A parte presenial diz-e que a praga e vai propagar pela Grande Lisboa.

Não percebi se é tudo pro bono, quid pro quo.

O programa PRISMA é um programa de formação intensivo de cinco dias (40horas) destinado a 200 Diretores de Escolas Públicas do Ensino Básico e Secundário de todo o país que se encontrem no início do primeiro ou segundo mandato.

A decorrer presencialmente na Nova SBE, o programa pretende reforçar competências essenciais para uma Liderança Escolar mais estratégica, informada e preparada para os desafios atuais.

Ao longo de uma semana os diretores serão desafiados a pensar sobre o seu papel nas escolas que lideram e a responder com eficácia acrescida aos desafios de uma escola em constante evolução. Será também uma oportunidade para refletirem, aprofundarem conhecimentos, trabalharem casos concretos com os seus pares e conceberem soluções práticas, aplicáveis ao
seu contexto.

Serão trabalhadas áreas como a liderança, a gestão administrativa, financeira e jurídica, a inteligência artificial e a promoção da saúde mental em contexto escolar, numa jornada cujo foco são as necessidades dos participantes e o alcance de resultados.

Com uma forte componente prática, baseada em casos reais, o programa pretende também criar um espaço de reflexão e partilha entre diretores, promovendo uma rede de contactos e apoio profissional que se prolongue para além da formação.

Raj Chetty’s prescription for reviving the American dream

Amid the growing divide separating haves and have-nots, the Harvard economist says ‘social capital’ is the most significant factor driving — or inhibiting —  economic mobility

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While circumstances like growing up in areas of concentrated poverty, or in single-parent households, have long been associated with low economic mobility, the effects of social capital have been harder to measure. Chetty and his colleagues came up with ways to do so using data from social media companies. It has transformed our understanding of economic mobility — and fundamentally reshapes thinking about the kinds of policies we should pursue to restore the vitality of the American dream for those in poverty.

“This is the single strongest predictor of economic mobility that we or anybody else has identified to date,” Chetty says of social capital that connects low-income people with those higher in the income distribution.

AI Labs Buy Defunct Startups’ Data to Train Models

AI developers are purchasing code bases and user data from shuttered startups, creating a secondary market where even small, niche digital archives sell for tens of thousands of dollars.

Life is short and unforgiving
I only fear the living
Life is short and unforgiving
I only fear the living

Sitting in 2 Hours of Silence Every Day Can Grow New Brain Cells. Literally.

What if doing absolutely nothing could help you grow new brain cells? Science suggests that just two hours of daily silence can stimulate neurogenesis—the growth of new brain cells—particularly in the hippocampus, the part responsible for memory and emotional processing.

Our obsession with efficiency is costing us our humanity

Thanks to technology, our lives have never been more convenient. But is it worth the price we are paying? Here, a writer makes the case for taking the scenic route.

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We live supersonic lives. Everything is frighteningly convenient. Because I’m such a creature of habit, my iPhone can predict my every move: yes, I’m driving to the shops but no I don’t need navigation, yes I’m replying to him again, and yes please turn on Do Not Disturb. ChatGPT has infantilised us—kudos to those who still write their own emails. We are slowly becoming guinea pigs to a bunch of code, metal, plastic, and here comes the dreaded two letters: AI. One could live their entire day via a keyboard and a daily quota of swipes: 8 hours of typing (the 9 to 5 job), 18 clicks on Uber (get a cab home), seven clicks on DoorDash (dinner). If this life was a movie, there would be no plot. It’s a tragedy!

I’ve always thought that struggling with technology was an old person thing. I thought it would never happen to me, having the technological intuition of a former iPad kid. That was until elevators stopped having buttons. In numerous modern skyscrapers, I’ve felt like an idiot poking around at a touch screen which either (a) doesn’t light up because I have no keycard (didn’t know I needed one) or (b) doesn’t show my floor as an option because I’m at the wrong lift (there were 20 bloody lifts). Granted, I’m a pretty analogue person, but I do think the measures we’re taking for the sake of optimisation are getting a little neurotic. Technology already takes care of the truly tedious things—a gold star to Microsoft Excel—but we’re still inventing, faster and faster than ever. The tech industry seems to have tasked itself with a mass excavation of everything “effortful”, and with every day that passes, the human hand becomes slightly more redundant.