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El pensamiento computacional, segunda edición

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En este trabajo se aborda el pensamiento computacional desde la perspectiva de la enseñanza y del aprendizaje en todos los niveles educativos, pero básicamente en los niveles anteriores a la universidad. En él se plantea que el pensamiento computacional constituye una competencia clave en la nueva alfabetización digital. De manera que las habilidades que son propias de los programadores deben ser desarrolladas desde las primeras etapas y son igualmente útiles para la resolución de problemas en otros ámbitos de la vida profesional y personal. Son habilidades que permiten a los individuos desarrollar las funciones de comunicación, representación y proceso de la información propios de la nueva cultura, la de la Sociedad del Conocimiento. Los contenidos tratan de lenguajes de patrones específicos del pensamiento computacional, de las componentes que, según el análisis que se hace, lo constituyen y lo definen, de experiencias concretas de implementación en currículos oficiales. Y por último del pensamiento computacional en las primeras etapas de desarrollo de los niños, sin ordenadores y sin pantallas: El pensamiento computacional desenchufado.Este libro es útil para profesores, técnicos en diseño y organización educativa e investigadores en computación, educación y teoría del aprendizaje entre otros.

Language is the quintessence of distributed cognition

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Language is the quintessence of distributed cognition. Language and usage are like the shoreline and the sea. Usage affects learning, and it affects languages, too. So, our understanding of language learning requires the detailed investigation of usage, its content, its participants, and its contexts—the micro level of human social action, interaction, and conversation, the meso level of sociocultural and educational … Read more

Migrants here to provide maximun benefit

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Today, 27/1/2019, Sajid Javid UK Home Secretary laid out that the Govt sees immigrants as an asset to generate a “maximum benefit”.

May´s thing with immigrants and freedom of movement

A couple of years ago I published research that examined how migrants were constructed both in the UK immigration legislation and in the information delivered through the UK Border Agency website. We wrote this in 2015 well before the Brexit Referendum. I read this again today and have realised how naive we were. The following is part of our conclusions:

What our results seem to suggest is that for the UK Administration, the issue of immigrant integration is not part of how immigrants are constructed in the legislation and the information that the UK immigration agencies and authorities publish and distribute. This failure to mention integration issues in the legislation is not found in other legal systems such as in Italy, where Hernández González (2016) discovered a tension between inclusion/integration and exclusion/control in the same 2007–2011 period. The language-driven evidence provided in this study corroborates that the use of the lemma ‘migrant’ in the two corpora analysed calls for a partial construction of immigrants mainly as workers who need to be tightly controlled and classified into Tiers to prevent unlawful behaviour. In doing so, migrants, an alternative word for immigrants in our research context, acquires an extremely subtle negative prosody.

Pérez-Paredes, P., Aguado. P. & Sánchez, P. (2017).  Constructing immigrants in UK legislation and Administration informative texts: a corpus-driven study (2007-2011). Discourse & Society,28,1,81-103.

Steven Pinker “Why should I live?”

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One student asks Why should I live?  In the very act of asking that question, you are seeking reasons for your convictions, and so you are committed to reason as the means to discover and justify what is important to you. And there are so many reasons to live! As a sentient being, you have … Read more

Discourse and persuasion 3.0: Identities in a hybrid and multimodal world

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University of Zaragoza, TERUEL (24-27 September 2019) In LD6, we set out to cast light on the intricacies of persuasive discourse and the manifold reactions it may engender in today’s globalised and multicultural societies. At the core of this endeavour is a genuine willingness and commitment to tease out the nature of persuasion in diverse contexts … Read more