
Lectura Para Segunda Semana: Leer Infonomía!com. Me parece que hay una sola copia así que coordinaos para poder leerlo.
OpenCola is a brand of cola unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License.
Although originally intended as a promotional tool to explain free and open source software, the drink took on a life of its own and 150,000 cans were sold. The Toronto-based company Opencola founded by Grad Conn, Cory Doctorow and John Henson became better known for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. Laird Brown, the company's senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the "proprietary nature of almost everything." [+ en wikipedia]
Open source collaboration in the social sciences
[Written by John Moravec on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at 9:54]
Pressured largely by publication delays and a bandwidth limit in the amount of information and knowledge that can be distributed through traditional academic publishing formats, the “hard sciences” have made inroads in expanding the growth of the open sharing of research and ideas. The accelerating rate of change of knowledge and shortening of the half-life of knowledge in the 21st Century render traditional publication and knowledge sharing methods obsolete. Open access libraries such as the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory collaboratory project and the National Fusion Collaboratory allow for the rapid sharing of ideas and rapid publication.
With few exceptions, these open collaboratories are absent from the social sciences. FLACSO México initiated a collaboratory project that can help fill the gap: Colaboratorios (the name is a play on “collaboration” and “laboratory”). Allowing authors to publish under a Creative Commons license, Colaboratios provides space for the sharing of ideas through publication of papers, a collaborative wiki, shared blog, and Skype-based conferences.
Check it out. Non-Spanish speakers may want to use the Babel Fish.
Lectura recomendada del sitio educared.org.ar
Una práctica de laboratorio es valiosa en la medida en que permite desarrollar ideas a partir de las experiencias realizadas. Si dicha práctica se utiliza solamente para verificar lo que se estudió previamente en la clase teórica no promueve el desarrollo del pensamiento científico en los estudiantes.
El desarrollo de la ciencia ofrece variados ejemplos acerca de cómo las ideas científicas se construyen a partir de la observación y exploración de los fenómenos. Dichos ejemplos ponen de relieve la articulación necesaria entre el conocimiento del campo válido en cierto momento, los problemas no resueltos que requieren investigación y la imaginación y creatividad de los científicos al plantearse estos temas....