At last Thursday’s UMN-FLACSO co-seminar, several Latin American students posed questions regarding inequities in education that might emerge due to limited access to cutting-edge technologies: How do you deal with (social) exclusion, when you talk about partnering with technology? How do you counterweight lack of creativity among slow adopters of technology? Slow adopters or those [...]
Archive: Latin America
Leapfrog Ecuador!
Posted by John Moravec in Saturday, November 3rd 2007
Topics: General Tags: Accelerating Change, blog, conference, Ecuador, FLACSO, ICT, Latin America, Leapfrog, New Paradigm, presentation, students, youth
I’m back from a week in Ecuador, where I participated in a conference hosted in the Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), and delivered two invited lectures. At FLACSO, I discussed the co-seminar conducted by myself and Dr. Arthur Harkins at the University of Minnesota, in cooperation with FLACSO-México (lead by Dr. Cristóbal Cobo). [...]
¡Viva el español!
Posted by John Moravec in Monday, October 1st 2007
Education Futures has been receiving many visitors from Latin America –particularly from Mexico. To help make the site more accessible, I added a Traducir al español link to the sidebar.
The knowledge seminar as mentioned in Latin American online media
Posted by John Moravec in Tuesday, May 22nd 2007
(Cross posted from FLACSO-UMN Knowledge Seminar blog…) More on the knowledge seminar…
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