Language Learning, Local Education, and lots of Ideas, Project Do Better — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Spanish has always been my favorite language, especially after moving to the bilingual South West. Technically, I was hired for my experience in Unix which led to my MAT in mathematics, but on the ground, my love of learning languages proved to be more important in the classroom. As an adult education instructor at the […]

Language Learning, Local Education, and lots of Ideas, Project Do Better — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Repost of Day 52/67: Five Month GED, Water, and Public Health for Project Do Better — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

So, how would you figure out how much water is currently in your local aquifer, say, if you live in Albuquerque, New Mexico?  So, what does ground water have to do with all of our health, and why do we need to understand this, as citizens of a republic? #ProjectDoBetter works to explain, and share, […]

Repost of Day 52/67: Five Month GED, Water, and Public Health for Project Do Better — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Did We Move, Or Did The Scale Shift?

Filosofa's Word

I don’t think most of us change our views much during the course of our lifetime.  Oh sure, as we age, as we learn new things, learn about history, about political and social ideologies, are exposed to new experiences, we may shift our viewpoints, but I don’t think we do much of a swing from the time we were young.  When I focus on young people in my ‘good people’ posts, I always have the feeling that these people, some as young as five or six years old, are going to grow up to be awesome adults with humanitarian values.  We are who we are, and while our views may shift, I don’t think the core of us changes much over time.  Cruel children grow into cruel adults, children who have compassion as children, typically grow into kind, compassionate adults.

I grew up in the 1950s, came of age in…

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Did We Move, Or Did The Scale Shift? — Filosofa’s Word

I don’t think most of us change our views much during the course of our lifetime.  Oh sure, as we age, as we learn new things, learn about history, about political and social ideologies, are exposed to new experiences, we may shift our viewpoints, but I don’t think we do much of a swing from […]

Did We Move, Or Did The Scale Shift? — Filosofa’s Word

Desigualdad y series infantiles: pocas directoras y guionistas y muchos chiclés

Stigmatis

EFE/Laura de Grado


La desigualdad también está presente en las series infantiles, pues solo el 1,8 % de guionistas son mujeres y el 77 % de los personajes femeninos reproducen clichés y estereotipos de género, según el informe “La dieta audiovisual en la programación infantil en televisión” de la Asociación de Mujeres Cineastas y de Medios Audiovisuales de España.

Hay un3,3 % de mujeres en los puestos de dirección de series infantiles, y solo un 7 % de las series dirigidas a menores cumple el ‘test de Bechdel’, el método para evaluar si una pieza audiovisual cumple con los estándares mínimos para evitar la brecha de género.

Solo uno de cada tres personajes protagonistas son mujeres. Hay un33,7 % de personajes femeninosfrente al 66,3 % de personajes masculinos.

El estudioha sido elaborado porFátima Arranzde laUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, en colaboración con las…

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Whose Black History Will Be Taught?

Diane Ravitch's blog

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. reviews the long debate about how to teach Black history in an article in the New York Times. The debate began as rationales by sympathizers of the Confederacy, who changed the Civil War into “The War Between the States.” In a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago, I heard the war described in a historic home as “The War of Northern Aggression.”

Dr. Gates writes:

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms.

“We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them,” Governor DeSantis said. He also decried what he called “indoctrination.”

School is one…

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Altruism – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

“I’m just a simple Buddhist monk but I’m trying to help others lead a happy life, to learn to appreciate what a difference it makes to find peace of mind. That’s my dream. One of my main practices is the cultivation of altruism — it’s what I think about the moment I wake up.”

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Source: Altruism – Silent Songs of Sonsnow

Epidemic of Excess Weight

Kaushal Kishore

According to World Obesity Atlas 2023, more than half of the world’s population, or more than 4 billion prople will be overweight or obese by 2035, i.e. an increase from 38% (2.6 billion) in the next 12 years.

Low or middle-income countries in Asia and Africa are expected to see the greatest increase in obesity prevalence.

India is not an exception. Nearly 11% of the population will be obese, and childhood obesity will increase by 9.1% during the same period.

The most disturbing fact is that rising prevalence of obesity is expected to be steepest among children and teenagers, and could more than double in the next 12 years.

Till a few years back, cardiac arrest in young adults was rare, but now daily there is some news of a boy playing football, or a girl going down for a water park slide, or a boy sitting in classroom, or…

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