Estamos siendo testigos de un nuevo boom audiovisual en América Latina y el Caribe. Económicamente hablando, se calcula que solo en 2019, se invirtieron cerca de US$5.700 millones en producciones audiovisuales, impulsando la creación de más de 1,6 millones de empleos directos e indirectos en Latinoamérica, según un estudio de Olsberg SPI. Las oportunidades que esto trae … [Lee más...] about El futuro de la industria del entretenimiento depende de las habilidades, el talento creativo y la diversidad de voces
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How long do cognitive skills last?
Skills are extremely malleable. Just as training can improve skills, its absence can diminish them. In other words, people forget and hence the old proverb: "organ that is not used atrophies." … [Lee más...] about How long do cognitive skills last?
Wired to survive, not to learn
What is the cost of violence? Start with the human toll. In Brazil, around 60,000 people are murdered each year, a figure that reaches 29/100,000 inhabitants and is the highest for any country not at war. Ten percent of all homicides in the world happen in Brazil. Add this to the economic costs. Brazil lost almost 4% of its GDP – about US$124 billion - to violence in 2014. This … [Lee más...] about Wired to survive, not to learn
I’m Not Perfect, I’m Pretty
“I need a calculator even for 2+2. I’m not perfect, I’m pretty.” You could write an entire thesis about that sentence. Sadly, the young woman who tweeted it, has close to 600,000 followers. Even more disheartening, this is merely one of a multitude of similarly negative messages about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) transmitted by girls and young women … [Lee más...] about I’m Not Perfect, I’m Pretty
Learning how to learn in your own language
Some mistakes are easy to remember and especially those you make in a language other than your own. Having grown up as a Swedish-speaking Finn, I remember clearly how during one of my first Finnish language classes, I told everyone “I am a ball” instead of “I have a ball”. While my story took place in Finland, my experience could resemble that of millions of children in the … [Lee más...] about Learning how to learn in your own language
