Distrae o mejora el aprendizaje

Algunos temas de conversación son recurrentes, en alguna medida es adecuado que así sea, aunque sólo sea por el hecho de cuestionar situaciones emergentes. Así es que, en estas últimas semanas el debate sobre el buen o mal uso del smartphone en el aula ha recrudecido. El debate promete llevarnos hacia adelante, dado que la idea de prohibición total está descartada y que existe un clima de discusión adecuado. Varios aspectos deben ser considerados...

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The car blog (Part 1 - First impressions)

What happens when a student faces a challenge for the first time? Are you curious to know what your first thoughts are? And the first feelings? Students at Goethe Schule's computer science course share their thoughts on the first approach to a new learning challenge. The car Blog ...

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Dewey´s taxonomy in EduTech

A few weeks ago I was invited to be part of a group that has the mission to formalize a concept of digital media applied to education. Among the first tasks that we have ahead, we must establish objectives and purposes. All within a conceptual framework. Of course there are a significant number of such conceptual frameworks, the discussion lies in which of them are suitable for our reality. Maybe someone would think it would be interesting...

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All is happening at the same time

If you believe that a classroom is a monotonous, one-tone work environment, then you are completely wrong, or you were never in a good and active class. When students are active in their learning and the teacher establishes with them the right work environment, everything seems more like the image at the beginning of this article. Classrooms are spaces with a heterogeneous audience and teachers are encouraged to maintain and cultivate that diversity....

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From playing to learning - Gamification

Image from Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamification-in-business-illustration-web.jpg At the beginning of the year I wrote: "It is in this fertile soil where the first seed must be planted. I choose to plant the seed of challenge and curiosity, the seed of teamwork, the seed of #documenting4learning." Those were times of excitement and illusion. The initial question remains: Do students learn through the use of...

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The Raspberry Farm project 2019

By Gareth Halfacree from Bradford, UK (Raspberry Pi 3 B+) [CC BY-SA 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons I think it's an excellent idea to take up projects that are valuable and that have yielded good results. One does this, not without reflecting on what has been learned previously. The rewarding task is to reread old articles, and reflect on the achievements and, above all, on those things that...

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Las listas de correos

Los grupos de personas que trabajan en forma colaborativa y tienen objetivos en común suelen requiere medios de comunicación grupal que sean efectivos, rápidos y, en la mayoría de los casos, que permita almacenar el historial de dichas comunicaciones. Los grupos de distribución de correos son agregados de direcciones de correo electrónico que permiten replicar cada mensaje enviado a la lista en cada una de las casillas de correo de los miembros...

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Ice breaker for coding classes

At the beginning of each school year, we are all full of expectations. It is one of the few situations where I do not recognize the blank page syndrome. Maybe I'm very lucky, when the first questions I hear are what are we going to do this year? What are the projects that await us? Are there new versions of the software platforms we use? It is in this fertile soil where the first seed must be planted. I choose to plant the seed of challenge...

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