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Las extraescolares a debate: ¿qué y cómo generan oportunidades educativas?
07/10/2016
La Fundación Jaume Bofill, en el marco del proyecto ¿Qué funciona en educación?, invita a participar en un espacio de debate sobre el impacto de las extraescolares en los aprendizajes de los niños y jóvenes. En el debate se presentará una compilación de evidencias internacionales elaborado por la investigadora Sheila González...
Coral Colors
03/10/2016
This video show the movements and the enormous chromatic beauty of corals, a kind of marine animals that despite being one of the oldest animals on our planet, are mostly unknown. To capture these images it was necessary to apply the technique of time lapse as the slow movements of these...
The most accurate simulation of the Milky Way
22/09/2016
Astronomers have created the most detailed computer simulation to date of our Milky Way galaxy’s formation, from its inception billions of years ago as a loose assemblage of matter to its present-day state as a massive, spiral disk of stars. Source from CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth – Anusuya Willis
19/09/2016
There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth’s history … and also paved the way for complex life. How? Anusuya Willis explains how cyanobacteria, simple organisms that don’t even have nuclei or any other organelles, wrote a pivotal chapter in the story of...
Symposium “Focusing on the learner” Research group Esbrina UB
The consolidated research group Esbrina — Subjectivities, Visualities and Contemporary Learning Environments, University of Barcelona, invites the symposium “Focusing on the learner” as part of the europeu project DIYLab – Do It Yourself in Education: Expanding Digital Competence to Foster Student Agency and Collaborative Learning. Under the slogan: “The Diylab Philosophy at School and...
Entrevista Cristóbal Cobo
14/09/2016
Álvaro Marchesi entrevista a Cristóbal Cobo acerca de su papel en el Plan Ceibal y su visión sobre cómo influyen las nuevas tecnologías en la educación.
Climate change: Earth’s giant game of Tetris
09/09/2016
There’s a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas that is piling up ever more rapidly as we burn the fossil fuels that run our cars, factories and power plants....
How the Königsberg bridge problem changed mathematics
07/07/2016
You’d have a hard time finding the medieval city Königsberg on any modern maps, but one particular quirk in its geography has made it one of the most famous cities in mathematics. Dan Van der Vieren explains how grappling with Königsberg’s puzzling seven bridges led famous mathematician Leonhard Euler to...
Paper: “Examining Learning Experiences in and out of School: The Bridging Learning Experiences Project”
19/06/2016
On 18th and 19th June 2016 took place in the city of Rethymno, Crete, the International Conference “Cultural Historical, Activity and Sociocultural Research at Times of Contemporary Crisis” organized by the section of South and Central Europe and Middle East of the International Society for Cultural-Historical and Activity Research -ISCAR-...