light gazing, ışığa bakmak

Friday, November 30, 2012

mudar

o paradigma. sobre a utilização do plástico, uma noção que espero incorporar na minha vida diária. a propósito, as notícias que começam a vir a lume, geralmente depois da tragédia estar feita e completa e talvez (o talvez é optimista) irreversível. plásticos nos Great Lakes:

When Sherri Mason sailed a brig across the Great Lakes this summer collecting water samples, she and her team of students and fellow scientists expected to find plastic.
(...)
Two of the 21 samples they collected contained 600,000 plastic pieces per square kilometre — nearly twice as much as the highest plastic count ever recorded in the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

embracing the cause: the plastic pollution coalition.

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também na secção sustainable business do guardian: "It is not our job to preserve for them some nostalgic vision of the future that is clearly past." num artigo sobre educação (o grande debate) que afinal veio do NY Times. e aqui uma resposta dos professores. de alguns professores, melhor dito-

onde é que nós estamos: no exame da quarta classe, no mesmo prof dar educação visual e tecnologia (?)

ou seja, se isto não funciona, não se muda porquê?

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não sei se tem muito a ver, mas nestes parágrafos está a definição de human being:

They dropped opensource Motorola Xoom tablets in two very remote Ethiopian villages where there was no schooling of any kind, no literacy in any language, no existing mobile or internet-connected technology, and no knowledge of English. The Androids were programmed entirely in English. They were dropped into the villages in sealed cardboad boxes without instructions of any kind and given to four to seven year old kids.

After several months, the kids in both villages were still heavily engaged in using and recharging the machines, and had been observed reciting the “alphabet song,” and even spelling words. One boy, exposed to literacy games with animal pictures, opened up a paint program and wrote the word “Lion.”. . . .Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”

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