Inspection: tips and tricks for success... or failure
Today's the day.
I'm being visited by an inspector. Like many colleagues, I wondered what I was going to present to him. Should I rehearse with the students? Should I warn them? Should I show him what a real lesson is like, or give him the spectacle of a model lesson? All these questions are still on my mind, as he's due to arrive any minute.
Geoposition in education: what you need to know
In education, the potential of "positioning" is real, and its possibilities are still being developed. Discover some surprising applications.
Plant shutdown
When everyone follows instructions to the letter, intelligence disappears along with interpretation, and everything comes to a halt.
Transhumanism and cochlear implants
To be deaf or not to be deaf is not a real choice. Deaf or hard of hearing people are deaf by nature. The choice is whether or not to be augmented in order to integrate into school, society or even one day to become super human beings. It is a debate of identity, social and philosophical.
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Refresh Wikipedia's Selective Memory
History is sometimes presented as an objective tribunal, smoothing out superficial debates and smoothing out the scum of polemics and fashions. And yet. The memory that is shared in encyclopedias and biographies carries and reinforces many biases. Thus, certain categories are under-represented in the pages of Wikipedia, but they also suffer from clichés. Editors are trying to rebalance the representation of gender and geographical origins.