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En un entorno en el que se generan cientos de lecturas aceleradas y mientras aún escasea una bibliografía rigurosa respecto de la Web 2.0, el libro Planeta Web 2.0. Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food, de los investigadores Cristóbal Cobo Romaní y Hugo Pardo Kuklinski (con prólogo de Alejandro Piscitelli), pretende desde su primer capítulo ser un aglutinador de ideas, al diseñar un breve marco teórico para el darwinismo digital de la World Wide Web y recopilar un vasto mapa de lecturas para aquellos interesados en comprender y profundizar en este momento evolutivo de Internet.

"Si los datos son el futuro de la inteligencia artificial, entonces la educación es el Santo Grial de los datos. Nada produce más datos que la interacción de un alumno con el conocimiento: pueden tomarse entre 5 y 10 millones de datos por día por alumno para construir predicciones sobre su futuro y crear secuencias personalizadas de aprendizaje. Eso es lo que hacen las plataformas de aprendizaje adaptativo. Se trata de un mercado incipiente, todavía en plena experimentación. Pero quizás ningún otro dispositivo sea tan crucial para anticipar lo que vendrá gracias al Big Data y la Inteligencia Artificial. Aquí repasamos 10 plataformas de aprendizaje adaptativo que están dominando la batalla actual por el futuro de la educación. (1) Dreambox: un maestro infinitamente paciente El software de Dreambox captura cada click del mouse de los alumnos y puede anticipar 60 parámetros distintos de comportamiento (por ejemplo, frecuencia, tipo y velocidad de respuestas, cantidad y tipos de errores, etc.). El programa amasa una cantidad inmensa de datos: 50.000 puntos de datos por alumno por hora. Con esta información cambia la presentación y el tipo de clases y la secuencia siguiente en tiempo real ante cada alumno. Como se define en el siguiente video, el maestro de Dreambox es "infinitamente paciente, tiene datos ilimitados y una memoria perfecta". Dreambox está diseñado para el trabajo individual de los alumnos entre 60 y 90 minutos por semana. Abarca alumnos desde el kínder y en 2014 lanzó una versión en español. (2) Cerego: la máquina de la memoria Cerego es una de las más conocidas: se basa en principios de las neurociencias y las ciencias cognitivas y utiliza la dimensión espacial como la base de la memoria de largo plazo. Los que se inscriben pueden hacer diversos trayectos de aprendizaje basados en la memorización. Es un sitio extremadamente innovador y limitado a la vez: en un tiempo donde se promueve el pensamiento crítico, la

"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

Publicado el 15 mar. 2012 Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. To prepare our students, lessons must go beyond the "3 R's" and foster 21st century skills. Skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity will be essential for students to take on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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. "

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"Today, getting what you need is as easy as a trip to the store. From food to clothing, energy, medicine, and so much more, Andy George will discover what it takes to make everything from scratch. His mission is to understand the complex processes of manufacturing that is often taken for granted and do it all himself. Each week he's traveling the world to bypass the modern supply chain in order to harvest raw materials straight from the source. Along the way, he's answering the questions you never thought to ask."

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

"Our smartphones enable-and encourage-constant connection to information, entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides. Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent presence may come at a cognitive cost. In this research, we test the "brain drain" hypothesis that the mere presence of one's own smartphone may occupy limited-capacity cognitive resources, thereby leaving fewer resources available for other tasks and undercutting cognitive performance. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention-as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones-the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity. Moreover, these cognitive costs are highest for those highest in smartphone dependence. We conclude by discussing the practical implications of this smartphone-induced brain drain for consumer decision-making and consumer welfare."

"Drained fertile peatlands around the globe are hotspots for the atmospheric emission of laughing-gas -- a powerful greenhouse gas called nitrous oxide, which is partly responsible for global warming and destruction of the ozone layer, a new study shows. Research into natural peatlands such as fens, swamps and bogs, as well as drained peatlands, found that either draining wet soils or irrigating well drained soils boosts the emission of nitrous oxide significantly. Led by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Tartu, Estonia, the study took in 58 peatland sites around the world. These included locations in the United States, Australia, Brazil, South America, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa, Southeast Asia, Siberia and Europe."

"Fruto del aumento de la complejidad de las comunidades humanas, que van repitiendo crisis, colapsos y saltos adelante, nos aproximamos a una visión cíclica de la historia, a una historia con forma de espiral, una historia que vuelve una y otra vez sobre situaciones similares, pero en contextos distintos. Espacios y tiempos en que las condiciones ambientales, sociales, económicas, tecnológicas y políticas han cambiado, en muchos casos drásticamente. Espacios y tiempos que, no obstante, han mantenido dialécticas de poder, formas de opresión y de resistencia, reparto desigual de riquezas, acciones y reacciones ante su abundancia o su escasez, y un sinfín de relaciones causa-efecto entre los diversos elementos en juego. Participan: Pedro A. Prieto, consultor de energías renovables, vicepresidente de AEREN y ASPO-España; Luis González Reyes, miembro ECOLOGISTAS en ACCIÓN; Ugo Bardi, profesor de Química Física Universidad de Florencia y presidente ASPO Italia; Antonio Turiel, investigador científico CSIC y creador del Blog The oil crash; Gail Tverberg, experta Economía y Energía/ Ex-editora The Oil Drum, Blog Our Finite World; Gonzalo Escribano Francés, profesor Economía Aplicada UNED y Dtor. Programa Energía Real Instituto Elcano; Kjell Aleklett, catedrático Universidad UPPSALA, Suecia y Presidente de ASPO; Mikael Höök, profesor asociado de la Universidad de Uppsala (Suecia) y secretario ASPO Internacional."

"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."

"Every smartphone in the world has an FM tuner built in. But here in the US, just one-third of them actually works, even though the Federal Emergency Management Agency says radio can save lives in an emergency. "We know that if Internet networks or cell phone networks go down, FM still works so long as you have a battery to turn the device on," says agency spokesman Rafael Lemaitre."

"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."

SEO is all about improving your website ranking in the search engine results and standing ahead of the competition. A good SEO strategy is required to make every further digital marketing campaigns successful. Today in the world occupied by the internet people's first experiences comes from the internet

"As I've pointed out previously, I doubt there will be a human on Earth by mid-2026. Indeed, I doubt there will be complex life on this planet by then. It'll be a small world, as was the case in the wake of each of the five prior Mass Extinction events on Earth. Bacteria, fungi, and microbes will dominate."

"Teaching children according to their individual "learning style" does not achieve better results and should be ditched by schools in favour of evidence-based practice, according to leading scientists. Thirty eminent academics from the worlds of neuroscience, education and psychology have signed a letter to the Guardian voicing their concern about the popularity of the learning style approach among some teachers. ..."

"New scientific research is quietly rewriting the fundamentals of economics. The new economic science shows decisively that the age of endlessly growing industrial capitalism, premised on abundant fossil fuel supplies, is over. The long-decline of capitalism-as-we-know-it, the new science shows, began some decades ago, and is on track to accelerate well before the end of the 21st century. With capitalism-as-we-know it in inexorable decline, the urgent task ahead is to rewrite economics to fit the real-world: and, accordingly, to redesign our concepts of value and prosperity, precisely to rebuild our societies with a view of adapting to this extraordinary age of transition."

"The Minute Paper comes in many variations, but the simplest one involves wrapping up the formal class period a few minutes early and posing two questions to your students: What was the most important thing you learned today? What question still remains in your mind? Taken together, those two questions accomplish multiple objectives. The first one not only requires students to remember something from class and articulate it in their own words (more about that in a moment), but it also requires them to do some quick thinking. They have to reflect on the material and make a judgment about the main point of that day's class. The second question encourages them to probe their own minds and consider what they haven't truly understood. Most of us are infected by what learning theorists sometimes call "illusions of fluency," which means that we believe we have obtained mastery over something when we truly have not. To answer the second question, students have to decide where confusion or weaknesses remain in their own comprehension of the day's material. Closing connections. If we want students to obtain mastery and expertise in our subjects, they need to be capable of making their own connections between what they are learning and the world around them - current events, campus debates, personal experiences. The last five minutes of class represent an ideal opportunity for students to use the course material from that day and brainstorm some new connections.The metacognitive five. We have increasing evidence from the learning sciences that students engage in poor study strategies. Likewise, research shows that most people are plagued by the illusions of fluency. The solution on both fronts is better metacognition - that is, a clearer understanding of our own learning. What if all of us worked together deliberately to achieve that?Close the loop. Finally, go back to any of the strategies I introduced in my recent column on the first five minutes of clas

"¿A qué se debe que la mecanización no nos haya liberado (para bien o para mal) de la maldición del trabajo, sino que haya contribuido a afianzarlo aún más? Numerosos economistas y pensadores de todo el mundo han tratado este fenómeno, aunque yo me quedaré con dos explicaciones: la del antropólogo David Graeber y la del filósofo Byung-Chul Han. David Graeber, (antropólogo, profesor, escritor, anarquista, activista social de larga trayectoria) plantea en su conocido artículo "On the phenomenon of Bullshit jobs" el porqué seguimos trabajando. Su respuesta es inquietante. No hay una razón económica, sino política: Una conspiración de las élites para evitar que podamos emplear nuestro tiempo en "perseguir nuestros propios proyectos, ideas, placeres o visiones". Nos vemos obligados a malgastar nuestras vidas en trabajos sin sentido (los "bullshit jobs"), pues eso nos convierte en manejables y sumisos. Estos "bullshit jobs" son trabajos perfectamente prescindibles, que no aportan nada a la sociedad (habla de servicios financieros, asesores legales, marketing, recursos humanos, relaciones públicas…, y sobre todo burocracia) pero que nos mantienen ocupados y dóciles. En cambio, la tesis de Byung-Chul Han, expresadas en su libro "La sociedad del cansancio" defienden que es el propio individuo quien fuerza esta relación insana con el trabajo. Hemos abandonado una sociedad disciplinaria (la de las cárceles y las fábricas) para entrar en una "sociedad del rendimiento" donde en el ámbito individual buscamos el rendimiento máximo, somos "emprendedores de nosotros mismos" que nos autoexplotamos y cuyo resultado suele ser la depresión y el hartazgo. Un buen ejemplo de esta línea de pensamiento se puso de manifiesto con la publicación de un tuit en la cuenta del World Economic Forum titulado "14 cosas que la gente exitosa hace antes de desayunar" que alguien se tomó la molestia en medir y les llevaría cerca de 4 hor