What Has Your Sex Education Been Like?
Have you taken any sex education classes during your time in school? In what grade did they start? What topics have you covered each year? Over all, do you feel you have gotten an adequate education around sex? Why or why not? In “As Colorado Moves to Bar Abstinence-Only Sex Education, Teenagers Take the Lead,”…
Digest #138: What Can (and Can’t) Neuroscience Tell Us About Education
So, trust me when I say that I am all for cross-talk and communication between neuroscience and education. However, with the increasing excitement surrounding neuroscience research I feel it’s necessary to discuss some of the limitations of the ability of neuroscience to inform and influence educational practice. This digest collects a few different resources that…
DIFERENCIAS ENTRE LA GESTION PUBLICA DE TURISMO ENTRE BOLIVIA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS
El presente artículo es un breve análisis de una visita que se realizó al país de Estados Unidos para conocer los ámbitos de la gestión del turismo en tres estados y obtener las principales lecciones aprendidas y conocimiento técnico del área. Esta visita estuvo organizada por el programa IVLP. El Programa de Liderazgo para Visitantes…
5 Innovative Techniques for Creating Online Video Lectures
by Adam Hodges, Ph.D., Sr. Teaching & Learning Specialist Video lectures are a central component of the online learning experience. But creating effective videos can be time-consuming and challenging. Online video production typically involves writing scripts and learning how to speak comfortably in front of a camera, tasks that differ considerably from delivering lectures to…
Educator spotlight: Challenging borders of entrepreneurship and collaboration
From the start of the Demystifying Entrepreneurship course — part of an appropriately innovative degree venture — the cross-national team of educators from Deakin and Coventry Universities challenge learners, encouraging them to reconsider their assumptions about entrepreneurship and what it means to be an entrepreneur. With the city of Coventry in the background of the…
How to Design Lessons Based on Current Research
Written by Younes Bensouda Mourri & Adam Hodges We live in a time of rapidly accelerating advancements in technology. This can be seen in the field of machine translation which, over the course of a few years, has gone from rule-based translation techniques to neural network techniques to the most recent approach known as the…
El impacto de los videojuegos en el cerebro de los niños
¿Es bueno que los niños jueguen a videojuegos? ¿afecta a su desarrollo? ¿cómo impacta en su cerebro estar horas delante de una pantalla matando monstruos o jugando al Candy Crush? ¿es perjudicial que un niño se duerma viendo dibujos animados en una tableta? Conozco niños que permanecen ingentes cantidades de tiempo leyendo– simplemente sentados y…
How to Quickly and Easily Remove a Background in Photoshop
Photoshop offers many different techniques to remove a background from an image. For simple backgrounds, using the standard magic wand tool to select and delete the background may well be more than adequate. For more complicated backgrounds, you might use the Background Eraser tool. The Background Eraser Tool The Background Eraser tool samples the color…
“Qué es y qué no es”: el sueño de René Descartes que revolucionó las...
El poder de las matemáticas reside en la forma en que su lenguaje y sus símbolos nos han permitido manipular el mundo. Pero durante siglos fue un mundo que seguía las reglas de Dios y la Iglesia. En el siglo XVII, emergió una nueva generación de intelectuales que no temía desafiar a la autoridad. Hubo…
Traditional ways of resolving conflicts
IntroductionThis article is going to look at the means to be utilized in resolving conflict. So there are so many means of resolving conflict which involves retortion, reprisal and reconciliation by regional agencies, conciliation and arbitration among others. So these are some of the means of resolving conflict that we are going to look at…
