IN 1922 Thomas Edison predicted that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and ... in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks."
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"The Kaua Moho was the last species of it's entire genus and it was the last genus in it's family. This male was not just the last of his kind, he was the last being on his entire branch of the evolutionary tree, there was nothing left on the planet that was even close to being like him. That kind of loneliness is unimaginable. No other avian family has had every single species within it go completely extinct in modern times. Different species of Moho lived on each island of Hawaii and their evolutionary cousins the kioea birds lived alongside them, but starting in 1800 (about the time Europeans started arriving to the islands in significant numbers and also about the time the native human population of Hawaii also got decimated by diseases) one by one they died out due to the introduction of foreign avian diseases and parasites, habitat loss, and hunting for their plumage. 2 hurricanes within 10 years of each other finished them off. They are all gone and that song or any song like it will never be heard again save for in recordings. The hurricanes dealt the final blow, but 95% of it was humanity's fault. This has become common in Hawaii due to having so many species that only exist there. A LOT of those species are gone now because the arrival of Europeans brought disease, invasive species, and people straight up killed them or destroyed their habitats. It is a similar situation on every isolated island or area in the world as humans have expanded and explored every nook and cranny on the planet, no matter how hard it is to get to or how little business we have there we feel the need to interfere in even the most delicate and tiny ecosystem. Even the large, continent sized ecosystems are suffering. It doesn't matter if there are millions or even billions of an animal or plant, we will find some way to kill them all. It is only in the last few decades that serious steps have finally been taken to preserve the few areas on this world that we have not destroyed, but
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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
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The Challenge - A Good Life For All Within Planetary Boundaries - 0 views
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"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."
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La izquierda en la encrucijada ¿crecimiento o nuevo paradigma? - 0 views
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Interesantísimo y completo artículo sobre la posición actual de la izquierda (¿mundial?) en la política y el contexto socio económico global capitalista actual, pasado y por venir. Para pensar
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Interesantísimo y completo artículo sobre la posición actual de la izquierda (¿mundial?) en la política y el contexto socio económico global capitalista actual, pasado y por venir. Para pensar
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La violencia en la lucha por los derechos humanos, por @Ibai_93 - 0 views
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¿Pacifismo? las pelotas... interesantísimo artículo corto, con referencias a situaciones "pacifistas" contextualizadas un poco más en el marco de las luchas por derechos en las que sucedieron, también aparece el poder, el papel de los medios, la lucha por derechos obviamente y... para pensarlo "Hay un debate importante en torno al uso de la violencia en manifestaciones, protestas, huelgas y otros actos. Para ello, tal vez lo mejor sea repasar qué procedimientos han tenido éxito anteriormente, y explicar por qué."
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¿Pacifismo? las pelotas... interesantísimo artículo corto, con referencias a situaciones "pacifistas" contextualizadas un poco más en el marco de las luchas por derechos en las que sucedieron, también aparece el poder, el papel de los medios, la lucha por derechos obviamente y... para pensarlo "Hay un debate importante en torno al uso de la violencia en manifestaciones, protestas, huelgas y otros actos. Para ello, tal vez lo mejor sea repasar qué procedimientos han tenido éxito anteriormente, y explicar por qué."
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The Computer Delusion - The Atlantic - 7 views
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William Levenson, the director of the Cleveland public schools' radio station, claimed that "the time may come when a portable radio receiver will be as common in the classroom as is the blackboard.
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B. F. Skinner, referring to the first days of his "teaching machines," in the late 1950s and early 1960s, wrote, "I was soon saying that, with the help of teaching machines and programmed instruction, students could learn twice as much in the same time and with the same effort as in a standard classroom."
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a bridge to the twenty-first century ... where computers are as much a part of the classroom as blackboards
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We could do so much to make education available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, that people could literally have a whole different attitude toward learning
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Larry Cuban, a professor of education at Stanford University and a former school superintendent, observed that as successive rounds of new technology failed their promoters' expectations, a pattern emerged
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The promoters of computers in schools again offer prodigious research showing improved academic achievement after using their technology
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The possibilities of using this thing poorly so outweigh the chance of using it well, it makes people like us, who are fundamentally optimistic about computers, very reticent
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Perhaps the best way to separate fact from fantasy is to take supporters' claims about computerized learning one by one and compare them with the evidence in the academic literature and in the everyday experiences I have observed or heard about in a variety of classrooms.
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To make tomorrow's work force competitive in an increasingly high-tech world, learning computer skills must be a priority.
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Technology programs leverage support from the business community—badly needed today because schools are increasingly starved for funds.
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Work with computers—particularly using the Internet—brings students valuable connections with teachers, other schools and students, and a wide network of professionals around the globe.
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begins by citing numerous studies that have apparently proved that computers enhance student achievement significantly
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n the early 1980s Apple shrewdly realized that donating computers to schools might help not only students but also company sales, as Apple's ubiquity in classrooms turned legions of families into Apple loyalists
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Apple quickly learned that teachers needed to change their classroom approach to what is commonly called "project-oriented learning
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Even in success stories important caveats continually pop up. The best educational software is usually complex — most suited to older students and sophisticated teachers.
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Each chapter describes various strategies for getting computers into classrooms, and the introduction acknowledges that "this report does not evaluate the relative merits of competing demands on educational funding
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Today's parents, knowing firsthand how families were burned by television's false promises, may want some objective advice about the age at which their children should become computer literate
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Opinions diverge in part because research on the brain is still so sketchy, and computers are so new, that the effect of computers on the brain remains a great mystery.
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n the past decade, according to the presidential task force's report, the number of jobs requiring computer skills has increased from 25 percent of all jobs in 1983 to 47 percent in 1993
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told me the company rarely hires people who are predominantly computer experts, favoring instead those who have a talent for teamwork and are flexible and innovative
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Many jobs obviously will demand basic computer skills if not sophisticated knowledge. But that doesn't mean that the parents or the teachers of young students need to panic.
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NEWSPAPER financial sections carry almost daily pronouncements from the computer industry and other businesses about their high-tech hopes for America's schoolchildren
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High-tech proponents argue that the best education software does develop flexible business intellects
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IT is hard to visit a high-tech school without being led by a teacher into a room where students are communicating with people hundreds or thousands of miles away — over the Internet or sometimes through video-conferencing systems (two-way TV sets that broadcast live from each room).
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The free nature of Internet information also means that students are confronted with chaos, and real dangers
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chooling is not about information. It's getting kids to think about information. It's about understanding and knowledge and wisdom
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La izquierda debe abrazar al decrecimiento - 0 views
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"Giorgos Kallis explica por qué todos deberíamos vivir 'el camino del decrecimiento'. El decrecimiento es un ataque frontal a la ideología del crecimiento económico. Algunos lo llaman una crítica: un lema o un "palabra misil '. Otros hablan de la 'teoría de' - o la 'literatura sobre' - el decrecimiento; o de las políticas de decrecimiento ' . Muchos se ven a sí mismos como en el "movimiento por el decrecimiento o reivindican que viven 'el camino del decrecimiento ' . ¿Qué es el decrecimiento y de dónde viene?"