Publish at October 30 2024 Updated October 30 2024
Applying gift theory and mesology to learning opens up new perspectives on what we should be paying more attention to when assessing. Teaching is more than just the transmission of knowledge.
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PISA ranks education systems according to scores in maths, science and reading, influencing policy, but limiting the value of education to measurable knowledge. Soft skills remain invisible. Yet schools cultivate them through exchanges and projects. To make the most of them, we need to make a collective effort towards a more human vision of education.
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The arrival of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is currently causing a certain amount of excitement in the field of personal data: the possibility of reclaiming one's data and reusing it is now enshrined in a common regulation. But in practice, there is still a long way to go, with legitimate misgivings and initial attempts that are sometimes too ambitious
Our certainties tested by time
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