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| − | * | + | * • Necesitamos volvernos más cuidadosos con la palabra “competente”. Existen ciertas organizaciones que simplemente no deberían ser gestionadas como negocios. Entre ellas, las organizaciones gubernamentales o religiosas, las familias y, como en el caso que nos ocupa, las organizaciones educativas. Sin pensarlo, en nuestra vida diaria pensamos que ser “competente” es lo mismo que ser prudente en los gastos, eficiente en la distribución de recursos y preciso en la contabilidad. Deberíamos serlo. Pero el término en cuestión tiene más implicaciones que necesitamos estudiar cuidadosamente. Una empresa con responsabilidad limitada es una persona legal, y ciertos psicólogos has descrito a esta persona como una bestia psicótica. Esto es así porque la ley apoya el objetivo de que una empresa tiene una sola ética, que es generar beneficios. No tiene obligación social alguna. Cada vez más, a las instituciones educativas se les está diciendo que sean “autosuficientes”, y menos dependientes de los fondos públicos. El resultado de esto está siendo la “comodificación” de la educación. Los cerificados y los títulos se están poniendo a la venta. Los estándares están bajado. El crecimiento de los valores de la propiedad intelectual, si bien es importante, es solamente uno de los elementos en este proceso, que solamente puede tener resultados desastrosos. El movimiento creciente del copyright abierto y compartido se está contrarrestando notablemente esta situación.--[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 05:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC) |
* Back in the late sixties, early seventies, as a recently returned overseas volunteer, I linked up with a group of returned volunteers. Some of us called us radical, and I suppose we were unorthodox at least. We wanted to raise awareness that aid was ineffective, that honest trade relations were needed, and that the world could be improved. At that time, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science Club, created a simulation game, effective for about thirty persons, called [http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/ine-str.htm Starpower]. It was good for illustrating inequality such as Apartheid, global inequality, or social class. We went around to schools and churches and ran the game with what we thought was great effect. It came to us as a cyclostyled single sheet of instructions, and we made our own tokens and ID tags. It belonged to the public domain. A few years ago, as I was developing the Community Empowerment site, I added a description of Starpower to the Inequality section. I found out that the game had been copyrighted by a commercial corporation, So I wrote to them saying I had the description and was getting it translated into various languages. It might raise their profile. I got a nasty letter from their lawyer telling me to stop writing about it, They owned the copyright, and did not want us writing about it. I was shocked. Being the defiant rebel that I am, I decided to write a sociological academic analysis, but made sure it included sufficient description of the details of the game that anybody could make their own tokens and coupons and run the game for free. That would save them over two hundred dollars of the purchase price. The whole incident left a sour taste in my mouth, and is a big factor in my now being an advocate of the cc by sa approach. --[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 15:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC) | * Back in the late sixties, early seventies, as a recently returned overseas volunteer, I linked up with a group of returned volunteers. Some of us called us radical, and I suppose we were unorthodox at least. We wanted to raise awareness that aid was ineffective, that honest trade relations were needed, and that the world could be improved. At that time, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science Club, created a simulation game, effective for about thirty persons, called [http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/ine-str.htm Starpower]. It was good for illustrating inequality such as Apartheid, global inequality, or social class. We went around to schools and churches and ran the game with what we thought was great effect. It came to us as a cyclostyled single sheet of instructions, and we made our own tokens and ID tags. It belonged to the public domain. A few years ago, as I was developing the Community Empowerment site, I added a description of Starpower to the Inequality section. I found out that the game had been copyrighted by a commercial corporation, So I wrote to them saying I had the description and was getting it translated into various languages. It might raise their profile. I got a nasty letter from their lawyer telling me to stop writing about it, They owned the copyright, and did not want us writing about it. I was shocked. Being the defiant rebel that I am, I decided to write a sociological academic analysis, but made sure it included sufficient description of the details of the game that anybody could make their own tokens and coupons and run the game for free. That would save them over two hundred dollars of the purchase price. The whole incident left a sour taste in my mouth, and is a big factor in my now being an advocate of the cc by sa approach. --[[User:Philbartle|Phil Bartle]] 15:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC) | ||
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Phil's RantsTraducido por Cristina Varela Mis pensamientos ocasionales sobre el WikiEducador y su comunidad
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Comentarios de mis WikivecinosPlease put your comments on the Discussion Page. Click on the discussion tab at the top of this page.--Phil Bartle 03:07 3 may 2009 (UTC)
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