CNE | Consejo Nacional de Educación El Proyecto Educativo Nacional 2036: El reto de la ciudadanía plena llama a que el esfuerzo nacional en el terreno educativo se enlace con las labores necesarias en distintos ámbitos de la vida nacional para lograr una ciudadanía plena; es decir, para que todas las personas, sin distinción de ningún tipo, podamos ejercer plenamente todos nuestros derechos (entre ellos, el derecho a la educación) sin menoscabo alguno, sea por deficiencias en los servicios que coadyuvan a su ejercicio (como una educación académicamente deficiente o que descuide el desarrollo integral del potencial humano) o porque estos reproducen injusticias sociales preexistentes. La importancia de formular buenas preguntas Una buena pregunta es una semilla que debe sembrarse para que produzca más semillas, con la esperanza de reverdecer el paisaje de las ideas.John Ciardi Lograr que los estudiantes desarrollen las capacidades necesarias para desempeñarse como aprendices permanentes, trabajadores y ciudadanos activos en la economía del conocimiento, es una de las mayores preocupaciones de quienes formulan políticas educativas en cualquier nación. El mundo cambió y resulta inaplazable reducir la brecha entre lo que aprenden los estudiantes cada día en la escuela y lo que los ámbitos académico y laboral requieren de ellos. Así las cosas, la pregunta natural es: ¿cuáles son esas capacidades que cualquier ciudadano requiere para desempeñarse con éxito en el mundo de hoy? En resumidas cuentas, hay consenso entre los empresarios acerca de que “la capacidad para hacer buenas preguntas es componente esencial tanto del pensamiento crítico como de la capacidad para solucionar problemas”. Características: Complejidad:
Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students. Even teachers who have moved away from the traditional lecture format, toward more learner autonomy-supportive approaches such as project-based and peer-to-peer learning, still need to engage students in the process, and serve as a vital conduit between learner and subject matter. Teachers are seldom trained in the performance aspect of teaching, however, and given that every American classroom contains at least one bored, reluctant, or frustrated student, engagement through performance may just be the most important skill in a teacher’s bag of tricks. I asked Teller, a former Latin teacher and the silent half of the magical partnership known as Penn & Teller, about his years as an educator, and the role performance played in his teaching.
Higher Education’s 2019 Trend Watch & Top 10 Strategic Technologies This research examines technological investments institutions will spend the most time implementing, planning, and tracking in 2019, as well as the related trends that could influence institutional IT strategy. Read full report: PDF | HTML | Other materials Key Findings The trends and technologies reviewed in this report were identified through an EDUCAUSE survey conducted in the summer of 2018 and completed by 297 US institutions. Top 10 Strategic Technologies Uses of APIsActive learning classroomsBlended data center (on premises and cloud based)Incorporation of mobile devices in teaching and learningOpen educational resourcesInstitutional support for accessibility technologiesTechnologies for improving analysis of student dataApplication performance monitoringPredictive analytics for student success (institutional level)Integrated student success planning and advising systems (tie) IT asset management tools (e.g., CMDB) (tie) Most Influential Trends Top IT Issues Alignment Adoption Trends
10 preguntas clave para crear ecosistemas de aprendizaje digital Lea Sulmont, experta en temas de educación y docente de UPC, presentó en el Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa 2019 que se desarrolla en el Tec de Monterrey los aspectos fundamentales del Manual para crear ecosistemas de aprendizaje con el aula virtual que desarrolló con apoyo de la Fundación Telefónica. En el manual se discuten estas y otras preguntas que ayudarán a docentes, estudiantes e instituciones educativas a implementar ecosistemas de aprendizaje digital. ¿Qué desafíos supone aprender en el siglo XXI?¿Cómo intervienen las TIC en el ecosistema de aprendizaje?
Education transforms lives Education transforms lives and is at the heart of UNESCO’s mission to build peace, eradicate poverty and drive sustainable development. UNESCO believes that education is a human right for all throughout life and that access must be matched by quality. The Organization is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to cover all aspects of education. UNESCO provides global and regional leadership in education, strengthens education systems worldwide and responds to contemporary global challenges through education with gender equality an underlying principle. Its work encompasses educational development from pre-school to higher education and beyond.
New Interactive Lab Opens to Study Music and the Brain Music affects people deeply. At every stage of life, a large body of research shows, it has a profound impact on behavior and cognition. A new concert hall-cum-laboratory will be the first dedicated facility to examine music’s effect on the brain. The Large Interactive Virtual Environment (LIVE) Lab at McMaster University in Ontario, which opened this fall, will be an experimental space for neuroscientists, physiologists and psychologists to test hypotheses about performance, audience dynamics and musical improvisation.* There are already several projects on the roster for this 96-seat venue. GROUP VIBE Every culture in the world has music — one of the reasons that anthropologists consider it to be a defining characteristic of humanity. THE ACOUSTICS OF LEARNING Is working in a cubicle better for the brain? BETTER HEARING AIDS Hearing aids are usually tested only under quiet conditions.
5 Big Ways Education Will Change By 2020 Here’s what we found out: Students Will Interact With Others Remotely Why do classrooms today look nearly identical to those 30 years ago–minus a few upgrades to the modern chalkboard, and sneaking texts in class instead of notes? “With some exciting exceptions, public schools are one of the few institutions in modern life that have not seen radical changes spurred by technology,” says Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform. “I’m not talking about having computers in classrooms, but rather a lack of any seismic shift in the way things are done because technology is making the work easier or more efficient.” Williams predicts that education tech will continue the push towards individualized instruction for students. The Success Of Tech Will Still Rely On Skilled Teachers We might be sending kids to school in self-driving cars by 2020, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be taught by teacher-avatars and given tests via drone. We’ll Think Differently About The Diploma
A comparative analysis of international frameworks for 21st century competences: Implications for national curriculum policies National curricula need to change drastically to comply with the competences needed for the 21st century. In this paper eight frameworks describing 21st century competences were analysed. A comprehensive search for information about 21st century competences was conducted across the official websites of the selected frameworks, resulting in 32 documents that were analysed in detail. Travers and Westbury’s framework of curriculum representations was used to determine horizontal and vertical consistency between the frameworks. 5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom's Taxonomy 5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy by Grant Wiggins & The TeachThought Staff Admit it–you only read the list of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, not the whole book that explains each level and the rationale behind the Taxonomy. Not to worry, you are not alone: this is true for most educators. But that efficiency comes with a price. 1. This is false. The essential behavior in interpretation is that when given a communication the student can identify and comprehend the major ideas which are included in it as well as understand their interrelationships. Not only is this higher-order thinking – summary, main idea, conditional and cautious reasoning, etc. 2. This is not true, a misreading of the word “apply”, as the text makes clear. The whole cognitive domain of the taxonomy is arranged in a hierarchy, that is, each classification within it demands the skills and abilities which are lower in the classification order. Why UbD is what it is. 3. 4. 5. No they weren’t.
Dancing Makes You Smarter For centuries, dance manuals and other writings have lauded the health benefits of dancing, usually as physical exercise. More recently we've seen research on further health benefits of dancing, such as stress reduction and increased serotonin level, with its sense of well-being. Most recently we've heard of another benefit: Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter. A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one's mind by dancing can ward off Alzheimer's disease and other dementia, much as physical exercise can keep the body fit. You may have heard about the New England Journal of Medicine report on the effects of recreational activities on mental acuity in aging. The 21-year study of senior citizens, 75 and older, was led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Neuroplasticity What could cause these significant cognitive benefits? Aging and memory
Education 2020: What Learning Could Look Like 7 Years From Now I wrote (theorized? hypothesized? guessed?) the incredible ways technology will change education by the year 2028. It was based on current trends in education (e.g., eLearning and blended learning), society (e.g., economic downturns and population growth), and technology (faster, smaller, more connected everything). The following video from Masternewmedia.org has a similar goal of predicting the future of education by tracing the current trajectory, but takes a heavier view of money and corporate interests, and how they could impact things in a very, very significant way. “It is the best of times. Sal Khan starts the Khan Academy. With an instructor of one, the Khan Academy offers thousands of videos, but the real power is in its exercise and assessment system. Mastery is required before moving on and a game system of energy points and badges provide instant rewards.
Daily chart - The pandemic is widening educational inequality | Graphic detail | The Economist EVEN BEFORE the pandemic sent pupils packing, there was a large gap in achievement between rich and poor students. In Britain in 2018, for example, children from disadvantaged backgrounds were twice as likely to leave school without basic qualifications in English and maths as their wealthier peers. After months of coronavirus-induced school closures, that gap has no doubt grown even wider. With kids banned from classrooms, most learning has moved online. The shift has been easier for some than for others. In Britain, nearly two-thirds of private schools already had platforms for online learning in place, compared with just a quarter of the most poorly funded state schools, according to the Sutton Trust, a charity. Even those pupils who can successfully get online are likely to fall behind. Many pupils will miss the order of a bricks-and-mortar classroom.