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Some years ago a colleague show me Sir Ken Robinson TED conference Changing paradigms. I discover how TED is helping people to shape the future. I want to learn from everybody i the best way I know: sharing I learn in this 56 years of my life.

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• A comment on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 28 2012: Take a look:
  
  Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20501091

• A reply on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 13 2012: The idea works an inverse way. If you program a robot it works like a mirror of your thoughts and your vision of the world. The procedures works like a mirror of your moral structure. I am repellent with this TV shows where people laugh for the other accidents. Is a kind of a repulsive pedagogy of avoid empathy with others. But if you invite or challenge a student to develop a piece of software for a machine who suppose help others, the student must be able to put himself in the other situation, analyze it and develop a solution in/for the OTHER needs.
  
  I am not defending robotics at all, I am using the experience with technology to contribute to the developing of reasoning skills since 25 years ago. And Social networking, program robots and many others are useful if your have the ability to develop learning environments with very rich educational experiences. Papert and Resnick form MIT with LogoWriter and Scratch are doing wonderful job in this matter and Latin America has wonderful experiences.

• A reply on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 13 2012: Well you can teach robotics aseptically avoiding ethical issues. But Develop moral criteria is not teaching morals. Developing moral reasoning is the way to help students become good citizens. I prefer use every school and informal occasion to help students became autonomous and ethically competent, reflexive persons.

• A reply on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 12 2012: When I read your comments I think immediately in I Robot, the novel. I was young when I find this story in my school library. Was amazing to read about the 1o rules of robotics. When we put the students to work with robots programming we face the challenge of ethics because we can cover human needs with technology but not in any way. We need put the solutions in the contexts of the persons needs, privacy, respect, intimacy, and all the elements who let the person be him/herself.
  
  My experience is that if you bring technology to the classroom you cannot avoid ethical issues involved. If you are a teacher you must be a change factor in ethical matters too.

• A comment on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 12 2012: Yes, I am agree. We never teach morals. We contribute to develop the reasoning skills who let students use their moral criteria. We are based in Piaget and Kohlberg texts about the development of moral criteria. Robotics is used to plan an escenario where students think like programmers (actually they develop a solution and they must be emphatic with human needs before to think like technicians). This technical challenge is used as a useful environment for developing consciousness about other needs, be empathic with them.

• A comment on Conversation: Idea: Social networking and robotics programing to help children and adolescents develop moral criteria.

  Nov 9 2012: Thanks. I will find out more about the FIRST robot program. In our school we try with Lego Mind Storm and crickets form MIT Mitch Resnick and the invest was moderately accessible for students (they must pay 60 dlls. monthly basis and then they can access a Mac computer, Internet, Labs and Vernier probes too).

• A comment on Conversation: Live Chat with TED Books author Howard Rheingold today at 2pm Eastern: Can our digital tools make us smarter?

  Nov 8 2012: I know that Dr. Rheingold is not answering questions from people that don't read their book (yet), but I am very interested in knowing their thought about the effects of visualization in the new cognitive models. I am a simple Mexican teacher and I know the Rheingolds works since 90's