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"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."

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).

Como ya adelantábamos en nuestro post sobre Las Jornadas iTIC12 celebradas en Madrid los pasados 4, 5 y 6 de junio 2012, dentro de las experiencias de integración de las TIC en Educación presentadas, se encuentra una experiencia de uso de una unidad didáctica desarrollada con la herramienta MALTED para idiomas en Primaria, concretamente para inglés de Tercer Ciclo de Primaria, National Days in the UK, también reseñada en este blog, y diseñada por Mónica del Moral Pérez.

"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

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. ..."

Investigación sobre el problema del agua en el mundo. Colaboración de ePals y National Geographic

"Since 1995, four years after India opened its doors to free markets, according to India's National Crime Records Bureau, NCRB, nearly 270,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves. The 'Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India,' has placed the death toll for a cumulative 16-year at 256,913 deaths, the worst-ever recorded wave of suicides of this kind in human history. "

"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"

"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."

"Imagine you could use any kind of small head difference in a river or canal. The power those drops contain might surprise you. We created a technology that can make use of all these small waterfalls or rapids in a way that's safe for the environment. Gone are the days that communities had to choose between having power or fish to eat. Our robust and fish friendly vortex turbiness will generate energy 24/7 at an incredibly low cost of energy. That way you can have a project with high return on investment that improves the world just that little bit. Now, if you look at a river or canal, you'll notice that it's full of these small cascades, that's how nature builds rivers. We have created a distributed turbine system that can combines a large amount of turbines into one big virtual hydropower powerplant. These virtual hydropower plants can be as large as 10MW in power output. That's the power production of a small city! We can do this because our civil structures are designed to be easy to install, and the electronics and robust power take-offs are designed to keep working with minimal maintenance. The energy produced can be directly connected to your appliances or machinery, and at the same time connected to the national distribution grid, so you can inject the unused power to it, maximizing the revenue through a net billing connection."

"This game is a budget management simulator inspired by the low salaries and high living costs in Chile. At the time of developing this game, the minimum wage in Chile was $301,000 (approximately $400 USD) and according to the National Institute of Statistics of Chile (INE), more than a half of workers in Chile earn $400,000 or less."

En este portal ofrecen, anualmente, desde el 2012 informes con una selección de estrategias educativas punteras de acuerdo con expertos de diferentes entidades británicas e internacionales. Sin duda, son un referente a tener en cuenta. This series of annual reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. The reports are collaboratively authored by researchers in the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK, together with different external partners every year. The 2020 report, the eighth in the series, has been written as a collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK, and the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), Dublin City University, Ireland.

Último informe de educación de la UNESCO publicado (GEM) "Since 2017, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the GEM Report have been working with countries to help them fulfil their commitment to set national #SDG4benchmarks on a set of seven indicators. Two in three countries have directly or indirectly taken part in the process. These benchmarks have been compiled in a new report released today for International Day of Education."

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.

"El nacionalismo es una posición irracional, discriminatoria, insostenible y caprichosa. Todos los nacionalismos. Inevitablemente, al subrayar diferencias artificiales y separar esfuerzos en la lucha por una sociedad mejor, es indefectiblemente reaccionario y regresivo, sin importar cómo se disfrace."

"El nacionalismo es una posición irracional, discriminatoria, insostenible y caprichosa. Todos los nacionalismos. Inevitablemente, al subrayar diferencias artificiales y separar esfuerzos en la lucha por una sociedad mejor, es indefectiblemente reaccionario y regresivo, sin importar cómo se disfrace."

¿Somos donde nacemos? ¿Hasta qué punto? ¿Por qué?

¿Somos donde nacemos? ¿Hasta qué punto? ¿Por qué?

SIIA's 2011 Vision K-20 finds schools should do a better job of meeting students' personalized needs and provide higher-caliber assessment tools. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has released the results of its fourth annual national education survey.