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Los TICs y la sociedad peruana obstaculizados

     Los TICs y la sociedad peruana han tenido una relación llena de obstáculos y no se han integrado completamente. Existen muchos factores que obstaculizan la tecnología para realmente cambiar al Perú. Por ejemplo, políticas públicas, idiosincrasia, la informalidad, la geografía, monopolios de telecomunicaciones, costos, etc. Hoy en día en el 2023 aún piden una copia de DNI, no ha llegado el cambio digital. Incluso las instituciones públicas no están vinculadas; la SUNAT y la RENIEC no comparten plataformas. Sin embargo, la pandemia trajo grandes cambios necesarios. Se puede decir que la pandemia aceleró los primeros pasos hacia la digitalización. Hoy en día existen muchos más documentos y trámites que uno mismo puede hacer online. También ligeramente las empresas están integrando la inteligencia artificial como Chatbots que brinda atención al cliente. Pero esto es un fenómeno más urbano y metropolitano.       Ahora la inclusión de las TICs y el rol de los docentes presenta varios re
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“Finding a place - Where are you from?”

Photo credit: What is a third culture kid? (2017)   “Finding a place - Where are you from?”  By: Emilio Salaverry When living in the United States, I never felt “American enough”. Similarly, when I moved back to Peru, once again, I had a feeling of rootlessness, not belonging, and not being “Peruvian enough”. Still till this day, I am always asked by my fellow Peruvians or foreigners, where are you from? Sometimes, I ask them to guess and they tell me all kinds of nationalities except for Peruvian or American. Again, confusion and a feeling of not belonging surrounds me. However, a good friend of mine gave me a book titled “Third Culture Kids - Growing Up Among Worlds”. Reading the book, I finally felt understood, my rootlessness was finally grasped and I realized I was a Third Culture Kid (TCK). This term was coined by Ruth Hill Useem in the 1950s, “for children who spend their formative years in places that are not their parents’ homeland.” The good news is that there are a lot of us
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A safer and fairer classroom by Emilio Salaverry

               Ever wonder why students don’t feel comfortable enough to share their feelings or thoughts on different issues in class? Or why, in remote learning, do they keep their cameras off and hide behind those black Zoom squares? Sometimes, I find it frustrating when students do not feel important or smart enough to share their opinions freely and confidently; however, I am not frustrated with my students, I am more concerned with my inability to facilitate opportunities for students to participate in classroom discussions. So, the question I toil with the most is how can I make my classroom environment a safer and fairer place where students could express themselves without fear of rejection or being wrong. Personally, I don’t have a secret sauce. In fact, many times I failed miserably at making my classroom a safer and fairer place, but I feel like if your classroom oozes tolerance, inspiration and love, more often than not, your students will find a safe zone.  To begin wit
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I understand now ...

     This is for all the single mothers raising children. I am thankful that I was raised by a single mother; of course I needed a father, but that was the hand I was dealt. This emptiness was needless, but I have to recognize that my older brother and my mom tried to fill that void and they tried their best. In fact, most of the world, including the church, would say that I came from a dysfunctional family, but it was God's plan all along; it was what actually brought me to my knees and accepted Christ. I am thankful for Him, them and all the people that invested in me; especially my mom. This blog post is for all the mothers, mainly those single mothers raising men.      After the not so pleasant memories in my early years, my “first” memories were of my mom working two jobs, one at Publix and another at a restaurant (don’t remember the name). However, I do remember that she would leave early and not come back until late at night dressed in her cashier uniform, not knowing she ha
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Police Brutality: For Jack and Inti

Source: José Miguel Alban       For the past 7 days there has been social unrest over the most recent political crisis in Peru. Since the start of the protests the national police has used violence to calm the tension which have obviously exacerbated the situation. For example, the national police has used gas bombs, police batons, rubber bullets and pellets againt the protesters. There has even been an undercover police unit, known as the ternas, infiltrating the marches and instigating violence and repression against the protesters. However, things started getting suspicious when doctors started reporting extractions of marbles from protesters which meant the national police started using lethal force. And there are videos where you heard police officers scream “shoot , aim for their heads”.Of course, now the former de facto president and Minister of Defense denied using violence to suppress the people. Additionally, the now former Prime Minister visited the police departments and co
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Political Crisis

  In the past week Peru has been in a political crisis, not to mention our health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. So, what happened? Well, a small group of career politicians have hijacked our democracy, legislative and executive branches by ousting our democratically elected President (Former Vice President) on Monday, November 9th, 2020 with 105 votes in congress. Our now former president dissolved the congress last year and new representatives were elected in January. However, this group has set their ambitious desires on the judicial branch and our highest constitutional court; the Constitutional Tribunal, which is the only institution that resolves disputes over the constitutionality of government activities and decisions. Its sole purpose is to guarantee the compliance of the constitution by government institutions. It is very difficult to explain the complexity of the issues, but to try to understand our politics, we have to go back to the starting point. In
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Documentary: "Hugo Blanco, río profundo"

Written by Emilio Salaverry      Today I watched the documentary on Hugo Blanco. I have heard a lot about Hugo Blanco, but never read or watch anything in-depth. Honestly, I was fascinated by his life and struggle. Blanco was a community leader that organized peasant farmers to fight for their right and take back land from the wealthy. Just to be clear, I do not pretend to be an expert on his life, but I wanted to share some thoughts about his philosophy and ideology. There are four aspects I am going to focus on; his commitment to organization of the people, him being blacklisted by the Peruvian government and Sendero Luminoso, the new language he preached after Mexico and the differences between him and Sendero Luminoso.       Blanco believed the path to real change was organizing the farming communities into one powerful unit. In fact, he did not believe in having one person to represent the people or community; he said that men make mistakes and the temptations are vast; ho
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