After reading the article titled “East Asia wins top marks in OECD´s education rankings” published on REUTERS´web yesterday, you would think that the East Asian systems of education are setting an example for the Western countries to follow. In some respects, this could be true. For […]
I started learning French as a foreign language not so long ago, and I think it is interesting to be able to share my experience with you. This experience has been valuable to me for various reasons. First, because I´m a language teacher and this […]
Sir Ken Robinson habla de educación y creatividad
In Socio-constructivism, one of the subjects in the master I’ve recently completed, I had access to one of the most enlightening texts I’ve read in the course. I’m talking about Edgar Morin and “Seven complex lessons in education for the future”. What follows is […]
Most of us know just how bad TV is for us but the reasons why this is so aren’t always very clear. The article “Television: Opiate of the Masses” presents convincing and forceful arguments, most of them based on scientific facts, against watching television. The […]