Programa de Formação Continuada em Mídias na Educação - Módulo Introdutório: Integração das Mídias na Educação Nas últimas décadas do século XX, assistimos a um acentuado movimento de mudanças nas organizações sociais, consequente e interdependente dos movimentos de mudanças políticas, econômicas, científicas e culturais. Esse movimento impulsionou e foi impulsionado, de um lado, pelos avanços das pesquisas, das descobertas científicas e do desenvolvimento dos mais sofisticados meios tecnológicos de informação e comunicação e, de outro, pelas complexas inter-relações do mercado internacional, cada dia mais globalizado. Segundo Castells (2003), três processos independentes começam a gestar-se no final dos anos 60 e princípios dos 70 e convergem, hoje, para a "gênese de um novo mundo": a revolução das tecnologias da informação; a crise econômica tanto do capitalismo quanto do estadismo e sua subseqüente reestruturação; o florescimento de movimentos sociais e culturais - feminismo, ambientalismo, defesa dos direitos humanos, das liberdades sexuais, etc.
Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) | Digital Media Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software. From where he stands, as the guy who co-founded Netscape Communications and now co-runs the powerful Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, no industry is safe from software. Or, as Andreessen put it in a much-discussed piece he wrote for The Wall Street Journal, "Software is eating the world." Software has chewed up music and publishing. It's eaten away at Madison Avenue. No area is safe--and that's why Andreessen sees so much opportunity. Fueling his optimism: ubiquitous broadband, cloud computing, and, above all, the smartphone revolution. I caught up with Andreessen to talk about 2012 and software's onward march. Q: Let's start with smartphones. Q: That's a big deal because? Q: In a way that the PC industry couldn't? Q: Does that mainly help existing players, or also open opportunities for new businesses? But it also opens up new kinds of businesses. Q: What e-commerce players are you thinking of? Q: Like Amazon?
Study: Kids Are the Road to Tech Innovation Over the course of 2010, Latitude Research completed a multi-phase innovation study, Children's Future Requests for Computers and the Internet, asking kids across the world to draw the answer to this question: "What would you like your computer or the Internet to do that it can't do right now?" This study is part of a larger research initiative by Latitude that positions younger generations as a window into the future of technology, capable of informing tech experiences that resonate with people of all ages. Download the study summary (PDF) for Children's Future Requests for Computers and the Internet. Kim Gaskins is Director of Content Development at Latitude, an international research consultancy. More than 200 kid-innovators, ages 12 and under, from North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, South Asia and Australia, submitted drawings of their imagined technologies. "Teleport through the screen to another computer at the place of your choice." The Digital vs.
Muito além do ativismo de teclado Por: Há anos, uma falsa contradição estorva a cultura política de autonomia que se desenvolve, por exemplo, nos Fóruns Sociais Mundiais. Ela superou o centralismo, segundo o qual liderar a luta por trasnformações sociais era tarefa para organizações estruturadas e hierárquicas (em especial, os partidos políticos). Mas, exatamente por ter enfrentado este obstáculo, ela valoriza exageradamente as opções e atitudes individuais. É como se só houvesse dois extremos: ou o dirigismo, no qual os desejos de mudança são controlados por uma elite que tende a se tornar autoritária; ou a fragmentação, que leva ao limite o “poder da base” e por isso rejeita todo tipo de ação coordenada. Acaba de ser lançado um vídeo singelo e didático que busca uma alternativa para este dilema. “A História da Mudança” tem estrutura formal muito simples. O vídeo é otimista. Para saber mais: Site Oficial: (em inglês) Página no Facebook: (em inglês)
Nouveaux paradigmes Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn Flickr:AllHails At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture. The idea is getting traction. Here’s more about the practice. By Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks It’s a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall – chatting, laughing, calling out to each other across the aisles. This is an introductory chemistry class at a state university. Students in this class say the instructor is one of the best lecturers in the department. Student Marly Dainton says she doesn’t think she’ll remember much from this class. “I’m going to put it to short-term memory,” she says. One of the Oldest Teaching Methods Emily Hanford
Your Body's Best Time for Everything What Will the World Be Like in 2112? Daron Acemoglu What will life be like in 100 years? Daron Acemoglu, an Elizabeth and James Killian Professor in the Department of Economics, pondered this question as he awaited the birth of his son. Over time, Acemoglu’s contemplation led him to wonder what kind of world his potential grandchildren would inherit, and how recent political, social, and economic trends would shape this future society. Acemoglu tackles this question in “The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond,” published earlier this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper outlines what Acemoglu believes are the 10 most important trends since the early twentieth century, and Acemoglu makes 10 predictions on the next 100 years. Outlook-wise, Acemoglu’s predictions are a mixed bag. Business Insider created a slideshow of Acemoglu’s predictions.
No country for old ideas, this So, I've been in New Delhi this week as a keynote speaker at the EdgeX conference. It was great to catch up with George, Dave, Stephen and Grainne, and to meet Jay Cross, Clark Quinn and LesFoltos. Viplav Baxi and the team were the most amazing, hospitable hosts, and it's been a real pleasure to be here. Start-up fever - It feels like a very exciting place to be at the moment. Scale, scale, scale - It is the numbers in India that make drive a lot of this. Beware the undead - there are a lot of US and UK universities hovering around India, trying to sell their model as a solution. Beware the bubble - while it did feel like a very exciting time, the reality of India is never far away and it may be that the task is just too great to be sustained. I met some great people, and learnt a lot, so I'll be fascinated to see how it develops.
Um jeito anônimo e polêmico de usar a web Por GEOFFREY A. FOWLER Há mais de quatro anos, William Weber vem ajudando a administrar um serviço gratuito chamado Tor, que torna a navegação na internet anônima para qualquer pessoa. Mas em 28 de novembro, a polícia apareceu na casa de Weber, de 20 anos de idade, em Graz, na Áustria, e o acusou de distribuir pornografia infantil. Ele diz que as autoridades confiscaram seus computadores, e ele agora aguarda acusações formais que o podem levar à prisão. Weber diz que o material pornográfico não lhe pertence. Sua experiência mostra bem os desafios diante do Tor Project Inc., firma sem fins lucrativos com dez anos de existência sediada em Walpole, no Estado americano de Massachusetts, e que espera tornar generalizada a navegação anônima na internet. "Há dez anos, ninguém tinha esse conceito de privacidade", diz Andrew Lewman, diretor-executivo da Tor. Para continuar crescendo, o Tor tem que convencer mais voluntários a se inscrever para ampliar a sua rede.
Openness and the Future of Assessment by david on March 27, 2012 I had the good fortune of being invited to speak at the ETS Future of Assessment internal conference today. The slides are available at slideshare, but here are the three main points from my talk today. “Badges are not assessments.” “Assessment as status update.” “Browser history as high stakes exam.”