Building today the schools of tomorrow

This post is dedicated to Richard Gerver who attended the Global Education Forum held in Madrid this year, where different topics related to education were discussed. This video is the last one published in Redes about building today the schools of tomorrow (in Spanish).

"In The XXI century the only thing we know for sure is that it's going to be very different. Now the industry needs more imagination, more creativity, more skilled workers to work together, with a different mentality, a mentality more open to suggestions from others on their team". 

Philip Hudson

Director SEK Catalonia

More videos:

• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 1/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 2/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 3/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 4/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 5/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 6/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 7/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 8/9.
• Richard Gerver at Global education forum 9/9.

Changing education paradigms

This post is dedicated to Ken Robinson an its "Changing education paradigms". "Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence".

Related videos:

• Schools kills creativity.
• Bring on the learning revolution.

Enjoy the video!.

Star professors

Today I'm gonna change subject with an "off topic" called the Star professors. The other day I saw on the Internet a little interview to the Rector of the UOC (Open Univeristy of Catalonia) where she was talking about the Star professors.

The UOC is an online university born from the knowledge society and whose mission is to provide people with lifelong learning and education. And it's also a leader and innovator in education and technology, and is a benchmark for quality in its academic work and research in e-learning based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Here is where I'm finishing my second degree in Computer Science Engineering and I love it!. By the way, I was talking about Star professors, that is a new term for the best teachers in the world. For example those from MIT, Standford, Yale, etc. And now with the Information and technology (IT) era, we can learn from them because all the lectures from these professors are published in a place called "Academic Earth". Amazing!!, isn't it?.

Meditation and Learning

Hoy os dejo la continuación del anterior capítulo de redes - Educationg world citizens dor the 21st Century -. En éste interesante reportaje veremos lo importante que es el desarrollo social y emocional para poder moldear mejor tu cerebro. Como yogi, he podido comprobar de primera mano las mejoras en salud mental al practicar la meditación y sobretodo mejorar la capacidad de atención y de toma de decisiones. Si consultáis el libro de Andy Hunt sobre el "Pensamiento y aprendizaje pragmático" del cuál os llevo hablando muchos meses, en uno de los últimos capítulos aparece una pequeña entrada hacia el mundo contemplativo y la utilización de la meditación para el entreno de tu mente.

Educating world citizens for the 21st Century

No puedo dejar pasar éste fantástico documental de redes donde aparecen extractos de la última conferencia celebrada en Washington D.C sobre "Educando ciudadanos del mundo para el siglo 21". En la web www.educatingworldcitizens.org podréis encontrar mucha más información sobre el evento tan importante que se celebró en octubre.

source:

http://www.redesparalaciencia.com/1784/redes/2009/redes-49-educar-para-fabricar-ciudadanos