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"... 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. ..."

"This article analyzes teacher strikes in Argentina during 2006-2012. It stands out how teacher strikes prevail over claims from other unions, and are shown to be relevant events for education policy just for some provinces and only for public schools. We found that none of the policy measures implemented over the last decade has proven to be effective in reducing conflict. Analyzing a dataset on labour unrest, this study builds an index of teacher labour conflict to better understand the evolution of teacher strikes over time and under the various provincial governments that integrate the Argentinian federal education system. The article shows no correlation between teacher labour unrest and the growth of private enrolment. However, we note that despite the lack of statistical correlation, teacher strikes should not be ruled out as an explanatory variable of the increase in private education in Argentina."

"The development of a European sustainability competence framework is one of the policy actions set out in the European Green Deal as a catalyst to promote learning on environmental sustainability in the European Union. GreenComp identifies a set of sustainability competences to feed into education programmes to help learners develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that promote ways to think, plan and act with empathy, responsibility, and care for our planet and for public health. This work began with a literature review and drew on several consultations with experts and stakeholders working in the field of sustainability education and lifelong learning. The results presented in this report form a framework for learning for environmental sustainability that can be applied in any learning context. The report shares working definitions of sustainability and learning for environmental sustainability that forms the basis for the framework to build consensus and bridge the gap between experts and other stakeholders. GreenComp comprises four interrelated competence areas: 'embodying sustainability values', 'embracing complexity in sustainability', 'envisioning sustainable futures' and 'acting for sustainability'. Each area comprises three competences that are interlinked and equally important. GreenComp is designed to be a non-prescriptive reference for learning schemes fostering sustainability as a competence."

"Formación del Profesorado, Tecnología Educativa e Identidad Docente Digital / Digital Teacher Education, Educational Technology and Teacher Digital Identity José Miguel Correa Gorospe, Lorea Fernández Olaskoaga, Aingeru Gutiérrez-Cabello Barragán, Daniel Losada Iglesias, Begoña Ochoa-Aizpurua Aguirre Resumen La perspectiva de la identidad docente digital es una oportunidad para repensar la influencia de la postmodernidad sobre la Escuela, el curriculum y los docentes. Basándonos en Bauman, Wenger o Gergen hemos definido la identidad digital docente, como un proceso dinámico y permanente que implica dotar de sentido y reinterpretar las propias creencias, valores y experiencias docentes a la luz de los nuevos contextos y marcos de relaciones en la sociedad contemporánea caracterizada por la digitalización de la experiencia humana. En este artículos hemos relacionado la identidad digital docente con los cambios acaecidos en la sociedad contemporánea, las concepciones del conocimiento, la escuela o la autoridad curricular. Reivindicamos un enfoque de la tecnología educativa crítica basada en la emancipación y convivencialidad, que incorpore la reflexión sobre cómo nos configuramos a partir de las experiencias digitales y de la cultura visual. Terminamos este artículo reinvindicando la pedagogía narrativa como estrategia de biografización de la experiencia digital docente."

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

Los último avances en investigación en Ensñanza de las Ciencias en abierto (ESERA 2015) "Science Education Research: Engaging Learners for a Sustainable Future (Proceedings of ESERA 2015)"

"Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research May 1997 - Pre Publication Draft Prepared by: Iddo K. Wernick and Jesse H. Ausubel Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University with the Vishnu Group for the Office of Energy and Environmental Systems, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory"

"La evaluación se entiende por parte de muchos profesionales de dos maneras: por un lado, como una estrategia para poder tomar datos sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y así poder regularlo, solucionando las dificultades a medida que ocurren para que todo el alumnado pueda tener éxito contando con los apoyos que sean necesarios; básicamente, en esta interpretación evaluar es obtener datos para comprender y tomar decisiones sobre el proceso de aprendizaje y enseñanza. En la segunda interpretación, más clásica y también la que impone la normativa, evaluar es la vía para medir el aparente nivel de éxito del alumnado y, así, poder calificarlo, aunque aquí se entiende calificar no simplemente como el proceso por el cual se transmite al propio aprendiz y su familia cuál ha sido el resultado en relación con de una o más pruebas sino también como una estrategia de clasificación social del alumnado. Es decir, en el primer caso el objetivo de la evaluación es apoyar el aprendizaje y en el segundo caso el objetivo es clasificar al aprendiz. En estos años, desde los 70 hasta hoy, hemos visto avances en ambos sentidos. En la evaluación para la clasificación se han sofisticado los instrumentos además de que se ha ampliado la capacidad de clasificación para contar hoy con rankings no solo de individuos sino también de entidades mayores como los centros, las regiones o los países. Es más, buena parte de la política educativa se hace buscando la mejora de los resultados en estas clasificaciones, del mismo modo que buena parte de nuestros políticos blanden este tipo de evaluación como argumento de cambio, pues los docentes y los centros reaccionan con frecuencia ante estas evaluaciones acomodando su manera de funcionar al diseño de las pruebas de tal forma que, efectivamente, se obtengan mejores resultados. PublicDomainPictures. Pixabay. CCO Public Domain PublicDomainPictures. Pixabay. CCO Public Domain Afortunadamente al mismo tiempo que este afán c

Este post plantea un problema ya conocido en la educación: los estudiantes tienen necesidades individuales pero el sistema educativo institucional ofrece un solo camino para que todos aprendan sin considerar propuestas educativas innovativas como la de inteligencias múltiples. Ser inteligente no debe ser considerado solo un resultado del QI.

"This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture. The program is Open-Source and it's released under the version 2 of the General Public License. You can download the source code for Linux or the Windows binaries. Please note that this is suitable only for extreme time stretching (e.g. if have a melody of 3 minutes and you want to listen it in 3 hours). If you want "less extreme" time stretching, you can use a program which contains the SoundTouch library. Features It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. While most sound stretching software sounds bad when trying to stretch the sounds a lot, this one is optimized for extreme sound stretching. So, the stretch amount is unlimited. You can play the stretched sound in real-time (including the possibility to "freeze" the sound) or you can render the whole sound or a part of it to audio files It has many post-processing effects, like: filters, pitch/frequency shifters Support for WAV, OGG VORBIS files and MP3 files It is a Free Software "

"The Chinese government blocked 17.5 million would-be plane passengers from buying tickets last year as a punishment for offences including the failure to pay fines, it emerged. Some 5.5 million people were also barred from travelling by train under a controversial "social credit" system which the ruling Communist Party claims will improve public behaviour. The penalties are part of efforts by president Xi Jinping's government to use data-processing and other technology to tighten control on society."

"... 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). ..."

"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."

"Agenda 2030. Garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y de calidad, y promover oportunidades de aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida para todos y todas. Siguiendo el lema de la campaña "Educación para Transformar Vidas" la Oficina Regional de Educación para América Latina y el Caribe (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago) presenta un cuadernillo que sintetiza las diez metas del Objetivo n°4 de Desarrollo Sostenible relativo a educación, sus estrategias de implementación y los principales indicadores para su seguimiento. El texto compila información sobre las Metas de la Agenda de Educación 2030, acordadas por los países del mundo durante el Foro Mundial sobre la Educación 2015, realizada en Incheon, Corea. El material también incluye las principales estrategias definidas en el Marco de Acción de Educación 2030 Hacia una educación inclusiva y equitativa de calidad y un aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida para todos, acordado en París. Asimismo, el texto contiene indicadores que han sido propuestos por el Grupo Asesor Técnico liderado por el Instituto de Estadística de la UNESCO, para realizar el seguimiento a las metas de Educación 2030."

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"Esta publicación es una exhortación al diálogo. Se inspira en una visión humanística de la educación y el desarrollo, basada en el respeto de la vida y la dignidad humana, la igualdad de derechos, la justicia social, la diversidad cultural, la solidaridad internacional y la responsabilidad compartida en relación al futuro sostenible."

"Esta publicación es una exhortación al diálogo. Se inspira en una visión humanística de la educación y el desarrollo, basada en el respeto de la vida y la dignidad humana, la igualdad de derechos, la justicia social, la diversidad cultural, la solidaridad internacional y la responsabilidad compartida en relación al futuro sostenible."

"... Mendigoiti es un centro público en euskera ubicado Mendillori, un barrio de Pamplona de nueva construcción, por lo que hacer varios años tuvo muchísimos niños y niñas, para los que se construyerons dos escuelas. En este momento la población infantil ha disminuido, hasta el punto que el pasado curso escolar solo hubo una matriculación de 10 niños y niñas, pero con la tranformación que le están dando a la escuela este año se han matriculado 40, ya que las familias buscan una educación diferente y más respetuosa. La tranformación como la mayoría de las veces ha comenzado por infantil… y poco a poco va subiendo a primaria. Son tres sus pilares de trabajo: Los ambientes, Las rutinas, Los proyectos ..."

"1.) la privatización de la educación como un efecto del mejoramiento de los ingresos de la población; 2.) la privatización de la educación como resultado del incremento de huelgas docentes; 3.) la privatización de la educación como efecto de familias que buscan mejores resultados educacionales; 4.) la privatización de la educación como consecuencia de procesos de segregación y autosegregación socioeconómica; 5.) la privatización de la educación como efecto del neoliberalismo; 6.) la "publificación" de las escuelas privadas; 7.) la privatización de la educación como un fenómeno cuasi espontáneo; 8.) la privatización de la educación como política de Estado."