American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more Test results showed progress in math, but not enough to offset the...
OCDE y los futuros de la IA
AI’s potential futures: Mitigating risks, harnessing opportunities Francesca Rossi, Michael Schoenstein, Stuart Russell December 19, 2024 — 9 min read AI’s unpredictable path AI is evolving at an extraordinary pace, reshaping industries and societies worldwide....
Uso de la IA por los estudiantes
Universities must compel students to detail how they use AI in assignments Institution-wide policies must affirm the necessity of engaging critically with AI tools in ways that foster human agency, writes Joseph Moxley Joseph Moxley, January 13, 2025 Colleges and...
Enseñar a pensar
La necesidad de enseñar a pensar ¿Cómo reconocer esa seductora pero falsaria información disfrazada de verdad por la tecnología? La educación en el pensamiento crítico a todos los niveles, en aulas, familias y medios, enfrenta un riesgo formidable: la ausencia de...
Financiamiento de I&D en Finlandia
Will Finland’s big spending on R&D buy it the gift of growth? Nokia’s runaway success may have rung off a decade ago, but the Nordic nation hopes to dial up its tech prowess by increasing state investment in R&D by 80 per cent, putting the nation among the...
Papel de la IA en la prospectiva científica
LLMs outclass humans at predicting neuroscience results Nathan M Greenfield 10 December 2024 Large language models (LLMs) outscored neuroscientists by between 13 and 22 percentage points (81.4% to 63.4%) in predicting useful neuroscience experimental outcomes, says a...
La crisis de comunicación en las ciencias
Mapping (but not solving) the science communication crisis Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit 11 December 2024 Scientific communication has never been more important – or more troubled. In an era of global science – the multinational scientific development of COVID-19...
IA como predictora de experimentos científicos
LLMs outclass humans at predicting neuroscience results Nathan M Greenfield 10 December 2024 Large language models (LLMs) outscored neuroscientists by between 13 and 22 percentage points (81.4% to 63.4%) in predicting useful neuroscience experimental outcomes, says a...
Escrito antes y leido después de la elección de Trump
Universities can expect a frontal attack if Trump returns John Aubrey Douglass, 30 October 2024 With the 5 November presidential election, voters in the United States are about to determine the fate of the nation’s higher education system and the vitality of its...
Plagiarismo y su evolución
What the right’s ‘plagiarism war’ really tells us about academic writing Plagiarism accusations that led to the downfall of black US academics and politicians have sparked criticisms of ‘sloppy’ writing practices. But these controversies actually reveal how academics...
Repensar los incentivos, las métricas y la financiación en la educación superior global
A medida que se intensifican las presiones financieras, las universidades responden cada vez más a clasificaciones y...
Relatos sobre la Universidad y las disputas por el sentido de la institución
Presentación empleada para la conferencia en la UV: ver aquí : JJB_UValparaiso_28072026_env [PDF] Mi conferencia...
Decanatura, Inteligencia Artificial y transformaciones de la Universidad
La universidad es uno de los últimos territorios públicos que resisten la lógica de la plataforma. Un espacio...
Entrevista sobre coyuntura política con Magdalena Olea
José Joaquín Brunner: «Tenemos una oposición que no tiene ninguna capacidad de ofrecer un proyecto de gobernabilidad»...