Back in 1848 Horace Mann, a pioneer of state funded education in the United States claimed that education was the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” In this article in the NY Times the author states that, in spite of leading indicators of increased education across all racial groups in the US as well…
Un estudio reciente (realizado por la plataforma de sostenibilidad Quiero y Samsung) publicado en Educación 3.0 sobre el papel de la tecnología en la educación, nos revela unos datos algo preocupantes desde varias perspectivas. La buena noticia es que hay orgullo en el colectivo docente por su labor, el “90% de los profesores y futuros…
The role of being a parent can be complex one, and with no manual as to how to bring up children we are frequently left to our devices or, worse-still, we follow what others are doing or what we read about. This humouristic take by The Economist on the different styles of parenting common in…
Being a parent is a very difficult job, where one has to juggle different demands and take notice of what so-called experts suggest that we should do, or not do, in order to bring up balanced healthy children. This article in The Telegraph outlines some of the facts that we do need to take into…
El control parental vuelve a levantar su cabeza pesada de nuevo. Tras muchos años desde que se declarara – de manera no oficial – que el control parental no era lo mejor para la convivencia de niños en casa en el siglo 21, la pandemia y aumento de acoso escolar, adicción a dispositivos e Internet…
The internet – or access to the internet – which seems to support global society, appears to be a key factor in enabling opportunities for children at an early age, but it also stays with them throughout their adult life. According to a recent UNICEF report and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) it is estimated…
In the last sixteen months children of all ages have depended on remote learning to continue their education. Now that in most countries children are back to school and in other countries hybrid learning is still the norm at the moment it is interesting to note what this article in the NY Times discusses: that…
We are very pleased to be back at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) once again, after a gap of well over a year. There is no substitute for real live person to person engagement and it has been a real pleasure to talk about the Blabloo phone: a kid´s first smartphone. The quality of the…
Escudo Web is very pleased to announce that we will be participating at the Mobile World Congress 2021 starting Monday 28th June to Thursday 1st July. After the event was cancelled last year due to Covid it will be good to be back and show our faces and solutions at the show. We have a…
Se publicó recientemente el informe de la OCDE llamado Skills Outlook 2021: learning for life (traducido como Competencias 2021: aprendizaje para la vida). Según este artículo de El País, España es el país de la UE con la mayor cifra de jóvenes (17%) que no estudian más allá de la ESO y que los ninis…