Education: Watch your language!! When a word has different implications in different languages.

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Educación: Presta atención en lo que dices!! Cuando una palabra tiene diferentes implicaciones en otros idiomas 

Excited and anxious for starting my new courses on pedagogics, I found an interesting blog on teaching assessment, resources and related, written by Andrea Novicki, at Duke. The entry is named watch your language!!, and makes reference to the importance of having good communication with students, which surprisingly to some, it is not only relevant to high schools teachers, but it is also highly relevant at the college and university level.

Education: Habits of succesful authors

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Educación: Hábitos de los autores exitosos

1. Writing a paper: Habits of successful authors,

Is the title of a blog entry posted on May 20, 2011 in a blog on the site of the prestigious Nature.com web site. It comprises a set of recommendations given by Bernd Pulverer during a talk at the Job Expo held in Germany, which the author of the blog, Rachel Bowden, apparently attended.

The recommendations, which I cite textually next, are short and straightforward:

Education: MOCHA, Hydrological advancement through education

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Educación: MOCHA, Avance de la hidrología a través de la educación

MOCHA Modular Curriculum for Hydrological Advancement is as its name says, one of the most interesting ideas found over the WEB destined to improve teaching in the Hydrological field. The basic objective is similar to the one pursued by the MIT OCW (you may want to see the link on my previous entry). Hence, it may face similar challenges: To keep high the excitement of the people involved in the initiative, in order to reach the objectives drawn at the time the idea was conceived. Nevertheless, the strength of this initiative may actually be to be focused on a smaller community.

Education: East vs West, and Cultural Neoscience

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Educación: Oriente vs Occidente y Neo-ciencia Cultural

Education, or most properly, the methodology used to transfer knowledge from educators to educates in East Asian countries seems to differ from Western education. I am sure that I am not the only one who has noticed this, nevertheless, it was quite interesting to see it at first hand during my stay at Tohoku.