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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. ..."

"In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away."

"Last year I went to West Kalimantan in Borneo to see for myself the effects of the runaway growth of the palm oil industry. I came home firm in the belief that Iceland would not continue using palm oil until companies delivered on their zero deforestation commitments. This is because palm oil has had devastating consequences for local communities, who are being displaced, and on endangered species like the orangutan (our closest relative in the wild), which are being driven close to extinction. Palm oil has many benefits, chiefly that its yields are better than the alternatives. But it is grown almost exclusively in areas of tropical rainforest, which are the 'crown jewels' of our planet's biodiversity. With 146 football pitches of rainforest being lost every hour in Indonesia alone, the urgency of the crisis cannot be overstated. And global demand is set to double by 2050. At Iceland the 1,000 tonnes of palm oil we used annually pale into insignificance compared to many of our competitors. As such a tiny player we took the decision that the only way we could create meaningful change was to shout very loudly from outside the established palm oil industry. So we decided simply to stop using palm oil until the industry cleaned up its act. It was our own decision to give consumers a choice where previously there was none. We never called for a wider industry ban, and accept entirely that a wholesale boycott of palm oil is not the right long term solution. ..."

"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."

"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."

"Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas essential for life- animals exhale it, plants sequester it. It exists in Earth's atmosphere in comparably small concentrations, but is vital for sustaining life. CO2 is termed a greenhouse gas (GHG) - a gas which absorbs and emits thermal radiation creating the 'greenhouse effect'. Along with other greenhouse gases, such as nitrous oxide and methane, CO2 is important in sustaining a habitable temperature for the planet: if there were absolutely no GHGs, our planet would be simply too cold. It has been estimated that without these gases, the average surface temperature of the Earth would be about -18 degrees celcius.1 Since the Industrial Revolution, however, energy-driven consumption of fossil fuels has led to a rapid increase in emissions of CO2, disrupting the global carbon cycle and leading to a planetary warming impact. As an international community, UN member parties have set a target of limiting average warming to 2 degrees celcius above pre-Industrial temperatures."

"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!"

"El consumo de los hogares acomodados en todo el mundo es, con mucho, el determinante y el acelerador más fuerte del aumento de los impactos ambientales y sociales mundiales. Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen, Lorenz T. Keyßer & Julia K. Steinberger Nature Communications volumen 11, número de artículo: 3107 (2020) Citar este artículo Resumen Durante más de medio siglo, el crecimiento mundial de la riqueza ha aumentado continuamente el uso de recursos y las emisiones contaminantes mucho más rápidamente que éstas se han reducido gracias a una mejor tecnología. Los ciudadanos ricos del mundo son responsables de la mayoría de los impactos ambientales y son fundamentales para cualquier perspectiva futura de volver a condiciones ambientales más seguras. Resumimos las pruebas y presentamos posibles enfoques de solución. Cualquier transición hacia la sostenibilidad sólo puede ser efectiva si los cambios de gran alcance en el estilo de vida complementan los avances tecnológicos. Sin embargo, las sociedades, economías y culturas existentes incitan a la expansión del consumo y el imperativo estructural de crecimiento en las economías de mercado competitivas inhibe el cambio social necesario."

""La unión nos hace fuertes, y el individuo es importante como parte de un todo." Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan, aguaruna. "Debemos trabajar de forma colectiva porque ahí es donde radica nuestro poder y, ademas, actuar así resulta ventajoso". Tanien Ashini, innu. .... "

Compendio para escuchar radios comunitarias y UUNN (algunos streams pueden estar caídos)

"Telegram es especialmente más útil que Whatsapp para educación. Ventajas de Telegram Es muy sencillo cambiarte de Whatsapp a Telegram, porque su funcionamiento básico es idéntico, sólo que Telegram te permite muchísimas cosas más y de una manera más segura. Telegram se puede instalar en todas las plataformas: Tabletas Smamrtphone, PCs Se sincronizan al mismo tiempo cuando cambias de dispositivo. Si pierdes tu móvil, tus contactos y conversaciones permanecen. No tiene limitaciones para enviar todas las fotos que desees a la vez no de 10 en 10 como en Whatsapp. Puedes retocar las fotos con efectos sin salir de la propia aplicación. Puedes enviar fotos que no tengas en tu galería utilizando su servicio de búsqueda propio sin salirte de la aplicación. En los grupos de Whatsapp hay un tope de 100 miembros. En Telegram 200. Para añadir contactos no necesitas tener su número de teléfono ni conocerlo. Puedes hacerlo por su apodo. No puedes saber su número de teléfono ni ellos el tuyo, lo que lo hace especialmente útil para educación. En los mensajes tienen un sistema de #Hashtags para poder localizar y ver un historial de mensajes sobre un tema determinado. Whatsapp sólo permite enviar archivos de menos de 12 megas, mientras que Telegram te permite enviar cualquier archivo que ocupe menos de 1 giga y medio. Telegram permite enviar archivos directamente desde la nube, de servicios como Google Drive, Dropbox y iCloud. Telegram ocupa mucho menos espacio en tu dspositivo,menos de la mitad que Whatsapp. Sus servidores están por todo el mundo para que si uno falla, el servicio siempre esté estén en línea. En Whatsapp sus servidores fallan cada cierto tiempo. Incluye un chat secreto si deseas que tus mensajes no se conserven y se autodestruyan al estilo Snapchat Las fotos no se quedan almacenadas en sus servidores ni en la nube ni en cualquier otro dispositivo.

código de buena conducta para el uso de dispositivos móviles en el centro educativo

Interesante trabajo donde se analiza como se estructuran las distintas redes sociales, su revolución en la forma de comunicarnos y compartir información tanto a nivel particular como profesional. Así como sus posibilidades de crear estructuras de red para el aprendizaje y formación a nivel educativo, es decir, entornos de aprendizaje en red.

Portal educativo creado desde diferentes perspectivas (científica, artística, educativa, etc.). Tienes a tu alcance prácticas herramientas para motivar a los alumnos en el aprendizaje de la ciencia.

Blog para la reflexión y el diálogo sobre la educación. Se proponen referencias, contenidos innovadores, consejos y recursos útiles eminentemente prácticos y relevantes para simplificar y mejorar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje: ideas para lecciones, consejos para usar la pizarra digital, información sobre el nuevo hardware, software y sitios web interesantes para la enseñanza.