Uma estante de poemas cantados, para celebrar a semana da leitura, criada por Jorge Brandão, professor bibliotecário e coordenador da biblioteca da Escola Secundária de Amares. Desfrutemos! (via
Manuela Barreto Nunes
)Reunir e poder voltar a ler materiais sobre ALFIN - Alfabetización Informacional, Literacia da Informação, Information Literacy. Desde 2008 To gather for later reading (again) materials on IL issues. Since 2008

"There is no body of evidence that iPads will increase math and reading scores on state standardized tests. There is no evidence that students using iPads (or laptops or desktop computers) will get decent paying jobs after graduation.Education innovation: A case study in what not to do
These are the most common reasons boards of education and school administrators across the nation give for buying tablets for K-12 students. But not in LAUSD.
Acquiring 1:1 iPads for students, according to the LAUSD press release is to: “provide an individualized, interactive and informative-rich learning environment” for every student. One would have to assume that such an “environment” would lead to gains in test scores. But it is an assumption. Since many low-income families do not have computers at home or Internet connections, providing iPads is a worthy reason — what used to be called “closing the digital divide“ — for the large expenditure.
On what basis, however, will the district determine whether to move to Phase 2 of the plan? Again, according to the official press release, the assessment of this first phase “will include feedback … from teachers, students, parents and other key stakeholders.” That’s it. No hard data on how often the devices were used, in what situations, and under what conditions. Nor mention of data on student outcomes.
Now, informal surveys of teachers and school administrators show mixed reactions, even disaffection for iPads in classrooms."
Meio século antes da invenção do correio electrónico, T. S. Eliot perguntou: "Onde é que está a sabedoria que perdemos em conhecimento? Onde é que está o conhecimento que perdemos em informação?" Se ele hoje fosse vivo, ao contemplar uma caixa de entrada de correio electrónico num computador cintilante, poderia muito bem acrescentar: "Onde é que está a informação que se perdeu em trivialidades?"
SHASHI THAROOR 13/02/2013 - 19:23
Texto completo em pdf, aqui, para os que não dispoem de assinatura digital. Para os demais, aqui: http://www.publico.pt/opiniao/noticia/a-caixa-de-entrada-de-pandora-1584386
"So what is the key difference between online education and face-to-face, residential education? The late John Strohbehn, the provost at Duke, used to say parents are willing to pay a lot to have professionals turn their 18-year-old kids into 21-year-old adults. Almost everything about the intensity of college and the multiple pressures of studying, social life, work life, and extracurricular leadership activities is part of what leads to that development process from being a teenager to being ready for an independent adult life. Especially for middle-class America, with its over-protected, over-regulated teens and helicopter parents, giving up on universities means educational disempowerment (youth unemployment is high but far higher for those without a college degree). And it also means a major change in the very structuring of parenting."
in Podemos substituir os professores por ecrans de computador? , de Cathy Davidson (vejam também as caixas de comentários)
"If I'm interviewing two candidates for a job or graduate program and one attended a residential college/university and had a rich array of college activities and experiences and the other earned their degree entirely through an online program, it is crystal clear which one I'm going to take."
"it's hard to see how bringing education to the masses can be anything other than a good thing. Sure, the only education may only be 90% as good as a traditional college education -- but, if it allows people with families and jobs to better their knowledge and their communities, then it's a big win."