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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

"The time is now: the crisis resulting from climate change is huge, impossible to ignore, and demands an immediate response of an unprecedented magnitude in our history. Flavia Broffoni is the leader of Extinction Rebellion in Argentina, and tells us how civil disobedience is one of the ways for the world to remain our world and last for long. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and environmental policy, but she defines herself as an "anti-extinction activist and regenerative practitioner." Among many works, she was Policy Coordinator of the Wildlife Foundation / WWF and Director of Environmental Strategies of the Environmental Protection Agency of the City of Buenos Aires. She is the founder of AI.Re, a regenerative intelligence accelerator and coordinates the non-violent civil disobedience movement "Extinction Rebellion" in Argentina. "

"El Maestro ignorante no es un libro de pedagogía. Es un libro sobre democracia, igualdad y educación. Un libro que no cuestiona tanto el rol de la escuela, a pesar de considerar a la Instrucción pública como el "medio de igualar progresivamente la desigualdad" o "desigualar indefinidamente la igualdad", como la deriva de nuestra sociedad que, haciendo de la igualdad un fin, refuerza la desigualdad. El Maestro ignorante es un libro sobre la emancipación intelectual. Es un libro que nos alerta sobre nuestra sociedad pedagogizada. Del peligro de vivir bajo una gran maquinaria de la explicación. Es una crítica a un mundo dominado por autoproclamados expertos que ignoran otros saberes, otros conocimientos y otras voces. Una sociedad dominada por "poderosos" que actúan como pedagogos para explicarnos lo que no sabemos. Un mundo dividido en dos. Los que tienen y los que no tienen. Los expertos y los legos. Los que saben y los que no saben. Pero es un libro inspirador cuya lectura nos hace pensar inmediatamente en la escuela, en el rol de lo docentes y en nuestro papel como aprendices. Un libro que nos hace pensar en la Escuela Nueva, en John Dewey, en la Escuela de Summerhill, en la Escuela Freinet, en Maria Montessori. En las escuelas experimentales de los años 70s. Su lectura nos invita a dialogar con el Paulo Freire de la Pedagogía del oprimido y de la Pedagogía de la autonomía. Con las teorías de la desescolarización propuestas hace ahora 40 años por el círculo de Cuernavaca, el Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC), por gente como Iván Illich, Everett Reimer, Paul Goodman y John Holt. Captura de pantalla 2015-01-13 12.00.37 El maestro ignorante de Jacotot/Rancière nos recuerda, a pesar de las diferencias, las pedagogías progresistas de principios de siglo XX y también las pedagogías constructivistas y centradas en el alumno. Nos invita a leer la experiencia de Jacotot con la mirada de Jean Piaget (constructivismo) o de Je

"The cryptocurrency uses as much CO2 a year as 1m transatlantic flights. We need to take it seriously as a climate threat Bitcoin's electricity usage is enormous. In November, the power consumed by the entire bitcoin network was estimated to be higher than that of the Republic of Ireland. Since then, its demands have only grown. It's now on pace to use just over 42TWh of electricity in a year, placing it ahead of New Zealand and Hungary and just behind Peru, according to estimates from Digiconomist. That's commensurate with CO2 emissions of 20 megatonnes - or roughly 1m transatlantic flights."