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Luciano Ferrer

Older children play too - 0 views

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    "Older children play too explores the play of older children, particularly those in early and middle adolescence (around the ages of 11 to 16). This information sheet looks at: Avoiding assumptions based on age alone Understanding the adolescent brain Play behaviours of older children and their benefits Where older children play and why Barriers to play and the social consequences Providing for play."
Joan Simon

Does collaboration occur when children are learning with the support of a wiki? - 2 views

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    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.  
Luciano Ferrer

Young & Creative | Nordicom - 0 views

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    "This book YOUNG & CREATIVE - Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations. We want to show the opportunities of digital technologies for creative processes of children and young people. The access to digital technology and its growing convergence has allowed young people to experiment active roles as cultural producers. Participation becomes a keyword when "consumers take media into their own hands". Digital technologies offer the potential of different forms of participatory media culture, and finally creative practices. YOUNG and CREATIVE is a mix of research articles, interviews and case studies. The target audience of this book is students, professionals and researchers working in the field of education, communication, children and youth studies, new literacy studies and media and information literacy."
Luciano Ferrer

What's Wrong With Latin American Early Education - 0 views

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    "Back in the 1980s, a group of social workers in Jamaica visited low-income homes one hour a week for two years, bearing age-appropriate toys for the kids and advice on child rearing for the parents. Researchers tracked the outcomes, and a generation later, the results are in. The children whose homes were visited by social workers became adults who earn wages that are 25 percent higher than those earned by peers who had not been visited. Their I.Q.s are an average seven points higher, and they are less likely to resort to crime or suffer from depression. Other studies, including several recent ones in the United States, have shown similar results, contributing to a consensus on the importance of early childhood development that has led governments around the world to increase spending on the first five years of life. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of longstanding social and economic inequality, several countries have been especially ambitious. Brazil and Chile doubled the coverage of day care services over the past decade, while in Ecuador they grew sixfold. These investments build on historic gains in child nutrition and health. But while Latin American children are now healthier and more likely to attend preschool, they still lag far behind in learning, particularly in the areas of language and cognition, when compared with their counterparts in wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong? ..."
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    "Back in the 1980s, a group of social workers in Jamaica visited low-income homes one hour a week for two years, bearing age-appropriate toys for the kids and advice on child rearing for the parents. Researchers tracked the outcomes, and a generation later, the results are in. The children whose homes were visited by social workers became adults who earn wages that are 25 percent higher than those earned by peers who had not been visited. Their I.Q.s are an average seven points higher, and they are less likely to resort to crime or suffer from depression. Other studies, including several recent ones in the United States, have shown similar results, contributing to a consensus on the importance of early childhood development that has led governments around the world to increase spending on the first five years of life. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of longstanding social and economic inequality, several countries have been especially ambitious. Brazil and Chile doubled the coverage of day care services over the past decade, while in Ecuador they grew sixfold. These investments build on historic gains in child nutrition and health. But while Latin American children are now healthier and more likely to attend preschool, they still lag far behind in learning, particularly in the areas of language and cognition, when compared with their counterparts in wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong? ..."
Luciano Ferrer

Teaching climate science & action - the 4-7 year old version - 0 views

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    "Teaching climate science & action can seem daunting: for university-level lecturers, teaching to younger children can be quite intimidating. For primary-level teachers, the science and scope can seem too vast and fast changing to cover. For everyone, the content can be overwhelming. As adults, how do we present this topic to children: give them the information they need without crushing them? I decided to face the challenge, and over the course of one rather sleepless night, put together some materials for my 6 year-old son's class. This post summarizes and communicates that experience, in the hope that others can take ideas and inspiration, and will be encouraged to volunteer to teach about climate in primary schools. Teaching and engagement in schools is now part of all of our work, as researchers, academics, parents, activists, advocates, so I hope this idea spreads. The 4-part lesson plan worked quite well: the topics & materials held the children's attention, gave them varied aspects to think about and interact with, and they seemed to come away with deeper understanding. The whole thing took roughly 1 hour. This is doable!"
Luciano Ferrer

Why children ask 'Why?' and what makes a good explanation | 3tags - 0 views

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    ¿Por qué los niños preguntan por qué? Qué hace a una buena explicación (artículo en inglés)
Luciano Ferrer

No es cuestión de abandonar los libros. Es cuestión de cambiar la escuela | p... - 0 views

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    "A principios de esta semana me escribió Andrés P. Mohorte, editor de Magnet, una de las últimas publicaciones de la Galaxia Xataka que dirigen desde hace años Julio Alonso y Antonio Ortiz. Me escribió porque estaba preparando un artículo sobre el libro de texto en el contexto educativo actual. Siendo Xataka una publicación de orientación tecnológica sus preguntas mostraban un interés por conocer las posibilidades que las nuevas tecnologías y el libro digital abren a la educación hoy. Sobre las complejas relaciones entre educación y tecnología he escrito mucho en este blog. De forma muy resumida lo hice hace unos meses para preparar la mesa redonda Educación y tecnología: mucho que ganar ¿algo que perder? en la entrega, precisamente, de los premios Xataka 2014. En el post que escribí antes de la mesa redonda mantuve el título pero me permití la licencia de añadir unos signos de interrogación (¿mucho que ganar?). No porque no creyese entonces, o ahora, que no haya mucho que ganar incorporando las tecnologías en la educación sino porque creo que debe hacerse desde un posicionamiento crítico y después de un proceso de reflexión. Las tecnologías solas no son la solución. Digitalizar la escuela no es tecnificar las aulas sino escolarizar las tecnologías. El sistema educativo es complejo, aunque solo sea como decía recientemente George Couros porque está construido sobre la relación entre personas. Las preguntas que nos hagamos y las respuestas que tratemos de dar deben huir de los simplismos. En educación las cosas nunca son, ni serán, blanco o negro. Ante el cambio, el sistema educativo responde siguiendo lo que algunos expertos denominan un conservadurismo dinámico, es decir, mezclando permanente lo viejo y lo nuevo, la continuidad y el cambio. Los libros de texto han sido una tecnología muy eficiente y han cumplido un papel determinante en el desarrollo del sistema educativo tal y como lo conocemos. Su labor ha sido funda
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    "A principios de esta semana me escribió Andrés P. Mohorte, editor de Magnet, una de las últimas publicaciones de la Galaxia Xataka que dirigen desde hace años Julio Alonso y Antonio Ortiz. Me escribió porque estaba preparando un artículo sobre el libro de texto en el contexto educativo actual. Siendo Xataka una publicación de orientación tecnológica sus preguntas mostraban un interés por conocer las posibilidades que las nuevas tecnologías y el libro digital abren a la educación hoy. Sobre las complejas relaciones entre educación y tecnología he escrito mucho en este blog. De forma muy resumida lo hice hace unos meses para preparar la mesa redonda Educación y tecnología: mucho que ganar ¿algo que perder? en la entrega, precisamente, de los premios Xataka 2014. En el post que escribí antes de la mesa redonda mantuve el título pero me permití la licencia de añadir unos signos de interrogación (¿mucho que ganar?). No porque no creyese entonces, o ahora, que no haya mucho que ganar incorporando las tecnologías en la educación sino porque creo que debe hacerse desde un posicionamiento crítico y después de un proceso de reflexión. Las tecnologías solas no son la solución. Digitalizar la escuela no es tecnificar las aulas sino escolarizar las tecnologías. El sistema educativo es complejo, aunque solo sea como decía recientemente George Couros porque está construido sobre la relación entre personas. Las preguntas que nos hagamos y las respuestas que tratemos de dar deben huir de los simplismos. En educación las cosas nunca son, ni serán, blanco o negro. Ante el cambio, el sistema educativo responde siguiendo lo que algunos expertos denominan un conservadurismo dinámico, es decir, mezclando permanente lo viejo y lo nuevo, la continuidad y el cambio. Los libros de texto han sido una tecnología muy eficiente y han cumplido un papel determinante en el desarrollo del sistema educativo tal y como lo conocemos. Su labor ha sido funda
Luciano Ferrer

Why schools shouldn't ban smartphones - 0 views

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    Artículo, en inglés, acerca de la utilización de móviles en el aula, etc... "Technology is like water to a fish. It surrounds us, and we rarely notice it, but we use it all the time. Instead of keeping children away from the water, we should teach them to swim. Any alternative would be unthinkable."
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    Artículo, en inglés, acerca de la utilización de móviles en el aula, etc... "Technology is like water to a fish. It surrounds us, and we rarely notice it, but we use it all the time. Instead of keeping children away from the water, we should teach them to swim. Any alternative would be unthinkable."
M Jesús García San Martín

Gifted children - 2 views

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    An Advanced ESL Listening comprehension activity.
Francisco Gascón Moya

Reading, not drowning - 2 views

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    In this blog post I would like to think about how you can get children aged about 9 and above to read successfully in a foreign language.
Luciano Ferrer

How classrooms look around the world - in 15 amazing photographs - 0 views

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    "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."
Luciano Ferrer

Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists - 0 views

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    "Teaching children according to their individual "learning style" does not achieve better results and should be ditched by schools in favour of evidence-based practice, according to leading scientists. Thirty eminent academics from the worlds of neuroscience, education and psychology have signed a letter to the Guardian voicing their concern about the popularity of the learning style approach among some teachers. ..."
Luciano Ferrer

Peak soil: Industrial agriculture destroys ecosystems and civilizations. Biofuels make ... - 0 views

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    "... Soil is the bedrock of civilization (Perlin 1991, Ponting 1993). Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what's gained to make ethanol? Why would we do this to our children and grandchildren? Perhaps it's a combination of pork barrel politics, an uninformed public, short-sighted greedy agribusiness corporations, jobs for the Midwest, politicians getting too large a percent of their campaign money from agribusiness (Lavelle 2007), elected leaders without science degrees, and desperation to provide liquid transportation fuels (Bucknell 1981, Hirsch 2005). ..."
Luciano Ferrer

Revealed: air pollution may be damaging 'every organ in the body' | Environment | The G... - 0 views

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    "Air pollution may be damaging every organ and virtually every cell in the human body, according to a comprehensive new global review. The research shows head-to-toe harm, from heart and lung disease to diabetes and dementia, and from liver problems and bladder cancer to brittle bones and damaged skin. Fertility, foetuses and children are also affected by toxic air, the review found."
Luciano Ferrer

Jari Lavonen: "Un niño de cuatro años necesita jugar, no ir a la escuela" - 2 views

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    "Jari Lavonen: "Un niño de cuatro años necesita jugar, no ir a la escuela" El decano de Helsinki desgrana las claves del éxito finlandés en el primer Simposio Internacional sobre la Formación Inicial de los Maestros celebrado en Barcelona"
Luciano Ferrer

El blog de Salvaroj: El mejor profesor es aquel que... - 1 views

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    "El mejor profesor es aquel que... los chicos completan la frase. Minuto 7.20 "
Raúl Hidalgo

De aquí no pasas - Save the Children - 2 views

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    Consejos sobre eluso de redes sociales. Configuración de la privacidad en distintas redes
Luciano Ferrer

Fachada escuelas - Category:Uploaded via Campaign:Concurso Escuelas Argentinas 2014 - W... - 1 views

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    767 fotos #CC-BY-SA de Concurso Escuelas Argentinas 2014
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