O relatório Eurydice “Equity in School Education in Europe” analisa o modo como a estrutura dos sistemas educativos afeta as desigualdades educacionais e identifica as políticas associadas a níveis mais elevados de equidade no desempenho dos alunos, entendido tanto numa perspetiva de inclusão como de justiça. Utiliza um conjunto diverso de fontes, incluindo os relatórios internacionais de avaliação de estudantes PISA, PIRLS e TIMSS. Compara os sistemas educativos europeus nas seguintes dimensões: participação na educação pré-escolar, financiamento, diferenciação entre escolas, liberdade de escolha da escola e políticas de admissão, diversificação de vias de ensino, repetição de ano, autonomia escolar, prestação de contas, apoio a escolas desfavorecidas e a alunos com baixo desempenho, oportunidades para aprender.
The web is a unique terrain, substantially different from print materials. Too often, attempts at teaching information literacy for the web do not take into account both the web’s unique challenges and its unique affordances.
Much web literacy I’ve seen either asks students to look at web pages and think about them, or teaches them to publish and produce things on the web. While both of these activities are valuable, neither addresses a set of real problems students confront daily: evaluating the information that reaches them through their social media streams. For these daily tasks, students need concrete strategies and tactics for tracing claims to sources and for analyzing the nature and reliability of those sources.
The web gives us many such strategies, tactics, and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. Unfortunately, we do not teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven’t taught our students those fact-checking capabilities, is it any surprise that propaganda is winning?
This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.
This guide will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor. It’ll show you how to find pages that have been deleted, figure out who paid for the website you’re looking at, and whether the weather portrayed in that viral video actual matches the weather in that location on that day. It’ll show you how to check a Wikipedia page for recent vandalism and how to search the text of almost any printed book to verify a quote. It’ll teach you to parse URLs and scan search result blurbs so that you are more likely to get to the right result on the first click. And it’ll show you how to avoid baking confirmation bias into your search terms.
In other words, this guide will help you become “web literate” by showing you the unique opportunities and pitfalls of searching for truth on the web. Crazy, right?
This is the instruction manual to reading on the modern internet. I hope you find it useful.
Allan V. Cook, Kaitlyn Kuczer. A brave new world with virtual worlds: How virtual worlds are the next evolution in communication and collaboration. Deloitte, 2020
Educação é o tema da nova edição em papel da TELOS e do fórum de discussão aberto na web com o pedido de colaborações.
O professor e matemático Salman Khan, fundador da Khan Academy e Prémio Princesa das Astúrias 2019 de Cooperação Internacional, é o protagonista da capa.
Khan diz que “a pandemia vai acelerar algumas mudanças e colocar-nos num lugar melhor”.
A revista conta com colaboradores de todo o mundo que analisam a evolução dos modelos educativos e o impacto da tecnologia noutras áreas com propostas de mudança para o futuro imediato.
