<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1314">English text follows Spanish text</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Agradezco al Ing. Pedro Vilanova que me lo hizo llegar. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dramatic-video-japan-tsunami-viral-video-20110417-074110-955.html">http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dramatic-video-japan-tsunami-viral-video-20110417-074110-955.html</a></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Espero llegue a muchos educadores. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "> Gracias a los que mantienen estas listas que nos permiten compartir este valioso material.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">A aquellos que como yo, nacimos y nos educamos antes de la era digital, les propongo nos detengamos un momento a pensar en algunos de los muchos problemas que desafiaban a nuestros maestros. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "> Y paremos a decirles gracias a ellos y a los maestros de hoy que cuentan con más herramientas pero tambien enfrentan desafíos más complejos.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Tenían que enseñarnos sobre terremotos cuando para casi todos ellos la única fuente de conocimiento eran unos pocos libros llenos de texto con una o dos fotos en blanco y negro.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Lo más cercano que algunos tenían a un video como este, eran las películas basadas en relatos históricos y la imaginación de los que las creaban.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Los maestros nos hablaban de un terremoto en Ecuador durante mis días de escolar en Uruguay. Veíamos en el cine la película ahora clásica Stromboli:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_%28pel%C3%ADcula%29">http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_%28pel%C3%ADcula%29</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF1314">English text starts here</font></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Thanks to Ing. Pedro Vilanova who sent me this link.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dramatic-video-japan-tsunami-viral-video-20110417-074110-955.html">http://sg.news.yahoo.com/dramatic-video-japan-tsunami-viral-video-20110417-074110-955.html</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">I hope it will reach many educators. Thanks to those maintaining these lists that allow us to share this valuable material.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">To those like me born and educated before the digital era, may I suggest we stop for a moment to think about some of the many problems that challenged our teachers. And we stop to say thanks to them as well as to today´s teachers who have more tools available but who also face more complex challenges.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">They had to teach us about earthquakes when for almost all of them the only source of knowledge were a few books full of text with one or two black and white pictures.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">The closest thing some of them had to videos like this one were films based on history and the imagination of those creating them.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Teachers used to talk to us about an earthquake in Ecuador during my school days in Uruguay. We used to see the now classic film Stromboli:</span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_%28film%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli_%28film%29</a></span></font></div></div><div><br></div> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Carlos Rabassa</div><div>Voluntario</div><div>Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal</div><div>Montevideo, Uruguay</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br></body></html>