Opinion
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Opinion | How AI Expelled Van Gogh and Frida from Eternity

AI will never be able to know or recreate that human timing. It can only serve as a tool, never as a creative spirit. ...
Friendship

Opinion | We Are All Frankenstein (Uniting and Re-educating Ourselves)

Friendship is a radical act. It's an intense, shared love for something in common. And that common ground isn't just anything: in friendship, all of ...
school and politics

Opinion | School and Politics

School (the classroom in particular) is an excellent setting to teach each other the skill of listening. "Listening is taught by listening." ...
happiness

Opinion | Happiness

'Happycracy' is the culprit behind all those hundreds, thousands, and millions of messages we receive every day, wishing us, and even imposing on us, to ...
Teaching and gossip

Opinion | Gossip as an Essential Tool of Teaching (and It Is No Joke)

Teaching needs to return to the ancient practice of education as testimony, one in which our personality is present behind the knowledge we share. We ...
Returning to School

Opinion | Ten Years Later: Returning to School in an AI-Dominated World 

When I returned to school ten years later, technology changed the rules. Here is my experience as a grad student in an AI-dominated world. ...
Education and Money

Opinion | Education and Money

Investing is increasingly a gamble, a challenge, and a risk. And the world of education is no exception. ...
Cloning Cybernetic Supervillains (and Other Electronic Fantasies)

Opinion | Cloning Cybernetic Supervillains (and Other Electronic Fantasies)

In this essay, Andrés García Barrios proposes an interesting philosophical-futuristic exercise for classroom reflection: Is it possible to scan the human body and its psyche? ...

Opinion | Son of a Neurodivergent Mother

Today, with so much available knowledge, the best lies within each of us. It's time for testimonies! Or will we gatekeep everything we know inside? ...

Opinion | Teaching to Think (Teacher or Expert Programmer?)

"We must always have, as teachers, a sense of humor, which is nothing more than admitting, at least momentarily, that there is something essential we ...

Opinion | Motherhood, Mental Health, and Education

In the context of Mother's Day and World Maternal Mental Health Day, Andrés García Barrios reflects on a documentary that explores motherhood, mental health, and ...

Opinion | Anthropo-ego-centrism

Regarding knowledge, nothing strikes me as more suspicious than the famous "Top ten lists." However, 10 is a memorable number. ...
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