Good Chronicle of Higher Education article on bridging the gap. If you don’t have a CHE suscription, email me (lueny.morell@gmail.com) and I will send you the article.

Simple – by learning!

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21700383-what-matters-schools-teachers-fortunately-teaching-can-be-taught-how-make-good?linkId=25861122

“If India used energy-efficient LED bulbs, total electricity demand would decrease by 10%. That’s like taking 17 million cars permanently off the road.”

Disparities are fewer and smaller than 20 years ago, but critical gaps remain. Read the report here.

Check out @DrGrantEmpowers’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/DrGrantEmpowers/status/746405906485645312?s=09

The Economist | Schumpeter: Sleepy giant http://www.economist.com/news/business/21701151-china-inc-needs-better-management-become-more-productive-sleepy-giant?frsc=dg%7Cd

The Economist | Artificial intelligence: The return of the machinery question http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21700761-after-many-false-starts-artificial-intelligence-has-taken-will-it-cause-mass?frsc=dg%7Cd

Totally agree!
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/why-science-needs-to-open-up/

List of 10 new technologies.

https://www.weforum.org/communities/meta-council-on-emerging-technologies

According to this WEF article, while American and European markets may be known for fast-growing companies, market conditions in Africa, Asia-Pacific and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions offer some of the best opportunities for achieving hyper-growth, thanks to their rapidly growing economies and populations, as well as their substantial investment in infrastructure.

Talent is  by far the greatest concern among all regions of the world. Take note, universities!

An engineering feat second phase. Worth reading.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/100000004484514.app.html?_r=0

When Medical School researchers led by Allan Reiss asked people to cooperate with a partner, then tracked the brain activity of both, they found that males and females had different patterns of shared brain activity.

Read the Stanford University Med School research.

In this Chronicle of Higher Education article Eric Mazur from Harvard is interviewed on how he changed the way he taught and how he became an evangelist for active learning. He was one of the role models our university invited many moons ago to seed change in STEM education.

“The lecture creates the perfect illusion,” he says. “As the primary vehicle for teaching, it’s completely outmoded.”

If you cannot access the article click The Making of a Teaching Evangelist – CHE to download.

Innovator in technology: Inventor of email dies at 74 via Yahoo News Digest

https://www.yahoo.com/digest/20160307/innovator-technology-inventor-email-dies-74-00701227

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Check out @GoogleForEdu’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/GoogleForEdu/status/739927129043927040?s=09

In the World Economic Forum’s own classification of economic development, not a single Latin American country is categorized as “Innovation-driven”. According to this WEF article (and report) the region needs to develop collaboration, trust and internationalization. Good reading!

WEF article based on the Times Higher Education rankings…

“The US, home to 43 of the top 100 universities, dominates the overall rankings as well as the top 10. But Asian universities are becoming more prestigious, the survey reveals. Eighteen Asian institutions feature in the top 100 (up from 10 the previous year) and the universities are gaining recognition, with China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University jumping eight and 11 places respectively.”

yayyyy!

“By thinking creatively about the content, context, and delivery of engineering education, Dartmouth has achieved a milestone.”

Source: Dartmouth Makes History by Graduating a Majority-Female Engineering Class | Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

From Scientific American comes this article showing how technology can help in understanding terrorist activity. Why I love engineering!