Skip to main content

Home/ Lo mejor de la Blogosfera Educativa/ Group items tagged technology resources

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Luciano Ferrer

Eleven Ways to Improve Online Classes - 0 views

  •  
    "It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,
  •  
    "It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures,
Luciano Ferrer

ECO - Announcing A New World - Strange Loop Games - 0 views

  •  
    "What does that mean exactly? It means you play in a multiplayer world that has the possibility of being permanently destroyed, resulting in server-wide perma death. What's more, the reason it's destroyed would be the players' own fault. It's not that different from our own world in that way. "This ecosystem is your only lifeline in a race against time." It works like this: a new server is started, and players enter at the beginnings of civilization. There's a world-destroying cataclysm looming, like a drought or a flood or a meteor heading for the Earth, several real-time weeks away. In order to prevent that catastrophe from happening, you need to build a civilization and advance technology and resources to the point that the crisis can be averted. However you're not alone in this world. Besides the other players, you'll be sharing the world with a detailed wilderness simulation full of plants and animals. They simulate 24 hours a day, living out their lives with or without human interaction, growing, feeding and reproducing. Together they form an ecosystem rich with resources, resources that you must use to survive and develop a civilization."
Luciano Ferrer

The Challenge - A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries - 0 views

  •  
    "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."
Javier Carrillo

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover - NASA Mars - 1 views

  •  
    The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover has a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars. Strapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration - the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, may achieve a "Wright Brothers moment " by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet. Searching for Ancient Life, Gathering Rocks and Soil There are several ways that the mission helps pave the way for future human expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that may be used in those endeavors. These include testing a method for producing oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, identifying other resources (such as subsurface water), improving landing techniques, and characterizing weather, dust, and other potential environmental conditions that could affect future astronauts living and working on Mars.
Luciano Ferrer

Twitter y educación, ejemplos de uso e ideas. También podés colaborar. Por @_... - 0 views

  •  
    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
Luciano Ferrer

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One's Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capa... - 0 views

  •  
    "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."
anonymous

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 3 views

  •  
    A resource of free educational web tools and mobile apps for educators.
Luciano Ferrer

Why Climate Change Isn't Our Biggest Environmental Problem, and Why Technology Won't Sa... - 2 views

  •  
    "Our core ecological problem is not climate change. It is overshoot, of which global warming is a symptom. Overshoot is a systemic issue. Over the past century-and-a-half, enormous amounts of cheap energy from fossil fuels enabled the rapid growth of resource extraction, manufacturing, and consumption; and these in turn led to population increase, pollution, and loss of natural habitat and hence biodiversity. The human system expanded dramatically, overshooting Earth's long-term carrying capacity for humans while upsetting the ecological systems we depend on for our survival. Until we understand and address this systemic imbalance, symptomatic treatment (doing what we can to reverse pollution dilemmas like climate change, trying to save threatened species, and hoping to feed a burgeoning population with genetically modified crops) will constitute an endlessly frustrating round of stopgap measures that are ultimately destined to fail."
Luciano Ferrer

Civilisation peaked in 1940 and will collapse by 2040: the data-based predictions of 1973 - 0 views

  •  
    "In 1973, near the height of the 'population bomb' panic, a computing programme called World1 offered up some predictions for the future. It anticipated a grim picture for humanity based on current trajectories. Tracing categories such as population, pollution and natural-resource usage, World1 calculated that, by 2040, human civilisation would collapse - a century after the best year to have been alive on the planet: 1940. This film was originally broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News as part of a report on predictions for the coming decades made by cutting-edge computing technology and leading thinkers of the time. The second segment features interviews with members of the Club of Rome, an elite think tank composed of government officials, academics and business leaders focused on the future of humanity. Their view is a bit sunnier, anticipating a world where global governments are forced to cooperate to solve complex problems, people widen their cultural horizons and work fewer hours, and limited consumption - not wealth - becomes a mark of prestige. Viewed today, it makes for an engrossing artifact, raising far more questions than it answers about humanity's ability to effectively predict its future and correct its course."
anonymous

Free Technology for Teachers - 3 views

  •  
    Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology by Richard Byrne. De lo mejor en la red.
Luciano Ferrer

Country Comparisons - A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries - 1 views

  •  
    "Select a country to view its environmental sustainability and social performance relative to the "safe and just space" framework and see how it compares with other countries. Blue wedges show social performance relative to a threshold associated with meeting basic needs (blue circle), green wedges show resource use relative to a biophysical boundary associated with sustainability (green circle), while grey wedges show indicators with missing data. Wedges with a dashed edge extend beyond the chart area. Ideally a country would have blue wedges that reach the social threshold and green wedges within the biophysical boundary. See the tables below for country-specific details."
Luciano Ferrer

Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency | Friends of the Earth Europe - 0 views

  •  
    "To revert the current ecological overshoot and build a sustainable society, we have to collectively engage in changing our economic model. "Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency" suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends-in particular to overconsumption-and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment) shed light on different angles of sufficiency and formulate concrete recommendations to EU policy makers. The booklet ends with a discussion of several eco-social policies that can start the transition towards an "economics of enough". Many new ideas for an economic paradigm shift have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. The aim of this booklet is to build on a rich body of knowledge and bring these ideas to the attention of engaged citizens and policy makers in order to advance the debate on how to implement sufficiency."
Luciano Ferrer

Human Population Through Time - 0 views

  •  
    "It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion-and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth's resources, even as we approach 11 billion?"
Luciano Ferrer

Resources - dailySTEM - 2 views

  •  
    "77 Simple STEM Activities for Families (ideas for doing STEM at home or school) 77 STEM Activities for Families: Nature Edition (PDF) 77 STEM Activities for Families: Nature Edition SPANISH (PDF) 77 STEM Activities for Families #3 (PDF) 77 MORE STEM Activities for Families #2 (PDF) 77 MORE STEM Activities for Families #2 SPANISH (PDF), thanks to Mauricio González @mauricioge 77 STEM Activities for Families #1 (PDF) 77 STEM Activities for Families #1 SPANISH (PDF), thanks to Ekuwah Moses of FACES CCSD in Las Vegas, NV 77 STEM Activities for Families #1 Arabic (PDF), thanks to Ali Robbins & Khadi Goodside from Spring Forest Middle School in Houston, TX"
Luciano Ferrer

EJAtlas | Mapping Environmental Justice - 1 views

  •  
    "The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place."
Luciano Ferrer

Ethical Alternatives & Resources - ethical.net - 2 views

  •  
    Selección de aplicaciones y recursos alternativos, abiertos, libres y más éticos, categorizados por funcionalidad y objetivo. + revista, newsletter etc "Ethical.net is a collaborative platform for discovering and sharing ethical product alternatives - whether that means purchasing from a social enterprise, thrift shopping, or learning how to fix your old phone instead of buying a new one. we consider ethical as going in the direction of harmony with other people, animals, and the rest of the natural world"
Francisco Gascón Moya

Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero - 3 views

  •  
    Tecnología y educación. En inglés
Luciano Ferrer

volar - 0 views

  •  
    "Si hoy, en la situación de extralimitación planetaria (overshoot) en que nos hallamos, consideramos esa locura de no querer para sí ventajas con respecto a la situación de quienes se hallan peor; si hoy quisiéramos actualizar la locura igualitaria (llamémosla solidaridad) de Simone Weil pensando en los límites biofísicos de la Tierra, ¿qué hallaríamos? Jennie Moore y William E. Rees, a partir de la metodología de la huella ecológica, se plantean esa clase de preguntas. Aproximadamente la quinta parte de la población mundial vivimos en países de renta alta (la mayor parte de Norteamérica, Europa, Japón y Australia, más las elites consumistas de los países de renta baja). Superamos entre tres y seis veces (o incluso más) la capacidad ecológica de nuestro propio territorio, a costa de otros; nos apropiamos de las cuatro quintas partes de los recursos mundiales y generamos la mayor parte de las emisiones de gases de "efecto invernadero". Grosso modo, ese sector de renta alta vivimos como si dispusiéramos de los recursos y la capacidad asimilativa de tres planetas Tierra. Si nos ciñéramos, a lo Simone Weil, a vivir como en una sola Tierra -¡la cual es de hecho la única morada de que disponemos!-, ¿qué resulta? Según los datos de estos investigadores, la ingesta de carne debería reducirse aproximadamente a una quinta parte (de unos cien kg. anuales a unos veinte). El espacio habitado, a una cuarta parte (de unos 34 metros cuadrados en promedio a 8). El consumo energético por hogar, a una cuarta parte (de 33'5 gigajulios anuales a 8'4). Los desplazamientos en vehículo motorizado, a menos de la décima parte (de 6.600 km./ año a 582). Los desplazamientos en avión, a la vigésimocuarta parte (de 2.943 km./ año a 125). Los vehículos motorizados, a sólo cuatro por mil habitantes. Sí: en un país como España, tendríamos que pasar de veintitantos millones de vehículos a sólo 180.000…[2] Nada de automóviles privados, sino sólo las
  •  
    "Si hoy, en la situación de extralimitación planetaria (overshoot) en que nos hallamos, consideramos esa locura de no querer para sí ventajas con respecto a la situación de quienes se hallan peor; si hoy quisiéramos actualizar la locura igualitaria (llamémosla solidaridad) de Simone Weil pensando en los límites biofísicos de la Tierra, ¿qué hallaríamos? Jennie Moore y William E. Rees, a partir de la metodología de la huella ecológica, se plantean esa clase de preguntas. Aproximadamente la quinta parte de la población mundial vivimos en países de renta alta (la mayor parte de Norteamérica, Europa, Japón y Australia, más las elites consumistas de los países de renta baja). Superamos entre tres y seis veces (o incluso más) la capacidad ecológica de nuestro propio territorio, a costa de otros; nos apropiamos de las cuatro quintas partes de los recursos mundiales y generamos la mayor parte de las emisiones de gases de "efecto invernadero". Grosso modo, ese sector de renta alta vivimos como si dispusiéramos de los recursos y la capacidad asimilativa de tres planetas Tierra. Si nos ciñéramos, a lo Simone Weil, a vivir como en una sola Tierra -¡la cual es de hecho la única morada de que disponemos!-, ¿qué resulta? Según los datos de estos investigadores, la ingesta de carne debería reducirse aproximadamente a una quinta parte (de unos cien kg. anuales a unos veinte). El espacio habitado, a una cuarta parte (de unos 34 metros cuadrados en promedio a 8). El consumo energético por hogar, a una cuarta parte (de 33'5 gigajulios anuales a 8'4). Los desplazamientos en vehículo motorizado, a menos de la décima parte (de 6.600 km./ año a 582). Los desplazamientos en avión, a la vigésimocuarta parte (de 2.943 km./ año a 125). Los vehículos motorizados, a sólo cuatro por mil habitantes. Sí: en un país como España, tendríamos que pasar de veintitantos millones de vehículos a sólo 180.000…[2] Nada de automóviles privados, sino sólo las
Luciano Ferrer

10 ideas y 30 herramientas TIC para evaluar a nuestros alumnos de una manera diferente - 3 views

  •  
    No sólo para "evaluar", claro... "1. PRESENTACIÓN DIGITAL: podemos pedir a los alumnos que hagan una presentación para demostrar a sus compañeros todo lo que han aprendido y las dudas que les han surgido. Algunas de la herramientas más útiles y sencillas de utilizar para que ellos mismos creen las presentaciones son: - Genially - Emaze - Haiku Deck 2. INFOGRAFÍA: los alumnos pueden sintetizar todo lo que han descubierto y aprendido de una manera muy visual utilizando algunas de estas herramientas: - Easelly - Picktochart - Genially 3. CONCURSO DE PREGUNTAS: podemos evaluar los conocimientos de nuestros alumnos a través de diferentes concursos o cuestionarios online utilizando alguna de las siguientes herramientas: - Kahoot! - Plickers - Quizizz 4. CÓMIC: también pueden expresar lo que han aprendido en forma de cómic. Para ello, según las edades, podrían utilizar estas herramientas: - Pixton - Playcomic - Comic Creator 5. LÍNEA DEL TIEMPO: es una fantástica opción para evaluar contenidos de Literatura, Historia, Geografía, etc. Existen varias herramientas que nos permiten añadir vídeos, imágenes, enlaces, etc. Estas son algunas de ellas: - Tiki Toki - Tline - Timeline 6. MAPA CONCEPTUAL: a través de la creación de un mapa conceptual podrán plasmar todo lo que saben. Además, tendrán la posibilidad de añadir elementos interactivos, imágenes, vídeos, enlaces, etc. Podrían realizarlo con alguna de estas herramientas: - Popplet - Sketchboard - Mindomo 7. PODCAST: pueden expresar los conocimientos adquiridos de manera oral y grabarlo. Se podría crear una radio con los diferentes audios o simplemente subirlos a un blog para que sean de utilidad para el resto de compañeros. Se pueden añadir efectos, música de fondo, etc. Las siguientes herramientas nos facilitarán el proceso: - Sound Cloud - Spreaker - Audacity 8. BLOG o WEB: pueden crear de manera individual o colectiva un blog o web para ir escribiendo en él todo lo que han aprendi
1 - 20 of 55 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page