<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613</id><updated>2012-01-28T14:35:30.282-08:00</updated><category term='education'/><category term='participación'/><category term='comment'/><category term='colaboration'/><category term='assessment'/><category term='interacción'/><category term='life long learning'/><category term='publicidad'/><category term='classroom'/><category term='personal relevance'/><category term='comunicación'/><category term='portfolio'/><category term='interaction'/><category term='evaluation'/><category term='educación'/><category term='opinion'/><category term='participation'/><category term='preguntas'/><category term='aprendizaje'/><category term='mercado'/><category term='design'/><category term='object culture'/><category term='relevancia personal'/><category term='tendencia'/><category term='learning'/><category term='questions'/><category term='log book'/><category term='enseñanza'/><category term='21st century skills'/><category term='teaching'/><category term='trabajo'/><title type='text'>Foozle design</title><subtitle type='html'>inquiesmind</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-7124645759149716486</id><published>2012-01-28T14:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T14:35:30.286-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opinion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='design'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='object culture'/><title type='text'>Comment on object culture</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;I wanted to post the below comment on Core77´s article:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_manufacturing_part_1_getting_it_wrong_21619.asp?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29" target="_blank"&gt;Chinese Manufacturing, Part 1: Getting It Wrong&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;but wasn´t able to due to some nagging error so I decided to post it here instead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;"I imagine that back in the early 1900s, when these wheels were originally made, the manufacturers actually cared about the end user. American women, mostly, that worked with the singer machines and so, the manufacturer made sure that all the details were properly resolved, rounded edges, shiny and smooth paint coats, etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;I have a hard time believing that a chinese manufacturer, or any other manufacturer in this case, would really be interested in the end user experience of someone still using an old singer sewing machine nowadays given the abundance of alternatives on the market.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;That may seem harsh, but whoever those people are, they don´t strike me as being much of a priority target market for any modern manufacturer, consumer goods provider or designer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;The production volumes are too low, the turnover rate (obsolescence) too long and the margins barely viable which is why they´re made in china, because nobody else is even inclined to provide this service to a dwindling clientele. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;It´s surprising that spare parts are actually still being made at all for a product that´s mainly out of circulation."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-7124645759149716486?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/7124645759149716486/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=7124645759149716486' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/7124645759149716486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/7124645759149716486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2012/01/comment-on-object-culture.html' title='Comment on object culture'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-2050780598681438462</id><published>2011-06-06T12:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T12:11:45.728-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Respuesta a articulo "La derecha intentando tapar el sol con un dedo"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;volví encontrame con una entrevista que hicieron el año pasado con Inger Enkvist, quien hizo un estudio sobre "las claves del exito educacional finlandés" y lo que implica para mejorar la calidad de la educación en chile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;hasta el momento (que voy recién en la mitad de la entrevista) hay 2 conclusiones que me parecen importante compartir:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;1. NO hay relación entre la cantidad de plata invertida y el rendimiento de los alumnos (resultados medidos en base a prueba PISA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;2. la lectura, el lenguaje y la calidad de los profesores son los elementos claves que más contribuyen a un ambiente que facilita una educación de calidad..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;al parecer entonces, retener buenos profesores es la clave para una educación de calidad, y es aquí que entre el tema del LUCRO..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;los buenos profesores, me imagino, quieren ganarse la vida y acceder a un estilo de vida que les acomoda, por lo tanto van a ir donde estan las lucas, en este caso, a las univesidades que les entregan mejores condiciones de trabajo, lo que quizas es inevitable...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;aunque me parece bien lo que estan proponiendo, vale mencionar que en teoría el acceso universal a la educación, como derecho humana parece ser fundamental, pero conlleva necesariamente una aumento en la competitividad dentro del mercado laboral futuro..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;como diseñador por ejemplo, cada vez somos más, compitiendo por casi la misma cantidad de trabajos, lo que implica que algunos van a quedar sin pega, y como la cosa es tan peleado, la marca/sello y el presitigio, y quizas más importante es la percepción de la calidad, es lo que termina siendo el criterio de selección por parte de las empresas... en realidad no sé si esa situación se puede modificar, pero ya no pasa por un tema de calidad de educación, sin por calidad humana, un proyecto que es de muy largo plazo...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;bueno... ojala te sirva de algo... por ultimo otro punto de vista para comparar/criticar/reflexionar...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-2050780598681438462?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/2050780598681438462/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=2050780598681438462' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/2050780598681438462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/2050780598681438462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2011/06/respuesta-articulo-la-derecha.html' title='Respuesta a articulo &quot;La derecha intentando tapar el sol con un dedo&quot;'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-1190603560384433998</id><published>2010-02-17T20:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T22:29:13.941-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evaluation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='assessment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='classroom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interaction'/><title type='text'>Interaction in the classroom: Assessment</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So i was thinking about “standards” for self assessment after jotting down an anecdote that Daniel Pink mentioned in his interview with &lt;a href="http://www.stevehargadon.com/2010/02/dan-pink-discussing-his-new-book-drive.html"&gt;Steve Hargadon in tonight´s Elluminate session&lt;/a&gt;.. The point Mr. Pink made was that, sometimes students asses their own progress more critically than teachers do!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After considering some personal doubts regarding the validity of my personal goals and how reasonable they are... i decided to try and chart all the types of evaluation that generally occur in the classroom...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3LPoubRwe1k/S3zN3tZ6lVI/AAAAAAAAADw/jtSHX2-O0Hc/s320/fig-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439448806921508178" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 112px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;i started with these six:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Teachers evaluate:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- student interaction with the content &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- their own interaction with the content &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- their own interaction with the students &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students evaluate:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- their own interaction with the content &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- their own interaction with the teacher &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- the way the teacher interacts with the content &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;[&lt;i&gt;see fig 1 left: T=teacher S=student C=content&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the interesting things about this over simplified diagram is that it demonstrates the symmetry of the relationship between student and teacher.  Although many of these processes aren´t taken into consideration in most cases, by either student or teacher (and by extension their respective institution) i imagine that they do occur...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other thing that occurred to me is that, although its nice to imagine that both student and teacher share responsibility for tracking learning progress... it would probably only make sense in high school or at least in college/university contexts... but whereas in kindergarten the relationship is most likely to be productive in a hierarchical format, as the student continues his/her education, the opportunity presents itself for a shift in the traditional “power structure”, gradually conferring more responsibility for this aspect of education onto the students themselves... and in that way allowing for more authentic communication between learners.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3LPoubRwe1k/S3zOMI_jCfI/AAAAAAAAAD4/Zh0M0EEC1sE/s320/fig-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439449157924489714" style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 181px; " /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;After looking at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt; fig 2*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt; (above) for a while, it dawned on me that there are really three “objects” that are the focus of constant scrutiny in the classroom... which led me to redraw the diagram in a this way... [&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;* in this diagram i just flattened all six interactions from fig 1 into one...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3LPoubRwe1k/S3zO9lUloyI/AAAAAAAAAEA/nzBi2K_tl6k/s320/fig-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450007342523170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 199px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If we imagine that each of the dotted lines in &lt;i&gt;fig 3&lt;/i&gt; (above) are interactions (communaction of sorts) the relationship inside the classroom clearly becomes much more dynamic than the traditional model would imply... [&lt;i&gt;see fig 4 below&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3LPoubRwe1k/S3zPNYnc6hI/AAAAAAAAAEI/PVXSbHaD2LE/s320/fig-4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439450278809889298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 261px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In a very real sense, students have traditionally been disregarded as observers of their own progress/reality... a situation which distorts their role in the classroom, and cuts off many valuable opportunities for interaction among both participants.  As far as i can tell, assessment has always been considered an integral part of learning... So my questions are &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6666;"&gt;¿at what point does learning to evaluate learning overshadow content learning? ¿are assessment and learning really the separate actions we typically think of them as?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6666;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1311396300066992936aivlet"&gt;http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1311396300066992936aivlet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-1190603560384433998?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/1190603560384433998/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=1190603560384433998' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/1190603560384433998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/1190603560384433998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/interaction-in-classroom-assessment.html' title='Interaction in the classroom: Assessment'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3LPoubRwe1k/S3zN3tZ6lVI/AAAAAAAAADw/jtSHX2-O0Hc/s72-c/fig-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-666233458357858113</id><published>2009-08-08T00:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T04:31:15.802-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mercado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aprendizaje'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='publicidad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='educación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comunicación'/><title type='text'>Reflexión sobre la calidad de información que se nos presenta a diario</title><content type='html'>Hace una semana atrás leí &lt;a href="http://www.elmostrador.cl/index.php?/noticias/articulo/marketing-universitario/"&gt;un articulo en El Mostrador&lt;/a&gt; en línea que resalta algunas consecuencias que producen las actividades publicitarias que hacen anualmente las universidades en su búsqueda de un nuevo lote de jóvenes estelares y financiamiento estatal.  Me llamó mucho la atención el hecho, que notó &lt;a href="http://juanguillermotejeda.wordpress.com/"&gt;Juan Guillermo Tejeda&lt;/a&gt;, de que estas actividades resultan muy desorientadoras para los jóvenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Encuentro que la baja calidad informativa de la publicidad, es solamente un espejismo de lo que ocurre actualmente en las mismas salas de clases de muchas instituciones académicas que siguen operando bajo un modelo educativo tradicional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este modelo, en el cual el profesor como evaluador autoritario transmite una serie de contenidos preestablecidos que los alumnos deben internalizar, no toma en cuenta la variedad de necesidades de información específica (intereses) que tiene cada alumno, situación análoga a lo que pasa con la publicidad, que en mi opinión obstaculiza bastante el aprendizaje personal, actividad generadora de nuestra identidad individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El énfasis que nuestra sociedad ha puesto sobre la acumulación material, nos ha entrenado desde chico a postergar la exploración de lo que nos apasiona para hacer lo necesario para convertirnos en el arquetipo del profesional exitoso, validando así la falsedad que asemeja la estabilidad económica con la felicidad, hecho que desafortunadamente tomamos como consecuencia natural de nuestro diario vivir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En sus esfuerzos para entregar una base de conocimiento adecuado para que la mayor cantidad de personas pueda llevar a cabo sus proyectos de vida, las instituciones educativas han ido sacrificando la riqueza que conlleva el proceso de explorar nuestros propios intereses, para así producir profesionales capacitados en función del mercado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dado esta situación, ¿Cómo no podemos entender la &lt;a href="http://www.elmostrador.cl/index.php?/noticias/articulo/cuicos-flaites/"&gt;desilusión que frecuentemente sienten los alumnos&lt;/a&gt; o al empleado que labora sin gusto en un puesto de trabajo que no le motiva, inspira, ni satisface? Es de este agotamiento emocional que se aprovecha el mecanismo publicitario actual, que nos impulsa a experimentar el mundo a través de los “frutos” que nos ofrece el mercado en vez de nuestra creatividad personal única.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-666233458357858113?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/666233458357858113/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=666233458357858113' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/666233458357858113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/666233458357858113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/reflexion-sobre-la-calidad-de.html' title='Reflexión sobre la calidad de información que se nos presenta a diario'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-3432174792802740180</id><published>2009-02-21T06:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T07:07:47.282-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teaching'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal relevance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='participation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='learning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interaction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='questions'/><title type='text'>Some things students learn at school</title><content type='html'>I imagine that at some point in everyone´s academic carreer we´ve been asked these types of questions:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What is Biology? or What is economics?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These questions, although they may seem reasonable when introducing new contento to students, I think they have&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; little perceived value in the eyes of students.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems to me that students, by habit, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;already know that the teacher really isn´t looking for answers...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students know that the question has an answer, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;an answer that will be given to them by the teacher at some point...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students know, with almost complete certainty, that&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; any answer they offer up, won´t be exactly what the theacher is going to write on the board, or put on the screen...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Students know, that&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; if they stay quiet long enough, the teacher is going to have to give them the answer &lt;/span&gt;to move onto the next point, which is why many don´t even bother to try answering the question... ( a situation totally contradictory of how the real world works, where people won´t hang around to give you answers, before quickly finding someone else to solve their problems)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In that instant, students switch into "sponge mode", ready to consume any type of information without really questioning any of it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In that instant, they are transformed from individual thinkers into some kind of automaton, which will make getting them to answer future question even that much more difficult after having established that there is a limit to which they can influence the course of their learning...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Without knowing it perhaps, the teacher has hacked away at the student´s desire to learn, which many, or many, had in abundance at the begining of the class or semester...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If first impresions really are important, then students look forward to a long and unmotivating semester, motivated only by the acquisition of the necessary grade to get over the class and forget what the hours, minutes and seconds they suffered through...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although posing these kinds of questions is 1 way of getting students to participate, asking questions that have little relevance to their daily lives is probably &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;not a recomendable strategy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maybe asking questions such as, What do you know about Biology, or Have they ever come into contact with any content relating to this topic? be it a movie, a book, an article or documentary could help in relating the subject to the students, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;demonstrating how the subject is directly related to their "big picture" of how the world works...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In a world characterized by life styles that are increasingly more active, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;noone has the time or interest in responding to questions when they know that the person asking the them already has the answer they´re looking for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-3432174792802740180?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/3432174792802740180/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=3432174792802740180' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/3432174792802740180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/3432174792802740180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-things-students-learn-at-school.html' title='Some things students learn at school'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-4402270484698758683</id><published>2009-02-20T19:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T07:10:19.873-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='log book'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='evaluation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='colaboration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life long learning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='education'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='assessment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portfolio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interaction'/><title type='text'>Assesing learning in collaborative environments</title><content type='html'>I recently, about half an hour ago, listened to an hour long pod cast ( &lt;a href="http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/individual-assessment-in-a-collaborative-world/"&gt;http://bwatwood.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/individual-assessment-in-a-collaborative-world/&lt;/a&gt; ) about the challenges of assessing individual student progress in collaborative learning environments, hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It seems like there is a great deal of speculation regarding what works and how it should be implemented.  Among the most notable (according to me, a student) points were:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;1. student/teacher colaboration on the definition of evaluation criteria&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2. maintaining an open dialogue between teacher and students throughout the course&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;3. the importance of self evaluation by giving students time to reflect upon their own work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;4. demonstrating by some means what top quality work can look like by showing work done by previous students in certain cases&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;5. incorporating peer feedback in the assesment of individual student´s work&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;6. the creation and maintenance of a portfolio which more clearly tracks progress, establishing concrete links to past works throughout a longer period of time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a design student, i´ve been fortunate in having some experience with a few of these evaluation methods... due to the nature of the discipline [of design] itself which provides room for creative thought, self critique, peer critique and feedback to name just a few... although I can´t be sure just how much of each of these are taken into account in the final grade by each teacher...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, as i was thinking about the challenge of assessing student´s progress, it ocurred to me that there might be other methods which could be considered as well...  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I. Evaluating the questions each student asks...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This may sound rather strange at first, but hopefully I´ll be able to clear that up...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Earlier this evening I skimmed over another post ( &lt;a href="http://www.teach42.com/2009/02/12/its-not-an-assignment-its-a-creative-brief/"&gt;http://www.teach42.com/2009/02/12/its-not-an-assignment-its-a-creative-brief/&lt;/a&gt; ) entitled "It´s not an assignment, it´s a creative brief" once again echoing the parrallel between the teaching/learning process and design methodology... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Which led me to think about the some ideas i had played around with a few months ago... how &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;learning starts with just one question&lt;/span&gt;... a question that interests me... one that i would be willing to explore, which would give me the freedom to experiment with new content and discover something which would most likely lead to more questions... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;here´s a simplified diagram of the process in broad strokes:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Question&lt;/span&gt; #1 -&gt; E&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;xperiment&lt;/span&gt; -&gt; D&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;iscover&lt;/span&gt; -&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;uestion #2&lt;/span&gt;, etc... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;basically generating a sustainable loop of personalized learning... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I imagine having a list of questions, from the first to the last... demonstrating the sequence by which i arrived at the final result... in real world terms this means, that at the begining of the semester, i would start with question #1 and throughout the course of the semester would continue recording my questions in the order they came, till getting to number 100# for example (although its probable that the number could be considerably higher depending on the situation, which could also be part of the evaluation criteria...) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So... by demonstrating that the last 20 questions are markedly more precise or complex than the first 20 questions, and by comparing this complexity to the results of the individual student´s work or colaborations, the teacher could theoretically make a more clear determination of that student´s progress&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the other thought that occurred to me was...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;II. Evaluating the relevance of a student´s ideas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This one sounds less reasonable than the first, although there are some instances in which it could be applied at certain stages during the learning process...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Part of the design process involves finding references and precedents in areas relating to the main topic of the project, which allow the designer to create a solid foundation upon which to construct his/her solution... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When looking back on the project, it should be clear which elements from the final result were extrapolated from these initial references... and as the investigation phase of the project runs in parrallel to much of its development, these coincidences could be used as benchmarks in determining project progress...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In other words, the later stages of any work should be related in some way to earlier stages by some landmark object, whether it be an image, a sample of text, video, podcast, etc... or even another idea originally created by someone else... the key being that these landmark influences be recorded in such a manner that they may be called upon later as evidence of foundation, proof that the student´s idea is related to some previously relevant content.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Both these methods can be accomplished, i think,  if a carefull log of progress is kept throughout the activity, be it in the form of a diary, video, notebook, audio recording etc... (or a combination of all the aforementioned) although it would requiere a shift from traditional note taking strategies which focus mainly on external information to more personalized analysis and reflection of that content, emphasizing a student´s interaction with the information rather than the focusing on the transference of content itself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-4402270484698758683?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/4402270484698758683/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=4402270484698758683' title='4 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/4402270484698758683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/4402270484698758683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2009/02/assesing-learning-in-collaborative.html' title='Assesing learning in collaborative environments'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-1169175878930111682</id><published>2008-12-04T07:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T06:57:49.394-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enseñanza'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aprendizaje'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interacción'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='participación'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='relevancia personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='preguntas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='educación'/><title type='text'>¿A quien le motiva responder una pregunta, sabiendo que la persona que la hace ya tiene la respuesta?</title><content type='html'>Alguna vez en tu carrera te han hecho este tipo de pregunta:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Que es la Biologia? o ¿Que es la Economía?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estas preguntas, aunque parezcan lo más lógica para introducir la materia, tienen &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;poco valor percibido por parte de los alumnos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creo que por costumbre, los alumnos ya saben que &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;el profe realmente no esta buscando una respuesta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saben que la pregunta tiene una respuesta, la que &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;el profe se les va a entreger de todos modos&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saben, con casi total seguridad, que cualquier respuesta que ofrecen, no va a ser la que &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;el profe ya tiene pensado escribir sobre la pizarra&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y por ese motivo ni siquiera intentan responderlo, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;se quedan callados suficiente rato&lt;/span&gt;, esperando que el profe les entrega la respuesta correcta para asi avanzar la session.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En un periodo de tiempo muy corto, los alumnos &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;entraron en el modo Esponja&lt;/span&gt;, listos para absorber cualquier tipo de información que se les entregara sin nisiquiera intentar de questionarlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se transforman de pensadores libres en un especie de zombie automata, lo que hará mucho más dificil, más adelante, recibir respuestas bien fundamentadas de parte de ellos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sin saberlo, quizas, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;el profe les quitó las ganas de aprender&lt;/span&gt; que tenian para comenzar el nuevo semestre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si como dicen, la primera impresión es la más importnate, entonces los alumnos &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;se preparan para un semestre desmotivante y largo, motivado solamente por la adquisición de las notas&lt;/span&gt; necesarias para sacar este ramo y olvidarse de lo que vivieron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque proponer preguntas es &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;una&lt;/span&gt; forma de hacer participar a los alumnos, hacerles preguntas que &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NO&lt;/span&gt; tengan algo de relevancía con sus vidas cotidianas &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;no es una estrategía recomendable&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quizas preguntarles ¿Que saben de la biologia? o si han leido algún articulo, libro, visto una pelicula o documental que se pueda &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;relacionar al tema&lt;/span&gt; para asi acercar la materia a los conocimientos que ya tienen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En un mundo caracterizado por estilos de vida cada dia mas ajetreados, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;nadie tiene tiempo, ni interes en responder preguntas, sabiendo que la persona que la hace ya tiene la respuesta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-1169175878930111682?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/1169175878930111682/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=1169175878930111682' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/1169175878930111682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/1169175878930111682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2008/12/quien-le-motiva-responder-una-pregunta.html' title='¿A quien le motiva responder una pregunta, sabiendo que la persona que la hace ya tiene la respuesta?'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-2875816783305282839</id><published>2008-12-01T16:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T16:31:42.880-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MANTRA: Si le gusta al cliente bien hecho esta el trabajo, si le gusta al cliente bien hecho esta el trabajo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Sin meterme mucho en la obvia confusión que existe en el mercado sobre lo que es diseño, creo que para los clientes, el diseño es una actividad creativo que debe producir soluciones atractivos que resultan por lo general en mayores ventas, en vez de un processo de generar nuevas soluciones innovadores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por lo menos es lo que he observado a través de mi experiencia, de varios años, trabajando en y con agencias de publicidad.  Entiendo que esta misma experiencia no necesariamente refleja lo que pasa en otras consultoras de diseño, pero creo que es un tema que cada agencia tendrá que enfrentar a lidiar con personas de las áreas de marketing, osea los clientes o intermediarios entre los que hacen las decisiones y nosotros, los que producen los resultados deseados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un factor importante siempre va a ser el tiempo.  Sea cual sea la rázon por esta falta de tiempo, creo que cualquier director creativo o director de arte te comentará que &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;trabajar contra el tiempo es parte de la pega&lt;/span&gt;.  Pocos te demuestran formas de optimizar la busqueda de material como parte de la etapa investigativa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generar conceptos innovadores en plazos de tiempo corto es un processo de aprendizaje, la cual a veces se hace en paralelo con la producción de la presentación inicial al cliente, ya que posterior a esta presentación, dependiendo de las exigencias del cliente, habrá poca instancia para modificar los conceptos.  En algunos casos que he visto, los clientes se quedan entre uno, un par o partes de varias alternativas elegidas para desarrollarlas más, o en los peores de los casos (desde la punta de vista del cliente que siempre anda apurado) volver a plantear ideas nuevas, esta vez con mayores indicaciones de lo que realmente necesitan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es por esto que nosotros, como diseñadores, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;tenemos que mantenernos al dia con temas que sean relacionados a los rubros de nuestros clientes, como referencia, y con las innovaciones que occuren en el mundo en las áreas que nos interesa personalmente.&lt;/span&gt;  Esta actividad contínua, se supone que influirá de alguna forma al momento de tener que tirar ideas antes de generar los conceptos que presentaramos a los clientes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aparte de esto, si en tu tiempo libre se te occurre algun "negocio" innovador que te interesaria presentar al cliente, que siempre buscan estrategias y áreas nuevos para aprovechar, mejor aún.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No se si este sistema de operar es la más eficiente, ya que muchas veces terminamos produciendo resultados que a nostros podría haber quedado mejor, pero al final del cuento, es el cliente que manda.  Si el cliente esta convencido de que funciona tal como esta, sin demostrar evidencia concreto para debatirlo, que no sean fundamentos conceptuales, sino casos medibles o argumentos economicos, es lo que ellos quieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El problema con este mantra "si le gusta al cliente bien hecho esta el trabajo", es que con el tiempo uno, osea en mi caso personal, me fui desilusionando con rol del diseño en general. Hasta el momento, trato de dar más tiempo a investigar sobre temas que me interesan, anotando ideas que se me ocurren para en algun momento realizar un proyecto que me haga sentir relevante, como ser humano, unico, individual.  Quizas algun dia encuentro esa idea... la cual no ha pasado todavía.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-2875816783305282839?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/2875816783305282839/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=2875816783305282839' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/2875816783305282839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/2875816783305282839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2008/12/mantra-si-le-gusta-al-cliente-bien.html' title='MANTRA: Si le gusta al cliente bien hecho esta el trabajo, si le gusta al cliente bien hecho esta el trabajo'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-956269191193501501</id><published>2008-11-30T21:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T21:50:36.250-08:00</updated><title type='text'>¿Por qúe no comprendemos lo que leemos?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: normal normal normal 13px/19px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; padding-top: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;"2 de cada 5 escolares finaliza 4° básico… y 4° medio … sin el dominio de las destrezas mínimas que se requieren para su futuro… no comprenden lo que leen."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Destaco la ultima parte de este dato educativo sacado del documento "El planteamiento de educación 2020", la parte que se refiere a que  2 de cada 5 escolares &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;no comprenden lo que leen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;... y me pregunto por qúe será?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;La respuesta que se me ocurre de inmediato es que posiblemente a esos alumnos, no les interesó lo que los profesores/as les entregaron para leer.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Puede parecer muy ingenuo esta respuesta, pero encuentro que el tema de la motivación, o interes, por algun tema es la clave para responderlo.  Algunos alumnos si se motivan por el tema al leer el texto y por ende toman el tiempo para analizar y resestructurar la información de manera que les sea mas conveniente para comprenderlo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Algunos leerán los textos con el puro objetivo de memorizar datos que posteriormente se emplearán para responder las preguntas que salen en los controles y las pruebas.  Esta memorización dura lo suficiente para pasar el ramo, y de ahi pasa al olvido hasta que en una etapa posterior en su formación se ven forzado de volver a visitar el tema.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Quizas algunos de alumnos, al comenzar a leer, se desmotiven porque encuentran que el texto es muy fome, o complicado, o que genera mas preguntas de lo que responde o otra razon entre miles de posibles razones por la cual un alumno elige no leer, y creo que tiene que ver con sus intereses.  Son los intereses que motivan a las personas a buscar las respuestas que necesitan (investigación) para lograr las metas( objetivos) educativas que tienen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-956269191193501501?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/956269191193501501/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=956269191193501501' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/956269191193501501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/956269191193501501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2008/11/por-qe-no-comprendemos-lo-que-leemos.html' title='¿Por qúe no comprendemos lo que leemos?'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326306984690188613.post-6072391752927718657</id><published>2008-11-30T21:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T21:49:24.393-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='21st century skills'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tendencia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trabajo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='educación'/><title type='text'>La relación entre la educación y el mercado laboral</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:'Arial';"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7px; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font: normal normal normal 13px/19px 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif; padding-top: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Cada año aumenta el porcentaje de alumnos universitarios que buscan trabajos de tiempo parcial para financiar sus estudios o su independencia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_19547_9.shtml" mce_href="http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_19547_9.shtml"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_19547_9.shtml&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Parece que esta tendencia para buscar trabajos, que pueden o no estar directamente relacionado con lo que estudian, ya no va a disminuir.  Especialmente mientras suben los costos de la educación superior.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Aunque encuentro algo de ofensivo el tono light del articulo mencionado anteriormente, ya que mi experiencia con trabajar y estudiar en el mismo semestre fue bastante agotador, es importante que las instituciones de educación superior comienzan a generar programas de estudio que sean mas acorde a la realidad de esta situación.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Los beneficios que mencionan brevemente al final del articulo, "conocen el mundo laboral más de cerca y tienen experiencia en habilidades como el trabajo en equipo, el cumplimiento de metas y la responsabilidad" forman la base de una iniciativa que se denomina "21st century skills"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=254&amp;amp;Itemid=120" mce_href="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=254&amp;amp;Itemid=120"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=254&amp;amp;Itemid=120&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p mce_style="text-align:center;" style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/rainbow/rainbow_web%200710.jpg" mce_src="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/rainbow/rainbow_web%200710.jpg" alt="rainbow_web 0710" style="text-align: left;border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; " /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Encuentro que es hora de que las universidades empiezan a generar programas aún más flexibles que permiten a los alumnos tomar menos ramos, por un periodo más largo, para que los alumnos que los requieren puedan equilibrar su horario entre el trabajo y la universidad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;En este contexto parece ser paradoxico exigir que terminen sus estudios dentro de un periodo fijo, o pagar el mismo arancel mientras toman menos ramos.  Una solución, propuesta por unos británicos es desarrollar "grados académicos en módulos que los estudiantes pueden pagar individualmente."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_73342_9.shtml" mce_href="http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_73342_9.shtml"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/28_73342_9.shtml&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Esta propuesta se presta además para aprovechar technologias como videos online, para transmitir materias que tradicionalmente se pasan en clase por ejemplo, otra área la cual se esta aprovechando muy poco actualmente y que a mi modo de ver se debiera explorar y implementar lo antes posible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4326306984690188613-6072391752927718657?l=foozledesign.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/feeds/6072391752927718657/comments/default' title='Enviar comentarios'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4326306984690188613&amp;postID=6072391752927718657' title='0 comentarios'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/6072391752927718657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4326306984690188613/posts/default/6072391752927718657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://foozledesign.blogspot.com/2008/11/cada-ao-aumenta-el-porcentaje-de.html' title='La relación entre la educación y el mercado laboral'/><author><name>jean-baptiste</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05316514938865506009</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRwsEyn5Cg/TbRBNCO3qvI/AAAAAAAAAcE/WrkAmtKLfng/s1600/DSC02654.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
