What's the future of education? Week six / Activity 6.6

From the beginning I knew that the course title was somewhat misleading, but not impossible, if one is to think you will see that is something we can not determine with certainty the future in education. As Ken Robinson puts it in the video for 'Breaking paradigms'.

But what I am sure of is that since home education has that ability to adapt and work for the environment, we have many examples, such as why does not equal Arab education and American education?

And as we mentioned Piaget are always learning with a formal, non-formal education and informal educaciónn.
I believe that humans to evolve had to imitate what they see in others, from the basics like walking or speaking, is a process by imitation and is the basis of what we bring rooted and ended up in what we call education, always be researching, discovering, questioning. educating ourselves and adapting to our environment.

And the course for me was a challenge, I'm almost finished my Masters in Education, I always have saturated the agenda, but I saw the course and said I want to see how other people see education in other countries.

To begin with the first challenges was regarding the language, since I do not know English conventionally, (going to school or paying courses), I learned some English by watching American tv series without subtitles in Spanish. But he had never been tested. I always say that the ingenuity and creativity should be at our service and help in unfamiliar environments, overcoming obstacles and that's how the google translator, friends (who do speak English) helped me with my homework. Where was I died of fear on hangouts to ask me and I felt I stammered one, well apparently I did better last very bad English.

I liked the course structure from how we learn? through intelligence or subjectivity is really a good teacher or not. In my context is very difficult to define, the question of education in schools I think it touches a point at which inevitably leads the government and education and ends with the title question of the future course of education ....
I liked the course, my hangout talking to my partner told him that I liked the way it was structured. I had made two previous courses Coursera but I never saw such a diverse planning and many years, I was in a real class.

Simple exercises that did not require much time to answer them, always starting with a self-reflective thought on the subject matter, watch videos and discuss or share on forums and padlet (I consider them as good learning tools, but the Padlet serves a lot, not knew and now I'll use it in class). All this planning class were as simple as puzzles, small but joined together to do something bigger. And then we can speak of a true knowledge or knowledge gained.

The final part, I liked the change of dynamics, seeing the videos open much the picture, it's like watching case studies, for example India is similar to Mexico, a system of very strong and diverse classes and places where there is extreme poverty and yet there are people that strives to assist and investigate.

Another point of this course were the hangouts, interact with people of different nationalities and cultures served me, I opened my vision of education. From things that I thought only happened in Mexico and saw that I was wrong, they can happen in Canada, Peru, India, Russia or the United States. It makes you think and not feel as unique and part of the model global village of McLuhan's true, we are interconnected and makes us have similar problems and see that this road is long and progress needs. We are determined in our education for our social movements, society, government and culture.

I think the course has made me a good knowledge and good taste.
In the end, as I saw in National Geographic in Spanish this month, in an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke to the future has given us better quality of life and we have used technology to get ahead. And that without science and technology would die, then the future of education we will see a technological revolution in the classroom and that is a great for my country and many other countries step (a population digitally literate). But we must not forget that cultivate human feeling that says Morin or speaker Sir Ken Robinson, treating the human being as a person, based on their education as early loss not as industrialized agriculture, to develop you or awaken that awareness and empathy and then living with the environment and in harmony with their fellow men. They come very strong changes and education in the future will be present and will have an important role.

Today I finished watching a video of Carlos Gonzalez Perez, teaching and reflecting proposed change education with an internalization and learn from everyone and not discriminate on the knowledge. Learning to be what he calls teachers heart.

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Desde el inicio sabía que el título del curso era algo engañoso, más no imposible, si uno hace una reflexión verá que es algo que con certeza no podemos determinar un futuro en la educación. Tal y como lo plantea Ken Robinson en el video de 'Rompiendo los paradigmas'.
Pero de lo que sí estoy seguro es que desde que inicio la educación tiene esa habilidad de adaptarse y trabajar para el entorno, tenemos muchos ejemplos, como el ¿por qué no es igual la educación árabe que la estadounidense?
Y como menciona Piaget nosotros siempre estamos aprendiendo con una educación formal, no formal o informal.Creo que nosotros: el ser humano para evolucionar ha tenido que imitar lo que ve en los demás, desde lo más básico como el caminar o hablar, es un proceso por imitación y es la base de lo que traemos arraigado y le llamamos educación, siempre estar investigando, descubriendo, cuestionando. educándonos y adaptándonos a nuestro entorno.
Y el curso para mi fue todo un reto, estoy apunto de terminar mi maestría en educación, siempre tengo saturada la agenda, pero vi el curso y dije quiero ver cómo ven otras personas de otros países la educación.
Para empezar con los desafíos el primero fue respecto al idioma, puesto que, no sé inglés de forma convencional, (yendo a una escuela o pagando cursos, aprendí un poco de inglés viendo series de tv americanas, sin subtítulos en español. Pero nunca lo había puesto a prueba. Yo siempre dije que el ingenio y la creatividad deben de estar a nuestro servicio  y así fue como con el traductor de google, amigos (que sí hablan inglés) subía mis tareas. Donde me morí de miedo fue en los hangouts que me preguntaran y yo sentía que balbuceaba un inglés muy malo, bueno al parecer los últimos lo hice mejor.
Me gustó la estructura del curso desde ¿cómo aprendemos? pasando por la inteligencia, o lo subjetivo que es realmente ser un buen maestro o no serlo. En mi contexto es muy difícil definirlos, el cuestionarse la educación en las escuelas creo que toca un punto al que irremediablemente conduce el gobierno y la educación y termina con la pregunta del título del curso el futuro de la educación....Me gustó el curso, en mi hangout platicando con mi compañero le decía que me gustó la forma en que se estructuró. Ya había tomado dos cursos previos en Coursera pero nunca vi una planeación tan diversa y tantos ejercicios, me sentí en una clase real,
Ejercicios sencillos que no tardabas mucho tiempo en contestarlos, empezando siempre con un pensamiento autoreflexivo del tema en cuestión, ver videos y debatir o compartir en los foros y el padlet (los considero como muy buena herramientas didácticas, mas el Padlet, sirve mucho, no lo conocía y ahora lo usaré en clase). Toda esta planeación de clase tan sencilla fueron como piezas de rompecabezas,  chiquitas pero que se unían en conjunto para hacer algo más grande. Y entonces podremos hablar de un conocimiento verdadero o un conocimiento adquirido.
La parte final, me gustó el cambio de dinámicas, el ver los videos abren mucho el panorama, es como ver análisis de casos, por ejemplo India es similar a México, un sistema de clases muy marcado y diverso y lugares donde hay extrema pobreza y aún así hay gente que se esfuerza por ayudar y por investigar.
Otro de los puntos de este curso fueron los hangouts, interactuar con gente de diversas nacionalidades y culturas  me sirvió, abrí mi visión de la educación. De cosas que creí que sólo pasaban en México y vi que estaba equivocado, pueden pasar en Canadá, Perú, India, Russia o Estados Unidos. Eso te hace reflexionar y no sentirte tan único y parte del modelo de la 'aldea global' de McLuhan es cierto, estamos interconectados y nos hace tener problemas similares y vemos que este camino es largo y falta por avanzar. Que estamos determinados en nuestra educación por nuestros movimientos sociales, sociedad, gobierno o cultura.
Creo que el curso me ha dejado un buen saber y un buen sabor de boca.Al final, como lo veía en la National Geographic en español de este mes, en una entrevista con Neil deGrasse Tyson el hablaba que el futuro nos ha dado mejor calidad de vida y hemos usado la tecnología para salir adelante. Y que sin la ciencia y la tecnología moriríamos, entonces el futuro de la educación lo veremos con una revolución tecnológica en las aulas y eso es un paso grande para mi país y muchos otros países, (tener una población alfabetizada digitalmente). Pero no debemos olvidarnos de cultivar ése sentir humano que dice Morin o del que habla Sir Ken Robinson, tratar al ser humano como persona, basándonos en su educación como loss principios de la agricultura no como algo industrializado, para desarrollarle o despertarle esa consciencia y empatía y entonces conviva con el entorno y con sus semejantes en armonía. Vienen cambios muy fuertes y la educación en el futuro estará presente y tendrá un papel importante.
Hoy terminé de ver un video de Carlos Gonzalez Perez, docente y el propone cambiar la educación reflexionando con una interiorización y aprender de todos y no discriminar por el conocimiento. Aprender a ser lo que él llama maestros del corazón.

What's the future of education? Week six / Actvity 6.1

This discussion goes deeper than my college-level knowledge can bring, I had the audacity to ask two teachers colleagues: what was good? What would change? What values do you have? particularly with respect to the elementary education system in Mexico, the interesting thing is that one is a teacher working in a community near the city and another in the city in a private school. This is what they said and it turns out to be interesting context different degree of education and various economic factors ..

The teacher who teaches in the community mentioned that:
Now put students to work things out for themselves, one teacher can not give a detailed explanation, you should leave them well their own answers and work better together. Q To share experiences and learn to work in groups. Driving a guided discovery learning.

Respect, cooperation, responsibility, cooperation, teamwork, mutual support, exchange of ideas.

Something is off and it's good to disappear is that I as a teacher can not be authoritarian and something you should rethink are the themes that manage current primary school textbooks, are obsolete and many errors, each topic is 5 tracks, is a redundancy and should be seen as isolated subject.
Another thing. Now in first grade, handle it as if the child knew how to read and write ... You have done mixtures of topics and very difficult for the degree of maturity. And remember now working alone, is hard for the child.

But the situation is different for the private school.

Possible good points to education are the changes now made to educational reform.

The values which are supposed to promote respect and tolerance are the strongest right now to avoid a little bullying, that thing really does not exist or is very rare at this level.


Change of education is not, but if bring. More work is needed in teacher training but the private sector does not suit you have untrained teachers otherwise would not have the income or quality that is what sells. Supposedly.

What's the future of education? Week five / Actvity 5.5

In an Ideal world, how do you think education Should be Organised?

I think we can not talk about an ideal world, because education is based on the capitalist system indicating to start should clear the gap between public and private education, it is like having an idea of putting education to communism and that would serve the purpose of the state, indenpendientemente of which approach the financial economic system in which we find ourselves.

Perhaps education would be like the post I published: is there a unicorn in education? https://class.coursera.org/futureeducation-001/forum/thread?thread_id=862 would be something like the Brazilian Paulo Freyre described his liberating and transformative education, but I can not find anything like this economic system which Freyre said.

Maybe I need to stop thinking embedded in the system of capitalism and globalization and to analyze it, but for now it is very difficult, would ideally education free for all


What do you think Priorities Reflect It Should? and Who should be responsible for Ensuring That it is of a good quality?

Education is the main quality of being imperfect, so always comes with search for new knowledge, which will enable it to adapt to the social and cultural context. Do I talk to see education only as formal education, but as mentioned in Piaget's theory of stages informal NFE and formal, while not losing that idea I think is the greatest quality.

Is there anything from the wall That Has Informed padlet your position?

It strikes me that several parties are in education and social movements are impacting the government, or in education reforms promoted by the government resulting in social movements

What future for education? Week five / Activity 5.3

Crítica al sistema educativo mexicano

En este punto a lo mejor podría leerme un poco radical o marxista, pero para hablar del sistema educativo mexicano debo retomar la frase que el escritor Mario Vargas Llosa diría en 1990 en un programa de televisión mexicano:

"México es la dictadura perfecta. La dictadura perfecta no es el comunismo. No es la URSS. No es Fidel Castro. La dictadura perfecta es México, es la dictadura camuflada. Tiene las características de la dictadura: la permanencia, no de un hombre, pero sí de un partido político. Y de un partido político que es inamovible".

México acabó de realizar una actualización a las leyes educativas, pensada para aprovechar nuestras fortalezas en el ámbito educativo y mejorar nuestras debilidades, como país de la OCDE y los resultados de la prueba PISA (nos encontramos entre los lugares quincuagésimos, puede variar según el área de conocimiento), sus niveles son como los niveles básicos en cualquier país, hay cierta concentración de mejores escuelas en ciudades que en zonas rurales. Varios estudiantes cuentan con becas desde apoyos económicos para madres solteras, deportistas, alumnos de excelencia, actualmente muchas universidades y highschools están conectados con escuelas a nivel mundial para facilitar el intercambio estudiantil.

Pero México es un país de contrastes y como lo he mencionado varias veces, el contexto determina gran parte de la educación y la cultura de un pueblo.   México es una cultura creada en su mayoría por la televisión, es contrastante ver que la televisión no puede faltar en ningún hogar, el mexicano le cree a la tv, normalmente esto no estaría mal, es un medio de comunicación (tiene que tener varias funciones: informar, entretener, comunicar, etcetera), pero es un monopolio privado (ese no es un asunto a discutir) que no crea programas con contenido o que hagan pensar a las personas, eso podría generar una disfunción narcotizante en el espectador o peor, tener una de las reacciones que plantean Huxley u Orwell

Aquí el detalle es que los niños pasan mucho tiempo en videojuegos, internet y en la tv que poniendo atención en la escuela. Y eso en mi país educa y por lo visto mal.
Un pequeño ejemplo: en el mundial de football soccer Brasil 2014, el senado Mexicano estaba sesionando reformas (entre ellas la educativa y energéticos) muy importantes para el país, unas personas estaban a favor y la mayoría en contra, hubo manifestaciones, marchas de los maestros, fuimos #TT en twitter y parecia que las personas se había unido contra el gobierno,  pero hay un dicho en Mexico: 'más vale maña que fuerza' y la dictadura es perfecta, pasaron la sesion de las reformas a la hora de los partidos que jugaba la selección mexicana de football y nadie se quejo, de pronto no hubo marchas, no hubo huelgas, nadie hizo nada.

El punto de ser un educador en mi país y quizás lo más difícil es enseñar al alumno a no ser diligente, a cuestionar, preguntar siempre y a pensar por sí mismo. Ser una persona que quiera aprender por su beneficio no por que lo obligan su familia, que sea consciente de sí, para salir del típico sistema educativo mexicano.  


Véase: http://www.adnpolitico.com/ciudadanos/2013/12/03/pisa-ranking-de-los-mejores-y-peores-paises-en-educacion

[English]

At this point perhaps you could read me a bit radical or Marxist, but to speak of the Mexican educational system must retake the phrase that the writer Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 say a Mexican television program:

"Mexico is the perfect dictatorship The perfect dictatorship is not communism, not the USSR, not Fidel Castro The perfect dictatorship is Mexico, is the dictatorship camouflaged has the characteristics of dictatorship..... Stay, not a man , but of a political party. And a political party that is immovable. "

Mexico finished upgrading to the education laws, designed to build on our strengths in education and improve our weaknesses as OECD country and the results of the PISA test (we are among the fiftieth locations vary by area knowledge), your levels are as baselines in any country, there is a certain concentration of top schools in cities than in rural areas. Several students have financial support from scholarships for single mothers, athletes, students of excellence, now many universities and highschools are connected with schools worldwide to facilitate student exchange.

But Mexico is a country of contrasts and as I have mentioned several times, the context determines much of the education and culture of a people. Mexico is a culture created mostly by television, is contrasting view that television is a must in any household, the Mexican would think the tv, it will not normally be bad, it is a means of communication (must have several functions inform, entertain, communicate, and so on), but it is a private monopoly (this is not a matter to be discussed) does not create program content or make people think, that could generate a narcotic dysfunction in the viewer or worse, reactions have a raised Huxley or Orwell

Here the problem is that children spend much time on video games, internet and tv that paying attention in school. And that in my country educates and apparently wrong.
A small example: in the world of Brazilian soccer football 2014, the Mexican Senate was in session reforms (including education and energy) very important for the country, some people were in favor and against the majority, there were demonstrations, marches teachers, went #TT on twitter and it looked like people had united against the government, but there is a saying in Mexico: 'better skill than strength' and dictatorship is perfect, the session passed reforms when the parties playing the Mexican national football and nobody complained, suddenly there was no marches, no strikes, no one did anything.

The point of being an educator in my country and perhaps the most difficult is to teach students not to be diligent, to question, always ask and think for yourself. Being a person who wants to learn for their benefit not for forcing him his family which is conscious of itself, to leave the typical Mexican education system.


see: http://www.adnpolitico.com/ciudadanos/2013/12/03/pisa-ranking-de-los-mejores-y-peores-paises-en-educacion

What future for education? Week four / Activity 4.5

How has your experience of school shaped you as a learner, and as an adult?

In my learning I had teachers with different educational methods, kinder garden with an affective and emotional method, or the heliocentric method the student is an empty vessel and you have to fill it with knowledge, others used the repetition and memorization (preferred method of elementary) school-based behavioral paradigm, others that his department was constructive and reinforces the theory with practice and the creation of knowledge and competence to work it. To the point of being a more self-reflective method continuous learning.

I think the point of education is to be progressive, as it goes by level you have to teach the basics so that you can move made ​​more complex, slowly and develop your study method

In what ways do you think your own schooling Could have been improved, and what do you think Priorities Are the Most Important for schools today?

I believe that my education could improve if I had a constructive training, loved chemistry, unfortunately in middle school and high school teacher of chemistry lab always, I think if you show how it is a mixture, a base or a reaction in chemistry is like magic, at least I do marvel me. Or in subjects such as physics do more didactic problems, fewer numbers in notepad and perhaps build something to explain or thermodynamic Newtow laws. It's only missing a more didactic approach in some materials, there on out I liked my education.

What future for education? Week five / Activity 5.1

First of all an apology, if you see this post before the 4.5, due to time I moved to item 5 of course, but the subject is just above 4.5. 

How Sir Ken Robinson mentions, the current model of education is obsolete yet again, in the middle ages no government supported the education of the people, only the wealthy or influential merchants could access a costly and religious education. 

Current education comes with illustration and born with the industrial revolution, because the roughly the population needed at least I know how to read and do basic math. 

Now why education is currently invested by governments? think it's an easy answer, to raise its GDP growth. If the study population is not a guarantee or a right to public education would both. 

1. ignorant nation, atypical of context, culture and interaction with the world, a nation that can not compete in the world. 
2. The level of education you have that nation would be like living in the middle ages again, the manual and basic work would be predominant (not saying that this work is bad) but work a whole nation of the field is not good growth for GDP, in contrast, need engineers for roads and bridges, agricultural bio to see the genetics and breeding of plants and fruits that are worked, trained teachers to educate people, people who know law and policy, to reform laws according to the context and time we live in, to sum ​​up a conglomerate of people need to qe your country succeed and grow gross domestic product or your country does not sink.

Antes que nada una disculpa, si ves este post antes que el 4.5, por cuestiones de tiempo avancé al tema 5 del curso, pero el tema 4.5 estará justamente arriba.
Cómo lo menciona Sir Ken Robinson, el modelo actual de la educación es nuevo y a la vez obsoleto, en la edad media ningun gobierno apoyaba la educación del pueblo, sólo los ricos o mercaderes influyentes podían accesar a una costosa y religiosa educación. 
La educación actual llega con la ilustración y nace con la revolución industrial, por que el groso de la población  necesitaba al menos ya saber leer y las operaciones matemáticas básicas. 
Ahora bien ¿por qué la educación actualmente es invertida por los gobiernos? creo que es una respuesta fácil, para subir su crecimiento de producto interno bruto. Si la población no estudiara o no fuera una garantía el derecho a la educación pública pasarían dos cosas.
1. Nación ignorante, atípica de su contexto, cultura e interacción con el mundo, nación que no podrá competir en el mundo.2. El grado de educación que tendría esa nación sería como vivir en la edad media de nuevo, el trabajo manual y básico sería lo predominante (no digo que este trabajo sea malo) pero trabajar toda una nación del campo no es buen crecimiento para el producto interno bruto, al contrario, necesitas ingenieros para ver caminos y puentes, bio agrónomos para ver la genética y mejoramiento de las plantas y frutos que se trabajan, maestros capacitados para educar a la población, gente que sepa de política y leyes, que reformen las leyes de acuerdo al contexto y tiempo que vivimos,  a resumidas cuentas necesitas un conglomerado de personas para qe tu país salga adelante y crezca el producto interno bruto o para que tu país no se hunda. 

What future for education? Week four / Activity 4.1

I have two distinct memories of school at different stages of my life.

The first elementary school, got a new part of town, new suburban housing development. But it was quite far from the city -in that time- and there were many buses to the city. My family decided to get into school in the state, which was a shabby warehouse (no ceiling or roof parts pegboard, broken walls and holes). After a huge tantrum that only made ​​my mom take determination to enroll there. But even deprived of some things, we learned that education is not provided concrete walls, you'd get people with values ​​and ideals and the desire to want to teach, you give it to live with peers and interact in groups. The school was slowly growing and improving its infrastructure and learning competences would play a good role and students from reputed schools, estaddo schools and private schools. Today, almost twenty years since I left elementary school, this is one of the best schools in the city and improved, is equipped with technology and has a good teaching staff.

In middle school, the school was huge, it was in conjunction with the high school. We were about three thousand two hundred students, was a large (four acres) school has an auditorium for two hundred thousand people, there are fields for soccer, basket ball, volley ball, a running track and gym, workshops, libraries, etc and to be a school of government, not bad is not it? 
The interesting thing here is that we were so many students and very small authorities to end up being self sufficient, looking to create an identity and is where your values ​​are involved, your beliefs and approach the individual who may you be in the future, this school has points in between is considered good for some people and bad for another. In my opinion it was a school education and also gave me the opportunity to let me see who was going to be.

Finally  in words of  José Martí: 

A school is a forge spirits.