Thinking of a Service-Learning Course with Latin America

September 3, 2010

Topics

–        Defining Service-Learning

• Conceptualizing Service-Learning
• The Limits of Service-Learning
• The Possibilities of Service-Learning

–        Why Service-Learning

• Studies showing the positive aspects and downsides of service-learning.
• Impact of service-learning
• Who benefits from service-learning
• How to make a lasting impact?

–        Global Perspective

• Asia
• Europe
• Australia
• Africa

–        Hemispheric Perspective

• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Venezuela
• Argentina

–        Local Perspective

• Survey of local organizations that do service-learning

–        Service-learning in Argentina

• History of Education in Argentina
• Service-learning in Argentina
• Solidaridad – Past, present, future.

–        Developing a service-learning project

• Need for improvement, what social problem are they addressing?
• Bottom up development of the project by students – student centered
• Student run and the need to link the program goals to the curriculum.
• The need for linkages and the influence of other institutions and community organizations for the success of a service-learning project.

Service learning at the U – Partner organizations with strong Latino linkages.

September 3, 2010

Casa de Esperanza: Mobilizes Latino communities to end domestic violence and to eliminate violence against women and children.

Mano a Mano: Creates partnerships with impoverished Bolivian communities to improve their health and increase their economic well-being by building clinics, schools, and housing.

Centro: Serves the Latino and Chicano community to minimize and eliminate barriers for self-sufficiency. Offers support programs in education, health, culture, and wellness.

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES): Provides linguistically and culturally appropriate services for the Chicano/Latino community, including mental health, chemical health, employment, education, and elder wellness.

La Conexion: Empowers the Latino community throughout the Twin Cities by providing and connecting participants with resources and educational, economic and community engagement opportunities.

La Escuelita: Works to create and implement developmental strategies that help increase Latino youths’ academic success through their after school, summer academic enrichment, and leadership development programs.…

Still Trying to Convince Jim to Go Online

August 23, 2010

Jim, you need to fill out the parts of this page. Nothing anyone else can write will do it justice. For now, while nothing else is written, I am glad to be part of creating this memory of your classroom. Having had a great number of teachers, you where the teacher in whose class I experienced the most vivid moments. From visiting the school board, to learning about cognac, painting, public speaking and sex, you broadened our minds to new horizons. It was in your class that a class period could vanish in daze but be remembered longer than a day. Thank you for believing in us, as people, and instilling in as a desire to feel, absorb life and live an adventure. You shared your life and insights with us and left in us an array of unforgettable moments.…

Educacion Gratuita – Tratando de Convencer Profesores 

Agosto 23, 2010

Educación para todos – Una alternativa de educación gratuita que puede servir para complementar a la educación tradicional, para proveer de educación a gente que no pueda atender a una Universidad tradicional y

Este programa se enfoca por ahora en individuos que viven en países extranjeros que hablen español. Grabando estos videos utilizando

Tomando en cuenta la naturaleza wiki innata de la red. (donde todas las personas quisieran tener una voz y aportar a la acumulación general de la cultura).

Contáctanos

El hecho, es que con la acumulación de diversas versiones de cada clase, tenemos que ser realistas y darnos cuenta de que en un futuro en el internet los estudiantes no solo podrán ver la clase que grabo el profesor en la mañana, si no que también abran muchas otras versiones de la clase disponibles para servir de tutores para el estudiante.…

Acerca de EGV – Educacion Gratuita en Videos

August, 23, 2010

Esta organización fue creada con el propósito de promover el OpenCourseWare en español por Alfonso Sintjago y Ellie Sintjago. Alfonso Sintjago es actualmente un estudiante de doctorado en educación de la Universidad de Minnesota en los Estados Unidos en el área de educación comparativa. Ellie Sintjago termino recientemente su maestría en Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Florida, Estados Unidos.

Al ver que existían muchos recursos de universidades altamente reconocidas de manera gratuita en el internet, incluyendo 1800 clases publicadas por el MIT, pero las cuales en su gran mayoría existen solo en el idioma ingles, y que a la vez existía un número mucho más limitado de clases disponibles en español, se propusieron la meta de reducir esta diferencia y contactar a profesores universitarios para promover la grabación y distribución de clases en video de calidad universitaria en español, gratis por el internet.…

Mission EGV

August 22, 2010

EGV, Educación Gratuita en Videos tiene como misión promover el crecimiento del material de OpenCourseWare, o material libremente accesible de educación de nivel universitario a cualquier persona con acceso a internet en español. Mientras que el OpenCourseWare se ha expandido rápidamente en años recientes, la mayoría del crecimiento ha tomado lugar a través de material publicado en Ingles. Aunque el español es el segundo lenguaje más hablado en el mundo y hay un número creciente de usuarios de internet en países de habla hispana, las tecnologías de las Red 2.0 todavía no se han expandido a la educación del público en general.

Dentro del OpenCourseWare en Español, actualmente hay una cantidad limitada de material en campos como las ciencias naturales, la ingeniería, la arquitectura, entre otras. Como uno de los idiomas mas hablados en el mundo, es importante incrementar el acceso de esta información en español.…

Education – Quotes

August, 18, 2010

Studying During the Summer: Preventing the Summer Slide

August, 15, 2010

In a recent MPR broadcast, the audience discussed the implications of a research project by Johns Hopkins sociology Professor Karl Alexander concerning the importance of eliminating the summer gap and finding a way to increase the school year so that students can practice math, science and reading year round. This would prevent students from suffering from the :summer slide” or losing a substantial portion of what they had learned during the previous school year, having then to be re-taught this material the first weeks of the following school year.,

The study argues that the “summer slide” accounts for two thirds of the achievement gap forninth grade students as the disadvantaged students are not continuing to study or have enriching experiences during the summer equivalent to their more advantaged classmates from elementary school until ninth grade. While statistics show that students improve at the same rate as their peers during the school year independent of the students’ background, a gap develops during the summer months.…

OpenCourseWare – A Free Education for All

August, 9, 2010

MIT OpenCourseWare was recently recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their work in providing free educational material to anyone with internet access in over 1800 courses and was named the recipient of the Scientific Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE).

USA now 12^th in number of graduates: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/opinion/07herbert.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y