A mais nova onda em tecnologias para as escolas é a ideia de uma laptop/tablet por criança ou, como usualmente tem se chamado, 1:1 (um pra um). O conceito é relativamente simples: cada criança e professor de uma escola recebe um laptop de baixo custo, o qual mantém consigo todo o tempo, inclusive levando-o para [...]
It is quite well know that Brazil is going through a great period of economic growth. After 16 years of political stability and successive good governments, it looks like we are finally overcoming some of our big historical challenges and building something new over the ashes of the military government. This is the context where TEDx Rio happened last Tuesday, February 15, in a sunny day in Rio de Janeiro. As many people already know, TED is all about “Ideas worth spreading” . Well, TEDx Rio (where the x stands for independently organized) was about that, and much much more.
One of the most usual critics for laptops initiatives in countries like Rwanda is how to start a project like this when the country has no experience with other “ICT in Education” initiatives! By “ICT in Education” (expression I personally think is completely misguided) the criticizers usually mean computer labs programs. “How Rwanda wants to [...]
This week Silvia and I ran in Kigali a training for 300 teachers and principals of 150 school. It was a very nice 5 days workshop where we mixed some talks with lots of hands on with the XOs. The methodology was slightly different from what we usually do. Yet we continue to work under [...]
Hoje tivemos nossa segunda reunião do Grupo de estudos do projeto REDIN. Mais do que na semana passada, nesta manhã acredito que a discussão foi muito interessante. O Mario Fontanive apresentou sua dissertação de mestrado entitulada “A mão e o número: Sobre a possibilidade do exercício da intuição nas interfaces tridimensionais”. O texto que o [...]
Recentemente estava na rede fazendo umas pesquisas sobre a linguagem de programação Squeak e procurando artigos sobre esse tema quando acabei achando esse maravilhoso texto de Alan Kay entitulado “The Power of The Context“.