útiles para la evaluación de sitios y recursos educativos en Internet. La disponibilidad de innumerables recursos en Internet, de posible aplicación en los procesos de enseñanza y de aprendizaje, plantea la necesidad de analizarlos y seleccionarlos teniendo en cuenta el perfil de los destinatarios, sus intereses y expectativas, y las características del contexto, tanto de la escuela como de su comunidad de pertenencia. La selección y el análisis de recursos existentes en la "red de redes" constituye una actividad que ha de realizarse con criterios claros, pertinentes y relevantes para que estos recursos: sean un apoyo y un aporte que favorezcan el logro de los objetivos de la escuela; respondan a los intereses, los objetivos y las características de los usuarios; contemplen fuentes de información y de servicios que son provistas casi con exclusividad por Internet. En este documento se sugieren algunos indicadores que pueden resultar útiles para la evaluación de sitios y recursos educativos en Internet. En cada caso, se presenta una descripción del indicador, el objetivo al que apunta y una serie de preguntas para orientar la evaluación. Los indicadores son: autoridad, actualización, navegabilidad, organización, selección de contenidos, legibilidad, adecuación al destinatario."