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THE LIMITS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WHAT CAN’T MACHINES DO YET?

By admin July 31, 2022 July 31, 2022 0 Artificial intelligence

Although advances in artificial intelligence have been incredible, there are
still many things that machines cannot do. For example, they have yet to achieve
the same learning capabilities as humans. They are not yet capable of performing
tasks requiring a high level of intelligence, such as creative problem-solving.

Another limit of artificial intelligence is its ability to make decisions.
Although machines can perform very complex calculations, they are not yet
capable of evaluating all the factors involved in a decision and making the best
possible one. However, again, this is something that only humans can do.

Although artificial intelligence has many limits, it is essential to note that
these limits are changing rapidly due to technological advances. In the future,
we will likely see machines that are much smarter than today.


WHAT IMPACT WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HAVE IN THE FUTURE?



It is currently having a significant impact on our lives, likely to intensify.
However, some experts claim that artificial intelligence could threaten
humanity, as machines could become more intelligent than humans. Others, on the
other hand, argue that it will be a boon to humans, enabling us to perform tasks
more efficiently and helping us to solve complex problems.

It is also changing the employment landscape significantly; it could eliminate
the need for many jobs, as machines would be able to perform these tasks more
efficiently. O It will also help create new jobs, as more people will be needed
to develop and oversee these technologies.

In any case, it is essential to keep in mind that artificial intelligence is
having a significant impact on the world of work and that these changes will
intensify in the future. Therefore, workers must adapt to these new work
environments and be willing to learn new skills. In this way, they will be able
to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by these new technologies.

It is also having a significant impact on the field of education. For example,
it could improve quality, as machines would be able to provide personalized
education to each student. Alternatively, it could hurt education, as it could
create a gap between students with access to these technologies and those
without access.

In this way, they will be able to ensure that all students can benefit from the
opportunities offered by these new technologies. 

Sources:

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/1/189

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-1819-1?noAccess=true

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9200511


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLIED: THE MOST SURPRISING EXAMPLES

By admin July 31, 2022 July 31, 2022 0 Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in our society and is changing
how we live, work, and interact. Although often associated with futuristic
robots, AI is everywhere. From the software that controls our cars to medical
diagnostic programs. It is a field of computer science that aims to create
machines capable of performing tasks that require intelligence, such as pattern
recognition or decision making.

Although it may seem that artificial intelligence is something new, it has been
developing for many years. However, in recent years, it has begun to be talked
about more frequently, mainly due to technological advances that have allowed it
to be implemented more efficiently.

Below are some of the most striking examples of artificial intelligence today.


1. GOOGLE MAPS



Google Maps is an artificial intelligence application that uses a user’s GPS
location to provide detailed directions to their destination. It can also
provide helpful information about traffic and weather conditions, allowing you
to better plan your trip.




2. NEST

Nest is a smart thermostat that uses artificial intelligence to learn a user’s
temperature preferences and automatically adjust their home’s temperature
accordingly. It can also detect when a person is in a home and adjust the
temperature to save energy.


3. AMAZON ECHO

Amazon Echo is a personal assistant device that answers questions and performs
tasks by voice. It can also play music, control smart home devices and make
phone calls. Echo uses artificial intelligence to understand natural speech and
respond appropriately.


4. IBM WATSON



IBM Watson is an artificial intelligence system used in medical, financial, and
commercial applications. For example, in the medical field, Watson can analyze
large amounts of medical data to help doctors diagnose diseases and find new
forms of treatment. In finance, Watson is being used to help companies make
better investment decisions. Moreover, in the business world, Watson is being
used to improve customer care and customer service.


5. TESLA AUTOPILOT



Tesla Autopilot is a semi-automated driving system found in some Tesla vehicles.
The system uses cameras and sensors to detect traffic and the road, allowing it
to maintain vehicle control and avoid accidents. In addition, Tesla is using
artificial intelligence to improve the Autopilot system and make it increasingly
safer.


6. SPOTIFY

Spotify is a streaming music service that uses artificial intelligence to
recommend music to its users. The service analyzes a user’s playing behavior and
then recommends new songs and artists they might like. Spotify is also being
used to help artists reach new listeners.


7. FACEBOOK M

Facebook M is a digital assistant found in Facebook’s messaging app. The
assistant can perform tasks such as making restaurant reservations and buying
airline tickets. Facebook is using artificial intelligence to improve the
assistant and make it more useful for users.


8. GOOGLE NOW

Google Now is a personal assistant found on Android and iOS devices. The
assistant can provide traffic and weather information, remember appointments and
events, and answer questions. Google is using artificial intelligence to improve
the assistant and make it more useful for users.


9. WAZE



Waze is a navigation app that uses artificial intelligence to provide
information about traffic and road conditions. The app can also notify users
about accidents, traffic jams, and other problems on the road. Waze is using
artificial intelligence to improve the app and make it more useful for
users.Artificial intelligence


TELEVISION AS A RESOURCE TO PROMOTE SCIENCE

By admin July 23, 2020 July 25, 2020 0 Blog

It is no secret to anybody that television over the years has become
increasingly the principal medium of amusement and communication worldwide.

This medium has developed so much as technology grows, that to this date, there
are numerous easy-going television platforms for the different tastes of each
individual. Furthermore, the more forms of development there are in a country,
the more differentiated uses are made of television.

According to biology, symbiosis is an association of organisms that unite to
benefit each other in their life development, so can science and television
establish that kind of relationship?

Although the term “Science on TV” may sound like a contradiction, this union is
more important than you think.

In Menorca, in 2013, an International Spring School on “Science on television”
was organized, where the studies produced and the conclusions that emerged from
the meeting established that: Theory met practice.

 In the opinions of academics studied in science and the history of science,
they see this as an intriguing pressure. And there are certain questions to
analyze:

 * How do information, advertising, entertainment, and even criticism or social
   commentary influence representations of science, medicine, and technology on
   television?
 * Which are the relationships between these representations and the daily
   patterns of appropriation of television by people?
 * To what extent can communication practices related to television and science
   be understood as activities and learning spaces?
 * What do scientific representations in news programs, documentaries and works
   of fiction have to do with people’s forms of communication, consumption,
   work, study, collaboration and problem solving?

However, although television programming worldwide includes the occasional
scientific information through channels of scientific dissemination, the truth
is that these channels within the reach of society are not characterized by
their scientific character as much as by the social sciences, or natural
sciences.


AS A RESULT, IN THE SPRING SCHOOL, KEY POINTS WERE COVERED SUCH AS:

 * Joseph Comelles and Serena Brigidi from the Universitat Rovira I Virgili,
   Tarragona, explored the role of fiction series set in medicine, and the
   inclusion of the science that this type of television shows represents in
   society.
 * David Dugan, the British producer, reiterated that finding the right
   narrative for science documentaries is crucial.
 * Tim Boon of the Science Museum London analyzed the first BBC television
   series in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on how scientific authority is
   created and transmitted.
 * Joan Ubeda, a Spanish producer, pointed out the obstacles that documentaries
   must overcome to communicate science through the television medium.
 * Markus Lehmkuhl from Free University Berlin analyzed the interaction between
   the supply and demand of science on television in ten different European
   countries.
 * Anna Montserrat explained the strategies and rules that define television.

Finally, generalizing between the conclusions of each expert, it was pointed out
that in order not to tire the service of television to the sciences, one must
avoid divinizing them, dogmatizing the knowledge that they are conquering. Since
it suffers the risk of turning science into a mere spectacle and simplifying it
so much that they are left empty of their deepest conquests.

If we look at history, the centuries pass and the basic criticism remains the
same: The superficial enjoyment of the senses successes over science. And in
this way, the presentation of science on television is considered distorted and
trivialized.

However, this point of view considers scientific dissemination as a one-way
process. This implies the authority of a minority of experts, as well as the
passive acceptance of their knowledge by the general public.

That is why despite the expanding phenomenon, private networks worldwide tend to
be reluctant against science, without having yet the science = entertainment
equation, to ensure their status.


SCIENCE EQUATION = ENTERTAINMENT, THE KEY TO SUCCESS?

As stated by experts at the Spring School, professionals have their theory that
they call recipes. These instruments are crucial to transform scientific content
into a television format.

A science program needs a good rhythm, clear and simple explanations based on
highly visual metaphors and analogies, to achieve the highest degree of
understanding on the part of the viewer, as well as to stock up on an exciting
narrative.

Powerful images and videos are vitally important. The closer the subject is,
concerning the daily life of the audience, their experiences or concerns, the
better the reception by society.

However, as television professionals know, audiences are highly diverse and each
viewer interprets and processes the information obtained in their way.

Thus, television needs science to continue improving itself. And in turn,
science needs television, as a means of communication that encourages the
development of levels in scientific culture.


SOCIALIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR EDUCATION

Scientific knowledge is understood as the social construction influenced by
social, cultural, economic, political circumstances, among others.
Distinguishing itself by the relationship between the validity and the scope of
its results.

This originates from various relationships between science and society. Under
this framework, building scientific knowledge goes beyond its intrinsic content.
It is giving meaning to academic practices and implies a shared communication
process that leads to the creation and development of a specific academic
culture.

If it is accepted that science is a cultural formation, it will have a normative
and a cognitive dimension. Furthermore, the concept of socialization is proposed
to evaluate the communicative processes of scientific knowledge.

Scientists see this union as a new challenge. A challenge that gave name to the
activity of talks “Building science” carried out at the faculty UNCuyo last year
2015, which sought to bring science and technology closer to society.

Both presenters (Maria Teresa Damiani, an investigator at the Institute of
Histology and Embryology, and Peter Catania, a researcher at the Faculty of
Dentistry), expressed that the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and the
findings made in laboratories, is a commitment that everyone must assume.

They emphasize that it is extremely necessary to demystify the science perceived
as something complex, to highlight and recognize the daily life of its
existence. And they reiterate that simplicity does not imply loss of rigor or
truthfulness. They claim that it is not easy to translate technical and specific
language into popular language, however, with the help of analogies and
references to culture, that task can be improved.


THE SOCIETY OF THIS CENTURY INCREASINGLY NEEDS THE PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC
RESULTS FROM RESEARCH.

But, emphasizing the fact of keeping these results and experiments as a subject
of popular attention, capable of being published in television media, certain
considerations have to be made before presenting them to society.

In this way, certain ways are established to guarantee the acceptance and
reception of scientific information by the television public and to socialize
it.

 * Guarantee accessibility to concepts:

This should be simple, entertaining, and profound. Dodging technical language as
much as possible, using accessible and everyday words, addressing the topics in
all their depth.

 * Share socially:

Ensure that content reaches as many people as possible, spanning multiple
languages, from urban centers to the most remote regions.

 * Opening of knowledge:

The information should be available for free, or at a low cost. To ensure that
it covers the largest group of people possible.

 * Presume of knowledge:

Create and share the required knowledge in a group.

Sharing the wealth that comes from scientific knowledge, maintaining the quality
and entertainment of the media is a great challenge that must be faced.

However, at the MipCom in Cannes in 2015, the largest television fair where the
producers present their news, it was found that science related to entertainment
is one of the trends that is making its way in the sector.

An example of this was, LubDub. This is a talent show, the main characteristic
of which is that the qualification of the contestants is made based on
scientific criteria: A device analyzes blood pressure and heart rate to see if
the performances manage to excite the public.

In different territories of Europe and Asia, a great interest in LubDub was
demonstrated at that time, being a project that various channels studied and
implemented in its production.

There are more and more scientific titles on television, such as Mythbusters,
who has been on the air for 18 years testing urban legends by subjecting them to
the scientific method. Mental games, which relates daily activities and customs
with all the scientific processes that are needed for daily life, and other
Latin programs such as the Science of the absurd.

Despite the expanding phenomenon, it must be borne in mind that the key for a
scientific genre program to engage the public is that it is accessible to all
audiences and that it incorporates young groups thanks to the emergence of
programs that address the issue. From a humorous or simplistic perspective.


TELEVISION MEDIATION OF KNOWLEDGE

Education in the XXX century perhaps faces one of the most important challenges
that humanity has had. Several factors determine it:

 * The need for an educational change before a new way of knowing.
 * The demands of a complex society.
 * The globalization.
 * Existence of a media culture.

The solution to such challenges is a crucial task for the future of society.

The insertion of TV in the learning curriculum must be open and flexible. And
this does not start with pedagogical theories, but the emphasis on social
communication studies concerned with the phenomena of mediatization.

The mediatization of knowledge particularly affects the school as a phenomenon
that operates from within the institution and not as a force that exerts from
outside.

Thus, mediatization is defined as a way in which the institutions of social
structure a direct relationship with the existence of the mass media.

Applying this scheme, one will have that mediatization is not a process that is
exercised from the outside in, but rather it is precisely in the school and
didactic field where the phenomenon occurs.

This way of looking at the problem of media coverage allows us to understand the
basic aspects of the belief that the television medium generates effects that
most of the time are considered negative.

As Goéry Délacôte affirms, there are three revolutions underway that provoke the
great educational change through television: that of interactivity, cognitive
and management of educational systems. 

It affirms that these modify the act of learning, its understanding, its
dynamics, the social and technical organizations that support it, and its
personal and collective management.

On many occasions, the school and academic world have reacted with mistrust of
the new educational landscape. He believes that promoting learning empowered by
the irruption of multimedia leads to the acquisition of fragmented and dispersed
knowledge, without solid foundations, which results in the loss of meaning.

Currently, the acquisition of different types of information is within the reach
of any individual. Television, as one of those media, has leaned towards
society’s standards, modifying or censoring its content, to transmit certain
specific information.

But what does managing knowledge mean? Mainly, knowing how to access
information, select it, modify it, and apply it to a certain objective.

Because of this, even though communication and education are closely linked
concepts, the relationship between the two has been conflicting. There has been
a disagreement between the television media and the school, which also implies a
disagreement between teaching/learning.

From the educational field, television was always seen as a threat to the action
of the school and the family. And the influence that it generates among social
groups generated various movements of social alarm, which considered that it was
necessary to face a situation that was considered harmful to children and young
people.

Contemplating the media as a gap in educational development provoked debates
between educators and communicators. It has transmuted over the years, as the
new role of television in which this, more than being an obstacle to education,
is considered as an opening for the change of said process.

The change is because we are in a society in which knowledge is found
everywhere, a fact that has not always been assumed by the educational system.

Also, the disagreement between education and media communication is pointed out,
stating that when designing methods for the cultivation of intelligence, in
teaching systems, they continue to be done in terms of communicative traditions
that were in a single dimension of the linguistic ability: Verbal, or natural
language.

From that base, schools have developed at different levels of learning. However,
media analysis does not overlook the audiovisual medium. You cannot forget that
a means of communication conditions the behavior of the communicator and the
receiver.

Television, for example, is not only a transmitter of images, but it is a medium
that captures the viewer in front of the screen, which imposes certain body
immobility, and that enhances some senses and deplores some others.

Screens are considered, by most conservative social groups, as a germ that
spreads faster and faster. That it doesn’t only manipulate and expands the
information disclosed but also organizes and guides social action.


SHOULD THE EDUCATION SYSTEM TAKE CONTROL OF SUCH A SITUATION?

It is believed that this would be the most logical, but it is not. In the 21st
century, where the technology represents the greatest advance so far, television
consumption and the motivations of younger groups reveal active subjects with
diverse and very broad interests. Before this, the school appears as a
reductionism.

On television, a child or young person conquers an enormous field of freedom to
choose responses and courses of action for their motivations. And new
technologies, which continue to evolve day by day, will further expand these
active choices.

Accordingly, it is established that the media are not only vehicles for access
to entertainment, but also contain part of that knowledge that is characterized
by its link to current events, by its transmission through different codes,
languages, and media. In addition to its logical responses, they stimulate
sensations, which respond to different behavioral criteria.Infotainment

Infotainment can be defined as a type of information that uses real events as a
form of entertainment. In addition to being a concept used to refer to media
products that combine information with entertainment.

This raises the relationship of the media with journalistic matters, which seek
the adherence of the audience to the messages transmitted. In addition to being
used as a marketing strategy, where style uses content.

In the same way, infotainment is one of the most widely used formats for
journalism today. Since it offers the best demand among the public, companies
specialized in the area of communication focus their content according to what
the public wants.

However, many journalists oppose this vision and demand for journalistic law.
They assure that the division between information and journalism will be clearer
thanks to the revenue channel. Quality pays. If you want to charge the public,
you cannot give them junk content.

Likewise, many journalists refuse this trend, to use information and
entertainment together. But despite this, they are aware that this is a debate
that will continue to exist.

Although many journalists disagree with this format, it should not be thought of
as an outdated format. Since this is in full swing since its inception and even
more today.


HOW DOES INFOTAINMENT COME ABOUT?

This new form of journalism arises from the need for communication companies to
sell the product that they carry out to as many people as possible.

Furthermore, this revolution came from the hand of the audience meters. When the
audience statistics of the programs are shown, both on television and radio, and
even in the newspapers, it is broken down that, despite being different formats
entertainment prevails as one of the most demanded categories in the market.

When this aspect began to emerge among companies, many of them decided to blur
the borders between raw information and entertainment.

The first formats started from two aspects: lighter news, this was characterized
by the inclusion in the raw and relevant news media of minor or light news. And
on the other hand, the appearance of news stories on channels intended solely
for an audience seeking entertainment.

When we talk about the term infotainment, it refers to the form and content of
the news. This has to be true and treated as true news, but the way it is
presented and disclosed lacks rigid and serious formats and leans towards a more
casual posture.

We can see that the emergence of infotainment is a format that is linked to the
appearance of private television channels. As we say, these newly created
communication companies have to seek differentiation in the market, and this was
the option most demanded by the public.

Thus, an informative logic is implemented in which the softest topics, with
human approaches, prevail over those topics related to issues more strictly
connected to the public interest.


WHAT AUDIENCE CONSUMES INFOTAINMENT?

As for what group of people consume this type of information, there are two
different camps: the defenders and the detractors.

Television is one of the most widely used information and entertainment media in
today’s society. And more than 40% perceive it as something essential in their
life.

Besides, it should be noted that 60% of them prefer it as a means of
entertainment, compared to other media such as radio (16%) or magazines (14%)

However, when it comes to truthful information, people are more inclined to look
for information in newspapers or on the radio.

And although for many this format corrupts journalism, infotainment is at its
peak. So, journalism must adapt to the needs of the public, who are the
consumers of the information generated, such as filmyporno.blog likes to adapt
for their audience in Poland.


 THE CREDIBILITY OF THE TELEVISION 

The credibility of the media is at its worst level compared to society. Since in
current times, modifying information for personal gain is something that has
become much more common than you might think.

This offers a negative impact on the construction of more peaceful and just
societies and implies a rupture between the personnel in charge of disseminating
information and the public due to a matter of mistrust.

Studies carried out in Parametria (Strategic Research Center for Opinion and
Market Analysis) in 2018, on trust in traditional media, yielded catastrophic
results.

And they marked a milestone in history due to the high level of the negative
perception of the three main means of mass information dissemination.

According to the results of the study, only 19% of the interviewees stated that
they had some confidence. 18% indicated that they trust radio news and 17% on
television.

Parametry continues, noting that it is a great decrease compared to the
statistics of 10 years ago, where it was found that more than 70% of people
trusted that the information obtained was true.


REASONS THAT GENERATE MISTRUST

For academics from the Communication Department of the Iberoamerican University,
the conventional means of communication carry a stigma of cover-up and alliance
with the system-government and the image that the state intends to spread to
civil society.

Furthermore, they establish that one of the reasons for mistrust is mainly based
on the fact that the media are subject to economic interests rather than
professional values and ethics.

For these reasons, the best-known mass media are being left behind more and
more. In terms of searching for truthful information, people are more inclined
today to search for information on social networks or the Internet.

This offers users the advantage of searching and sharing the news that they find
most interesting and relevant, without any restriction or censorship, just like
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WHAT FORMATS ADOPT TELEVISION?

When speaking of television, the terms genre and format are generally used
interchangeably to refer to a typology. However, there are differences between
the two definitions.

The characteristics that give life to formats are those of configuring,
structuring, and shaping an audiovisual idea. In other words, it is a program
under all the main elements that make it unique: Theme, scenery, and rules.

However, the concept of gender would be presented with a broad and more abstract
spectrum. These genes could be grouped into the same category but differentiated
into formats.

For example, Fiction, this being the genre, and the narrative structure (series,
telefilms, mini-series, and documentaries) would contain the nature of its
content, which would be the formats.

In this way, the television news genre has been considered, for years, the
reflection of current affairs on the small screen, differently from fictional or
advertising genres.

Paleo-television organized the differences around issues related to the subject
of referential and formal content, aimed more at the search for objectivity than
at creative and inventive mechanisms.

However, at present, a tendency to blur the boundaries between genres can be
detected, and this trend is exacerbated, organizing a journalistic television
discourse where there is no separation between the informational genre and other
television genres. Fusing with fiction, entertainment, and advertising.

Although, news programs indeed build a discourse based on events that have
occurred in reality. These are not an absolute invention, but even so,
television conducts different mediating processes that involve various
manipulations of reality.

For this reason, the news is never neutral or objective, apart from being
discursive constructions, more or less attached to events in reality. In other
words; television does not invent reality as in fiction, but rather interprets
it with its conditions, interests, and objectives.


IN THIS WAY, TELEVISION FORMATS CAN BE DIFFERENTIATED INTO:

 * Informative.
 * Entertainment.

Television information programs focus on journalism and news dissemination.
Which covers all kinds of current affairs, from political to cultural or sports.

On the other hand, in the case of entertainment programs, although they contain
some information, they focus more on leisure.


OBJECTIVES ADOPTED BY TELEVISION

According to UNESCO, media education is part of the rights of every citizen. In
any country in the world, freedom of expression and the right to information
helps to maintain democracy. Also, it encourages teaching and learning with and
about the media, which through them.

This creates an advantage by allowing people to understand this means of
communication as a way of learning and communicating with other people.

In the academic field, and for the current era where cultures are promoted
through television and scientific teachings, key points are indicated on which
the television medium is based to impart and disseminate social and scientific
information.

 * Television literacy:

It is the new paradigm of global education, also part of the theory that
television and communication media are a fundamental element for knowledge of
the world.

 * Parental-school mediation:

This objective is defined as those processes by which the family and the school
filter educational influences through their processes. In this case, compared to
the content and messages on television.

 * Digital culture:

Information and communication technologies in a digital environment have been
substantially modified from access to knowledge in society. This culture is
characterized by establishing new languages, new narratives, and new
communication models that define the relationship between the media/users, the
teacher/student, parents/children, and institutions/citizens.

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this is the reason the internet was made.

In this way, all audiovisual content has the main objective of having an
educational impact, whether specific or nonspecific, on the audiences. Where
this educational impact can be both positive and negative, depending on the
audience that interprets it.

But, without any doubt, all audiovisual media address cross-cutting themes that
most of the time remain in the background of perception, but which also have an
impact on the viewer.


UNTIL WHAT POINT DOES TELEVISION CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION OF YOUNG
PEOPLE?

As we have previously stated, television can be an extraordinary instrument for
disseminating and learning information. Offering a high variety of content, open
and available to a wide group of different tastes and personalities.

To the actual date, the social and scientific content obtained on television has
grown remarkably, and unlike years ago, these programs (Series, documentaries,
films, short films, reports, among others) are more accepted and viewed by the
general public.

However, television programs, often including children’s programming, are
saturated with violent content. So where does it stop being didactic information
to become harmful information?

There is a causal relationship between violence in television media and the
aggressive behavior of most young people. As mentioned before, television has
the great disadvantage of being highly varied in content, and if this content is
not controlled, it can be harmful to young people.

Sexual images or references are also frequent, as well as towards tobacco,
alcohol, and illegal drugs, both in programs and advertisements. Therefore, it
would be advisable to avoid excessive consumption of television, especially in
children and adolescents.

Given the easy access of young people to all audiovisual media, especially
television, and taking into account their possible negative effects on them,
social concern about the habits that young people may obtain would be justified.

So, ignoring the impact of this medium in science education – and general – is
not only useless but also means denying the possibilities offered by this
resource in science education, in other words, it is a way of professionally
limiting yourself.

Most research not only does not address it, but the value that it represents
contextually in the life of the learner or teacher is often ignored.

In this way, the teaching and learning of science can be perceived in a
multidimensional way. However, on many occasions to facilitate their study,
one-dimensional approaches are used, which favor understanding more complex
problems, but which cause vision loss as a whole.

Now, among the mass media, it seems that one of the most influential in
scientific learning and social dynamics is television. This modern culture has
come to be defined in terms of relationships with this knowledge.

However, even with the scope of this information and the number of topics it
covers, this communication and learning tool seems to have a significant deficit
in knowledge, other than the verbal codes of regulated teaching.

And that, the information disseminated is interpreted and constructed
differently in each individual, as a result of the individual’s perception,
internal experience, or social interaction.

Even so, television and the mass media remain the elements through which we
survive an important part of the worldview. Due to this, they can be considered
in the Didactics of Experimental Sciences (DES) since they have a dimension of
an agent of social intervention in the construction of knowledge.

And then, based on that sense, it seems obligatory to study it as a factor to
consider in the learning of the youngest, both socially and scientifically, thus
inquiring into the requirements and demands that derive for the formation of the
citizen, and to analyze its influence. In the interaction between Science,
Technology, and Society.

But despite this, to know the possible didactic implications of television, it
is important to know, first of all, which programs are most frequented by the
youngest groups, but logically, it is also necessary to investigate the
characteristics of learning in general.

Do their teaching strategies contribute to reinforcing scientific knowledge?

Television as a means of communication and learning has become a key element of
modern scientific learning. This offers equal opportunities and personalized
education.

Currently, there are a diverse and wide number of sources that society uses to
obtain some type of information about a particular topic.

Both for young people and for those who are pursuing a university degree, these
means of communication are essential for being up-to-date. And television is
positioned as one of the main ones.

Given the ease of access, and the existence of the variety of information in
these media, young people use various sources to approach and learn about topics
related to scientific aspects.

Educational television, due to its structure and objectives, provides a learning
environment, since they can personally access and learn what interests them most
and find answers to their own needs.

Based on this, it is concluded that education through television will be the
educational modality that most closely approximates the fundamental principles
of:

 * Education and access to scientific information for all without distinction.
 * Personalized education thanks to materials and tutorials.
 * Education for life, using technological development as an intrinsic part of
   the same evolution of man today.

As the television medium is a mass medium of communication, easily accessible,
and used over the years as a tool for distance education, it can serve
universities and schools to obtain and produce learning.

Achieving in this way, the teaching improves, and the reinforcement of the
information previously acquired.

One of these strategies is usually the implementation of a television channel in
universities. This not only helps improve the educational process but also
stimulates the growth of the various communities.

Higher education for several years has tried to develop many educational
television projects, as a methodological strategy to strengthen pedagogical
methods for scientific learning.

Thus, it is concluded that the technological revolution has been transforming
the educational world to such an extent that habits and didactic strategies and
ways of research have been modified. This evolution has been transcendent,
towards an innovative world of society on scientific knowledge.

The technological revolution currently underway offers young people, university
students, and the general public a leading role in the construction of their
knowledge and the contribution of their opinion in the elaboration of
psycho-social-linguistics schemes of reality.


WHAT IS COVID-19 AND HOW CAN WE PREVENT IT?

By admin July 20, 2020 July 20, 2020 0 Blog

The coronavirus group is an extensive branch of virus characterized by causing
disease in both humans and animals. In humans, this family of the virus is known
to cause respiratory infections, which can range from the common cold to serious
illnesses such as the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS).

The recently discovered coronavirus was named COVID-19 or (SARS-CoV-2), it is a
respiratory disease, considered extremely viral and contagious.




NEW COVID-19

This virus was first reported globally on January 7, 2020, by the China Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

But by this point, there were already 27 cases in Wuhan City in Hubei Province
of a type of pneumonia with unknown etiology, in which seven of the cases were
severe. Which had been reported on December 31, 2019, before the city’s
Municipal Health Commission.

Just one month later, the number of infected people had increased to 9,692
cases, of which 1,527 were seriously ill.

Three months later the number had risen abruptly to 150,000 cases and nearly
6,100 deaths worldwide, according to data from the European Center for Disease
Control (ECDC).

Most of the first cases that arose internationally have the common antecedent of
having been people who traveled to China, before the start of the first
outbreak.

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ORIGIN OF THE DISEASE

The first investigations carried out on this new outbreak of an unknown disease,
determined that it was a new type of virus, of the Coronaviridae family, related
to the already known diseases SARS and MERS, but which is not the same as any of
them.

In these studies, they took 10 genetic samples from patients from Wuhan that
included eight complete and two partial genomes.

This allowed scientists to learn that COVID-19 was closely related to two
coronaviruses similar to the bat-derived respiratory syndrome. Previously known
in China, too, for its 2018 outbreak.


THE EPICENTER OF THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19

A thorough investigation was carried out to determine the exact origin of the
outbreak, and thus determine who had been patient zero. It was concluded that
the common point of all the first cases was the market in the city of Wuhan, in
the province of Hubei.

 This is an animal market, hence the importance of establishing from which
animal the coronavirus evolved to infect humans.

The health authorities took samples in the market and on January 1, the Huanan
market was completely closed as a security measure since they tested positive
for the coronavirus.


SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19

COVID-19 affects in different ways depending on each person, although most have
a series of defined symptoms.

Below we present a table that reflects the symptoms that may occur depending on
the severity.

MildAdvancedSeriousFeverDiscomfort and painShortness of breathTirednessSore
throat Pain or pressure in the chestDry CoughDiarrheaInability to speak or move
Conjunctivitis

Headache

Loss of smell or taste

Rashes


These symptoms can present themselves in various ways, regardless of the type of
person they are.




 COVID-19 MORTALITY RATE

And is that currently, COVID-19 has infected more than 14.5 million people
worldwide. With more than 550 thousand deaths and 7.93 million people recovered.

 If it is true that the mortality rate of COVID-19 is only 0.66%, there is a
risk group prone to die of this disease. Within this group are the elderly,
especially those who suffered from some type of respiratory or cardiovascular
pathology, middle-aged and young people with a history of severe respiratory
pathologies or pulmonary or cardiovascular failure.

It is advisable to pay attention to any symptoms that may arise since as it
shares a close relationship with the symptoms of the common cold, it is often
overlooked.

Doctors advise that every individual with mild symptoms and in good health, rest
and maintain confinement at home.

On the contrary, anyone who presents and suffers from more severe symptoms,
especially the elderly, immediately go to a hospital to be treated with the
necessary means.


HOW IS THE VIRUS SPREAD?

The COVID-19 virus has been proven to spread only through direct contact with an
infected surface or person. It does not live long in the air, so it is
impossible for it to circulate freely and can infect those who inhale it.

Contagion occurs when there is an exchange of fluids through surfaces or
directly between infected people. Even so, it also does not survive long
attached to surfaces.

For this reason, it is important to know the lifetime of this virus on each
different surface.

SurfaceLifeTimePlastic5 daysPaper5 daysGlass4 daysWood4 daysSteel4 daysSurgical
gloves8 hoursAluminium2 to 8 hours




WHICH ARE THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19?

The WHO established a series of norms and preventions to stop the uncontrolled
spread of the disease. But doctors and analysts advise that the most essential
thing is to remain calm in desperate situations.


STAY AT HOME. SAVE LIVES.

The main preventive measure established worldwide has been compulsory social
distancing. To avoid the agglomeration of people, and therefore prevent the
spread from continuing.

For more personal care, the specific sanitary measures to be taken were as
follows:

 * Use of face masks.
 * Avoid direct contact with other people.
 * Wash your hands constantly.
 * Avoid running your hand over your face.
 * Constant use of an antibacterial gel containing alcohol as a secondary
   preventive means.
 * Call local helplines immediately when there is a suspicion of contagion.


CAN PETS GET THE VIRUS?

Studies carried out on various felines establish that animals can contract the
disease but not spread it. Domestic cats and tigers have tested positive for
COVID-19, after being in contact with infected humans.

On the other hand, there is no positive evidence that canines can spread the
disease.

Although the risk of transmission through domestic animals is very low, it is
recommended that people who are already infected stay away from companion pets
and other animals.

Though it is minimal, everyone also must protect our beloved pets, and therefore
care for everyone. Some preventive measures to take to avoid contagious pets
are:

 * Avoid having contact with animals outside the home.
 * Avoid attending pet parks or recreation centers.
 * Keep animals away from people with suspected contagion.

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CORONAVIRUS CASES IN THE UNITED STATES

The cases of COVID-19 in the United States managed to break the record as the
country with the most confirmed cases worldwide.

 As of July 18, 2020, the following are recorded:

A Number that surpassed the country where the disease first arose. Doctors and
personnel from the health area express that the situation they face is unlike
any previously seen.

A recent wave of new cases re-saturated hospital wards recently in several
cities across the country.

StateContagiousDeathsNew york410 K32.147Florida370 K7.523California327
K4.804Texas319 K3.824New Jersey179 K15.689

Meanwhile, the authorities recommend continuing with self-isolation and all
preventive measures to control the spread of the disease.


WHAT IS SCIENCE?

By admin July 11, 2020 July 20, 2020 0 Blog

Science is not an area of study, an activity or an opinion. Rather, it is a view
of the world. A new idea or concept which, when properly considered and
introduced into existing methods, can lead to important improvements in human
knowledge and to the improvement of existing systems and processes.

Science and technology go hand in hand. For example, If someone has an idea for
a new product, they may develop a better version of it, or try to discover more
about it. This increases their knowledge base and understanding of how things
work. However, it also opens the door to new ways of doing things, and it
creates new concepts.




OUR NATURE: TO BE CURIOUS

The idea and the concepts that are born from science and technology become
standard by the time they are commercialized. We have vehicles today that runs
on nothing but science. We use all sorts of items, we didn’t have before and
have new things built every day.

What is science? It is not only used to describe this process, but it is also
used to describe how it works. When we say we know something, we are using words
like “know” and “believe”. They are two different things, but we use them
interchangeably because we have a common tendency to think of them as closely
related.

For example, when you go to the market and ask a person what is science? You
would need to ask the same question of a scientist. There is some similarity
between the two, but there is also a very large difference. The scientist does
not know science, nor does he or she believe it, but they study it and take
notes about it.


DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES

Science and technology have many definitions. While they are all used to
describe the process and result of science, there are many sub-categories of
science as well. Two popular ones are the natural sciences and the social
sciences. Scientists studying the natural sciences to study things like
astronomy, chemistry, biology, zoology, botany, geology, etc. Scientists
studying the social sciences study things like sociology, psychology, economics,
anthropology, etc.

The complex relationship between science and technology is undeniable. Today, we
see that each one influences the other. As a result, both science and technology
are intertwined and there are no separating these two forces.

Science and technology are definitely interconnected, because the principles
behind them are the same. So, which one of them do you think has the greater
influence? It would be the science, or the technology, as long as you put them
in different categories.

Imagine you can create life, think of new information, and get a cure for the
disease with the power of the scientific method. Where would science be then?




OUR CURIOSITY MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE

Science is too broad a term to define, but its effects are enormous. With
everything we do, we find new information and a new way to use it, and this, of
course, affects how our science and technology work.

When your child starts school year this year, be prepared for a big change. From
now on, they will spend the first half of the year in class, taking notes,
discussing, and learning things, and the second half of the year on tests and
projects. Do you really think the first half of the year will be enough? Of
course not.

Take a look at the textbook used, and read the curriculum booklets to find out
how much science will affect your child’s education. Do they really need all the
extra science and technology? Think about it this way: It is not just the
science class, it is the science and technology classroom.

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