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The curricula for initial teacher education in Brazil, and in a significant part of Latin America, lag behind reality. It is common to see educators who have just graduated but are unable to simply teach. Academic laboratories are focused on research, but very little on creation. As a result, what usually happens is that courses in pedagogy produce excellent researchers, but disoriented teachers.
That kind of utopia that academic spaces propose, looking only to the past, often ends up undermining the possibility of transforming reality. Dreaming is necessary, but it needs to be accompanied by h...
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It’s been a tough few years at Meta (Facebook), as they’ve come under increasing pressure to put better protections on their social media protections to support younger users. Based in part on leaked internal studies which showcase the harm for teenagers, advocacy groups, parents and academics have joined the call in demanding social media giants to fix the situation, including shifting algorithms to ‘nudge’ younger users away from problematic content which might impact their mental health.
While shifts to algorithms could be part of the solution, we suggest blocking users from content isn’t th...
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