This Thursday night, a tornado swept through the northwest of Los Ángeles (Bío Bío region), a city in the south of Chile. It caused huge devastation, destroyed 22 homes and injured 16 people.
Bío Bío governor, Sergio Giacaman, confirmed the number of damaged homes as well as the amount of people admitted to hospital, which includes a minor who needed surgery and a pregnant 17-year-old teenager.
Before the first official emergency management committee, the local chief of the National Emergency Office (Onemi, in Spanish), Carolina Zambrano, had said that only six people required medical attention.
Los Ángeles mayor, Esteban Krause, said that the tornado affected “a number of blocks, cars, houses that were damaged” and that even some light posts fell due to the storm.
President Sebastián Piñera took to Twitter to send his thoughts to those suffering. The head of State, a conservative billionaire, affirmed the Government is already organising the delivery of aid for the area.
According to neighbours, the tornado was preceded by giant hailstones and strong winds. It also caused traffic disruptions and it damaged power lines, which led to a blackout that affected 12 thousand clients. In light of this, Friday classes were cancelled at public, voucher, and private schools.
Francisca Díaz, quien fue profesora de básica (primaria) durante 13 años, es ahora directora del CPEIP, un organismo del Ministerio de Educación de Chile que contribuye al desarrollo profesional de los profesores. En este artículo, nos cuenta algunas de sus expectativas, su historia y lo que se necesita para ser profesor.
Cuando Francisca Díaz Domínguez habla sobre educación, sobre ser profesora, menciona muchas veces la palabra intuición. Porque para ella, una profesora de educación básica (primaria) que trabajó en sala durante 13 años hace más de 15, la intuición la llevó a querer hacer más; ayudar a sus compañeros y darse cuenta de que la enseñanza era más que eso que le habían enseñado en la universidad: tratar a los alumnos como un conjunto, con ella al frente y una pizarra.
Por eso, tras más de 30 años de trabajo en los que se ha enfocado en el desarrollo profesional docente y gestión en educación a través de universidades y fundaciones, desde 2018 es la directora del Centro de Perfeccionamiento, Experimentación e Investigaciones Pedagógicas del Ministerio de Educación de Chile (CPEIP), un organismo que tiene como objetivo contribuir al desarrollo profesional docente, apoyando la formación y el fortalecimiento de los equipos directivos y docentes, con el fin de mejorar los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje en las escuelas del país.
“Este es un gran desafío, uno que siento muy propio especialmente por el desarrollo profesional, cómo un profesor transfiere el conocimiento desde un contexto más formal de curso teniendo en cuenta, por ejemplo, el desarrollo emocional (…)
Porque actualmente tenemos un gran desafío, tenemos que revisar nuestro modelo y que no quede obsoleto en dos años más.
Actualmente la sociedad del conocimiento hoy día propone una manera de aprender muy atractiva que es muy intuitiva, porque por lo general las tecnologías tienen interfaces que fueron desarrolladas por los mejores diseñadores, los mejores informáticos,para poder hacer que el aprendizaje sea amigable, atractivo y eso compite con un profesor que es inseguro, porque está muy cuestionado; un profesor que no tiene todas las habilidades, que está muy demandado, entonces ahí hay una tensión”, dice Francisca.
Para Francisca este es el mayor reto que enfrenta Chile en el ámbito educativo y para ella fue clave durante sus años en aula. “Antes se hablaba mucho de la educación en masa, como un todo. Y yo por intuición, descubrí que los procesos de aprendizaje mejoraban con el uno a uno y trabajando en equipo con otros profesores (…)
Por eso, sentí en ese momento que tenía una deuda intelectual, hice un magíster en Psicología Educacional de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y empecé a mirar las dinámicas internas de un establecimiento, cómo se desencadenan los procesos de mejora al interior de una escuela, cómo funciona la política pública en educación, porque todo impacta ”, explica.
“Hay muchas cosas que te amarran y te obligan a seguir trabajando de la misma manera, por el currículum, la normativa, leyes y una cantidad de cosas que no te están promoviendo una pedagogía contemporánea y más moderna.
Entonces, hay que ser doblemente fuerte, para poder romper esos paradigmas. Hay que atreverse a hacer cosas distintas, hay que levantar voz, creer que se puede, probar, experimentar… pero de forma rigurosa, obviamente. Y siempre buscar mejorar”, considera.
Demostrar que siempre se puede mejorar, también fue clave para ella en lo personal, ya que su padres no estaban convencidos de que estudiara pedagogía.
Cuando ella presentó la Prueba de Selección Universitaria, sacó un alto puntaje en matemática, lo que era ideal para estudiar carreras como ingeniería o medicina. Pero ella insistió en estudiar pedagogía aunque sus padres consideraban que no era la decisión correcta.
“La verdad es que nunca los convencí, porque no había mucho acuerdo, pero sí había cierta autonomía y libertad, entonces en ese sentido creyeron un poco en mí, aunque no muy convencidos. Después me acuerdo que mi padre me dijo que si iba a ser profesora, tenía que ser la mejor.
En ese sentido, creo que él pudo ver a través de los años que esta fue una profesión en la que me pude ir desarrollando, fui feliz siendo profesora, encontré un desarrollo profesional y personal”.
Esta era una decisión que Francisca había tomado desde los 11 años de edad, cuando ponía a los vecinos, hermanos y primos en fila, y daba una clase sobre el tópico que se le ocurriera, inspirada en algunas tías profesoras de la familia, en una época en que la profesión docente no estaba tan valorada, según cuenta. Y es la valoración docente, un aspecto en el que Francisca considera que sí se han logrado varios avances.
“Creo que actualmente, en Chile, no hay quien te diga que la educación no es importante y eso hay que hacerlo notar con mucha más fuerza”.
El principal objetivo actualmente es centrarse en las nuevas demandas del aprendizaje y en pensar en un modelo que ponga al estudiante en el centro. También en demostrarle a los profesores que la profesión no se desarrolla únicamente en un colegio.
Y Francisca es un claro ejemplo, porque tras sus años de docencia en establecimientos privados y de sentir que le faltaba desarrollarse en ámbitos públicos, pudo empezar a brindar asesorías a escuelas públicas en temas relacionados con gestión instruccional y acompañamiento docente.
Años después, llegó a cargos universitarios; el último que desempeñó antes de llegar al CPEIP fue el de directora de Postgrado y Educación Continua de la Universidad Diego Portales.
“Los establecimientos universitarios tienen una cosa muy encapsulada, muy cerrada, que en el fondo hace que este vínculo con la vida real sea distante y eso les juega en contra.
Juega en contra para el desarrollo profesional de los profesores, es sabido que muchos de los profesores que trabajan en colegios después salen a otros ámbitos y se encuentran con un camino laboral que estaba un poquito trunco, del que no sabían nada. Hay más espacios de desarrollo, más allá del colegio, y eso hace falta, hay que desarrollar eso. Se necesitan más profesionales en el ámbito de políticas públicas, por ejemplo.
Al menos en la educación básica o educación párvulos, hay docentes que tienen la experiencia en sala y tienen la técnica o la capacidad para dar clases universitarias, pero se necesita en esta área más académicos, más personas que muestren todas las posibilidades que hay en este mundo. Si queremos seguir trabajando en valoración y en mejorar nuestras educación, necesitamos desarrollarnos en todos los aspectos”, explica Francisca.
“Yo también partí con el foco de hacer clases, sólo eso. Para mí ser profesora consistía en mostrarle el mundo a otros”.
La principal razón por la que Francisca siempre quiso ser profesora, es porque desde muy pequeña se sintió con esa capacidad de explicarle el entorno a otros.
“Y todavía me pasa, algunas veces quizá me veas en la calle explicándole algo a un desconocido. Pero, insisto que para ser profesor se necesita mucho más, mucha gente habla de la vocación, yo hablo siempre de la intuición, fue realmente clave para mi.
Se necesita para ser profesor, para ver los procesos de aprendizaje de cada uno, para tener la capacidad de dar y recibir feedback, para trabajar en equipo, delegar, apoyarse entre docentes.
Creo que los que estén pensando en ser profesores, también tienen que dimensionar que ser profesor es una de las profesiones que requieren mayor rigurosidad, de seriedad y profesionalismo. Si están conscientes de eso, está bien”.
Un soneto me manda hacer Violante;
en mi vida me he visto en tal aprieto,
catorce versos dicen que es soneto,
burla burlando van los tres delante.
Yo pensé que no hallara consonante,
y estoy a la mitad de otro cuarteto;
mas si me veo en el primer terceto,
no hay cosa en los cuartetos que me espante.
Por el primer terceto voy entrando,
y aún parece que entré con pie derecho,
pues fin con este verso le voy dando.
Ya estoy en el segundo, y aun sospecho
que estoy los trece versos acabando;
contad si son catorce, y está hecho.
AulaVisual y el actor español Jordi Dauder te invitan a conocer los tipos de representación teatral. En este video, el profesor Antonio Simón nos habla sobre la comedia del arte y de la caracterización de los personajes que componen este género.
Se sugiere utilizar este video como complemento a sus clases, ya sea para introducir o repasar los contenidos conceptuales de la materia a enseñar.Se recomienda al profesor pedir a los alumnos que tomen apuntes de la información que enseñará el video.
1. Antes de la exhibición introduzca el tema del video: la comedia del arte.
2. Luego de la exhibición, el profesor puede pedir a los alumnos que sinteticen brevemente la información aprendida durante la visualización del video.
3. Posteriormente, el profesor puede pedir a los alumnos una investigación sobre la historia de la comedia del arte. Tal trabajo puede ser complementado con una representación teatral de los alumnos de acuerdo a las características del género.
Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. My name is Fiona Mcvie.
Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. What is your age?
My name is Iris Yang. Some say I have the heart of an 18-year-old; others say I have the mind and experiences of an 80-year-old. I’m somewhere in between. 🙂
Fiona: Where are you from?
I was born and raised in China. Now I live between Sedona, AZ and Chapel Hill, NC.
Fiona: A little about yourself (ie, your education, family life, etc.).
When I grew up in China, books were being confiscated and writing was a dangerous career. As famous writers, my grandma and aunt were wrongfully accused as Counter-Revolutionary Rightists. My grandma was fired from her professor job and my aunt was sent to the countryside to get “re-educated.” Icouldn’t follow their footsteps and had to choose a safer…
«Paradigmas de Investigación Educativa: de las leyes subyacentes a la modernidad reflexiva»
(Paradigms on Educational Research: from underlying laws to reflexive modernity)
Sección:
Epistemología. Otoño 2013
Resumen:
Este artículo realiza una síntesis de los principales paradigmas de la investigación educativa del siglo XX, en concreto, presenta y analiza los postulados, aportaciones a la educación y críticas, recorriendo los principios reduccionistas basados en la observación de la conducta (positivista), pasando por la comprensión de la realidad educativa a partir de los actores (hermenéutica), para llegar a la influencia de la dimensión ideológica en la configuración de la realidad de las prácticas educativas (crítica). Este trabajo sirve como punto de referencia para otro artículo que aborda la emergencia de nuevos paradigmas debido a un contexto educativo caracterizado por la complejidad, en el que se plantean nuevos paradigmas y los antiguos se…
WHY SHOULD ENGLISH BE INCLUDED IN THE NURSING SYLLABUS?
English is the language currently used for most of the international transactions.
English can widen your horizons and help you to deepen your scientific knowledge and create work-related opportunities.
CONFERENCES:
Most scientific congresses, seminars and conferences are currently held in English and visiting lecturers, colleagues and tutors often prefer to use this language.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
There is a demand for nurses everywhere around the world. Nurses can gain valuable experience by working overseas and also obtain higher qualifications in specialised fields.
Aid-workers are required in war-torn nations and areas of natural disasters.
Besides, work is avaliable for nurses in tourist resorts and health care clinics.
EDUCATION:
You can surf the internet for information and research updates and most of the time you will have to do this in English.
You can read and use American and English Medical, Nursing and Scientific Journals-which often take time to be translated.
You can watch documentaries and TV programmes in their original version.
MANUALS:
Instruction manuals for various machines and instruments of common use in your place of work are frequently written in English.
PATIENT CARE:
Patients who cannot communicate their needs to hospital personnel are at a distinct disadvantage and very often have a slower recovery rate.
Besides, patients may present case histories or medication details in English, and it would be very useful for you to understand them.
Do you need any more reasons for considering English as an essential part of your training as a nurse?
Maybe you can think of any other reason…If so, add it to this list and start working to improve your English!
Facebook also takes down wall posts after States complain of “subversive material”.
Google hands over user data to law enforcement authorities that includes IP addresses, location data and records of communications.
The USA government conducts mass surveillance of foreign phone and internet users.
Each of these acts threatens both an individual’s freedom to express themselves, and their right to maintain a private life and private communications.
In this way, privacy and free expression are two sides of the same coin, each an essential prerequisite to the enjoyment of the other.
To freely form and impart ones political, religious or ethnical beliefs one needs an autonomous, private space free from interference, from the State, private sector or other citizens.
Equally, infringements on the right to privacy – physical or online surveillance, monitoring of communications or activities, State intrusion into private, family or home affairs – prevent an individual from exercising their freedom of expression.
This point has been made most recently by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, in a landmark report to the Human Rights Council in June 2013. The report marks the first time the UN has recognized the impact of State surveillance on free expression and other human rights, and has condemned the latest trends in government surveillance.
The report is a timely reminder of the serious implications of surveillance for civil liberties, particularly given that hardly a day passes without news of governments spying on journalists, hacking into emails, or demanding social networks turn over user data.
It is clear that this widespread surveillance is not just about gathering information on a citizenry.
It’s also about suppressing our ideas and our thoughts, controlling our actions and our words.
Free expression and privacy in the digital age
In the modern world, almost every act online is an act of expression. Participating in an online chat, networking with friends and colleagues, and surfing websites and reading news, downloading files — these are all acts of imparting or accessing information.
In online interactivity, there is content generated and stored, some of which is publicly available, most of which is amongst select individuals and groups.
Yet each of these acts also generates transactional information, and can be monitored by unintended parties.
In turn, nearly every act of expression is now observable to communications providers, and in turn, the State.
This is without precedent in human history.
We could previously communicate with our friends and colleagues without it being known to anyone else.
We could move around cities, countries, and continents and meet with whomever we wished without it being known.
We could follow and join groups and movements without having to disclose identities.
We could publish and distribute pamphlets, posters, brochures, newspapers and books without knowing the creator, publisher, and reader.
The ability to act without being observed was innate to the act of expression so we benefited from privacy as we expressed ourselves by living our personal, political and professional lives.
Most importantly, we believed that these were rights worth protecting, enshrining in constitutions and promoting through advocacy and protecting in law.
The protection of free expression is now generally considered a common good.
Some States speak out in favour of its protection and admonish those who do not support it in the modern era, and in particular for the internet.
No State, however, promotes the right to privacy.
Now, when States and human rights mechanisms speak often of promoting free speech and the importance of facilitating access to and use of the internet and new technologies, they rarely admit the implications of new technologies for the right to privacy.
They knowingly support free expression in the modern context while ignoring the right to privacy that has so long enabled and supported free expression.
Put in a more worrying way, they want to see more people communicate and express themselves, particularly in countries where they are at risk for doing so, while turning a blind eye to how they are placing themselves at greater risk of identification, profiling, and persecution for having done so because of the surveillance that is now all too possible and probable.
Instead of enjoying equal promotion to free expression, privacy is often subjected to claims of cultural relativism – the catchphrase “privacy is a Western concept” is regularly lobbed at privacy advocates – or subjugated to concerns of security, development or growth.
The right to privacy has not been fully developed by human rights protection mechanisms; the UN Human Rights Committee last issued a General Comment on the right to privacy before most modern technologies – including the internet – were in mainstream usage, and it persists to neglect privacy considerations in its Concluding Observations on the human rights records of State parties.
It has rarely recognized the interdependent and mutually reinforcing relationship between privacy and free expression.
This essay begins by elucidating the deprioritisation of the right to privacy in human rights and political discourses.
It then goes on to establish the clear links between privacy and free expression, illustrating the interdependent relationship between the two rights by examining State control and surveillance of communications.
It concludes by making recommendations for specific State actions to protect and promote the right to privacy, and calls for a stronger statement by UN human rights mechanisms on the mutually reinforcing relationship between the two rights.
Privacy – absent from the agenda
The failure of the international community to develop a stronger statement of the meaning and application of the right to privacy may be in part due to the challenges in defining the content and contours of the right. Although privacy is internationally recognized as a fundamental right, and has its foundations in the constitutions of scores of countries, as diverse as Chile, Ethiopia, and Nepal; in numerous regional and international treaties; and in the jurisprudence of courts across the democratic world, it is far more than a functional legal construct that’s validity derives from its existence in national or international law.
Despite its essential role in shielding individuals from government and corporate intrusion into their homes, communications, opinions, beliefs, identities and bodies, it is often claimed that it is an evolving social norm.
It does face a changing environment with new forms of data generation, storage, processing and surveillance, and as such it cannot be a static concept; its content and confines are contested, subject to never-ending games of tug-of-war between individuals, governments and corporations.
Innovation and change – not just in technologies, but in migration and border flows, security and conflicts, attitudes and priorities – inform and challenge our conceptions of the private and the public.
The continual development of new means to undermine or protect privacy gives rise to new discussions about how to contextualise it, and new questions about its salience in changing contexts.
“Privacy” may have no fixed meaning or core content; our conceptualisations of privacy are bound to vary across historical periods, cultures and places.
Understanding and protecting privacy is also challenged by the constant evolution of technologies that transform the way we think about the private and public spheres.
Technological change alters our relationships and interactions with governments and the corporate sector, and changes how we think about the realization and protection of human rights.
This is particularly so when it comes to our communications – how we form and impart our beliefs and opinions.
In order to enjoy privacy of communications, individuals must be able to exchange information and ideas in a space beyond the reach of the State, the private sector and other members of society.
As technologies increase the reach of the State, place power in the hands of the private sector, and create new societies and citizenries online, privacy protections are increasingly CRUCIAL.
Of course, the failure to protect and promote the right to privacy is about more than an inability to agree on a definition or conceptualization of the right.
Rather, because the right to privacy is the fundamental safeguard of the citizen from the State, it is viewed by the State as a barrier to control, an OBSTACLE to STATE POWER.
Privacy is at the heart of the most basic understandings of human dignity – the ability to make autonomous choices about our lives and relationships, without outside interference or intimidation, is central to who we are as human beings.
Autonomy is not just about the subjective capacity of an individual to make a decision, but also about having the external social, political and technological conditions that make such a decision possible.
Privacy confers those external conditions.
As private autonomy is a key component of public life and debate, privacy is not only a social value, but also a public good.
Yet by the State that seeks to control its populace, it is viewed as an impediment, an OBSTACLE, and thus is conceptualized as UNDERMINING security, development, and modernization.
Individuals are offered simplistic, FALSE CHOICES between competing values: dignity or convenience; freedom or control; our rights and freedoms, or security, modernisation and development.
**States tell us that stability cannot be ensured if anonymous online expression is unregulated, that communications must be visible by the State in order to prevent terrorism and cyber crime, that interactivity without observability would lead to illegality.
**All of these are FALSE CHOICES, casting technology as a means for evil; and privacy, as the preserve of darker forces in society.
The idea that we must choose between privacy and security has too often pervaded the political and economic discourses, creating a FALSE DICHOTOMY and spurring over-simplified arguments about the role of technology.
The discussion reveals no nuance, no consideration of the values and priorities tied up in privacy and security, no reference to the potentials of technology or the changing nature of threats and security, no indication of the other choices that exist.
**It has cast security and privacy as competing concepts, rather than interlinking and potentially reinforcing values.
**Technology has the potential to reduce, rather than increase, the Privacy vs Security divide.
The challenge is to improve access to and understanding of technologies, ensure that policy makers and the laws they adopt respond to the challenges and potentialities of technologies, and generate greater public debate to ensure that rights and freedoms are negotiated at a societal level.
Technologies have blurred the line between public and private thought and expression; courts across the globe are confounded by questions about how to characterise social media musings and blogs, how to think about data like location, IP addresses and cookies.
Today, more than ever, privacy and free expression are interlinked; an infringement upon one can be both the cause and consequence of an infringement upon the other.
This is particularly so in the case of communications surveillance.
**The things an individual says to another person, their intimate feelings and opinions, who they have relationships and connections with, what newspapers they read and what movies they watch, where they go and who they talk to: each of these pieces of information are incredibly sensitive and personal.
They have long been considered the preserve of an individual’s private life, not for exposure to or infiltration by anyone without consent or without exceptional justification.
Innovations in some technologies have facilitated increased possibilities for communication, and protections of free expression and opinion, enabling anonymity, rapid information sharing, and cross-cultural dialogues.
At the same time, changes in technologies have given rise to increased opportunities for State surveillance and intervention into individuals’ private communications.
Digital “back doors” are built into mobile telephone networks to enable State surveillance; technologies such as mass interception systems and voice and speech recognition technology enable countrywide surveillance.
Social media monitoring tools, deep packet inspection, and trojans are used to monitor individuals online.
Data generated by internet companies about internet users’ online activity are accessed by States, who are increasingly mandating the retention of such data.
The range of expression that might be surveilled has also grown.
Whereas surveillance was historically aimed at private conversations taking place on the telephone, in the modern era, a vast portion of the expressive power of citizens is channeled through surveilable channels, including not only private one-to-one conversations, but books, magazines, conversations between groups, outlines and finished works, family records, library searches, radio shows, live video and digitized historical cultural artifacts.
Modern technology increases access to all of these items and more, at the risk of making all such access knowable by powerful state actors.
When the most confidential and secret parts of an individuals’ life are exposed to the possibility of intrusion, the freedom to express oneself cannot be genuinely enjoyed.
Rather, individuals Begin To Be Afraid that their thoughts, words and relationships will be the subject of interception and analysis.
Restrictions on the INFORMATION that individuals can access on the internet obstruct their ability to freely give and receive information and knowledge.
**Requirements that individuals identify themselves online, or as a prerequisite to access internet or phone services, can result in their de facto exclusion from vital social spheres, undermining their rights to expression and information, and making social inequality worse.
**Infringements upon private life thus have a chilling effect on free expression, causing individuals to censor their communications and inhibiting their ability and willingness to participate and engage.
The Right To Seek and Receive Information is also chilled when the government or the private sector has unchecked access to what information an individual accesses.
A visitor to a library, a bookstore, or a newsstand might expect that their choice of reading material will remain private and that they will not be identified or persecuted because of what they choose to read.
**But, when reading matter is delivered over the monitored electronic network, that guarantee can no longer be met.
States now potentially have access to all books, websites, newspapers and magazines an individual reads, the movies they watch and the music they listen to.
Infringements upon privacy and free expression also have interrelated impacts on the right to freedom of association and assembly.
The monitoring of communications allows the State to know and scrutinise relationships and exchanges that individuals might otherwise want to remain confidential.
Surveillance, while impacting individuals’ ability to freely express their opinions, might also impact to whom they are able to express such opinions.
Individuals’ abilities to organize are also restricted: where previously membership lists were sometimes mandated in order to intimidate individuals from joining organisations, it is now possible to discern their interests from online activities, location data of their mobile and related internet services, or use of scanning technologies to identify all people within a given physical space, such as a public protest.
These activities of registration and identification can now take place without the knowledge or consent of the individuals – a return to covert information gathering on political participation.
Certain groups are particularly vulnerable to violations of their rights to free expression, privacy, and information.
**Because privacy enables individuals to work in a space unhindered by authority, journalists rely on privacy protection in order to receive and pursue information from confidential sources, including whistleblowers.
The protection of sources has long been established as a requirement implicit in the right of freedom of expression.
An environment where surveillance is widespread, and unlimited by due process or judicial oversight, cannot sustain the presumption of protection of sources.
Even a narrow, non-transparent, undocumented, executive use of surveillance may have a chilling effect without careful and public documentation of its use, and known checks and balances to prevent its misuse.
Internet filtering, monitoring, and restrictions on anonymity online severely impede the ability of journalists to conduct research and investigations, and to publish their work to specific or general audiences.
Not only do such measures impact upon journalists’ ability to freely express themselves, they also inhibit the important functions that the media plays in maintaining transparency and accountability of the State.
Journalists are also particularly vulnerable to becoming targets of communications surveillance because of their reliance on online communications and smartphone devices.
This is especially so where journalists are focusing their investigations on political or religious affairs.
Human rights defenders and political activists are also disproportionately subjected to surveillance and censorship.
Surveillance of human rights defenders in Colombia, Bahrain, and Algeria has been well documented.
In such countries, human rights defenders and political activists report having their every phone call and email monitored, and their movements tracked.
Freedom of expression and freedom of information allow human rights defenders to challenge abuses to human rights; without the privacy to conduct investigations and communications away from the prying eyes of the States, this becomes impossible. Recognition and commitment
It is CRUCIAL that States – and the UN human rights mechanisms of which they are members and subjects – recognize the importance of protecting and promoting the right to privacy, both as an essential end in itself, and as a fundamental prerequisite to free expression, thought and information.
The Special Rapporteur emphasizes that “communications surveillance should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society”.
The Special Rapporteur goes on to make a number of recommendations to States, including the following:
Communications surveillance:
– must be regulated by legal frameworks,
– must be strictly and demonstrably necessary to achieve a legitimate aim,
– and must be subject to the principle of proportionality.
– Illegal surveillance by public or private actors should be criminalized;
– The provision of communications data by the private sector to the State should be sufficiently regulated and monitored by an independent authority;
– Anonymity online should not be outlawed, nor should encryption.
With each new piece of technology, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game emerges – increased connectivity also leads to a greater chance of a breach of confidentiality.
That is why the Special Rapporteur calls upon the UN human rights mechanisms to update their conceptualisations of the right to privacy in the context of new technologies.
Without this, existing protections will not just become outdated.
Rather, inaction to reconceptualise how our privacy is protected will leave the door wide open for States to abuse new technology, violating our rights in the process, all because those with the power to do so refused to act.
Conclusion:
Any State that is serious about promoting the right to free expression must get serious about promoting the right to privacy.
A free and open press is nothing if the journalists writing for the papers are at risk of surveillance; if the individuals who read the online news sources are being tracked and their data recorded.
Just as security cannot be used to justify the suppression of minority opinions, so too it must not be used to justify the monitoring, profiling, tracking and general unwarranted interference with our lives, our autonomy, and the development of our personalities.
Privacy is the fundamental barrier that stands in the way of Complete State Control and Domination.
Without it, the Social Contract is broken, and individuals cannot exercise their democratic rights to participate, build, grow and think.
A citizenry unable to form or communicate private thoughts without the interference of the State will not only be deprived of their Right to Privacy, they will also be deprived of their Human Dignity.
For the ability to freely think and impart ideas is essential to who we are as human beings.
Busca establecer una estrategia de comunicación con principal foco en que las clases
de inglés sean en inglés. Hoy el principal problema es que las clases de inglés se hacen en español.
I. Objetivo
“Que todos los niños de 5° y 6° Básico puedan tener una conversación en inglés”
Esto en términos de mediciones internacionales, se refiere a que alcancen Nivel
A1 en Habilidad Oral:
Comprender y utilizar expresiones cotidianas de uso muy frecuente, así
como frases sencillas destinadas a satisfacer necesidades inmediatas.
Puede presentarse a sí mismo y a otros, pedir y dar información personal
básica sobre su domicilio, sus pertenencias y las personas que conoce.
Puede relacionarse de forma elemental siempre que su interlocutor hable
despacio y con claridad y esté dispuesto a cooperar.
II. Justificación
¿Por qué desarrollar las habilidades orales?
El inglés oral favorece la educación superior, el mundo laboral y la
investigación. Facilita la interacción con los actores de manera inmediata y
efectiva.
El 94% de los profesores de inglés usa inadecuadamente la gramática, la
pronunciación, el vocabulario y tiene poca fluidez. Es decir que hay gran
dificultad para que las clases sean hechas en inglés. (Evaluación Docente Mide
UC, 2012)
Dentro del proceso educativo es la menos reforzada de las 4 habilidades
básicas de los idiomas. (Yasna Yilorm, U. Austral, 2016)
¿Por qué en 5° y 6° básico?
Hoy el currículum nacional establece la asignatura de inglés como obligatoria
desde 5° básico, por lo que existe el material provisto por el Estado, los textos
escolares y las condiciones para el aprendizaje del inglés.
1. Docentes:
Durante el año 2019, profesores de inglés serán capacitados en Teachers Academy: Colegios bilingües de excelencia capacitarán a 400
docentes de inglés de 5° y 6° básico de establecimientos educacionales
municipales durante 2019.
o Jornadas de capacitación presenciales con talleres prácticos agrupados
en torno a tres ejes: Aprendizaje centrado en el estudiante, Aprendizaje
basado en Proyectos y Habilidades Orales.
Se espera contar con mínimo un colegio bilingüe en cada región que imparta esta capacitación: Programa comenzó en enero con 80 profesores en el Colegio Internacional Nido de Águilas.
Plataforma digital para fortalecer Redes de docentes de inglés:
Fortalecer y ampliar las redes de docentes de inglés, llegando a 5.000 profesores al 2021.
o Implementación de plataforma digital (Centro de Innovación del Mineduc) que permite y potencia el trabajo colaborativo: Piloto comienza en marzo en la RM y se amplía a las demás regiones a partir de mayo.
Certificación para docentes con buen desempeño y compromiso: Se certificará a docentes que cumplan con los siguientes requisitos:
o Aprueben los cursos de Apropiación Curricular I y II impartidos por el Plan Nacional de Inglés.
o Ser miembros activos de las redes de docentes de inglés, asistencia mayor
al 80%.
Además, quienes obtengan mejor desempeño en la certificación podrán postular a una beca al extranjero.
o Segundo Semestre 2019: serán becados los 25 primeros docentes con mejor desempeño.
Nuevos Estándares de Formación Inicial (CPEIP):
Elaboración de nuevos estándares de formación inicial de los profesores de inglés, tanto pedagógicos como disciplinarios.
2. Alumnos:
Apoyo de Voluntarios Angloparlantes en sala de clases:
200 voluntarios angloparlantes apoyarán presencialmente a docentes de inglés de 5° y 6° básico, fortaleciendo las habilidades orales en sus alumnos, trabajando de manera colaborativa con el docente.
Profesor Angloparlante Virtual:
10 establecimientos educacionales participarán de un plan piloto durante el primer semestre 2019.
Talleres Extracurriculares:
Talleres extracurriculares semanales de actividades formativas y lúdicas que fomenten el desarrollo de las habilidades de expresión oral en inglés a través de metodología Presencial y Virtual. Está comprobado que obtienen un 24% de mejor desempeño en cualquier medición, los alumnos que interactúan en inglés fuera de la sala de clases.
3. Currículum:
Currículum temprano y continuo: El 2019 se ofrecerá por primera vez un currículum continuo de inglés desde 1° básico hasta 4° medio.
Hoy, un 57% de los establecimientos que tienen matrícula de 1° a 4° básico, imparten clases de inglés en dichos niveles.
Meta 2022: Que el 80% de los establecimientos impartan inglés desde 1°
básico.
Estudio Piloto en alianza con el BID para evaluar el impacto que tiene iniciar la enseñanza del inglés en 1° básico, a diferencia de partir en 5° básico.
Resultados del estudio: diciembre 2019.
Descarga a continuación los documentos asociados a los resultados del Estudio Nacional de Inglés:
The objective of the Preferential School Subsidy Law (SEP) is to improve the quality and equity of education in schools that serve students whose academic results may be affected by their socioeconomic conditions. These students are determined as priority and preferred by the Ministry of Education.
By receiving greater financial support, access to professional help to deal with academic deficiencies and/or psycho-social needs, and access to a diverse, cultural enrichment activity program, the “playing field” is level. Consequently, the chances of success are “equal” for the rich and the poor.
Equality of opportunity is more likely in these conditions, for the rich and the poor. In theory, it doesn’t matter if you are born rich or poor, your chances of success are the same, no matter whether the accident of your birth has placed you with rich, highly-educated parents, or with poor, high-school only (or less) educated parents.
Here, we must stop and ask the question: Can money make up for the disadvantages that a child from a vulnerable socio-economic background has experienced, since his/her birth?
Before you answer the question, please consider the fact that these two students, the rich student and the poor student, will never be in the same classroom, never be in the same school, never participate in any social, academic, or extracurricular activity together…
That is the reality of the Chilean educational system, namely, the fundamental pillar of a society that separates its children based on how much money their parents have.
I am no sociologist, but it seems to me that the reproduction of socio-economic inequality (wealth, class, political power, etc.) is the desired goal of this system. I am happy to entertain the opposite interpretation, that the Chilean education system’s desired goal is the production of a homogenous, equality-based society that values merit (a meritocracy) over wealth and social class (a plutocracy).
The incomes of the 10% richest in Chile are 26 times higher than those of the 10% poorest.
Since the mid-2000s, inequality has decreased by 1 point in Chile.
Poverty in childhood has negative effects on their educational results (outcomes) and later in their labour market performance and can lead to the entrenchment of poverty and inequality in future generations.
Socio-economic segregation keeps too many students from succeeding, and low-income students who attend more affluent schools boost their chances of attending college by almost 70 percent. What’s more, the learning of more affluent students generally tends to hold steady in more diverse schools, according to the book, A Smarter Charter, by the Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg and Halley Potter.
In sum, I have made the effort to make it clear that simply “throwing money” at the problem of disparate educational outcomes for the rich and the poor, though noble in and of itself, is almost surely destined for failure.
I am not being a pessimist, nor am I simply making a prediction.
The evidence I have presented leaves no other logical conclusion available. Keeping Raj Chetty’s research in mind, Chile meets Zero out of Five (0%) of the characteristics that promote social mobility. In Chile:
1. The rich live with the rich, and the poor live with the poor.
2. Chile’s “middle class” is heavily indebted, experiencing no rise in wages.
3. Single-parent households are the norm rather than the exception.
4. The poor have little “social capital” to speak of.
5. The school system segregates the rich and the poor.
6. The Chilean education system is the most segregated in the world.
Finally, if upward, social mobility is the goal, the Chilean education system is an abject, deplorable F-A-I-L-U-R-E.
If reproduction of the status quo is the goal (the intergenerational transmission of wealth, social class, and power), then the Chilean education system is the BEST in the world.
Blurb:
Serenity Rupert, a former foster child, is struggling to keep it together with no money and a life in shambles.
With no family to turn to, she’s desperate to find a job to pay rent. When things seem to be their bleakest, William, a kind and charming stranger appears and helps her find employment.
With her life back on track, Serenity ventures to reconnect with her estranged family and discovers William’s arrival in her life may not have been as unexpected as it seemed.
Is William the key to Serenity making peace with her past or does he have ulterior motives?
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My Review:
Leaving The Pieces Behind, by R. M. Demeester, is an intriguing read. We are alerted by the blurb that things may not be as they appear on the surface. The prologue is useful in setting the scene. Abject poverty, hopelessness, a tired single mother in poor health, and three children, including our protagonist, Serenity Rupert, are introduced to us. Serenity is the oldest sibling, her sister is Harmony (a misnomer) and her brother is Dayton. Why Dayton? It strikes me as the kind of name a poor person would give their child because it is the kind of name they think that rich people would give their child.
As the story continues, Serenity, now a young adult, has lost her job working at a bakery. She has recently bailed her brother, Dayton, out of jail. As a result of this, she is not going to be able to pay her rent, which is due on Friday. So, here’s what happens next:
“I leaned against the wall by the window, at just the right angle that enabled me to steal my neighbor’s Wi-Fi signal. I couldn’t afford my portion of the internet bill, and so my roomies had changed the password on me. After I got my signal, I scrolled through the job listings which didn’t require years of experience. I stopped at one: Local Business, Cashier Wanted. I could do that. Thirty hours a week, eight-fifty an hour. I did the math in my head. It was more than I would make with unemployment.”
Author R. M. Demeester obviously believes that the most important thing is to tell the story. Demeester allows the reader access to the thoughts, emotions, spoken words, and deeds of Serenity as the story goes forward. It is a dialogue-driven, fast-moving, narrative technique that keeps you turning the pages quickly.
We are not given superfluous information, no imagery techniques, not even time or place. Having said that, just in case this information about time and place (setting) is important to you, the author provides enough clues and contextual information for an active reader to establish a time line to match the story to historical and cultural reality.
The absence of explicit time and place means that everything is happening fast in this story. As a result, we have no other option but to experience the story through the eyes of Serenity. Serenity takes the reader by the heart and guides us through the story of her life. We become both complicit with her and confidant for her. She is us (the reader) and we are her (Serenity).
So, I turned page after page, with only one thought in mind, namely the ultimate happiness of Serenity. She definitely deserves to be happy, to have a happy ending, considering the misfortunes she has had to deal with all her life.
So, we actively become complicit with her, all the while hoping she will overcome the obstacles she must face to understand her past. All of this impacts on her present life, and makes her future either a possibility, or an impossibility. Again, this is a very unique, intriguing tale.
★★★★★ I recommend this book highly ★★★★★
It is for teens, young adults, and adults from age eight (8) to eighty (80).
This is a story about how the circumstances of your birth can determine your entire life story. It encourages young people to be resilient, to rebel against hopelessness, to take whatever comes your way in life, the good, the bad, and the ugly, but-above all- to never give up your right to dream big dreams and to fight to make your dreams a reality…
Equally, infringements on the right to privacy – physical or online surveillance, monitoring of communications or activities, State intrusion into private, family or home affairs – prevent an individual from exercising their freedom of expression.
Infringements upon privacy and free expression also have interrelated impacts on the right to freedom of association and assembly. 
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