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The image of rows of chairs and desks facing a teacher at a blackboard has been a reality for decades. However, research reveals that this way of organizing the classroom furniture in schools is not the best way for favouring the learning process. Especially if the needs of 21st-century students are taken into account, who, according to the OECD, require a social environment that fosters autonomy, flexibility, decision-making capacity and the connection of knowledge by individual students or through teamwork.
Meet Daniela Blanco, a Venezuelan Chemical Engineer Working To Reinvent the Chemical Industry
Meet Daniela Blanco, a Venezuelan Chemical Engineer Working To Reinvent the Chemical Industry
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As a chemical engineer, Daniela Blanco has a very analytical mind. There’s no room for emotion.
“A result is a result and feelings don’t come into play,” Blanco told Remezcla during an interview last week to talk about
Own the Room, a new National Geographic and Disney+ documentary she is featured in.
It wasn’t until she competed in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) that Blanco realized that her own story was just as important as the work she was doing.
As many as seven million Venezuelans will have fled their country by the end of this year if borders with neighboring countries reopen and President Nicolás Maduro remains in power.
This stark warning comes from one of those refugees: David Smolansky, special envoy on Venezuela’s migration crisis at the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).
To date, he said, 5.4 million people have emigrated since the beginning of Venezuela’s economic crisis in 2014 making it the largest refugee crisis in Latin American history and the second-largest in the world after Syria (6.7 million).
That’s up from two million refugees in September 2018, when OAS Secretary General Luís Almagro appointed Smolansky to head the organization’s working group on this crisis. Those numbers can be found in his office’s Venezuela situation report issued on Dec. 30.
2020 s Worst Environmental Disasters, and How Climate Change Played a Role | The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel 12/20/2020 Ron Brackett
In a year of unprecedented disasters, much of the damage done to our planet in 2020 was self-inflicted.
From devastating oil spills in sensitive areas to deadly wildfires that consumed record acreage to failing dams that flooded entire towns, the worst environmental disasters of the year showed the influence of humans.
That influence is clearly evident when a tanker slams into a coral reef and spills thousands of barrels of oil. It s less obvious when climate change is a factor behind raging wildfires across the Western U.S. and Australia.