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Old-school educators may feel intimidated by the new trends involved in the classroom, but that should only challenge them to make their classes more interesting for the students. There are various online solutions that can really promote the process of education by enabling teachers to organize the classroom activities and inspire students to get more involved. This article will list 20 new apps that promise great potential in terms of education enhancement.

Ahora ha llegado la cuarta revolución industrial. Pero ¿en qué consiste si en el último medio siglo no ha aparecido ninguna invención realmente revolucionaria? Las últimas innovaciones han sido los viajes al espacio e Internet. Pero si recordamos la segunda revolución industrial, veremos que tampoco estaba vinculada con ningún invento, sino que era una modificación de la primera, de manera que el desarrollo de la producción llevó a una nueva revolución sin la acción de un invento revolucionario. Lo mismo vemos aquí.

A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders.

While there is little doubt that business processes are changing, it’s not the business that’s influencing the shift in operations. It’s prospective and existing customers who are empowered by regular access to information and interactions. Companies that succeed in this new competitive landscape are the ones that realize the power of their customers and reinvent their business models and processes to systematically understand and serve them. However, when such change is concentrated in only customer-facing areas and doesn’t happen quickly enough in behind-the-scenes functions such as HR, it can hold back the business.

As much as we hate to admit it, the Gen Z is very different! The how and why of Gen Z thinking was discussed in our article Training Gen Z: 5 Myths Busted. But often the answers lie at the roots. What is more important now is groom students to attune to this fast-changing world and create a job ready gen next.

In America, 71 % of the population age 3 and overuse the internet. This is in stark contrast to a United Nations report that revealed that 57 % of the world’s people are unable to take advantage of the internet. As a matter of fact, schools in developing nations have been slow to adopt technology. For various reasons; it’s too costly, really not needed, a great distraction, illiteracy, etc., etc., etc.

But do you realize that in most schools in developed countries blackboards are nearly obsolete, fat hard-bound text books have been replaced by online text, digital resources are used for "homework", and discussions happen on online collaboration platforms? More private schools, than public ones, are warming up to technology in education in developing countries. But where do they begin and how far should they reach? Here are 5 must-adopt strategies for merging technology and education, which developing countries can use to beat the race and create a job ready gen next.

Revista digital con interesantes artículos en español e inglés sobre la Educación Disruptiva del Siglo 21. Aquí descubrirás por qué el Sistema Educativo tiene que articularse a la altura de los tiempos.

Digital magazine with articles in English and Spanish about the Educative Disruption of 21st Century.

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2017 va a ser definitivamente el año de los perfiles profesionales digitales y capaces de poner la tecnología al servicio de la empresa.

Las compañías necesitan aprovechar todo el potencial que les ofrece el uso de la información y en sus plantillas carecen de la mano de obra capacitada para ello, por eso este año buscarán perfiles profesionales muy especializados y relacionados con las Tecnologías de la Información y las Telecomunicaciones, como especialistas en Big Data, vídeo engineer o ingeniero en seguridad.

t’s something that you try to tap into every time you design new training content. Some might say you either have it or you don’t. I would like to think that each of us can be creative if we work hard enough. If you disagree and think it’s all in the genes, I encourage you to read the research findings of Marvin Reznikoff.

Another myth about creativity has to do with a lack of resources. If you had enough money and time, you could be more creative. Unfortunately, a lack of resources is not impacting your creativity. Constraints can actually make you more creative and force you to think outside the box.

Don’t you feel much better? Genetics and a lack of resources are no longer obstacles to your creativity. Here are four things I do to boost my creativity.

Broadly speaking, income inequality refers to the fact that different people earn different amounts of money. The wider those earnings are dispersed, the more unequal they are. But that intuitive concept of dispersal can be defined in several different ways. Indeed, income itself is a somewhat ambiguous idea that can be defined in different ways.

All that said, in the contemporary United States income inequality has been increasing for several decades by essentially any measure. Similar trends are observed in most other rich countries. At the same time, on a global scale inequality is probably declining.

Robots are to be blamed for job losses over the last decade, CEOs of companies across the globe have said.

Business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos warned this week that the collateral damage to jobs needs to be addressed more seriously.

From taxi drivers to healthcare professionals more and more jobs are at risk, down to technologies including robotics, driverless cars, artificial intelligence and 3-D printing.

A lo largo de la historia, la humanidad siempre ha buscado nuevas maneras de hacer que el proceso evolutivo no encuentre ningún obstáculo en su paso de una generación a otra. Las herencias que han recibido con el tiempo los sucesores son un ejemplo de que la creatividad, inteligencia o las habilidades de los antepasados han sido unos de los más importantes recursos que les han servido para abrirse camino delante de los desafíos y continuar su ascenso. Pero ¿qué pasa cuando, animados por el mismo deseo de superación, llegamos a construir una estructura que al final atrapa a todos los participantes en un sistema muy complejo?