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"The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching.The book enables teachers and instructors to help students develop the knowledge and skills they will need in a digital age: not so much the IT skills, but the thinking and attitudes to learning that will bring them success. Book release date (final version): 1 April 2015."

Evolución en el tiempo de los autoretratos de Picasso

"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

"Older children play too explores the play of older children, particularly those in early and middle adolescence (around the ages of 11 to 16). This information sheet looks at: Avoiding assumptions based on age alone Understanding the adolescent brain Play behaviours of older children and their benefits Where older children play and why Barriers to play and the social consequences Providing for play."

"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."

PDF en inglés del amrco de organizaciones Digitalmente competentes: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/promoting-effective-digital-age-learning-european-framework-digitally-competent-educational Versión en español del marco: http://blog.educalab.es/intef/2016/05/23/marco-europeo-para-organizaciones-educativas-digitalmente-compententes-digcomporg/

"Back in the 1980s, a group of social workers in Jamaica visited low-income homes one hour a week for two years, bearing age-appropriate toys for the kids and advice on child rearing for the parents. Researchers tracked the outcomes, and a generation later, the results are in. The children whose homes were visited by social workers became adults who earn wages that are 25 percent higher than those earned by peers who had not been visited. Their I.Q.s are an average seven points higher, and they are less likely to resort to crime or suffer from depression. Other studies, including several recent ones in the United States, have shown similar results, contributing to a consensus on the importance of early childhood development that has led governments around the world to increase spending on the first five years of life. In Latin America and the Caribbean, a region of longstanding social and economic inequality, several countries have been especially ambitious. Brazil and Chile doubled the coverage of day care services over the past decade, while in Ecuador they grew sixfold. These investments build on historic gains in child nutrition and health. But while Latin American children are now healthier and more likely to attend preschool, they still lag far behind in learning, particularly in the areas of language and cognition, when compared with their counterparts in wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong? ..."

"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

"A principios de esta semana me escribió Andrés P. Mohorte, editor de Magnet, una de las últimas publicaciones de la Galaxia Xataka que dirigen desde hace años Julio Alonso y Antonio Ortiz. Me escribió porque estaba preparando un artículo sobre el libro de texto en el contexto educativo actual. Siendo Xataka una publicación de orientación tecnológica sus preguntas mostraban un interés por conocer las posibilidades que las nuevas tecnologías y el libro digital abren a la educación hoy. Sobre las complejas relaciones entre educación y tecnología he escrito mucho en este blog. De forma muy resumida lo hice hace unos meses para preparar la mesa redonda Educación y tecnología: mucho que ganar ¿algo que perder? en la entrega, precisamente, de los premios Xataka 2014. En el post que escribí antes de la mesa redonda mantuve el título pero me permití la licencia de añadir unos signos de interrogación (¿mucho que ganar?). No porque no creyese entonces, o ahora, que no haya mucho que ganar incorporando las tecnologías en la educación sino porque creo que debe hacerse desde un posicionamiento crítico y después de un proceso de reflexión. Las tecnologías solas no son la solución. Digitalizar la escuela no es tecnificar las aulas sino escolarizar las tecnologías. El sistema educativo es complejo, aunque solo sea como decía recientemente George Couros porque está construido sobre la relación entre personas. Las preguntas que nos hagamos y las respuestas que tratemos de dar deben huir de los simplismos. En educación las cosas nunca son, ni serán, blanco o negro. Ante el cambio, el sistema educativo responde siguiendo lo que algunos expertos denominan un conservadurismo dinámico, es decir, mezclando permanente lo viejo y lo nuevo, la continuidad y el cambio. Los libros de texto han sido una tecnología muy eficiente y han cumplido un papel determinante en el desarrollo del sistema educativo tal y como lo conocemos. Su labor ha sido fundamental

"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)."

La Guía de Comunicación Digital para la Administración General del Estado proporciona un marco de criterios, recomendaciones y buenas prácticas a tener en cuenta por sus Departamentos y organismos al crear, generar contenidos o evolucionar los sitios y portales web, las sedes electrónicas o los sitios relacionados con las nuevas tecnologías web2.0 (blogs, cuentas o perfiles de redes sociales a los que accede bajo los nombres oficiales de los Departamentos u organismos de la AGE).

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"Hasta hace no mucho lo habitual era que la programación fuese un campo restringido al sector más profesional, pero esto ha cambiado. Iniciativas como Code.org o la promovida por la Comisión Europea han llegado para cambiar el panorama. Y vaya de qué manera. Por aquí hemos repasado en más de una ocasión la importancia de la programación. Por ejemplo en Cómo iniciar a un niño a la programación, o también en consejos y recursos para iniciarse en programación en verano, entre otros. Y hoy atacamos desde otro frente: ¿qué lenguajes o herramientas de programación deberían enseñarse a los niños según su edad? ..."