Making Evaluation a Game: Different Models
The game, especially the electronic version, can keep players engaged for hours. Education would like to be as engaging. As a result, some believe in the gamification of education, especially for student assessment. Are students really more motivated with points and achievements? It seems that, for the most part, they are.
Crickets in the canteen: the next food evolution?
Despite being an important part of the earth's biomass and essential to the survival of plants and animals of all kinds, most people have a basic distaste for insects. Eating them, then, seems akin to recklessness. Yet entomophagy could be the next food evolution in our lives... and in school canteens.
How much freedom does excitement give us?
So that we don't just suffer the events of our lives. We often can't change events, but we can change the way we react to them.
Hard time for the book
The book does not spend its best hours. The current enemy is not its digitization, but rather the sensitivity of others. On the left, people who would like to try to erase the offensive words of the past. On the right, censorship against all books that speak of alternative sexualities, feminism or racial inequalities.
Learning in Senegal
Senegal has a population of nearly 17 million, but a shortage of qualified teachers. Informal initiatives have been set up to professionalize various sectors.