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Frente a la fuerte apuesta de entregar una netbook por alumno del programa nacional Conectar Igualdad los especialistas plantean sus dudas sobre la preparación de los docentes para poder aprovecharlas en sus clases, y alertan sobre la necesidad de generar un cambio profundo en el modelo de enseñanza

"Computers, electronic whiteboards and other interactive technologies are fundamentally changing American education . That's the view of the experts whom The Times spoke with about what the classroom will look like ten years from now. Listen to excerpts from their predictions below, and share your own thoughts in the comments section. "

"CHANDLER, Ariz. - Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As You Like It" - but not in any traditional way. "

El Doctor Andrew Churches, es co director del área de Estudios de Informática del Kristin School de Auckland, Nueva Zelanda, donde ha trabajado durante muchos años. Declara abiertamente ser un entusiasta de las TIC y del poder que estas tienen para transformar la educación. Argumenta que educar a los estudiantes para el futuro es educarlos para el cambio, educarlos para hacer buenas preguntas y para pensar, para adaptar y modificar, para escoger y seleccionar. 

"Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies"

I love the flip. I do. And I realize by saying this I'm making a controversial statement. I believe if used judiciously, in the right context, the flip can free up valuable class time and provide the background knowledge that is fundamental for students to then go forward and wrestle with higher order thinking.

Myself, along with many educators and education policymakers, were pleased to receive news that Korea had topped the OECD's Digital Reading Assessment (DRA).  We were even more encouraged by the results showing a significant percentage of students proficient at the highest scale of digital reading, and the small proportion of low-performing students.

Is the discourse about multitasking falling into the fallacy of the excluded middle? Could it be that instead of a stark choice between the frantic pursuit of getting more done in less time at one extreme or demonizing multitasking at the other end of the spectrum that there is an as-yet undocumented literacy in the relatively unexplored middle, a partially mental and partially technical skill at deploying the appropriate attentional style with the appropriate media at the appropriate time?

It took me almost 16 years to retrieve and digitize video footage of the late American graphic designer Paul Rand. As an undergraduate student at Art Center College of Design (Europe)* in Montreux, Switzerland, I got introduced to Paul Rand and his wife Marion during a hot and dry summer in 1994. Since I was studying both the basics of film and graphical user interface design, I was asked to shuttle Paul Rand around and to document his visit on campus and his lecture that included a presentation and video (interview with Steve Jobs) about the creation of the NeXT logo.

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We live in a busy world. Whether you're looking around online or off, there's "stuff" going on all around us. Some of us are trying to keep up and some of us aren't. Either way, both parties are inevitably going to miss out on some of this "stuff" I'm alluding to. And that's because we all need to look at not only why we're missing out, but how we can avoid missing out on as much as we do. This is when levels of personal productivity come into play.

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