Dispelling the Myths About 1:1 Environments – Andrew Marcinek

"Myth 2: The iPad is Simply a Tool. False. I recently read a post about an iPad being compared to one of the simplest tools, a hammer. Comparing an iPad ...

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En #educación no se trata (solo) de #innovación – Cristobal Cobo

"Un mínimo listado de algunas de estas exploraciones (muchas de ellas representadas en este Prezi) sugiere: nuevos modelos de certificación no basados en grados sino en créditos y/o medallas [en ...

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Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings – DEBORAH KENNY

Education and political leaders across the country are currently trying to decide how to evaluate teachers. Some states are pushing for legislation to sort teachers into categories using unreliable mathematical ...

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How to Make Almost Anything – Neil Gershenfeld

"Local demand has pulled fab labs worldwide. Although there is a wide range of sites and funding models, all the labs share the same core capabilities. That allows projects to ...

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New Programming Language Makes Coding Social Apps Easier – RACHEL METZ

While it takes just a few keystrokes and mouse clicks to post a tweet on Twitter or "friend" someone on Facebook, it may require thousands of lines of code to ...

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Bullying and the Right to be Forgotten: A Right to End Victimization – Meg Leta Ambrose

"A right to be forgotten may provide hope for the victims of cyberbullying. The notion that you do not have to be that victim forever – the Internet will loosen ...

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La mala educación

(Apuntes para el Coloquio Franco Andino de Filosofía: Redes y Filosofía ) Primero, el statement obligado. Vengo de la arqueología y luego pasé a la antropología. Vengo de una carrera ...

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The Tyranny of Algorithms – EVGENY MOROZOV

"Many early pioneers reached gloomy conclusions. In the mid-1970s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT railed against depriving humans of their capacity to choose, even if computers could decide everything for us. ...

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CultureLab: Artificial ape man: How technology created humans

Darwin had to put large cranial size down to sexual selection, arguing that women found brainy men sexy. But biomechanical factors make this untenable. I call this the smart biped ...

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Somos las tecnologías que nos hacen ser lo que somos – Alejandro Piscitelli

La tecnología no nació ayer sino que su devenir es contemporáneo de la humanidad. Pero cada tanto una gran innovación altera el paisaje de las prácticas humanas y en esos ...

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“Es absurdo llenar las aulas de ordenadores” – Entrevista a Richard Gerver

"Hay que entender que el paradigma ha cambiado. Los profesores nos tenemos que ver como facilitadores, como expertos en ayudar a los jóvenes a entender conceptos complejos, de manera profesional, ...

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Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education – Cathy Davidson and Mark Surman

"Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don’t just learn “about” reading: you learn to read. You don’t just learn “about” arithmetic: you learn ...

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Las marcas de los robacasas

Yo me acuerdo que lo leí por primera vez a través de uno de esos archivos Powerpoint que alguien envió por correo. Enseñaba que los robacasas marcaban los domicilios de ...

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Occupy Wall Street and the myth of technological death of the library – Jessa Lingel

"Drawing on personal experiences volunteering at the Library as well as text from the Library’s blog, I argue that the People’s Library offers two counter arguments to conventional claims about ...

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Duccio Bonavia 1935-2012

“Sin historia no seríamos lo que somos, no tendríamos identidad, no podríamos justificar nuestro presente. No se trata de crear falsos nacionalismos, sino de establecer una imagen auténtica, de comprender ...

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Technology First, Needs Last – jnd.org

What role did design research play? What role did marketing research play? No role. All were driven by technology. In his recent study of technology, the economist Brian Arthur reached ...

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