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The Internet Time Alliance has been brainstorming models of learning networks. Harold recently posted this model:



Workers collaborate in Project Teams to get the job done. People cooperate in External Networks to meet a shared goal. Communities in the middle do a bit of both. Harold's post on

"Enrique Javier Díez Gutiérrez | la OCDE que busca utilizar PISA para llevar las políticas educativas en una dirección determinada. nuevatribuna.es 23 de Junio de 2015 (16:30 h.) PISA carece completamente de valor como guía para mejorar la enseñanza a nivel de escuelas y de países Julio Carabaña, uno de los sociólogos de la educación más reputado, ha publicado recientemente la investigación "La inutilidad de PISA para las escuelas", donde demuestra sólidamente que este programa de evaluación internacional carece de valor para ayudar a mejorar la enseñanza en las aulas y el funcionamiento de las escuelas. "PISA carece completamente de valor como guía para mejorar la enseñanza a nivel de escuelas y de países, y por tanto de utilidad para los docentes y para los políticos". Así de contundente se muestra Carabaña, ante la constatación de que las pruebas de este examen miden capacidades muy generales. Capacidades que dependen de la experiencia acumulada en toda la vida del alumnado, desde su nacimiento. Por lo que, como incluso reconoce PISA en sus propias textos "si un país puntúa más que otro no se puede inferir que sus escuelas sean más efectivas, pues el aprendizaje comienza antes de la escuela y tiene lugar en una diversidad de contextos institucionales y extraescolares". De ahí la inadmisible pretensión de la OCDE que busca utilizar PISA para "llevar las políticas educativas en una dirección determinada". No sólo porque las capacidades que mide PISA dependen poco o nada de las escuelas, sino porque ni siquiera dependen de los cambios pedagógicos y políticos que PISA propone. "Este fallo fatal inutiliza completamente a PISA para su objetivo principal, ayudar a la mejora de las escuelas y los sistemas educativos", afirma este especialista. "No se trata de un fallo secundario o accidental, sino de un fallo esencia, fatal, que convierte PISA primero en un fracaso y, con el tiempo, en un fraude". Entonces

"Education plays an important role in shaping our future and success. Students and parents have become more vigilant and aware about choosing the right educational institute for them/their wards. Thanks to the rising awareness and easy access to the internet, people now check online, each and every detail about the institute they are interested in. Going to an educational institute means an investment of both time and money so today's generation wants to make sure that it is inducted in the right place. Therefore, you will find almost all the institutes having their websites now to give full information about them. Today we have come up with 40 Education WordPress themes specially designed to keeping in mind the needs of the education industry. Please have a look."

""El colapso ya está sucediendo, aunque no seamos muy conscientes de ello" Enric Llopis Rebelión La función de la energía en el devenir histórico y la noción de colapso son dos de los argumentos centrales del libro "En la espiral de la energía", de Ramón Fernández Durán y Luis González Reyes. Coeditado por Ecologistas en Acción y Baladre, el texto de cerca de mil páginas y dos volúmenes constituye un trabajo enciclopédico que comienza en las "sociedades opulentas" del Paleolítico y termina en el colapso del sistema urbano agro-industrial civilizatorio. El colapso, noción muy vinculada a la idea de complejidad, "ya está sucediendo aunque no seamos muy conscientes de ello; desde el punto de vista de nuestras vidas, el colapso será relativamente lento, aunque en términos históricos sea muy rápido", afirma Luis González Reyes. El autor, miembro de Ecologistas en Acción, también forma parte de Garúa, cooperativa en la que trabaja en cuestiones de formación, intervención social e investigación. En FUHEM colabora para la inclusión de los temas ecosociales en el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos de tres colegios. González Reyes es además autor de "Sostenibilidad ambiental: un bien público global" (Akal) y "La política ambiental de la Unión Europea" (Ecologistas en Acción). Ha colaborado en "¿Qué hacemos frente a la crisis ecológica?" (Akal) con Jorge Riechmann, Yayo Herrero y Carmen Madorrán. -¿Qué es el Antropoceno? ¿Cuándo surge el concepto y qué quiere significarse con el mismo? El Holoceno, la etapa histórica que coincide con el inicio de la agricultura (los últimos 12.000 años), ha tocado a su fin, ya hay una nueva era geológica: el Antropoceno. El término Antropoceno fue acuñado por Crutzen en 2000. Además, la Sociedad Geológica de Londres así ha definido a esta etapa de la historia terrícola. Una sola especie, la especie humana, o mejor dicho, una élite de ella (en ese sentid

"For many, flipping the classroom simply involves turning the traditional classroom on its head - moving the class work home, and the homework to class. Others argue there is a lot more to flipping than meets the eye. Rather, as flipped learning pioneer, Jon Bergmann states, it's moving from "sage on the stage" to "guide on the side." For students, the obvious benefit lies in the ability to pause and rewind the teacher at will. For teachers, it means less time creating lectures, and more engaged students as the boring introductions are pushed out, and the fun practical work is pulled in. Fishtree makes flipping your classroom as simple and effective as possible, providing everything you need in one platform. Follow our 8 simple steps to flipping your classroom, and transforming your teaching! "

"The Fairphone is a modular handset designed with repairability and ethical sourcing of its materials as headline features. It sold 60,000 units. Amazingly, for what sounds like a nerd-phone, almost half of those buyers had never owned a smartphone before. Now the Fairphone 2 is launching, and with a totally-new, in-house design. The new phone is even easier to repair, and because it was wholly designed by the FairPhone team, its supply chain is even more responsible than ever. The Fairphone is thicker than the latest iPhone or Samsung flagship, but that's the point. Instead of packing everything into a tiny case and keeping it there with glue, the Fairphone is designed to be taken apart. The lightweight magnesium frame supports modules that can be easily replaced by the user. "We have designed it with an aim to last three to five years, looking at making it robust and modular-for repairability," says Fairphone's chief communications officer, Tessa Wernink. "Obviously how long it lasts depends quite heavily on the user, so what we as a company are doing is offering an ecosystem around the phone that supports long-lasting use, first-hand or second-hand." Inside the case (itself one of several options) you'll find the core unit, containing all the chips and radios; a replaceable battery pack; a display that can be snapped off and replaced without any tools (not even a screwdriver); a receiver unit, which contains the front camera, sensors; the headset connector and microphones; a speaker/vibrator unit; and a camera module. These modules are designed to balance manufacturing complexity with repairability. For instance, the display comes as a standalone unit, but less-vulnerable components are bundled into one module. The camera, which people are most likely to upgrade as better versions become available, is also housed in its own module. That way you don't need to toss out your whole phone just to get a better camera. "In fact, the motto from the maker mo

Increíble este buscador "respondetodo" Haz una pregunta - matemáticas, cálculos, conversiones, ciencias, geografía, vale casi todo - y, voilà, WolframAlpha te responde. Muy bueno. A continuación, un resumen en inglés. Free online access to the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine:answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge-and much more.

From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.

interesante artículo del NY times sobre el uso de facebook y como los jóvenes viven en las redes sociales, cuando los profesores piden aún el anacrónico email. Hace falta colaborar para aprender mejor, y el diálogo profesorado-alumnado debe empezar por aquí

Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time.When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!

"Play Back Your Own Google Docs Draftback is a Chrome extension that lets you play back any Google Doc's revision history (for docs you can edit). It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Download it for Chrome here You can use Draftback directly from any Google Doc. Just look for the Draftback button! All the revision rendering is done securely on your own computer. Even large documents can be processed quickly. When your doc has been processed, you can play it back like it's a movie. Download it here Since Draftback is a Chrome extension, your Docs data never leaves your own computer, and, unless you explicitly publish an excerpt, the extension never communicates any sensitive data with any server-it just fetches it over a secure connection from Google. All the computation for rendering the playback is done by your own computer, and it's stored there, too."

"... 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. ..."

"John Foran, artículo original: http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-06-08/climate-change-hope-and-revolution-notes-for-dark-and-gloomy-times/ El otro día me invitaron a dar una charla en la clase de Estudios Medioambientales de un colega titulada, simplemente, "Esperanza". Resulta que era el día después de que Donald Trump pronunciase sus calculadas y genocidas estupideces sobre el Acuerdo de París (que el insistía en llamar Accord [el autor usa la palabra Agreement para acuerdo, nota del tr.]. A estas alturas, se han dicho y escrito cien mil palabras de ira, determinación y análisis. Vayamos pues en la dirección opuesta. ..."

"Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems", according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century."

Magnifica iniciativa abierta a la participación de cualquier persona para crear vídeos de 3 minutos de difusión de las Ciencias de la Tierra. Hay una sección específica donde se invita a participar a centros de E. Primaria y de E. Secundaria "ON THE ROCKS is the first geological video contest for everybody. You should participate with a creative, informal video, where you explain your research, passions or new ideas regarding the Earth, in only 180 seconds. We are looking for passionate contributions by utilizing for example animations, stop-motions, cartoons, time-lapse, interviews, music, poems, dance to demonstrate for a wider public of non-specialists. It should focus on the wonders, dangers and surprises of an adventurous, geological journey, which could take place indoor, outdoor, in a lab, in the mountains, at sea or in the outer space. The potential contributors should therefore be from the scientific community, but could also be passionate and professional multimedia storytellers."

"Radiocut is an amazing service that records radio stations from in 24x7 basis, and let you create cuts for an specific station and time. This script retrieves and merges the chunks that compose an audiocut"

"She demanded that all participating staff members surrender their phones and other such personal devices. The book you hold in your hands would not exist had high school been a pleasant experience for me… It was on those quiet weekend nights when even my parents were out having fun that I began making serious attempts to make stories in comics form. - Adrian Tomine, introduction to 32 Stories Computer Science Professor Calvin Newport's recent book, Deep Work, posits that all that shallow phone time is creating stress, anxiety, and lost creative opportunities, while also doing a number on our personal and professional lives.Author Manoush Zomorodi's recent TED Talk on how boredom can lead to brilliant ideas, below, details a weeklong experiment in battling smartphone habits, with lots of scientific evidence to back up her findings."