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"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expressions of opinion and general information, which could be inadequately researched, inapplicable to your situation, out-of-date, and/or mistaken.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

"As an educator who is addicted to Twitter I have always read about students getting introduced to Twitter and wondered how it would work. After reading and reading I have finally decided to give it a go. Here is my introduction to Twitter in my classroom. Last Tuesday, the day started like any other. Roll call, discussion, introduction to an activity and a bit of a laugh with my Year 7 and 8 Technology class. We had been discussing the importance of being an active online user and being a positive digital citizen (the students are preparing some presentations for Year 2-3 children later in the term). The conversation moved into learning environments and we discussed the small and "un-student friendly" (their words) environment that they were currently sitting in. "Take the teachable moment and run with it" my inner, energetic teacher yelled from my shoulder. So there we were talking about the "Ultimate Learning Environment", when one of my students asked me "Why is social media so big?". Good question I thought, why is it 'so big'. So we unpacked that question and broke it down. We talked about Social Media and what it was and how it worked, they gave me excellent examples and we tied it back into our discussion about digital citizenship. From this point, as a class, we decided we would use social media to help us with our learning. The students had no idea how it could work. I suggested twitter and how I use it. We pulled up my profile and saw how it worked (discussion only). The decision was then made -> Let's ask the twitterverse to help us!! On rolled Monday 5th May and in our first class (I see this group twice a week) we decided that tomorrow would be the day, we would ask twitter for their advice on "What makes a GREAT learningenvironment?". The students already have some fantastic ideas and a plan of where they want to see their environment heading but they needed some depth to their plan and some other opinions outside of

1) the ways they currently implement Twitter in their teaching and learning, 2) ideas for future development of Twitter-based assignments and pedagogical practices, and 3) issues concerning the integration of Twitter and other digital media into both traditional and non-traditional pedagogies. Collaborators should feel free to add material to these pages, to comment on existing material, and to share links to relevant external readings and resources. It may be helpful to tag your contributions with your Twitter handle. Collaborators are asked to please respect this space as a forum for open and respectful dialogue and networking. Let's fill up the pages below with great ideas!  Share the ways you currently implement Twitter in your teaching and learning: Students in my course New Information Technologies do an "Internet Censorship" project, focused on a specific country. I ask them to follow a journalist who tweets on that country as part of their research to understand the state of Internet freedom in the country they select. -- Lora Since shortly after Twitter was launched, I've experimented with various iterations of "The Twitter Essay," an assignment that has students considering the nature of the "essay" as a medium and how they might do that work within the space of 140 characters. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) In my fully online classes, I've started using Twitter to replace the discussion forum as the central location for student interaction. -- Jesse (@Jessifer) Show Tweets that have gotten people arrested and prompt discussion on whether it is fair that anyone be arrested for any Tweet in the US, who is likely to be arrested for their Tweets, what kinds of Tweets are likely to prompt arrest, etc. Students in my First Year Seminar course "The Irish Imagination: Yeats to Bono" developed a platform for digital annotation of Irish literature. Embedded in their platform was a twitter feed of relevant individuals/groups, makin

"1. Blogging enables reflection. This is true for both students and educators. Too often do we go through our days, class to class, with minimal opportunities for reflection on our experiences or the information that we have acquired along the way. Blogging offers the opportunity to take a step back and connect with our learning and place it in the context of the bigger picture. Make reflection an assignment or part of another assignment - it is an important component to learning. For students: This is not the easiest thing to accomplish - blogging takes time and that is a finite resource during a busy class period. There is great opportunity in academic support periods or advisory classes for students (particularly in 1:1 schools) to blog. Many advisory classes take place throughout the day, which is a great break point for students to create based on their learning from that day. For teachers: This type of reflection can and should be compiled into your lesson planning for future lessons. Take what you learned from teaching and learning that day and incorporate it into the next day's lessons. Find time to do this during a conference period during your day or right after school. Yes, it is tough to get in the habit of doing a new thing - but once you start using reflection through blogging, I think that your lesson planning will be easier and much more meaningful. 2. Develop an Authentic Audience An authentic audience is a great way to increase rigor and in all of my experiences has led to increased performance by students. Authentic audiences in blogging could mean any number of things - family members, students from other classes, students from other buildings, other teachers, individuals interested in the content from around the world, etc. A student knowing that their work may be seen by people other than what they consider their 'typical audience' (read: teacher) typically spends more time and exerts more effort to creating a quality p

Las 3 reglas de @ramusallam: 1 la curiosidad va primero 2 aceptar el desastre 3 practicar la reflexión "It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works. "

"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."

"I spent much of 2014 on the road, traveling and speaking extensively about education technology's histories, ideologies, and mythologies. The Monsters of Education Technology is a collection of fourteen of those talks on topics ranging from teaching machines to convivial tools, from ed-tech mansplaining to information justice."

"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

"Call it counterintuitive clickbait if you must, but Forbes' Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry made an intriguing argument when he granted the title of "Language of the Future" to French, of all tongues. "French isn't mostly spoken by French people and hasn't been for a long time now," he admits," but "the language is growing fast, and growing in the fastest-growing areas of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. The latest projection is that French will be spoken by 750 million people by 2050. One study "even suggests that by that time, French could be the most-spoken language in the world, ahead of English and even Mandarin." I don't know about you, but I can never believe in any wave of the future without a traceable past. But the French language has one, of course, and a long and storied one at that. You see it visualized in the information graphic above (also available in suitable-for-framing prints!) created by Minna Sundberg, author of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent. "When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor," writes Mental Floss' Arika Okrent. "An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian)." Sundberg takes this tree metaphor to a delightfully lavish extreme, tracing, say, how Indo-European linguistic roots sprouted a variety of modern-day living languages including Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Italian - and, of course, our Language of the Future. The size of the branches and bunches of leaves represent the number of speakers of each language at different times: the likes of English and Spanish have sprouted into mighty vegetative clusters, while others, like, Swedish, Dutch, and Punjabi, assert a more local dominance over their own, separately grown regional branches. Will French's now-modest leave

"It has me thinking about what it would mean to improve online classes. A few ideas come to mind: Use multiple platforms. I'm not against using an LMS as a central hub. However, I think it's valuable to experiment with the types of productivity tools you will actually use outside of a classroom. Use Google Docs to share ideas, create surveys, and ask questions. Use Google Hangouts to meet as a group. Go project-based. I haven't figured this out entirely with my first class but my hope is that we can go fully project-based in the same way that my face-to-face class is. In fact, the asynchronous nature of online classes actually means there is a better potential of creating a project-based culture that mirrors the way people actually work on projects. Make something together. I use a collaboration grid with co-creating and communicating on separate spectrums (x-axis) and multimedia and text on another spectrum (y-axis). This has been an effective way to think through collaborative tools that allow students to co-create. Embrace a synchronous/asynchronous blend: I love using Voxer because students can speak back and forth in the moment. However, if they miss it, they can listen to it later. The same is true of using a Google Hangouts On Air. Make it more connective. We tend to treat online instruction as if it is a linear process and we don't do enough to link things back and forth and connect ideas, resources, discussions and content creation in a seamless, back-and-forth nature. Incorporate multimedia. It's a simple idea, but I create a short video at the beginning of each week and I encourage students to create video and audio as well. This has a way of making things more concrete. There's something deeply human about hearing an actual human voice. I know, crazy, right? Go mobile. I don't simply mean use a smart phone. I mean assign some things that allow students to get out in the world and create videos, snap pictures, or simpl

"Un vistazo al directorio de TED nos lleva a las cientos de charlas categorizadas con la etiqueta que aquí más nos importa, la educación. Y sobre ellas hemos realizado una selección de las mejores charlas TED sobre educación que todo docente curioso debería ver, sólo con unos pocos minutos de duración y que son un complemento perfecto para las TED Ed Talks. Desde la creatividad en las escuelas o el por qué debemos traer la programación a las aulas, hasta una escuela "de piratas" o cómo atraer a los chavales al maravilloso mundo de la ciencia. Charlas cortas y directas con un objetivo común: mejorar el mundo de la educación. ..."

Alternativas a las charlas TED.

"She demanded that all participating staff members surrender their phones and other such personal devices. The book you hold in your hands would not exist had high school been a pleasant experience for me… It was on those quiet weekend nights when even my parents were out having fun that I began making serious attempts to make stories in comics form. - Adrian Tomine, introduction to 32 Stories Computer Science Professor Calvin Newport's recent book, Deep Work, posits that all that shallow phone time is creating stress, anxiety, and lost creative opportunities, while also doing a number on our personal and professional lives.Author Manoush Zomorodi's recent TED Talk on how boredom can lead to brilliant ideas, below, details a weeklong experiment in battling smartphone habits, with lots of scientific evidence to back up her findings."

"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. "

"John Hunter pone todos los problemas mundiales en una plancha de contrachapado de 1,20 m por 1,5 m y deja que sus alumnos de nueve años los resuelvan. En TED2011, nos explica cómo se involucran los alumnos en su Juego de la Paz Mundial y por qué las lecciones que éste enseña (siempre de manera sorprendente y espontánea) van más allá de adonde llegan las clases convencionales. "

La versión educativa del portal TED permite además de crear lecciones compartirlas.

Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

Muy muy interesante. Utilizo mucho las charlas TED en clase y esto me da oportunidad de enriquecerla. Tb de aplicar Flipped Classroom. Ya he estado trasteando en la herramienta. Muchas gracias por la aportación

"The Empathy Toy, el juguete con el que tus alumnos aprenderán qué es la empatía mediante el juego y la cooperación. The Empathy Toy es una herramienta, puzzle o juego destinado a fomentar la empatía y las distintas formas de comunicación que se dan en el aula. The Empathy Toy es tan sólo el principio de una serie de herramientas llamadas "herramientas de pensamiento" de la empresa Twenty One Toys de Ben Ari. ¿Cómo funciona la herramienta para trabajar la empatía The Empathy Toy? El objetivo principal junto con el de aprender y fomentar la empatía es desarrollar la imaginación de los alumnos en el aula, una creatividad que debe alzarse contra el dogma educativo basado estrictamente en los resultados. The Toy Empathy quiere ser una herramienta alejada de las Nuevas Tecnologías y de los libros de texto. The Empathy Toy busca un enfoque más tradicional, pero no por ello menos efectivo. ¿Cómo funciona? The Empathy Toy vendría a ser un puzzle o rompecabezas colaborativo. Los alumnos reciben un rompecabezas compuesto por cinco piezas. Cada una de estas piezas se diferencia de la otra por: La forma El tamaño El color La textura Con estas cinco piezas uno de los alumnos crea un prototipo concreto y, a partir de este prototipo o modelo, los demás alumnos deben ser capaces de reproducirlo, de construirlo exactamente igual, pero con la condición de que deben taparse los ojos. Además, la única forma de reproducir exactamente igual el prototipo es mediante la comunicación oral, el entendimiento entre compañeros. Esto es lo que ha dicho Ben Ari respecto a este juego: "Jugar bien el juego significa tener que imaginar la posición de otro jugador y requiere de los participantes trabajar juntos en el desarrollo de un lenguaje común para resolver los problemas" Pero las posibilidades de The Empathy Toy no acaban aquí. Este juguete para trabajar y desarrollar la empatía en el aula cuenta con otros juegos y dinámicas grupal

"Abiertas Cerradas Implicitas 1. Preguntas abiertas. Son aquellas preguntas que no pueden responderse con un sí o un no. Este tipo de preguntas incide sobre lo informativo, lo descriptivo, pero también sobre lo emocional. Se trata, sin duda, del tipo de pregunta que debes fomentar en las aulas y cuando te dirijas a tus alumnos. Con este tipo de preguntas fomentas la conciencia de tus alumnos y aumentas la responsabilidad en lo que a las respuestas se refiere. Con las preguntas abiertas invitas a tus alumnos a que reflexionen. También son preguntas que te ofrecen un feedback o retroalimentación muy valiosa para con tus alumnos. Para ello debes empezar este tipo de preguntas con los pronombres interrogativos qué, cuándo… Siempre que te sea posible evita empezar con un por qué, dado que lleva consigo una crítica implícita y hace que el alumno se ponga a la defensiva. ¿Qué razones tenía el personaje de eta novela para abandonar su casa? ¿Cuáles son las causas de la Revolución francesa? ¿Cómo describirías el estado en el que te encuentras? ¿Por qué llegas tarde? (Criticas al alumno por su tardanza. Con esta pregunta generas desconfianza) ¿Qué motivos han provocado que llegues tarde a clase? (Te interesas por la tardanza de tu alumno. Con esta pregunta trabajas las emociones) Sobre las preguntas abiertas tal vez te interese este artículo publicado en el blog y titulado Cómo puntuar una pregunta abierta en un examen. 2. Preguntas cerradas. Son aquellas preguntas que se responden con un sí, un no o una respuesta muy corta. Son preguntas que no invitan a la reflexión, que no invitan al diálogo. Es un tipo de pregunta que debes evitar siempre que te sea posible, sobre todo, cuando se trata de hacer preguntas en momentos emocionalmente complejos. La reiteración de preguntas cerradas puede dejar entrever que estás sometiendo a un interrogatorio a tu alumno, lo que hará que se distancie de las repreguntas y adopte una po

"Enamorar con la palabra con el Método TED. El artículo de hoy no hubiera sido posible sin la lectura del libro titulado El Método Ted Para Hablar En Público de Jeremey Donovan. Se trata de un libro que recopila de forma clara y amena la manera con la que debes enfrentarte a tu público, con la que debes enfrentarte a tus alumnos. Un público que cada día espera lo mejor de ti. Un público que se merece que les des lo mejor de ti. Esta entrada tiene la finalidad de darte a conocer algunas pautas para hablar con éxito en público y enamorar a tus alumnos mediante el poder de la palabra. ¿Preparado para aprender trucos increíbles sobre cómo hablar en público? ¿Dispuesto a conocer los secretos de las mejores charlas TED? Si es así, te invito a que me acompañes. Te aseguro que el artículo te va a encantar. Luces, cámara… ¡Acción! Método TED Imagen extraída de Shutterstock ¿Qué son las conferencias TED? A propósito de Método TED. Por si a día de hoy desconoces las charlas TED, te diré que TED son las siglas de las palabras Tecnología, Entretenimiento y Diseño. TED es una organización dedicada a difundir temas de interés mundial como la ciencia, la educación, el diseño, el arte, la tecnología… Se trata de un tipo de charla con un formato muy concreto y que a día de hoy cuenta más de 1.000 charlas y más de 400 millones de reproducciones. Para hacerte una idea de lo que es una charla TED aquí te dejo esta famosísima charla de la gran educadora Rita Pierson de la que hablé en un artículo que titulé Docentes que inspiran. El caso de Rita Pierson. Método TED para hablar en público. Cómo enamorar a tus alumnos con el poder de la palabra. ¿Cómo se enamora con la palabra? ¿Qué se necesita para captar la atención de tus alumnos? Jeremey Donovan ha realizado un estudio de las charlas TED con más visitas y ha llegado a la conclusión de que parten siempre de lo que él denomina la conexión emocional basada en cuatro necesi