Making Open Education Resources (OER) possible

This post is related to my previous OpenStax College post.

You might be interested to have a look at efforts towards making education resources widely accessible. Link is HERE

Conference at a glance (from their web page):

"Each year, the conference brings together over 200 leaders from academia, education, and industry who are seeking solutions to the rising cost of higher education and are poised to initiate change and increased access in their communities.

The 2014 Connexions Conference theme, “Making OER Work,” is an opportunity for educational leaders to focus on pragmatic solutions in open education".

Landfill harmonic

If you are in a hurry just see the video from 0:28 to 1:06...If not, see it completely

It will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream

Some discussions I have had with people who teach young students is about the main aim they want to achieve when they TEACH.

Making their student feel happy is not what I would expect they would like to obtain, but I feel sometimes education goes in parallel, and sometimes I think this should go first.

Dead Poets Society

And Todd says: "...You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream."

Simply marvellous. Don't you think so?.

The universal declaration of human rights - Education

February 12th is the International day against the use of child soldiers

I would like to remind you that:

a) there is a Universal declaration of human rights

b) Points (1) and (2) of its Article 26 are:

" (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace".

Shall we dance?

This post is of a different nature...I would like to share with you a video that invites us to think about the impact that we (as parents) have on our children and how we would like them to get what we have not been able to. It is in Spanish with no subtitles, sorry! ...

Science and minorities

Did you know the size of the list of african american inventors?.

Are you really aware about women's contribution in science?.

You can start HERE

History of science in books

We can learn many things about our own history when we look at how science has evolved. From my personal background, here you have three titles of books I would recommend you to read:

1) Stephen F. Mason, "A history of the sciences"

2) Alan Chalmers, "Science and its fabrication"

3) Thomas S. Kuhn, "The structure of scientific revolutions"

Enjoy!

No. That's incidental!

We often tend to think that we need to answer correctly to the questions we have, but why don't we think about whether we are doing the right questions?.

It is more important to make GOOD questions, and of course this is more important than to correctly answer to WRONG or bad questions. Tones of knowledge hide simplicity. A long time since Socrates and Marcus Aurelius

and Occam's razor

Karl Popper and the philosophy of science

I recently found a textbook by chance about "philosophy of science", in spanish, written by J. A. Díez and C. Ulises Moulines and titled (translated into english) "Foundations of philosophy of science", and thought "what the ... is this?".

We could think of philosophy of science as the "part" of the Philosophy whose main aim is to analyse the validity of the scientific discovery from a "formal" point of view.

I got my BSc in physics in 1999. I am trying to remember if this subject was elegible during my career and does not seem so to me. Why?. I do not know, but I might make myself an idea...

I am really sorry to have lost the ideas and work of Sir Karl Popper until just recently.