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By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo “The teachers  must remember they’re educating for life,” Proffessor María Elena Gracia underlines. She is a specialist in training, study plan design, and educational management with the Technological University of Chile’s INACAP. “And educating for life means to teach our students to solve practical problems and prepare them for continuing to learn,” she explains. The master-ddegree proffessor and graduated teacher on Castilian Language at reputated universities in the South-American country speaks firmly on her conceptions but tender on her directions, an attitude that catches the attention of her colleagues instantaneously. Mrs Gracia was in Sullana, Peru, holding a conference in November 18 th and workshops in Piura, Peru, between November 20 th to 23 rd mainly addressed to teachers and Education students with the purpose of exploring the benefits of critic and creative thinking in the classroom. “Our challenge as teachers...

Why is good the students know how speaking to a computer.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photos Courtesy by Iván Rotta Saavedra .   SULLANA, Peru – The first time I sat down in front of a computer was in 1986. Actually, it was in front of some Atari or Commodore keyboard plugged to a 14-inch white-&-black TV during a vacation class. It was the time when Michael Knight spent speaking with a Pontiac car’s computer in an emblematic TV series, apparently science-fiction that time. Today, many time later, I speak to my smartphone ’s computer when I need verified answers about specific topics which I even write this article. We are not talking about artificial intelligence only. Before it, the process to manage orders and have results have to do with programming the device for it gives me a product or result. In a free etimology , programming means writing or outlining with anticipation, and amid the computation world, it means setting up a set of orders a...

By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   TAMBOGRANDE, Peru – The Miraflores Alto’s 15220 elementary school is fighting the low reading learning levels through a radio show released via streaming. But the different thing in the Project is that the students research, write, and produce. So, they promote the critic and creative thinking and through the format they have named Capsulitas de Opinión (Opinion Little Capsules).   The Project was developed in 2019 and it is one of the 50 best selected across the nation by the Development for the Peruvian Education Fund, or Fondep as in Spanish, as part of its Transforming Ideas call.   “The proposal and the strategy of my project responses to perform radio shows that allow the students to make scripts about interesting topics for the people, and generate an opinion trend by developing the critic and creative understanding,” the teacher Freddy Juárez García explains. He is the principal and only teacher of the school, unders...

YAMANGO, Peru – The Educational Management Local Unit of Morropón’s representative school before the 10 th Piura’s Congress of environmental Education is located at a rural town called Faical. It is about 20028’s that has launched a fanpage and a YouTube channel named Escuela verde, planeta verde (Green School, Green Planet), which look for promoting an environmental culture, as well as habits of healthy feeding and hygiene. Thefanpage already adds more than 94K Like s while its YouTube channel is trying to summon the attention of its audience for having views, as FACTORTIERRA VERIFIED them. All is part of the Project Awaring new generations for caring the environment ,   executed by the school’s principal Janet Pizarro Huamán, parents, an students. The project includes the management of a school orchard for improving the feeding of students, a decorative garden, cleaning campaigns, and implementation of spaces and containers for recycling. Also, handicrafts are made f...

CHALACO, Peru – Evelio Cobba Mendoza is the only teacher at 15356 School, in Las Mishcas Village, and helped by the educational community, he implemented an orchard with food which, as well as compliments breakfasts and lunchs brought by the  Qali Warma Programme, is inserted into other subjects like Communication, Maths, and Technology & environment. Parents fenced the space with bamboo cane and prepared the land while the school’s children made the grooves and cropped the vegetables. So, the students have learned, for example, there are direct-cropping plants and others those need to be transplanted. The theacher Evelio Cobba comes from La Florida, a district of San Miguel, Cajamarca Region.  His father, evergildo, loved to read. “He learned by himself,” he tells. “I remember he had two bold books of Botanics, and he taught me to crop,”  he points out so happy. “Today, I teach my students to crop and to eat healthy.” Vegetables as carrots, bee...