davidlms | A personal blog

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 Research in fields related to social sciences, in my understanding, has several problems: These include the dependence on the specific context in which studies are conducted and generational changes, which can render the results of previous research obsolete. When choosing a sample for a practical experiment, it is really complicated to have a universal one, due to how different we humans are in many aspects: ideology, interests, culture, economic situation, political stance, religion… We could say that there are practically as many different thoughts as there are human beings.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 Today, and especially in the wake of the lockdown, we have multiple quite effective tools for communication between teachers and families. At the very least, there’s some application available, whether provided by public or private administration1. Email can also be used, and we have the resource of phone calls if we can’t achieve effective asynchronous communication. However, far too little is said about communication among teachers.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 It’s been almost a month since I embarked on this adventure of committing my thoughts to writing, with mixed results. So today I thought I could write a “How-to” type post (and not “How it was done,” because it’s still ongoing) explaining in more detail what I shared in the first post. The first thing I did was register the domain davidlms.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 I have long envied Estonia’s digital administration1. Although, for many reasons, Spain cannot be compared, it is true that the technology is there and is underutilized. Of course, a digital transformation2 needs time… Until an epidemic arrives. Suddenly, many procedures that required going to a physical office can now be done from home. Restaurants have a QR code to read their menu.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 This is a personal reflection following the reading of Rafael Delgado Valdivielso’s article: NO MORE EXAMS, PLEASE. WE LIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. It’s worth pausing here to read his article instead. I believe that exams are a fundamental tool for learning, as our educational system is currently structured, for several reasons: A good portion of students wouldn’t dedicate time to review1 if they didn’t know they would face an exam at some point.

Important: Translated automatically from Spanish by 🌐💬 Aphra 1.0.0 I’ve been pondering for a while on how to improve the effectiveness of learning in my classes. Lately, I’ve been reading quite a bit about strategies supported by cognitive psychology1 research, such as spaced learning2 or the benefits of formative assessment3. I think that if I want to get results, it’s not enough to keep these in mind for a single activity; they need to be integrated into the subject I teach.