Conectivismo, Gestão de Informação, Escola, séc. XXI

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Entra e sair da crise pela porta da Educação

Não é só o nosso sistema económico que precisa de "reboote and upgrade", a chave está em fazer o mesmo aos sistemas educativos públicos. Precisamos não só de mais gente com mais nescolaridade, como de mais jovens e crianças com a educação CERTA!

Não basta melhorar os bancos, é essencial melhorar e consertar as escolas.

A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I asked him who was getting axed. He said it was interesting: lawyers who were used to just showing up and having work handed to them were the first to go because with the bursting of the credit bubble, that flow of work just isn’t there. But those who have the ability to imagine new services, new opportunities and new ways to recruit work were being retained. They are the new untouchables.

That is the key to understanding our full education challenge today. Those who are waiting for this recession to end so someone can again hand them work could have a long wait. Those with the imagination to make themselves untouchables — to invent smarter ways to do old jobs, energy-saving ways to provide new services, new ways to attract old customers or new ways to combine existing technologies — will thrive. Therefore, we not only need a higher percentage of our kids graduating from high school and college — more education — but we need more of them with the right education.

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As Daniel Pink, the author of “A Whole New Mind,” puts it: In a world in which more and more average work can be done by a computer, robot or talented foreigner faster, cheaper “and just as well,” vanilla doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s all about what chocolate sauce, whipped cream and cherry you can put on top. So our schools have a doubly hard task now — not just improving reading, writing and arithmetic but entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity.

The new untouchables, interessante artigo de Thomas Friedma

New York Times (2009.10.20)

A Look Behind The Curtain At YouTube

A Look Behind The Curtain At YouTube’s User Experience Research

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Literacia /Media, Copyright e Fair Use (2009)

Esta apresentação de 3 colegas norteamericanos faz pensar melhor em termos como direitos de autor, copyright, fair use, creative commons e literacia da informação, educação e media...

O Media Education Lab também merece uma visitinha - fica na Universidade de Temple (filadélfia, EUA), na sua Escola de Comunicações e Teatro!

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ML, Copyright and Fair Use

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Nem tudo se resume a numeracia e literacia

A lot of people find themselves being creative despite their social standing.

You are the kid who is smart, so all your mates listen to your counsel.

You are the kid who is funny, so they look to you for a laugh.

You are the great dancer at the local disco.

You are the one who is good at building stuff.

You are the one who is been practising the guitar in your bedroom since you were nine.

You are the one who is good at problem solving.

I think it is a teacher’s job to spot these kids and give them a nudge in the right direction. Encourage the smart one to get smarter; encourage the funny one to read books, look at the history of comedy, organise his thoughts, write stuff down; encourage the dancer to practice, look at videos, see shows, etc.

I know there are some schools that do this, but there are a lot that don’t.

It is not just about numeracy and literacy… It’s about vigilance, kindness, empathy and creativity.

Lenny Henry(actor/comediante)

in All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education / Ken Robinson et al. (1999) http://www.cypni.org.uk/downloads/alloutfutures.pdf

Chine : une déclaration des droits de l’homme sur Internet

Chine : une déclaration des droits de l’homme sur Internet

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Universidades portuguesas valorizadas em estudo internacional

New European strong performers are Norway, Spain and Portugal, mostly due to an impressive increase of their Open Access repositories. But France is still suffering of the large fragmentation of their higher education system

Colleges and Universities and Open Access Initiatives

New July edition of the Webometrics Ranking

Parabéns

pessoal daUniversidade do Minho (e do seu Repositorium) - nº 100 no Top Europa,

e da B-on, e da Universidade de Aveiro, e por aí fora.

Obras públicas não são só as feitas de betão.

A lista das 114 entidades universitárias portuguesas incluídas neste ranking (centenas de países, milhares de instituições envolvidas) está aqui

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Será que a rainha da branca de neve está no facebook?

A tecnologia fornece-nos espelhos, não transforma a realidade.

Her research also seems to support Ms. boyd’s contention that social media “mirrors and magnifies” our social divisions, rather than removes them. “We can use technology as a tool to connect with people, but we can’t assume that it will eliminate all of the serious issues we have to face in this country,” Ms. boyd said at PDF. “Pervasive social stratification is being reified in a new era. If we don’t address this head-on, inequality will develop deeper roots that will further cement divisions in our lives.”

Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

Fonte: gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Studies suggest that users of Facebook and MySpace are breaking down along class and racial lines.

Fazer contas de economista ao Open Access

Open Access—What Are the Economic Benefits? A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark

"[...] Analysis focuses on comparing three alternative models for scholarly publishing, namely: subscription publishing, open access publishing and self-archiving. To ensure that meaningful comparisons could be made, the self-archiving models explored include the peer review, certification and quality control functions necessary for formal scholarly publishing.
We estimate that in an open access world:
• Open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing for journal articles (i.e. ‘Gold OA’) might bring net system savings of around EUR 70 million per annum nationally in Denmark, EUR 133 million in the Netherlands and EUR 480 million in the UK (at 2007 prices and levels of publishing activity);
• Open access self-archiving without subscription cancellations (i.e. ‘Green OA’) might save around EUR 30 million per annum nationally for Denmark in a worldwide ‘Green OA’ system, EUR 50 million in the Netherlands and EUR 125 million in the UK; and
• The open access self-archiving with overlay services model explored is necessarily more speculative, but a repositories and overlay services model may well produce similar cost savings to open access publishing.
The cost-benefits of the open access or ‘author-pays’ publishing model are very similar across the three countries. In terms of estimated cost-benefits over a transitional period of 20 years, open access publishing all articles produced in universities in 2007 would have produced benefits of around 2 to 3 times the costs in all cases, but showed benefits of 5 to 6 times costs in the simulated alternative ‘steady state’ model for unilateral national open access, and benefits of around 7 times the costs in an open access world. [...]"
(source: Knowledge Exchange, 23/06/09 / via DigitalKoans, 01/07/09)

RBE no olhar do Norte

QUE VIVA A BIBLIOTECA ESCOLAR!

FINALMENTE... “nasceram” [institucionalmente] as bibliotecas escolares! A mãe é a PORTARIA há dias conhecida [V. aqui] que institui a Biblioteca Escolar como o centro nevrálgico da aprendizagem e da escola.

Parabéns ao Ministério da Educação que, só ao fim de treze anos, teve a literacia suficiente para assumir a necessidade daquilo que os Professores bibliotecários têm defendido apaixonadamente ao longo desses anos, com empenho e dedicação muitas vezes incompreendidos.

Apesar de ser um passo decisivo na caminhada para um melhor ensino-aprendizagem, poderão, no futuro, ser problemáticos os efeitos da execução desta portaria, se não forem acautelados alguns aspectos que ficaram esquecidos. Entre estes aspectos salientamos a ainda nula referência aos Auxiliares de Acção Educativa, dado o seu papel essencial na constituição das equipas para o funcionamento, manutenção e estabilidade dos serviços da Biblioteca Escolar.

Podemos, mesmo assim, comemorar os 13 anos da RBE com esta primeira e boa notícia:

Nasceu a Biblioteca Escolar!... Que viva a Biblioteca Escolar!

Daqui, 2009.06.27