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Luciano Ferrer

China blocks 17.5 million plane tickets for people without enough 'social credit' - 0 views

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    "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."
Luciano Ferrer

Who's Asking? - Alfie Kohn - 0 views

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    "It seems only fitting to explore the role of questions in education by asking questions about the process of doing so. I propose that we start with the customary way of framing this topic and then proceed to questions that are deeper and potentially more subversive of traditional schooling. 1. WHICH QUESTIONS? To begin, let's consider what we might ask our students. The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers. That's why a number of writers have encouraged the use of questions described variously as "true" (Wolf, 1987), "essential" (Simon, 2002), "generative" (Perkins, 1992; Perrone, 1998), "guiding" (Traver, 1998), or "fertile" (Harpaz & Lefstein, 2000). What the best of these share is that they're open-ended. Sometimes, in fact, no definitive right answer can be found at all. And even when there is one - or at least when there is reason to prefer some responses to others - the answer isn't obvious and can't be summarized in a sentence. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam? Grappling with meaty questions like these (which were among those generated by a class in Plainview, NY) is a real project . . . literally. A question-based approach to teaching tends to shade into learning that is problem- (Delisle, 1997) and project-based (Kilpatrick, 1918; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Wolk, 1998). Intellectual proficiency is strengthened as students figure out how to do justice to a rich question. As they investigate and come to understand important ideas more fully, new questions arise along with better ways of asking them, and the learning spirals upwards. Guiding students through this process is not a technique that can be stapled onto our existing pedagogy, nor is it something that teachers can be trained to master during an in-service day. What's required is a continual focus on creating a classroom that is about thinking rather
Luciano Ferrer

France to End Disposal of $900 Million in Unsold Goods Each Year - 1 views

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    "France plans to outlaw the destruction of unsold consumer products, a practice that currently results in the disposal of new goods worth 800 million euros, or more than $900 million, in the country each year. By 2023, manufacturers and retailers will have to donate, reuse or recycle the goods, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe said on Tuesday of the measure, which the government billed as the first of its kind. "It is waste that defies reason," Mr. Philippe said at a discount store in Paris, according to Agence France-Presse, and he called the practice "scandalous." Under a new measure that will be part of a bill set to be debated by the government in July, destroying unsold goods could result in financial penalties or prison time. The practice - widespread across the retail and consumer industry as a way to free up warehouse space or prevent unwanted items from being sold at a significant discount - has received bad press in France recently. ..."
Luciano Ferrer

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

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    "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."
Luciano Ferrer

What's Wrong With Latin American Early Education - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Back in the 1980s, a group of social workers in Jamaica visited low-income homes one hour a week for two years, bearing age-appropriate toys for the kids and advice on child rearing for the parents. Researchers tracked the outcomes, and a generation later, the results are in. The children whose homes were visited by social workers became adults who earn wages that are 25 percent higher than those earned by peers who had not been visited. Their I.Q.s are an average seven points higher, and they are less likely to resort to crime or suffer from depression. Other studies, including several recent ones in the United States, have shown similar results, contributing to a consensus on the importance of early childhood development that has led governments around the world to increase spending on the first five years of life. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of longstanding social and economic inequality, several countries have been especially ambitious. Brazil and Chile doubled the coverage of day care services over the past decade, while in Ecuador they grew sixfold. These investments build on historic gains in child nutrition and health. But while Latin American children are now healthier and more likely to attend preschool, they still lag far behind in learning, particularly in the areas of language and cognition, when compared with their counterparts in wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong? ..."
Luciano Ferrer

Teacher Strikes and Private Education in Argentina - #paper - - 0 views

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    "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."
Félix Pueyo

socmed_guide.pdf - 0 views

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    Política de utilización de las RRSS. Interesante compendio de recomendaciones del NSW Government de Australia.
Olly Higgs

B.C. judge refuses to order homeless from grounds of Victoria's law courts - 0 views

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    Cheers erupted at a homeless camp in Victoria Tuesday when campers heard British Columbia's Supreme Court rejected the provincial government's bid to take down their tent city. The court's top judge refused the province's request to grant an injunction to force the estimated 100 homeless
Luciano Ferrer

The UAE is investing $100 million in indoor farming - 0 views

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    "With little water, scorching temperatures, and not much arable land, the UAE currently imports 80% of its food. Can it go local? In an industrial park built off a highway in the arid land between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, a sprawling new indoor farm will soon grow tomatoes under LED lights in a climate-controlled warehouse near a plastic production facility and other factories. The farm, the first in the world to commercially grow tomatoes solely under artificial light, is one part of a push to transform food production in the United Arab Emirates, where 80% of food is imported. The government realizes that to be resilient, it will need to find new ways to grow food in a desert climate with little rain and temperatures that regularly stay above 100 degrees."
Luciano Ferrer

El informe Kliksberg: Escándalos éticos, capítulos 1 a 24 - 0 views

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    Sinopsis: La crisis económica mundial desde el punto de vista de Bernardo Kliksberg. El economista argentino reflexiona, en veinticinco capítulos, sobre la exclusión, la reconstrucción del Estado, la idea del capital social, la ética, la construcción de una economía con rostro humano, entre otros temas. Una mirada estadística y positiva para conocer soluciones posibles.
Luciano Ferrer

Tecno optimismo, artículo por @nataliazuazo en @revistaanfibia - 0 views

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    "El oficialismo sostiene que, siempre, a más tecnología se consigue más progreso, y nunca contradicciones ni problemas. Natalia Zuazo hace el balance político del 2016, analiza el rol del Estado en cuanto a tecnología y a la influencia de la irrefrenable fuerza de las empresas multinacionales del rubro. ¿En qué se avanzó y en qué se dio marcha atrás?"
Luciano Ferrer

El maestro del pueblo | Carlos Fuentealba | La Poderosa - 0 views

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    ".... A diez años de su fusilamiento, seguimos batallando por los derechos que consecutivamente, durante todos los gobiernos liberales, nos quisieron arrebatar: el acceso a la educación pública, la igualdad de oportunidades, el salario digno y el valor de la tarea docente. O sea, por lo mismo que lucharon Stella Maldonado, Isauro Arancibia y Carlos Fuentealba. La democracia tiene una deuda muy fuerte con mi familia. Y cuando gritamos Nunca Más, ese ruego aparece atravesado por la profunda urgencia de saber que nadie deberá pasar nuevamente por todo esto. Frente a semejante realidad, no queda otra que resistir en las calles, porque es nuestro futuro el que está en juego y sí, lo digo justo yo, la esposa de un hombre que no fue a dar la vida aquel 4 de abril de 2007, porque la daba en el aula, todos los días. Quisiera que lo recuerden por la adoración de sus hijas y el orgullo de sus alumnos. Y quisiera que haya justicia completa, por mi compañero, el amor de mi vida."
Mónica Moya López

EDUCATION FOR ALL 2000-2015: achievements and challenges - 1 views

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    This Report is an independent publication commissioned by UNESCO on behalf of the international community. It is the product of a collaborative effort involving members of the Report Team and many other people, agencies, institutions and governments. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The EFA Global Monitoring Report team is responsible for the choice and the presentation of the facts contained in this book and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. Overall responsibility for the views and opinions expressed in the Report is taken by its Director.
Miguel Barrera

Social Media Policy Database on Social Media Governance - 0 views

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    base de datos con las políticas Protocolos de Social Media de más de 200 emopreas, ONG, etc...
Miguel Barrera

Twitter Guide Sept 2011 - Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf - 0 views

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    Guía en inglés para la utilización de twitter. interesante guía de estilos tuiteros. por la London School of Ecoomics
Luciano Ferrer

Del estado educador al estado evaluador, por Tenti Fanfani - 1 views

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    "La evaluación es un dispositivo de una política. Aunque tiene una dimensión técnica en los instrumentos y procedimientos que utiliza, su racionalidad debe ser comprendida en el interior de una política. Y toda política persigue objetivos, beneficia a unos o a otros, a las mayorías o a las minorías, a corporaciones o a la ciudadanía. En síntesis, lo importante no es la evaluación como instrumento sino la orientación, el sentido de las políticas a las que presta servicio, pues el Estado-evaluador es poderoso, exactamente, porque su función es constatar que las políticas que ha decidido aplicar, efectivamente funcionan en el sentido deseado."
Luciano Ferrer

Exclusión y desarrollo social en [España], por @tiempoactuar - 0 views

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    "Objetivos: Al final de la sesión, el alumnado: Será consciente de que la pobreza y la exclusión social son generadas por nuestro modelo social: las crisis generan un aumento de las personas en esta situación y en los períodos de bonanza sigue habiendo grandes bolsas de población que se mantienen bajo los umbrales de la pobreza y la exclusión social. Se sensibilizará sobre que uno de los mayores problemas al que nos enfrentamos es el de la mercantilización de los mecanismos de protección social. Profundizará en la progresiva debilidad del empleo como mecanismo de integración social. Conocerá que la falta de inversión social afecta directamente al ejercicio de los derechos que la ciudadanía ha conquistado con gran esfuerzo a lo largo de muchos años. Valorará que la única posibilidad de mantener una cierta redistribución de la riqueza consiste en el fortalecimiento de los valores cívicos. Temporalización: 1-1'5 h. por vídeo."
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