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Dear reader,
Here is a curated selection of articles and news on education and innovation.
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Florina Guadalupe Arredondo Trapero
Earth is the only place we can inhabit as humanity. It is not about migrating to other planets; it is about migrating our way-of-being-in-the-world. Learn more about how art and mythology relate to climate change.
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Paulette Delgado
Faced with uncertainty about the reopening of schools, Education Week approached educators, principals, and district leaders to find out if they are prepared to go back to the classrooms.
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José Escamilla
Listen to an insightful conversation about the future of online education between José "Pepe" Escamilla and Anant Agarwal, edX CEO and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Anant talked about the birth of edX, described how data could help improve online education and how it can promote active learning.
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Sofía García-Bullé
The U.S. Supreme Court recently passed new labor protections for LGBTQ workers. The verdict points to a more equitable education system.
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Rubí Román
In this webinar, Ph.D. Patricia Caratozzolo shares ideas on how to develop creativity and critical thinking in Gen Z students, as well as educational strategies to enhance their lexical knowledge.
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Paulette Delgado
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were forced to move their classes online, venturing into trying asynchronous and synchronous learning to see which adapts to their needs and those of their students. However, what do these concepts mean? How do they differ?
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Sofía García-Bullé
In the last five years, eSports have had explosive growth and have become anchor sports through which colleges and universities ensure enrollment and new talent. With the pandemic, eSports will become a key tool in recruitment.
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The Decline Of The American University
"American universities have become too arrogant, bloated with expensive non-academic apparatchiks, and too far out of the mainstream of American life." Richard Vedder | Forbes
How MIT Is Crowdsourcing Its Reopening Plans for the Fall
As MIT considered whether to hold classes online or in-person in the fall, it decided to tap the collective wisdom of its faculty, staff, and students. Jeffrey R. Young | EdSurge
Working Paper Models COVID Spread at University
The model examines a hypothetical large university of 20,000 students and 2,500 instructors who interact daily for 100 days. Lilah Burke | Inside Higher Ed
OECD Education Head: Pandemic Disruption Should Mean Lower Fees
Andreas Schleicher sees high fees as unjustified and calls for more government investment. David Matthews | Times Higher Education
Beyond the Black Hole of Global University Rankings: Rediscovering the True Value of Knowledge and Ideas
Are universities measured and ranked according to what we really value? Or are they ranked and valued only by what is measured? Stephen Dobson & Edward Schofield | The Conversation
Education, unchained
Rousseau’s Émile, or On Education (1762) aim was to devise a system of education capable of producing a complete, free, and good human being. James Brooke-Smith | Aeon
‘We Can’t Ignore This Issue’: How to Talk With Students About Racism
Professors are used to being the expert in the classroom. But in this case, they might be better off listening. Beth McMurtrie | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Mathematicians Urge Colleagues to Boycott Police Work in Wake of Killings
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models. Davide Castelvecchi | Nature
How to Entertain Your Kids This Summer? Maybe Don’t
An idea: Embrace boredom. This may be a good time to get away from the idea that play should be educational or S.T.E.M.-enhancing. Alexis Soloski | The New York Times
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"We are educators. We are not cops."
Says Jeffrey Moro. "If you want to be a cop, I recommend you go be a cop." Moro argues that the education system must abolish “cop shit” in the classroom, meaning “any pedagogical technique or technology that presumes an adversarial relationship between students and teachers.”
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