martes, 7 de octubre de 2008

Science and technology

Teaching Science and Technology, Inc. (TSTI) presents quality short courses and workshops in space systems engineering. Our teaching style is highly interactive with emphasis on learning-by-doing and practical real-world examples and applications. Our courses provide the processes, tools, and information necessary to "jump-start" new-hires to the space business or improve the performance of mid- to senior-level engineers, systems engineers, and technical program managers.

Using technology for learning & teaching science

According to one recent report on human resources for science and technology, Europe needs some 700,000 more researchers if it is to become a world-leading knowledge economy by 2010. The question is – how? IST funded research projects may be able to produce solutions.
Researchers are demonstrating how technologies when applied to science learning can help motivate and engage pupils and promote better take-up of scientific disciplines at school and university. The following eight IST research projects are focusing on technology-enhanced learning methods, in subjects as varied as astronomy, space research, physics, mathematics and the earth sciences.

martes, 30 de septiembre de 2008

Technophilics vs Technophobics

The technophobic view sees technology as a threat because of its inherent capacity to alianate individuals from our common humanity and shared social situation. In this view, technology obscures or distorts human nature, or technology creates circumstances in which people no longer have to interact face to face, allowing for a moral distancing that disinishes our obligations and responsability to others.

multiples Intelligences

the multiple intelligence as "the capacity" to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting.
Candidates for the title an intelligence had to satisfy a range of these criteria and must include, as a prerequisite, the ability to solve genuine problems or difficulties.
Initially fomulated a list of seven intelligences. His listen was provicional. The first two have been typically valued in schools; the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final two are what Howard Gardner called personal intelligences.
for example:
Linguistic intelligence
Logical- mathematical intelligence
Musical intelligence
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
Spatical intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence

martes, 23 de septiembre de 2008

Internet history

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Update Information 2006:
In 2006 the Internet History Sourcebooks Project is undergoing a major overhaul to remove bad links and add more documents.
2. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page. In some cases some websites have simply reorganized sub-directories without creating forwarding links. Since 2000, very few links to external sites have been made. An effort is under way to remove bad links.
2. All links to documents marked [at this Site] should be working. [In the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, but not the other associated sourcebooks, if there is no indication of the file's location then the text is hosted locally and the link should be working.]
3. Users may attempt to locate texts not currently available, or where the links have changed via
The Internet Archive/Way Back Machine. Alternately, a search via Google may locate another site where the document is available.
THE INTERNET HISTORY SOURCEBOOKS
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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook A "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Ancient history and civilization courses.
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Internet Medieval SourcebookThis is an online source book of copy-permitted, although not necessarily copyright-free, source material for Medieval Studies. It is the largest online resource of medieval and Byzantine textual sources.
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook Now with almost as many online texts as the Medieval Sourcebook, this also constitutes a "classroom usable" sourcebook of copy-permitted material for Modern European history and Modern Civilization courses. North American and Latin American documents are located within its structure.

martes, 16 de septiembre de 2008