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Edu.vantaa.fi – the best municipal “edu portal” in Finland

I made today a very short online tour to some of the education portals provided by the Finnish municipalities. I didn’t check them all. Actually there are more than 400 municipalities in Finland, running thousands of schools and educational institutions with hundreds of thousands of teachers and students. I didn’t look for school web sites, […]

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Wikimedia is changing the world?

You all must have seen in the top of the Wikipedia pages the red link saying: “donate now”, and the tag line “You can help Wikipedia change the world!” As a critical person you are probably thinking: “hmm… these people are not too humble” or “do they seriously think that they are changing the world?” […]

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Globalization, ICT and education

Last week I was giving a talk in the SOMECE’s (Sociedad Mexicana de Computación en la Educación) annual conference in Mexico. The short trip was worth of doing: many interesting projects and many clever and good people. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to go around in there. Must go back. There was not much time […]