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Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.

Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.

Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.

"the ultimate goal is not to have students blog, it is to have students improve their literacy skills and have the ability to be digital writers, and to do things that would not be possible without the technology.  It is about students creating content to hyperlink to the world, to embed photos and video with text.  It is about students publishing, and then to have the opportunity to receive feedback on their work, review, edit and republish. It is about students producing work not only for their teacher, but for the world. It is about students having their own space to be creative and connect in new ways.  It is, ultimately, about students having greater ownership of their learning."

"By "NLRBE," I mean core resource-based economy ("RBE") concepts, as fleshed out and expanded by Peter Joseph and his organization, "The Zeitgeist Movement" ("TZM"). *Important Reminder* Please remember that, by using this site, you agree to leave no confidential information in blog post comments or elsewhere on the site, or to rely upon anything in this post, or on this site generally, without qualified, independent, confirming research (per this site's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which you agreed to by accessing this site). Why? Unfortunately, on this website and in my blog posts, I can and do offer nothing more than expressions of opinion and general information, which could be inadequately researched, inapplicable to your situation, out-of-date, and/or mistaken. Thus, no statement on my website or blog posts is intended to guarantee any particular outcome for you, or to constitute any kind of advice, legal or otherwise. Qualified "advice" is customized to your particular circumstances, current, accurate, and offered in direct relationship with a qualified professional. And qualified advice is critical to obtain before you take action. I do offer qualified legal advice and assurances of confidentiality, but only within the context of attorney-client relationships, which are formed exclusively via written attorney-client fee agreements, not through blog posts, blog post comments, website pages or communications, or any other means whatsoever (however, please visit my Services page to see whether or not I am currently accepting new clients). By "RBE," I mean the original economic model, as presented by Jacque Fresco and his "Venus Project" ("TVP"). My take on his RBE model is more fully explained in my last blog post, "What Do I Mean by 'Resource-Based Economy' (or 'RBE')?" Given what I heard in a recent talk by Joseph, I am now sorely tempted to begin using the term "NLRBE," rather than "RBE," to refer

"Max Roser (2016) - 'World Poverty'. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity/world-poverty/ In the past only a small elite lived a life without poverty. Since the onset of industrialization - and as a consequence of this, economic growth1 - the share of people living in poverty started decreasing and has kept on falling ever since. But as a consequence of falling poverty, the health of the population improved dramatically over the last two centuries, and the population started to grow.2 The growth of the population caused the absolute number of poor people in the world to increase; only recently has the absolute number of people living in poverty started to fall as well. This data entry chronicles the falling poverty over the last centuries."

"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."

"... Romper las cadenas del colonialismo científico Sara habla de la democratización del conocimiento con pasión. Como si estuviera esbozando la idea por primera vez, aunque en realidad ha bregado por ello toda su vida. Sus preocupaciones por la construcción de una ciencia y una tecnología soberanas siempre se dividieron en dos aspectos clave. Uno es la necesidad de un "diálogo" permanente con la sociedad para conocer sus problemas y definir la investigación en base a ellos. El otro aspecto también tiene que ver con la comunicación, pero, en este caso, interna al mundo académico: la publicación en revistas científicas. ¿Cómo construir un pensamiento latinoamericano en ciencia y tecnología, que atienda los problemas de la región, cuando los parámetros de calidad de un paper son establecidos por países como Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña o Alemania? Publish or perish. Publicar o perecer. La consigna es clara. Sara también. Para ella, el sistema es una gran cadena de subjetividades disfrazadas de criterios objetivos para disimular los intereses hegemónicos de los países que ponen las reglas del juego. Los eslabones son varios y difíciles de romper. Los científicos necesitan publicar sus trabajos en revistas con alto "Factor de Impacto" (un parámetro de calidad impuesto por las grandes potencias, claro) para obtener mayor puntaje al ser evaluados en su carrera de investigador. Pero las de mayor impacto son extranjeras. Por ende, el jurado que acepta o rechaza la publicación de un artículo proviene de los países centrales. Esto condiciona la elección del tema, ya que una investigación que trate enfermedades endémicas de la región, como el Chagas, va a despertar menor interés. Además, el idioma de la ciencia es el inglés, lo que provoca que a veces los científicos directamente escriban los resultados de sus trabajos en ese idioma, sin pasar siquiera por el español. ..."

""Consumo ergo sum", diríamos a la manera de Descartes. El homo consumens, en palabras de Bauman, es el héroe de un mundo posmoderno, el actor principal dentro de una sociedad de consumo. Consumidores/as cuyos signos de identidad son la inmediatez, la rapidez, así como la continua búsqueda de felicidad ligada y dependiente, casi de modo absoluto, a la satisfacción de necesidades ficticias y artificiales. En ese sentido, el sistema económico actúa de manera que estas necesidades y deseos sean infinitos, y su gratificación nunca se pueda alcanzar realmente."