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The Opus schools decided to keep up with the government and continue segregating by sex. His students are running away

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When it came into force in January 2021 the new education lawno one missed that in its provisions there was a direct missile to the waterline of dozens of schools and institutes throughout the country: segregation by sex was prohibited; Only mixed schools could continue to be chartered. What we discovered a couple of weeks later is that the missile came with a timer. Five years later, the timer is reaching zero and many centers are preparing to stop being chartered. Immediately afterwards, a wave of students are trying to leave those schools. What did the law say? The LOMLOE, which is what the law is called, demanded that educational centers that receive public funds “develop the principle of coeducation in all educational stages.” That is, they were prohibited from “not separating students by gender.” However, as competition is regional and each place has different regulations, many of the attempts to apply this point they have been delayed. In Catalonia, for example, when the ERC department tried to eliminate agreements with differentiated education centers, the courts stopped the measures until the agreements were renewed. That period begins at the beginning of 2026. And why does it affect Opus Dei? Strictly speaking, talking about “Opus schools” is a bit inaccurate. It is true that there are many centers in that orbit, but the relationships between them are complex and that means that they are not a uniform whole. However, this group of centers (which in Catalonia number a dozen and receive 35 million each year) are the spearhead of the “anti-coeducational” movement. Thus, many Catalan schools linked to the Prelature are doing the math. Continuing to be concerted would mean losing one of its hallmarks; Not losing it means becoming private (with the increase in fees that this entails). For this reason, the steps they were taking in two schools in the Sant Cugat/Bellaterra area (La Vall – for girls – and La Farga – for boys) were seen as the great privatization experiment. The area is one of the richest and most exclusive in all of Catalonia and, in that sense, it seemed logical to think that they would be two of the schools that would suffer the least from the jump. But the flight of students has begun. El País requested in July (through a complaint to the Commission for Guarantees of Access to Public Information) the data from the official pre-registration process and what these data show is a complete leak. 63 students from La Vall and 96 students from La Farga tried to go to other schools. Finally, only 38 of the first and 74 of the second achieved it; but it is a warning to sailors. Applications for admission also decreased (between 10 and 14%). All this, while a group of families try not to abandon the concert. However, the decision seems firm. Last week, two schools in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat also linked to the Prelature (Xaloc – for boys – and Pineda – for girls) announced that they were going to begin preparing for a more than possible non-renewal of the agreement and the problems that this will entail. According to data from El Paísonly those two schools (with more than 2,800 students) receive seven million euros from the Generalitat. And what situation does all this leave us in? In recent years, the debate about whether single-sex or mixed education it has become more intense. In fact, in some countries like the US, differentiated education It has been experiencing a real boom for a decade. However, the current conversation makes it clear that research on the topic is the least of it. The opposing positions at an ideological, economic and social level They make these investigations become ammunition with which to attack the opponent. For this reason, what everyone in the sector is wondering is how long the legislature will last and what will happen if, eventually, a government of the opposite direction arrives. Meanwhile, what is clear is that differentiated education is going to verify, for the first time in many years, the commitment of its families to the project. Image| Vazovsky In Xataka | The generation of parents who feel guilty because their children spend a lot of time looking at screens

Two students have the same university degree. One will go further than another: whoever comes

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Where you come from matters a lot if we talk about “social elevators.” Without going too far, the problem nuclear of housing for young people is not such depending on the family that has touched. But these inequalities begin to be noticed much earlier. In fact, it has been found that even the university degree itself does not depend so much on the grade, but on your origins. Gap after the title. a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research with massive data on graduates from public universities in the United States show that, even when students have the same major, the same grades and leave the same institutions, those who come from low-income families finish five years later earning substantially less than their peers from families with more resources. In other words, this means that graduating (which for years was the central objective of equity policies) does not close the gap, it simply transfer to the labor marketwhere he reappears strongly despite having followed the same academic itinerary. The first job. When the researchers adjusted the data by including characteristics of the first job (starting salary, company size, average employer salary level and sector) the gap between poor and rich graduates fell by a third of its original size. This result indicates that a large part of the inequality does not occur years later, but in the instant of jump to the market: the first salary alone explains almost half of the income difference in year five, and other attributes of the first job destination added another substantial part. In other words, that first match between graduate and employer weighs more for future economic trajectory than most previous academic factors. The differences. There’s more, as research indicates that graduates from lower-income households tend to reach the end of their degree less likely to have a secure jobaccept offers with lower starting salaries and enter companies that, on average, pay less and offer fewer promotion and training options. Every extra thousand dollars in starting salary is associated with seven hundred dollars plus five years afterwards, and those who remain in first place for at least two years register several thousand more income in the medium term. This suggests that, even without differences in talent or record, the social origin determines the type of first job that is accessed, and that starting point chain conditions what happens later. Implications. In a political key, the picture that emerges the work forces us to shift the focus of intervention: it is not enough to guarantee access and graduation if inequality re-establishes itself just as we cross the door of the labor market. The researchers say that if the first job explains a good part of the gap, then the policy that aspires to real mobility must act explicitly about that transition (early information, networks, search preparation, paid internships, matching with better quality employers) because that is where today the nuclear difference is formed between equals on paper, but different in origin. Without that final layer, the title stops functioning as a ladder of equality and becomes a filter that validates inequalities that are already written before the first contract. The weight of origin. In short, the evidence suggests that inequality reappears in the transition to work because the resources that mattered before university (social networks, early information, financial cushion and room to wait for a better offer) continue to operate when the time comes to choose the first job. Those who can finance a few months without salary can reject bad offers and wait for a better one, and those who cannot, accept the first one. Those who have relatives or contacts in large companies obtain recommendations that reduce entry friction, and those who do not compete blindly. Even the most sensitive information about how, when and where to apply is unevenly distributed. From that perspective, the “first step” is neither chance nor pure merit: it is a translation in labor terms of the previous advantages that are not seen in the academic record, but that determine the quality of the first contract, and of a “bright” future or simply a future. Image | Pexels In Xataka | The paradox of the “American dream”: the place where it is least likely to be achieved is the United States In Xataka | The dream of young Spaniards is no longer buying a house: it is waiting for their parents to donate it to them

A university used an AI to hunt down students who used AI. The result was a predictable disaster

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What has happened? They count in Futurism that in 2024, the Australian Catholic University accused about 6,000 students of academic misconduct. At least 90% of cases were related to the use of AI for cheating. What is striking is that the university itself used an AI to issue these accusations, many of which were erroneous. Why it is important. It is one more example that AI is not yet reliable. We see it constantly with wrong results and hallucinations. The Australian university is not the only one that has relied on AI to accuse its students, it is a practice quite common and there have been others similar cases. The reality is that AI text detectors are also AI and, at least for now, They are imperfect. Turnitin. It is a plagiarism detection software whose first version was released in 1997 and is widely used in universities and educational centers. In 2023 he added a tool to detect texts created with AI and it is the one they used at the Australian Catholic University. The company itself says in its usage guide that the AI ​​detector is not always accurate and should not be used as the sole source when accusing a student. However, according to ABC Australiathe university used it as the only evidence when issuing his records for misconduct. The university version. Allegations regarding AI use included AI-generated works, fabricated references (hallucinations), and the use of AI tools to cite and translate content. The university says at least a quarter of all allegations were dropped after an investigation. They also rejected those in which the only proof was the AI ​​itself and in March of this year they stopped using that software. The dilemma. The emergence of AI tools poses challenges in the educational sector. Hay voices that advocate its banwhile others They defend integration and encourage good practices. UNESCO published a guide to the use of generative AI in education in which they establish rules and obligations, such as privacy protection, age limits and an approach that guarantees ethical and safe use of these tools. Image | Turnitin In Xataka | A teacher corrected a final exam done with ChatGPT, but another AI evaluated it differently and exposed the dilemma

that students use it to avoid being caught and teachers to catch

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Grammarly is a program and browser extension which has been helping us correctly since 2009: ten years before Google Integrate Writing suggestions in Gmail or that generative artificial intelligence will change everything in natural language with chatgpt. And what if it changed, so much that Grammarly has launched An application to improve texts that integrates nine agents. Back to the origins. Grammarly’s new tools are focused on using artificial intelligence for students and teachers to improve in their work: some can write better texts and others can detect plagiarism scanning “databases, academic articles, websites and published works.” In that sense, there is an agent that gives a numerical score that reflects the probability that the text is generated by AI or written by a human. Something striking of the announcement is that the founders of the company, before launching Grammarly, They undertook creating My Dropbox In 2002 (not confusing with Dropbox) with a nature that now recovers: as a plagiarism detector. Why it is important. Grammarly’s movement is relevant because it shows the recent impact of artificial intelligence even in companies that already had a lot of agricultural help component. Now they have to adapt because any great language model can bury them, such as It also happens with Duolingo. But, above all, it is interesting by how it exemplifies the moment that education lives with the boom of chatgpt: in conflict between students that They use artificial intelligence to do essays and other jobs looking not to be detected … And teachers looking for all means that do not “sneak” plagiarized and elaborated with AI, for which they will use an artificial intelligence agent that will also help them correct jobs. Luckily, there are universities that already They are implementing it in class. An agent who makes Stalking To teachers. The thing does not end there: the agent who helps to rewrite texts too Improve the process with the bibliography And deepen something that obsesses students: predict the note. The most impressive thing about Grammarly’s promise is how they claim that he does it: investigate on the Internet about which teacher the subject teaches to try to know his tastes and evaluation priorities, and help the result to approach as much as possible to what he will please. With giving him the name of the professor, subject and the university, the Grammarly agent promises to predict what note we will take out. The great challenge. As a way to differentiate, Grammarly’s proposal is ambitious, because until now there is no detector for the use of artificial intelligence that has been widely accepted as effective. According to A studydetectors we have detected less than 40% of the content generated by modified artificial intelligence to avoid being detected, and are even more imprecise (17.4%) when they have to analyze manipulated content. Some great American universities They do not support the use of detectorsbecause They do not work. For its part, OpenAi launched A tool to detect plagiarismand then He withdrew it silently. Although according to leaks now they have a tool that works, They do not throw it. If Grammarly manages to become the era of artificial intelligence in what Turnitin It has been in traditional plagiarism, it can become an actor who plays a great role in the market. Tensions. That detectors do not work is generating problems, and not only teachers, because work generated by artificial intelligence is sorry as if they were more handmade. Students are suffering from be falsely accused of lyingwith fatal consequences as suspensions in subjects. But in the background there is a reality: students cheating artificial intelligence for artificial intelligence detectors. To a future generated, summarized and read by the. Two years ago, with the launch of GPT-4 still fresh, Javier Lacort, Xataka editor, He drew a future that today sounds even in present: a reality full of emails written by artificial intelligence, in which we summarize those same emails with artificial intelligence, and in which we respond with the same tools. The most comic scenario: that “we turn to AI by postureo, to artificially lengthened emails that the receiver will not read, because that same will be in charge of summarizing it.” Today, integration into Gmail, WhatsApp, social networks and other day -to -day places already makes that future very present. Image | Annie Spratt in Unspash and generated with AI In Xataka | Goal has realized that right now it doesn’t matter to have the best AI. Just have one with the one to have you hooked on the screen

While in the West we continue to discuss whether to use in class, China wants students to use it more and more

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In many Chinese university campuses, the use of artificial intelligence is no longer discussed: it is used. According to a mycos institute surveyonly 1 % of teachers and students claimed not to use generative tools. The remaining 99 % do and almost 60 % declare to use them frequently. It is a notable turn with respect to two years ago, when accessing Chatgpt It involved resorting to mirrors and VPN. Today the movement is the opposite: the centers drive their use. As Mit Technology Review points outthe transition has been fast, but planned. At the University of Zhejiang, an introductory subject of AI is mandatory for all students since 2024. Others such as Fudan, Renmin or Nanjing have opened transverse courses to any discipline, beyond computer science or engineering. Beijing marks the passage for AI The focus is in the use with criteria: internal guides, concrete examples, recommendations on what tasks can rely on generative models and which human judgment should prevail. Interaction with the machine is treated as one more skillcomparable to other technical literacy. McKinsey estimates that China will need 6 million professionals with AI domain for 2030 Several universities are developing their own courses focused on local alternatives to Chatgpt. Centers like Shenzhen and Zhejiang have launched teaching programs on Deepseeka model that seeks to position itself as a national reference in generative. Others are already forming their students in the use of Doubao, the chatbot developed by Baidu and one of the most widespread in academic environments. In April 2025, The Chinese Ministry of Education issued national guides for Primary and Secondary, aimed at promoting critical thinkingdigital fluidity and practical application in these academic stages. For its part, Beijing has already mandatory the teaching of AI in all centers of the city, from primary to high school. For the University, these general recommendations have resulted in plans of each institution and the creation of internal courses and regulations. Spain is already moving In Spain there are universities that have gone from the debate to action: new degrees focused on AI and tutors based on AI that accompany the study Without giving the answer made. All with an objective: to train professionals who work with ia without losing critical thinking. If we focus on the rest of the West, the use is massive, but the rules not so much. Let’s deepen a little. USA: Ohio University He has made mandatory The training in AI for all its first year students. In California, programs such as Chatgpt Edu are arriving at public universities to offer free access to generative models. Europe: the European Commission promotes the Digital Education Action Plan 2021–2027with ethical guides and teacher training. Universities such as Maastricht, Gothenburg or Edinburgh have approved their own frames. Networks like Yerun or the US work to harmonize criteria and share good practices. Decisions, for now, remain mostly decentralized: They depend on each institutionof each faculty … and, in many cases, even of each teacher. It is a flexible model, with advantages and disadvantages, compared to the most structured approach that China has adopted. Two different paths to address the same reality: AI has come to stay, and mastering these tools will be key. What is still being defined is how to teach them, when and under what criteria. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash | Igor Omilaev In Xataka | There are those who believe that the best AIs become more silly over time. It is no madness

Whole China is of exams. So AI companies are laying their chatbots so that students do not cheat

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In Spain the students recently passed By the Pau test (Before EBAU, EVAU or Selectivity), and now something similar is happening in China, where Chinese students face Gaokao (高考), the National Access to University Exam. And they do it with an almost obligatory novelty. Nothing to cheat with chatbots from AI. The most popular chatbots in China Like Qwenfrom Alibaba, have temporarily deactivated functions such as image recognition. They have done it precisely to prevent such characteristic from being used as a modern “chop” To help them during these tests. Impartiality in the tests. The same has happened with Yuanbao (Tencent) and Kimi (MoNshot), two other popular chatbots in China, which have also deactivated that image recognition characteristic. When trying to use this function, they indicate In Bloombergthe text “appears” to guarantee the impartiality of the university access tests, this function cannot be used during the test period. “ An exam in which the future is played. The Gaokao was held for the first time in 1952 as part of the reform of the then newly created People’s Republic of China. The access processes to universities changed during Mao Zedong’s mandate, but in 1977 Deng Xiaoping recovered them and have continued to be used until today. There are 16 provinces with personalized exams, but in all cases the conclusion is the same: these tests determine the immediate future of students In the academic aspect. Designed and printed in jail. Gaoako access tests are so important that they are designed under strict security by a small team of teachers. These professionals are sent to isolated site of Beijing as military facilities or prisonswhere they make the questions. They cannot leave those locations until the tests are performed, but it is also that most exams are printed within prisons and each “printing” is protected 24 hours a day by cameras and guards. Even its transport to the centers is done with security measures that one would expect in money transports from banking entities, for example. Everything to prevent the questions from leaking. Scratch note. Chatbots are presented as a spectacular help for these students, and students – and their parents – know it. The note of these exams determines whether the student may or may not access the best careers and university institutions, and that also depends on their future positions, salaries and even their social mobility. Competitiveness is also huge: More than 13 million students They are presented to these tests this year. To achieve better notes, all kinds of solutions are used, from particular teachers to these attempts to cheat. Of photo recognition, nothing. The tests have taken place from 7 to today, June 10. The Alibaba chatbots (Qwen) and bytedance (Doubao) offered the Image recognition for AI until last Monday. However, according to Bloomberg if a user asked for the solutions to a problem in a paper that was taken a photo, Qwen replied that the service was temporarily disabled. In Doubao the message indicated is that this request “did not meet the rules.” AI is fine to learn, but not for exams. In Beijing they launched recently A plan to integrate the teaching of AI at school. Although this type of discipline in classrooms is being tried, one thing is that they learn to use it and another very different that students take it to cheat in these tests. In fact a new set of standards Published by the Ministry of Education of China last month established that students should not use the content generated by the response in their duties or in the aforementioned exams. The objective: that they do not depend too much on artificial intelligence. Image | 绵 绵 In Xataka | The 100 best universities in the world excluding those of the US, exposed this graphic revealing

The US will revoke the visa of Chinese students to protect their AI industry. The risk is that he ends up wounding her death

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China is by far the largest world graduate producer in Stem races (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), both in absolute and relative terms to the global total. The phenomenon is an exceptional magnitude, but there is a country that has just been slaughtered in their noses: United States. What happened. As they pointed out In The New York Times A few days ago, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, advertisement that the Trump administration “would aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students. In these visa cancellations, those students with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (PCC) or those who study “critical fields” that did not define clearly but probably include that of AI will be included. Source: The New York Times. Impact. In 2024 in the United States, 20% of the visas granted to students went to young Chinese students. The measure is worrying for American universities, which depend on international students who pay the full cost – without scholarships – for their annual income. In addition, this decision affects both students who want to ask for a visa from now on and those who are already studying in the country. In total there are about 275,000 Chinese students in all types of university careers. Uncertainty. It is not clear what criteria will be followed to revoke these visas and not as quickly these measures will begin. Nor is it known if China will retaliate, although the number of US students in China is much less significant. In 2020 USA He already expelled to 1,000 Chinese students with ties with Chinese military schools. A massive practice. A report Published by the State Department and the NGO called the Institute of International Education indicated last year that China was the second country with the highest share of international students: only India “exports” more students. In the 2023-2024 COURSE, it received 1.1 million international students, of which 331,000 came from India (23% more than the previous year) and 277,000 from China (4% less than the previous year). Source: CSET. China is absolute power in Stem. If there is a “graduate” graduate producer “(science, technology, engineering and mathematics), that is China. Collected data By cset They reveal that in 2020 China led the number of graduates in these disciplines, with a total of 3.57 million students. Only India approaches with 2.55 million students, but for example in the US the figure is four times lower than in China: 820,000 graduates. Source: CSET. And the one that is most dedicated to these disciplines. Not only is it that China has the greatest number of Stem graduates in the world: it is that the percentage of students who choose these disciplines is also the largest in the world. 41% of students are launched to Stem Carreras. They are followed by Russia (37%), Germany (36%, Iran (33%) and India (30%). In the US, only 20%of students bet on scientific careers. Source: Macro Polo / Paulsen Institute. And that includes AI. In People’s Daily They pointed out A few days ago how approximately 50% of the main researchers of AI are trained in Chinese universities. The worrying thing for the US is not that: they depend a lot on them. A report of the Paulgo Institute of Chicago (USA) recently revealed that 38% of AI experts that develop their professional career in the US They have formed in Chinese universities. They are in fact more than those who have a strictly American origin (37%). China does not stop betting on Stem Education. Between 2012 and 2022 the budget spending of the Chinese government in education increased from 2.2 billion yuan (268,167 million euros) to 4.85 billion yuan (591,187 million euros), more than double. Several Chinese elite universities They have announced His intention to expand his curricula with the objective of prioritizing the strategic needs of the country, and here the AI ​​- who You start teaching in schools– It’s key. Imminent danger. This domain has a direct impact on the capacity of innovation, technological development and industrial competitiveness of China, but also of the countries that allow Chinese students to study and then work in international companies. Cut your wings to that talent is to cut them to innovation. The US will get just the opposite of what it intended. The analyst Alberto Romero explained How these measures are probably designed to protect national security – which Chinese students do not end up “spying” for China. “However, instead of helping the US to enhance their industry, what can happen is that they weaken it. Not only that: that revocation of visas can precisely help China meet their strategic objectives. Nvidia already notified with the hardware. The US opted to veto the export of its advanced chips from AI to China. The shot has come absolutely for the cylinder headand instead of preventing Chinese development and innovation, it has put a rocket. They do not seem to have learned the lesson, and revoke the visas to Chinese students can end up being an even bigger shot that comes out of an even bigger cylinder head. Image | Zixi Wu In Xataka | China has declared the war on private school: why he predicted the prolific “tutorials”

Students feel that Pau is the opposite

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This year, thousands of high school students face A historical selectivity. For the first time, the University Access Test (PAU) will have the same structure throughout the country, marking A before and after in the test Access. These changes are generating a lot of expectation and anxiety among students, extending the opinion that changes They have increased difficulty With regard to previous calls, in a demanding evidence. Uncertainty about How to develop The new structure of Pau is one of the main concerns among students, and the fear of the unknown has become the main protagonist of the classrooms a few days after the call. Unification and fears of the new exam model Pau 2025 is a change of structure in the access test that seeks Unify the exam model In all autonomous communities, with the objective of make more fair Access to the university, regardless of the community where the test is carried out. According to Diana Morant, Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities “is more agile, modern and adapts to society with the maximum academic rigor and guaranteeing the equal opportunities of all students in Spain.” Teachers have expressed concern that, although the exam format has been homogenized, the question of the question of the difficulty according to the community Autonomous, which could continue to generate inequalities. “The competences are transferred to the autonomous communities, and each community fixes a part of its own agenda. This makes a unique model very difficult to implement. (…) The test is organized decentralized, while the admission is unique. Even if you have to ask for a place in each university district, your note serves to enter any university of Spain,” He pointed out Javier Oubiña, Student Vice Chancellor and Employability of the Autonomous University of Madrid. However, one of the main fears of students is that this new format Increase the difficulty of the test and cause a generalized decrease in the notes. That could make access to races with the highest cut -off note and leave them in disadvantages with last year’s students. “If the notes go down a lot, it can put us at a disadvantage to enter the most demanded careers, since it is likely that those who presented the previous years have higher notes than what we are going to have. That, and the increase in the difficulty of the questions, is what overwhelms us the people of my course I have around me,” assured to The country Julia, a high school that prepares for the PAU. As He pointed out Carla Mora, 2nd high school student in Almería to Almería Diario “The changes should have already been made for students who are in 1st Baccalaureate this year and not for us that so far we have been working in a different way the test, that is, with the previous model. The novelties have been introduced to us suddenly.” Main changes in Pau 2025 One of the main News of the PAU 2025 It is the disappearance of the possibility of choosing between several optional questions. Now, all the questions included in the test are mandatory, although it will be possible to choose some questions or sections within the exercise itself. From the Ministry of Education it is warned that this “optionality will not imply being able to study less a agenda”, which forces students to prepare the complete content of each subject, and not to do without it as allowed the previous model. Another of the novelties that are worrying students is the change in the format of the questions. The new exam will combine exercises with closed tests type test, semi -constructed questions (such as filling spaces) and, the most controversial, open answers in which the student must develop the resolution process. In the latter it has been sought a more competence approach. That is, the student has understood the concept and not only memorized. They seek to evaluate creativity, critical thinking, reflection and maturity in resolution. With the arrival of the open format of the questions, the correction criteria are also modified. In them, not only will the correction of the response be assessed, but also coherence, cohesion, grammatical, lexical and spelling correction, as well as the presentation. Spelling failures will mean a 10% penalty of the score, according to the new guidelines. Both the fact of forcing students to prepare the entire age The most difficult in recent years. What has not changed in the 2025 PAU Despite the changes, some fundamental aspects of the PAU in 2025 remain the same as in previous calls. The test continues to be divided into two parts: a basic and mandatory, in which it is necessary to obtain at least 5 to access the university; and another volunteer, which allows you to add up to 4 additional points to try to improve the final grade. According What is indicated by the Ministrythe subjects of the mandatory part They are Castilian and Literature II language, foreign language II, History of Spain or Philosophy (to choose), and Co -official Language and Literature II in communities with their own language. The voluntary part includes at least two subjects of the Baccalaureate, History or Philosophy (the one that I did not choose for the mandatory phase), and a second foreign language (English, French, German, Italian or Portuguese). The final grade calculation system has not changed: 60% of the final grade corresponds to the average high school grade and the remaining 40% is provided by the note obtained in the PAU. That is, if in Baccalaureate an average grade of 7.5 has been obtained and in the Pau an 8, the final access note will be a 7.7 (Baccalaureate note x 0.6 + Pau note x 0.4). The time to perform each exam is maintained in 90 minutes, with 30 minutes of rest between tests. Students with educational support needs will have more time. In Xataka | For thousands of Spanish students, the challenge is not to overcome Pau and … Read more

Right now there are 4500 North American students advised psychologically by a chatbot. It’s just the beginning

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Right now, while I write this, there are about 4,500 North American students being “psychologically advised” Through an application Sonny called. It is nothing surprising. In the US, around 17% of secondary schools have no counselor or school psychologist. Most of them are in rural areas or in economically depressed zones and applications of this type bring psychosocial assistance to everyone. The problem is not that. The problem is that Sonny is An artificial intelligence chatbot. Is the chatbot? Let it be put. The idea is not new: in fact, it is one of the first ideas that comes to everyone worried about mental health. In the last 50 years We have concluded that psychotherapy is tremendously effective. For now we have not been able to climb it: that is the promise of the chatbots. Sonny’s example Help to understand it: Students have access to chatbot 18 hours a day (from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.) and the “Solo” service costs each district between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000. Much less than a school advisor to use. It is true that it is not so effective that the counselor, but for many environments it is the best that can be allowed. And, in fact, according to some of its users explainbeyond its final therapeutic effectiveness, these types of approaches allow school to identify almost real problems among students. In Berryville (Arkansas), they discovered that more than half of the users sent messages just before exams and allowed them to develop emotional support interventions. Is this the future? A couple of years ago, Zara Abrams published an extensive analysis In the American Psychological Association, where it was concluded that “artificial intelligence chatbots (AI) can make therapy more accessible and less expensive.” Just what Sonny does. However, as also explained Abrams“Despite the potential of AI, there are still reasons to worry: the tools used in the health field have discriminated people depending on their race and disability status and there are malicious chatbots have widespread erroneous information, They have professed their love for users either They have sexually harassed minors“That is precisely what Sonny tries to avoid. How is it possible? In principle, as they explain from the company, Sonny has a team of people with “experience in psychology, social work and online support” that supervise and even rewrite the Bot responses. Each technician supervises between 15 and 25 chats at the same time. It is the form that has HEALTH mental soundthe company behind the app, to avoid the great original sin of the LLM: its tendency to delir, fantasize and give advice that may not be correct. In addition, the hybrid chatbot is designed to notify parents and teachers to the slightest possibility of danger (either for oneself or for others). Have you solved the problem? The truth is that we do not know (because there are no studies on it), but it is honestly unlikely that they have achieved it: we are in a very early phase as for trust that all associated problems are resolved. But it is a radical step. As Abrams said, It is possible that “psychologists and their abilities are irreplaceable”, but since the arrival of AI is inevitable we have to bet on a “reflexive and strategic implementation.” Something that, indeed, is very similar to saying anything. There is much that we still do not know and, therefore, making concrete predictions is dangerous. What is clear is that the question is not if we will have gpteraputas, we already have them. The question is how we can use them to Not worsening the attention that is being given today (a temptation always preset) and turn them into a key tool to reduce human suffering. Let’s hope to answer it soon. Image | Dream / Sigmund In Xataka | 50 years of research on depression psychotherapy leave a surprising fact: we have not improved anything

The lyrics of his students were no longer understood

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If someone sensed that the digitalization of in teaching was going to be an easy way surely at this point has changed their minds. The introduction of digital in schools seems to be oriented by the old test and error method and the last example has been found in a Catalan school. A new step back. A Catalan school, the Escola Pia de Caldes de Montbui, in Barcelona, ​​has been the last educational center to announce that it turned back in its way to digitalization in the classrooms, according to The newspaper advanced The country. Perhaps the most striking in this case is the reason adduced by the center: the students “reached ESO and the lyrics were not understood.” The strategic twist of the center was also due to other factors in addition to the aforementioned worsening in students’ calligraphy. According to the saying to the environment, they had detected problems such as difficulties when devising titles, saving margins or the mere fact of facing a blank sheet. In addition, students also showed signs of early tired when they should write for some time. As reported, the transition plan implied the delay in the incorporation of computers, first until fifth of primary and later to Secondary. Matteries and activities with computers in favor of paper and pen would also be reduced. Trial and error. The case is another example of something that has become usual, that of the back in the introduction of digital in the classrooms. A reverse sometimes starring educational centers and others, For the same public administrations. Bringing new technologies to students is not a simple task as many have discovered. Getting digital tools to complement and not replace other capacities is difficult. Also necessary. There is no standardized way to introduce these resources, which implies that many times the teaching teams end up giving blind sticks and experiencing until they find with the ideal formula with the old test and error method. Learning lessons. However, there are those who already take notes of this. UNICEF, the United Nations Agency dedicated to childhood protection created A decalogue with considerations to take into account when implementing new technologies in schools. Duties accumulate. While the debate on how to introduce digital resources into the classrooms occurs, technology advances and creates new challenges that add to those we have not yet faced. Artificial intelligence is a clear and recent example of this. In Xataka | Years ago Mexico opted to offer longer school days for children. Caused an increase in divorces Image | Adam Sondel

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