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"How Do I Get Started? A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a Student-Centered Classroom Part I Part Two: It's All About You Part Three: The Syllabus Part Four: Students Part Five: Collectively Writing a Constitution"

"Muchas veces hemos invitado a nuestros alumnos a "pensarlo mejor" o a sentarse en la "silla de pensar" para que piensen, sin embargo no hemos integrado en la escuela el hecho de enseñar a pensar de forma organizada, sistemática y concreta. Es cierto que son muchos los momentos en los que provocamos en nuestros alumnos para que piensen, los propios contenidos curriculares lo hacen necesario y en la mayoría de ocasiones se consigue el objetivo pero normalmente no hacemos visible ese pensamiento. Dar visibilidad al pensamiento supone hacer a los alumnos conscientes del hecho de pensar, para ello debemos ofrecerles herramientas que les ayuden a identificar el tipo de pensamiento que están utilizando y los pasos que siguen en cada uno de ellos. Lo que ocurre es que normalmente, centramos nuestra atención en lo pensado y no reparamos en la acción de pensar. Al pensar efectuamos muchos procesos: crear, decidir, juzgar, describir, predecir, sintetizar, deducir… etc. etc. etc… Sin embargo, llevar a cabo estos procesos no es exactamente pensar. Estas son las destrezas de pensamiento,pero, ejecutadas mecánica o aisladamente, no suponen verdadero pensamiento. Es necesaria una ejecución consciente de estos procesos para que puedan considerarse pensar. El Centro Nacional para la Enseñanza del Pensamiento (es decir: el National Center for Teaching Thinking, NCTT) es una organización radicada en Massachussets, en Estados Unidos, concebida y dirigida por Robert Swartz, profesor emérito en la Universidad de Massachussets y filósofo de formación, que cuenta con una contrastada trayectoria profesional en el ámbito de la pedagogía y el estudio del aprendizaje. Las destrezas que se persigue desarrollar en los estudiantes tienen que ver fundamentalmente con el pensamiento crítico y creativo. Se trata de que los estudiantes desarrollen hábitos de pensamiento que les sean útiles en su vida diaria, a la vez que se hacen conscientes de sus propios procesos menta

"The Environment & Society Portal is a project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. The center is supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Read more about the Portal in English and in German. "

Artículo en inglés... "Mobile devices as teaching tools are becoming a more and more common part of the American education experience in classrooms, from preschool through graduate school. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 58% of U.S. teachers own smartphones - 10 percentage points higher than the national average for adults. Those teachers are building that tech-savviness into their lesson plans, too, by embracing bring-your-own-device policies and leading the push for an iPad for every student. In 2013, an estimated 25% of U.S. schools had BYOD policies in place and it's reasonable to assume those numbers have risen in the past two years. ..."

Artículo en inglés... "Mobile devices as teaching tools are becoming a more and more common part of the American education experience in classrooms, from preschool through graduate school. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 58% of U.S. teachers own smartphones - 10 percentage points higher than the national average for adults. Those teachers are building that tech-savviness into their lesson plans, too, by embracing bring-your-own-device policies and leading the push for an iPad for every student. In 2013, an estimated 25% of U.S. schools had BYOD policies in place and it's reasonable to assume those numbers have risen in the past two years. ..."

"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."

"there is no live teacher engagement... Currently, just 10 percent of MOOC registrants complete their courses. Where Will MOOCs Be Just Two Years From Now? Within the next two years, MOOCs will quickly evolve from lacking teacher engagement to having a lot of teacher engagement. Right now, it's essentially a model where computers are teaching students. This model is simply not sustainable in the long run without live student-teacher engagement. Teachers are the key that unlocks learning in these courses. They help students resolve issues and problems. Will the biggest change in online education moving forward be putting live teachers at the center of the MOOC (not just on video)? We will know the answer very soon."

"there is no live teacher engagement... Currently, just 10 percent of MOOC registrants complete their courses. Where Will MOOCs Be Just Two Years From Now? Within the next two years, MOOCs will quickly evolve from lacking teacher engagement to having a lot of teacher engagement. Right now, it's essentially a model where computers are teaching students. This model is simply not sustainable in the long run without live student-teacher engagement. Teachers are the key that unlocks learning in these courses. They help students resolve issues and problems. Will the biggest change in online education moving forward be putting live teachers at the center of the MOOC (not just on video)? We will know the answer very soon."

"A Systemic Approach to SEL RULER is a systemic approach to SEL developed at the Center for Emotional Intelligence. RULER aims to infuse the principles of emotional intelligence into the immune system of preK to 12 schools, informing how leaders lead, teachers teach, students learn, and families support students. RULER is an acronym for the five skills of emotional intelligence."

Primer numero de la Revista online gratuita de la "National Science Teacher Association" americana sobre enseñanza STEM: Connected Science Learning is an online journal that highlights STEM education experiences that bridge the gap between in-school and out-of-school settings. It features articles about highly effective preK-12 STEM learning programs that promote collaboration between the in-school and out-of-school communities, and shares research that supports such efforts. The journal is a joint initiative of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). Funding to pilot and evaluate the effectiveness and demand for the first two issues is provided through a National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER award (DRL-1420262).

More skinny about the experiential workshop at the Informal Learning Center.

"La experiencia de un profesor de tercer grado en un aula de 20 alumnos en Parkview/Center Point Elementary school in Maplewood, Minnesota."

2011 brought us the buzzword craze of "gamification" in education, or the quest to make learning online more like a video game. Inspired by FourSquare's achievement badges as a way of motivating users to check in to location-based services and Mozilla's promise of outcomes-based badges in lieu o

El artículo describe distintos proyectos de investigación del Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) del Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) . Estas reflexiones las realiza el autor a partir de una visita que realizó al Centro y de entrevistas con los investigadores Mark Klein y Peter Gloor.

"Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue - and because we try to practice what we preach - we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Why a Low-tech Website? We were told that the Internet would "dematerialise" society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. In order to offset the negative consequences associated with high energy consumption, renewable energy has been proposed as a means to lower emissions from powering data centers. For example, Greenpeace's yearly ClickClean report ranks major Internet companies based on their use of renewable power sources."

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.

This article covers the content of the seminar that, today, December 6, 2011, I present at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) in Paris, with the title: "Digital tools to create a knowledge ecosystem for learning and research".

La saga de informes de la Horizon, New Media Consortium (NMC), tiene un nuevo componente. Gracias a la colaboración deleLearn Center (eLC) UOC ya se encuentra en proceso de revisión el segundo I nformeHorizon Iberoamérica 2012-2017 -el primero es de 2010- que, apoyado en su particularadecuación del método Delphi propio de estos informes, ofrece una mirada prospectiva sobre las nuevas tecnologías en la educación superior en América Latina, España y Portugal.