During the last days of februray (very last indeed!) til the begining of March (29th Feb – 2nd Mar.) the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO) is celebrating it’s XIX Symposium on Education jointly with it’s XXXII psychology week in Guadalajara, México.

There are plenty of conferences and workshops to choose from and I am glad they invited me to propose one (many kudos to the Department of Education!). So I came up with the idea of making a three day workshop on new pedagogic interactions delaing with digital content (i.e, Interacciones educativas en la sociedad del conocimiento: Gestión de contenidos digitales y nuevas prácticas pedagógicas for the spanish version). However, don’t let the title fool you.

The aim and scope of the workshop is to learn how to use and manage digital content such as comments on blogs or news (which might be interesting for different learning subjects but difficult to work with) using the well known app for firefox zotero. In addition, I expect to have an open discussion on these new forms of interaction that can emerge from the very capabilities and “everydayness” of ICT’s students have.

Sometimes teachers are afraid to lose control over tools or methods they do not fully master. Especially if students are truly expirienced users vis-a-vis their teachers. However, the focus will be more on practical ways to hack the academy

Here’s the link to the full program.

SAX!