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Tecnológico de Monterrey

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of Educational Innovation

Hello readers,
Today we explore blockchain applications in education; analyze the importance of information literacy and how teachers can fight fake news, a teacher shares her insights on transformative pedagogy, and wonder why teaching astronomy should be a priority in education.

What is Blockchain and how can it be applied in education


With significant data breaches happening around the world almost every day, adopting a technology that keeps records in a secure and immutable way, becomes more and more a necessity. Even though blockchain has been on the rise, people are mostly unaware of the social advantages of this technology in the education sector.

 

A Marathon to Learn


A transformative pedagogy is an educational approach that fosters critical reflection with students about their contexts; It also promotes the design of educational experiences that encourage students to learn, values, attitudes, and emotions, to be active members in their community.

 

What can teachers do to fight fake news? Let's talk about news literacy


Disinformation epidemy is a global phenomenon with severe consequences. What can education do to address it? What is media and information literacy? How can this competence be developed in the classroom? Why is it crucial for educators to teach it? This feature gives a panorama about disinformation and the role of education in facing this problem.

 

Why should teaching astronomy be a priority in education?


The interest in the universe has been shared by the majority of human beings for centuries. Education can take advantage of this natural curiosity and use it to develop important skills and to attract more girls, boys and young people to STEM areas. This article will explain how educators can teach astronomy in the classroom and the benefits of doing so.

 

Three alternatives for better behavior in class


Schools rely heavily on punitive methods to keep discipline in schools, but its time that we turn an eye to practices that favor reflection and self-knowledge.

 

What we are reading

What’s Really Behind Employers’ Interest in Education?
Employers complain about colleges’ faults in preparing students for the workplace. But, when did all of this become the job of colleges? Don’t employers have some responsibility, too? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Stanford Moves to Stop Supporting Its University Press
"If we use a purely financial metric to assess the value of academic books, the scholarly mission of the academy will be lost." (Inside Higher Ed)

Ed-Tech Utopia Is Over
Zuckerberg has said that “unless you are breaking stuff, you aren’t moving fast enough,” No. Let’s slow down. Real innovation requires persistence. (Education Next)

What Teachers Need to Know About the Rise in Teen Suicide
Every teacher needs to be able to recognize immediate child- and teen-suicide risk and know how to handle it. (We Are Teachers)

Faculty Competencies for Innovation?
There is increasing awareness of innovation competencies for undergraduate and graduate students, but what about faculty? (Inside Higher Ed)

Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure
Scientific failure is rarely talked about openly, but failure is an essential and inescapable part of scientific research. (Wired)

750 million reasons to care about bootcamps
Bootcamps are now officially big business. (Christensen Institute)

Amazon’s system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them
"A world where people are monitored and supervised by machines isn’t confined to the realms of sci-fi. It’s here now." (MIT Technology Review)

 

Quote of the week

“It’s this system we put in place in the era of ‘Mad Men’ and we’re stuck with, and we’re sort of hammering away at in small ways rather than taking the whole thing down,”

Said Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard who is writing a book on gender gap, career and family. It turns out that American women of working age are the most educated ever. Yet it’s the most educated women who face the biggest gender gaps.
 

Upcoming events

May 16 - 17   ITworldEdu 2019
May 20 - 22   EMOOCS 2019 Conference
June 2 - 6   Clute International Conference on Education - Dublin 2019
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- Karina Fuerte, Editor in Chief, Observatory.

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