Let's teach children to program by playing: Together From Home
Sometimes everything is born from a simple tweet. Flatten the curve On Friday, March 13, 2 days before the start of the confinement, we started to organize ourselves through a Telegram group called Flatten the curve with the idea of lending a hand in whatever way we could. Hispabot-Covid 19 From that group of...
Hacking education VIII: keeping the illusion alive
At the age of six a child enters our educational system wanting to be an astronaut and leaves at the age of twenty-two wanting to be a civil servant. Why do we laminate their illusion? Why do we gradually turn them into little gray men? Why do we try to make them into something that has no place in the 21st century?
Hacking education VI: reaching a consensus
It takes two decades from the time a change is made in our educational system until its effects are seen, because first it has to be transmitted to the teachers, then they have to adapt their methods, then iterate with the student many times before we finally get a glimpse of something. There have been many educational reforms that do not last....
Hacking education V: opening minds
Let's open our minds, I say those of adults because children have them open as a matter of course. The problem is that children's minds are closed from the age of six onwards until, at the age of twenty-two, they are as closed or even more closed than ours. Yes, six years old is the moment when...
Initiator kids Gredos. My summary in a tweet and a video
I would like to thank Fabián Pedrero from Contoplanet and Fernando Moreno from ICSW Group for their selfless collaboration as teachers of the mini-camp in Gredos. It is especially significant in the case of Fernando, because, from his company ICSW Group - the company responsible for the official videogame of the series El Águila Roja - he also sponsored the event. Fernando Moreno was impressed...
Teaching entrepreneurship
1. What? The I Iniciador kids Camp held in August 2011 in Rada-Cantabria has been a laboratory of education, an exciting experience that I think I should share from the point of view of teaching methodology. I am aware that this is not a blog for secondary school teachers, but I feel the need to share my experience...
Dropad review, android tablet for 140€.
I've been using the Dropad for fifteen days, a tablet similar to the Samsung Galaxy tab 7′ but more limited than this one. I bought it to be used by small children, because paying the 500€ of rigor seemed to me a waste, especially when you risk that the child breaks it on the second day of use ....
OLPC, the 100$ laptop is going to cost me 500$
I confess to being in love with the XO, that laptop designed for children in the second and third world, in fact I am trying to buy one for my son who lives in the first world, at least for the moment. The only bad thing is that with the campaign to pay for two, that one of the computers will be sent to a...