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Artículo, en inglés, acerca de la utilización de móviles en el aula, etc... "Technology is like water to a fish. It surrounds us, and we rarely notice it, but we use it all the time. Instead of keeping children away from the water, we should teach them to swim. Any alternative would be unthinkable."

"... Reclaiming pedagogy as a form of educated and militant hope begins with the crucial recognition that education is not solely about job training and the production of ethically challenged entrepreneurial subjects and that artistic production does not only have to serve market interests, but are also about matters of civic engagement and literacy, critical thinking, and the capacity for democratic agency, action, and change. It is also inextricably connected to the related issues of power, inclusion, and social responsibility.[2] If young people, artists, and other cultural workers are to develop a deep respect for others, a keen sense of the common good, as well as an informed notion of community engagement, pedagogy must be viewed as a cultural, political, and moral force that provides the knowledge, values, and social relations to make such democratic practices possible. In this instance, pedagogy needs to be rigorous, self-reflective, and committed not to the dead zone of instrumental rationality but to the practice of freedom and liberation for the most vulnerable and oppressed, to a critical sensibility capable of advancing the parameters of knowledge, addressing crucial social issues, and connecting private troubles into public issues. Any viable notion of critical pedagogy must overcome the image of education as purely instrumental, as dead zones of the imagination, and sites of oppressive discipline and imposed conformity. ..."

"John Foran, artículo original: http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-06-08/climate-change-hope-and-revolution-notes-for-dark-and-gloomy-times/ El otro día me invitaron a dar una charla en la clase de Estudios Medioambientales de un colega titulada, simplemente, "Esperanza". Resulta que era el día después de que Donald Trump pronunciase sus calculadas y genocidas estupideces sobre el Acuerdo de París (que el insistía en llamar Accord [el autor usa la palabra Agreement para acuerdo, nota del tr.]. A estas alturas, se han dicho y escrito cien mil palabras de ira, determinación y análisis. Vayamos pues en la dirección opuesta. ..."

"Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems", according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century."

"Radiocut is an amazing service that records radio stations from in 24x7 basis, and let you create cuts for an specific station and time. This script retrieves and merges the chunks that compose an audiocut"

"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."

"Imagine you could use any kind of small head difference in a river or canal. The power those drops contain might surprise you. We created a technology that can make use of all these small waterfalls or rapids in a way that's safe for the environment. Gone are the days that communities had to choose between having power or fish to eat. Our robust and fish friendly vortex turbiness will generate energy 24/7 at an incredibly low cost of energy. That way you can have a project with high return on investment that improves the world just that little bit. Now, if you look at a river or canal, you'll notice that it's full of these small cascades, that's how nature builds rivers. We have created a distributed turbine system that can combines a large amount of turbines into one big virtual hydropower powerplant. These virtual hydropower plants can be as large as 10MW in power output. That's the power production of a small city! We can do this because our civil structures are designed to be easy to install, and the electronics and robust power take-offs are designed to keep working with minimal maintenance. The energy produced can be directly connected to your appliances or machinery, and at the same time connected to the national distribution grid, so you can inject the unused power to it, maximizing the revenue through a net billing connection."

"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. "

""Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples." Jacque Fresco Music: Protect Life, Human Nature, Koolen, Leelo - Eric Serra"

"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. ..."

"... The prediction is a pretty damn good one. The world is now about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it was and carbon dioxide levels are at 415 ppm. The estimate was part of Exxon's "high case" scenario, which assumed fossil fuel use would quicken and that the world would be able to tap new reserves in the late 2000s from at the time unreachable shale gas. The memo also warned that the extra carbon dioxide would enhance the greenhouse effect and that an "increase in absorbed energy via this route would warm the earth's surface causing changes in climate affecting atmospheric and ocean temperatures, rainfall patterns, soil moisture, and over centuries potentially melting the polar ice caps." Honestly, it gave me chills re-reading the memo 37 years later. The company clearly described all the horrors we're facing now. The only thing its scientists got wrong was that what they called "potentially serious climate problems" wouldn't emerge until the late 21st century. So much for that. ..."

"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."

"This game is a budget management simulator inspired by the low salaries and high living costs in Chile. At the time of developing this game, the minimum wage in Chile was $301,000 (approximately $400 USD) and according to the National Institute of Statistics of Chile (INE), more than a half of workers in Chile earn $400,000 or less."

"The time is now. For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural environment continues to decline under the weight of our consumption. Humanity depends directly on the output of nature; thus, this decline will affect us, just as it does the other species with which we share this world. Díaz et al. review the findings of the largest assessment of the state of nature conducted as of yet. They report that the state of nature, and the state of the equitable distribution of nature's support, is in serious decline. Only immediate transformation of global business-as-usual economies and operations will sustain nature as we know it, and us, into the future."

Pero claro, no solamente para googleclasroom "Below is a list of ideas for those of you that are new to Google Classroom as well as ideas for teachers more experienced with digital classrooms. We will be adding to this list over time!"

"Me pareció interesante indagar a qué edad escribieron sus obras clave algunos novelistas de renombre. Entre la curiosidad, el asombro y la autoflagelación comparativa, terminé haciendo un relevamiento de 130 obras. Mi selección es, por supuesto, arbitraria. Son novelas que me gustaron o me interesaron (en el caso de haberlas leído) o que -por distintos motivos y referencias, a veces algo inasibles- las considero importantes (aunque no las haya leído todavía)."

Interesante artículo que describe las actualizaciones que la IUPAC hace regularmente de las masas atómicas, así como diferentes detalles que se tinen en cuenta a la hora de determinar la masa atómica de un elemento químico.

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"10 decisiones que tomé para transformar mi tiempo como docente y lograr ser más feliz. ADVERTENCIA: Es muy importante que antes de leer estas 10 decisiones tengas claro que son mis decisiones. Tómalas como ejemplo y no cometas el error de relacionarlas con tu vida, porque la mía y la tuya tienen particularidades distintas. Encuentra tiempo para dejar de gestionar el tiempo y entonces ponte a pensar 10 decisiones que puedas aplicar a tu propia vida y que los ejemplos que te dé sobre mí sean eso, sólo ejemplos. 1. Exámenes. Odio corregir. Por eso buena parte de los exámenes los corrigen los alumnos entre ellos. Con esta actuación he ganado muchísimo tiempo que he dedicado a mejorar mi práctica docente en el aula. Esto me ha permitido ser más creativo y cambiar la metodología en muchas sesiones lectivas. He reducido mi productividad a favor de la creatividad. 2. Trabajo en casa. Ya nunca me llevo trabajo a casa. Me explico. En casa no me llevo exámenes ni trabajos para corregir. Todo lo relacionado con la productividad lo llevo a cabo en el instituto. En mi casa sólo le dedico tiempo a pensar en cómo voy a enseñar en mis clases, cómo voy a planificarlas para que sean más atractivas. Esto ha sido sin duda el cambio más significativo y que me ha reportado una enorme satisfacción profesional. Por otra parte, ya nunca trabajo los fines de semana. Por tanto, la concepción que tenía del tiempo y la que tengo ahora es enorme, porque tengo la sensación de que tengo más de un 20% más de tiempo del que tenía y lo mejor es que este 20% lo dedico a lo que me gusta como, por ejemplo, este blog. 3. Reuniones. He limitado las reuniones al máximo. Intento que aquellas que puedo dirigir duren el tiempo que yo quiera y no el que viene fijado en el horario. Esto ha permitido que las reuniones sean más eficaces y me ha proporcionado un tiempo extra para desarrollar otros aspectos de mi profesión. La gestión de las reuniones por parte de los docentes me

"Para el doctor Paul Kelley, investigador de la Universidad de Oxford, madrugar para ir a trabajar afecta la atención y la memoria Un experto en sueño del Reino Unido calificó como una "tortura" que la gente menor de 55 años inicie sus actividades laborales antes de las 9 de la mañana. Además, detalla que trabajar de 9 a 17 deja como resultado "un cuerpo agotado y estresado por la falta de sueño". La Universidad de Oxford avaló la investigación de Paul Kelley y destacó que representaba una amenaza para el rendimiento de los seres humanos hasta los 55 años. "No podemos cambiar nuestros ritmos de 24 horas. No se puede aprender a levantarse a una hora determinada. El cuerpo va a estar en sintonía con la luz del sol y no se es consciente de eso, ya que depende del hipotálamo -encargado de controlar el sistema nervioso central-, no de la vista", asegura Kelly. El especialista, un becario honorario de investigación clínica del sueño de la Universidad de Oxford, aseguró que la sociedad necesita cambiar los horarios laborales y de inicio escolar para "encajar" con el reloj natural del cuerpo humano. "Este es un tema social enorme. Las personas deben iniciar sus actividades a las 10 de la mañana hasta pasar los 55. La gente en general está privada de sueño y esto es muy perjudicial para el cuerpo e impacta física y emocionalmente en el rendimiento", dijo el investigador en el Festival de Ciencia británico en Bradford. "Esto es un asunto internacional. Todo el mundo está sufriendo y no tienen por qué" El doctor Kelley propone entonces un inicio escalonado en las escuelas y lugares de trabajo como resultado de su investigación de los ritmos del cuerpo humano. El cuerpo tiene un "marcapasos maestro" fijado en el cerebro por receptores especializados que están en el ojo y que impactan en todo el cuerpo. Se ha descubierto que la falta de sueño afecta la atención y la memoria a largo plazo y fomenta el consumo de drogas y alcohol. También pued