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Inclusive Education: neuroscience and social technology for literacy in public schools

Inclusive Education: neuroscience and social technology for literacy in public schools Fábio T Rocha, Saulo FA Barretto Research Institute for Technology and Innovation (IPTI). Financial Education and Behavior Investor Conference, CVM (Brazilian Securities Commission) Rio de Janeiro - 2014.

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Inclusive Education: neuroscience and social technology for literacy in public schools

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  1. Inclusive Education: neuroscience and social technology for literacy in public schools Fábio T Rocha, Saulo FA Barretto Research Institute for Technology and Innovation (IPTI) Financial Education and Behavior Investor Conference, CVM (Brazilian Securities Commission) Rio de Janeiro - 2014

  2. The Mathematical Brain The ability to count and calculate depends on neurons widely spread over the brain: • Visual neurons to identify the elements to be counted; • Frontal neurons to coordinate this identification, and • Parietal neurons to quantify.

  3. Learning difficulties 5º Grade of Elementary School

  4. Environmental negative factors Anemia: 32%

  5. Neurosciences and Education

  6. Financial Education

  7. Performance improvement

  8. Social Technology An innovation technology developed in close interaction with a community and representing an effective and re-applicable (scalability) solutions for social transformation

  9. Santa Luzia do Itanhy • 5.268 in the HDI ranking (5.545 municipalities) • 13.000 inhabitants, 4.000 students, 22 schools distributed in 14 villages

  10. Local context in education • Lack of management and planning • Schools with/without computer labs and/or Internet • Low level of social capital around schools • Low self-esteem among teachers • Teachers are no longer motivated for new top-down educational methodologies

  11. ST development • 4 schools involved (from 22), only teachers from 1st grade – 2 with computer labs • Resources produced • Booklets (2) for maths and portuguese • Books of activities for maths and portuguese • SYNAPSE: on/offline and multiplatform version of ENSCER • Management system for education (health)

  12. Dissemination model • Based on the idea of re-application • Teachers become disseminators in the surrounding municipalities – value chain • Teachers stimulated to become authors and produce contents based on local context

  13. Social relevant themes

  14. Acknowledgment

  15. THANKS! saulo@ipti.org.br fabio.rocha@ipti.org.br www.ipti.org.br

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