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Sometimes, information is hard to understand just because it's presented in a manner that just doesn't quite appeal to the way we like to learn best. While it isn't always possible to take every class or complete every project in a way that fits into your individual style, there are ways that you can help to ensure that you're making the most of the material at hand. Here are a few tips to help you start improving your learning experience by helping make it work a little better with your needs, whether you're a visual, auditory or kinesthetic lea

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

"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."

"This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment. It is not a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, A Matter Of Scale is a book about survival; about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself from the crisis that is unfolding. And there most certainly is a crisis; like the waves of a surging river; small and irregular at first, but growing larger, creating whirlpools, rising in treacherous white water, and eventually inundating everything in its path. People know that the climate is changing, that species are being removed from the Earth at a rapidly increasing rate, that entire ecosystems are becoming shadows of their former richness; they know, but they do not understand. The environmental crisis is closing in on humanity from all directions, yet the crisis barely registers on this culture's list of problems. As we stand, humanity is doomed to a collapse that will leave only a few nomads, and a toxic, barely survivable Earth in its wake."

"This comic is a timeline on how the temperature has changed from 20,000 BCE (Before Common Era) to the present day (2016), with three predictions for the rest of the 21st century depending on what actions are taken (or not taken) to stop CO₂ emission. This comic is a direct, but much more thorough, follow up on the previous global warming comic: 1379: 4.5 Degrees. By having readers scroll through millennia of slow-paced natural changes, Randall uses the comic to confront the the rapid temperature rise in the recent years. Over the past 100 years, human action has produced a large amount of CO₂ emissions, which have caused a rise in average global temperature through the greenhouse effect. This is called global warming and is part of a climate change, a subject that has become a recurrent subject on xkcd. There are still many people who claim that this is not happening, or at least that it is not caused by any human actions, called climate change deniers. One argument of theirs is that global warming is happening for natural causes, summarized with the phrase "temperature has changed before". "

"The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching.The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success. Book release date (final version): 1 April 2015."

The aim of the Transmedia Literacy project is to understand how the young boys and girls are learning skills outside the school. The construction of those cultural competencies and social skills will be at the centre of the research. Once the informal learning strategies and practices applied by young people outside the formal institutions are identified, the team will 'translate' them into a series of activities and proposals to be implemented inside school settings. The Transmedia Literacy Project will also produce a Teacher's Kit that will be designed to facilitate the integration of transliteracies in the classroom.

"Facepixelizer is a specialized image editor for anonymizing images. Use Facepixelizer to quickly hide information in images that you don't want to become public. For example, you can blur out text and pixelate faces that appear in your images. Even though Facepixelizer runs in the browser, your images are secure because they never leave your browser and are never sent over the network. All the processing happens in your browser."

"Visible mending (VM) is different from traditional mending in that it makes the repair a focal point, rather than blending it into the original garment. There are many reasons for this, from drawing attention to the fact that a garment's lifespan has been prolonged and challenging the notion that secondhand clothes are only worn by the poor, to making a statement about fast fashion's reputation for disintegration or simply adding a personalized touch. "

"DARRELL HUFF CÓMO MENTIR CON ESTADÍSTICAS Edición Original: 1954 Edición electrónica: Septiembre 2012 Traducción de Denes Martos http://www.laeditorialvirtual.com.ar"

"Because the world is a sphere, it is impossible to draw it on a flat surface without distorting it in some way. These distortions are known as map projections, the mathematical rules for how to stretch each point on the Earth's surface onto a 2-dimensional plane."

"Because the world is a sphere, it is impossible to draw it on a flat surface without distorting it in some way. These distortions are known as map projections, the mathematical rules for how to stretch each point on the Earth's surface onto a 2-dimensional plane."

Muy interesante herramienta para pasar tablas de datos a visualizaciones gráficas, en vectores y personalizables... "RAW works with tabular data (i.e. information which is possible to record or track in a spreadsheet). There are many ways you can upload your data in RAW: Dropping a plain text file containing delimiter-separated values such as .csv or .tsv. File extension does not matter, as long as you use one of these delimters: comma, semicolon, tab or colon. Copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, Apple Numbers...) or a text file. This is particularly helpful when you do not want to (or can not) export your data any time you change it or when you want to use only specific columns. Typing your data directly into the text area. While it is unlikely to use this option, it can be useful for editing your data."

Muy interesante herramienta para pasar tablas de datos a visualizaciones gráficas, en vectores y personalizables... "RAW works with tabular data (i.e. information which is possible to record or track in a spreadsheet). There are many ways you can upload your data in RAW: Dropping a plain text file containing delimiter-separated values such as .csv or .tsv. File extension does not matter, as long as you use one of these delimters: comma, semicolon, tab or colon. Copying and pasting your data from a spreadsheet (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, Apple Numbers...) or a text file. This is particularly helpful when you do not want to (or can not) export your data any time you change it or when you want to use only specific columns. Typing your data directly into the text area. While it is unlikely to use this option, it can be useful for editing your data."

OLDaily: Publishing Paradigms of the Future: Where are We Headed?

" EJE I TRABAJO PRÁCTICO 1 DESCARGAR CARUSO, Marcelo; DUSSEL, Inés Introducción, en: La invención del aula. Una genealogía de las formas de enseñar. Buenos Aires, Santillana, 2003, pp. 13-21. DESCARGAR -Baquero, Ricardo y Narodowski, Mariano "Normalidad y normatividad en pedagogía" Alternativas, Nro. 5, 1991. "Notas para una reflexión sobre aprendizaje y pedagogía", Alternativas, Nro. 3, 1989. DESCARGAR -CARUSO M., DUSSEL, I. (1998) "De Sarmiento a los Simpsons. Cinco conceptos para pensar la educación contemporánea". Cap. Modernidad y escuela: los restos del naufragio Bs. As. Kapelusz. DESCARGAR -GVIRTZ, S., GRINBERG, S., ABREGÚ, V. (2011) La educación de ayer, hoy y mañana. Cap. 2 ¿Cuándo se inventó la escuela? Bs. As. AIQUE (Aún no disponible) - Narodowski, Mariano, Infancia y poder. La conformación de la pedagogía moderna, Capitulo 2, Aique, Buenos Aires, 1994 DESCARGAR -PINEAU, Pablo, DUSSEL, Inés, CARUSO, Marcelo LA.ESCUELA COMO MÁQUINA DE EDUCAR. Tres escritos sobre un proyecto de la modernidad Cap. 1 ¿POR QUE TRIUNFÓ LA ESCUELA? o la modernidad dijo: "Esto es educación", y la escuela respondió: "Yo me ocupo" DESCARGAR -PINEAU, Pablo, (1996) La escuela en el paisaje moderno. Consideraciones sobre el proceso de escolarización, en Historia de la educación en debate. Miño y Dávila, Buenos Aires. DESCARGAR Video de Explora Pedagogía Explora. Pedagogía. - Hacer escuela from Lucas David Medina on Vimeo. EJE II TRABAJO PRÁCTICO 2 DESCARGAR -Ariès, Philippe, "La infancia", en Revista de Educación, Nro. 254, 1993 DESCARGAR -Baquero, Ricardo y Narodowski, Mariano "Existe la infancia?", Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Educación, Nro. 6, 1994. DESCARGAR -Narodowski, Mariano, Infancia y poder. La conformación de la pedagogía moderna. Capitulo 3, Aique, Buenos Aires, 1994. DESCARGAR -Popkewitz, Thomas "Discu

"Extractivismo, despojo y crisis climática. Desafíos para los movimientos sociales y los proyectos emancipatorios de Nuestra América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Herramienta, Editorial El Colectivo, 2013, 336 pp. Micaela Nair Ares aresmicaela@gmail.com Centro de Estudios de la Argentina Rural - Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Argentina Recibido: 29|04|14 Aceptado: 03|05|14 Este obra presenta un conjunto de reflexiones que giran en torno a un objetivo: interpretar la pluralidad de "[...] experiencias de lucha, prácticas y programáticas trazadas por los sujetos/sectores subalternos y populares en Nuestra América reciente" (p. 15). Estas interacciones tienen un rol decisivo en la construcción de proyectos de cambio social que se oponen al avance del extractivismo que refleja la influencia de las políticas neoliberales en la región. La crisis económica mundial del 2007 condiciona los índices de crecimiento en el Cono Sur, que se combinan en la agenda pública con las primeras consecuencias del cambio climático, para renovar el debate sobre el mecanismo de acumulación y la centralidad político-económica de los bienes naturales. Una situación que también refleja el incremento de la tensión social y la reproducción de la lógica extractivista, que incrementa la demanda de un pensamiento alternativo que permita superar la clásica escisión entre sociedad y medio natural. Esta obra aborda este complejo proceso a través de tres grandes temas. Una primera parte analiza el vínculo entre la implementación del modelo extractivo-exportador y el período neoliberal de la década de 1990. Distingue las continuidades y rupturas del ciclo de resistencias que se abre en los últimos años ante la ofensiva extractivista, cuya singularidad principal deviene del tratamiento de la problemática socioambiental desde el terreno particular hacia el sectorial colectivo (p. 57). En el umbral del siglo XXI se discute la hegemonía del neoliberalismo y surgen disti

This paper reports on the outcomes of a mini-research project about visible forms of collaboration when children are learning with the support of Wikis-online editable websites. The findings were based on observing the children using the Wiki, analysis of the video recording of the task and the survey that was completed by the children using the Wiki as a tool for a task. Qualitative research methodology became a primary technique for the data collection and content analysis approach used to explore the children's behaviour when investigating the use of the wiki and video recording of the sessions. Various types of behaviour associated with collaboration, were observed when the children were working on Wiki pages with their peers.  

"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."

"For more information about the event and to listen to the podcast go to the RSA event page: http://bit.ly/1jGN6C3 How will the 'collaborative commons' transform our lives? Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century. Follow the RSA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thersaorg Like the RSA on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thersaorg Our events are made possible with the support of our Fellowship. Support us by donating or applying to become a Fellow."

"For more information about the event and to listen to the podcast go to the RSA event page: http://bit.ly/1jGN6C3 How will the 'collaborative commons' transform our lives? Jeremy Rifkin, one of the world's most popular public thinkers and political advisors, argues that capitalism will no longer be the dominant paradigm in the second half of the 21st century. Follow the RSA on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thersaorg Like the RSA on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thersaorg Our events are made possible with the support of our Fellowship. Support us by donating or applying to become a Fellow."

"¿Qué es el trabajo colaborativo? ¿Se trata de distribuir tareas en un equipo? ¿Por qué se aprende mejor de esa manera? ¿Qué se aprende, además de los contenidos disciplinares? Cecilia Sagol, coordinadora de Contenidos del portal educ.ar, habla de este tipo de aprendizaje, su implementación en clase y de algunas herramientas que facilitan y potencian los diversos aspectos del trabajo (mayo de 2015)."

"¿Qué es el trabajo colaborativo? ¿Se trata de distribuir tareas en un equipo? ¿Por qué se aprende mejor de esa manera? ¿Qué se aprende, además de los contenidos disciplinares? Cecilia Sagol, coordinadora de Contenidos del portal educ.ar, habla de este tipo de aprendizaje, su implementación en clase y de algunas herramientas que facilitan y potencian los diversos aspectos del trabajo (mayo de 2015)."

Ver At School "France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) - a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris."

Ver At School "France in the Year 2000 (XXI century) - a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris."