Reflections

– About technologic sovereignty
– About repetition (grade repetition)
– About the problem of thinking less and doing more
About technologic sovereignty

When a sovereign State does not control the technology based on which it carries out all its activities –because companies do not reveal the software’s code and do not meet standards– a technologic dependency and a potential safety gap is generated, with severe social consequences, that can only be resolved under the principles of the philosophy proposed by the Free Software that allows building technologic sovereignty.
Pablo A. Vannini

About repetition (grade repetition)

Repetition is an archaic pedagogical model. It presumes that teaching exactly the same and the same way all over again to a student will make him or her learn it. Also, it has been demonstrated that repetition causes a devastating effect on the student’s self-esteem, a key factor in his or her learning. The problem is not grade repetition but pedagogy. How does one teach in contexts of social diversity and fragmentation so everyone can learn? The old homogenous pedagogies of the global and simultaneous method (teaching the same to everybody at the same pace) are a custom we inherited in Latin America from the French tradition. Since Latin America is the continent with more inequality on Earth, the simultaneous method caused plenty of grade repetition. The single standard excluded millions of students.

Juan Carlos Tedesco and Axel Rivas

 

About the problem of thinking less and doing more

The archetype of executives or young professionals is the one of men and women who will think less and do more. In that continuous action without pause, mistakes are made, illnesses bloom and it costs billions of dollars.

Jorge Mosqueira