This mixed methods study investigates whether technology mediated collaborative practices during a professional development (PD) session led to growth in the collective efficacy of 21 special education teachers at an independent 1-12 school in Southeastern Virginia. This school specializes in individualized instruction for students with learning differences not limited to Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Specific Learning Disability, and their comorbidities. Teacher collective efficacy, which subsumes cohesive perceptions of classroom learning and behavior management, has been shown as strongly (...) related to student achievement and healthy school culture. Mastery experiences with specific tasks related to teaching and learning can spur collective efficacy. Cutting-edge technologies (Vibe and Newline collaborative all-in-one hardware and software interfaces) were used to engage teachers in an interdisciplinary vision boarding activity to outline academic, social, and technological goals within and across subject areas. Teachers also engaged in a behavior management reflection exercise. Pre- and post-survey analysis was conducted using a paired samples t-test, showing overall growth in collective efficacy after the brief PD session. Regression analyses revealed that technology savvy teachers grew most in collective efficacy. Network analysis of vision board output and a descriptive analysis of the behavior management surveys showed that teachers became united in interdisciplinary goals for learning, and in strategies for behavior management through conversational practices. (shrink)

Se cumplen 100 años del nacimiento de Gilles Deleuze, discípulo de Foucault, uno de los principales ideólogos de la izquierda progresista -/- Gilles Deleuze, profesor y filósofo francés, nació el 18 de enero de 1925 en París y se le considera uno de los más influyentes del siglo XX. Escritor de obras, junto a Félix Guattari, como El Anti-Edipo (1972) y Mil Mesetas (1980), Deleuze se convirtió en uno de los pensadores de referencia para la izquierda progresista del siglo XXI. (...) De sus ideas se extrae un relativismo tan absoluto que deriva en nihilismo. Y su teoría de los «cuerpos sin órganos» se puede asociar con los desvaríos de género actuales de la ideología woke. -/- Con motivo del centenario de su nacimiento, la Fundación Disenso publica un nuevo Ideas sobre el pensamiento de Gilles Deleuze. Este especial recoge el pensamiento nihilista del filósofo francés, de suma influencia en el movimiento de Mayo de 1968. Todo a través del análisis de especialistas como el filósofo Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz; la doctora en Filosofía Mariona Gúmpert; el catedrático de Filosofía de la UCM Gabriel Albiac; el profesor David Cerdá y David Souto Alcalde, doctor en Estudios Hispánicos por la New York University. (shrink)