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Federal Congressman for Paraná, Beto Preto (PSD), has until Monday (17th) to accept or reject a deal with the Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). The summons was ordered by the 1st Court of Public Finance of Apucarana (PR), relating to a case of administrative impropriety.

As a condition for closing the case, the MP proposes that Preto compensate for damages and pay a fine of R$ 25,000. In the lawsuit, the prosecution points to losses to public funds caused by a fraudulent bidding process in 2013, amounting to R$ 127,194.43.

Beto Preto headed the Health Department in Paraná during the pandemic. It was then that he made a name for himself in the election that took him to Brasília. He is currently on Governor Ratinho Júnior's shortlist for succession to the Iguaçu Palace. If convicted of an act of impropriety, he could have his political rights suspended.

Understand the Case

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Beto Preto, then president of the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Ivaí Valley (Cisvir), contributed to a bid-rigging scheme by assisting a criminal organization led by the deceased businessman Marcelo Cernescu.

The then-president approved a bidding procedure without considering several irregularities. The scheme involved, according to the MP, shell companies and the contracting of services considered unnecessary because they should have been provided directly by the public administration.

Arguments

In the initial petition, the prosecution describes illegalities in the bidding process for the contracting of an object described as "unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal".

Furthermore, the elements gathered in the investigation indicate that, to achieve the illicit objectives, regardless of the contracting municipality, a similar modus operandi was employed, consisting of a joint effort between public officials and businessmen of the group to "assemble" bidding processes for the contracting of an unnecessary, costly, and flagrantly illegal object, whose acts bear clear indications of concealment.

—Initial petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Noteworthy

For the MP, the items in the bidding process do not justify hiring a private company, and it is a mere artifice "unequivocally created for the diversion of money from public coffers".

Congressman Beto Preto even had his assets frozen, along with the other defendants. Due to a change in the Administrative Improbity Law approved in 2021, the judge in the case ordered the unfreezing of the assets.

Ten Palestinians were killed and one hundred injured by Israeli military forces in one of the largest operations against Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in years.

Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank, where Jenin is located, since 1967. This represents 56 years of illegal occupation, violating international law.

Palestinians are the largest refugee group in the world. They have lived in refugee status for 75 years, both abroad and within Palestine itself, without the right to return to their regions of origin or even to move freely within their own country.

Palestinians have the right to resist the illegal occupation, the expulsion from their homes, and the chronic violence to which they are subjected.

We, writer and journalist Cassiana Pizaia, and analyst and journalist Vinícius Sgarbe, produced a micro-documentary about Jenin over a year ago, following two trips to the Middle East.

Brazil's first app for the adoption of children and teenagers is celebrating its fifth anniversary. The anniversary is being marked with a ceremony in the plenary of the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná (TJPR), bringing together founders, professionals, volunteers, and judicial authorities. The launch date of A.dot, May 25th, is also National Adoption Day. The event is being streamed online so that the A.dot network, now present in nine states across the country, can participate. Watch the full ceremony.

The President of the State Judiciary Commission for Adoption (Ceja) of Paraná and founder of A.dot, Substitute Judge Sérgio Kreuz, is the first to speak. He says that "A.dot is a project that involves not only public authorities, such as the Court of Justice, but also civil society. Indeed, as enshrined in Article 227, it is the duty of the family, society, and the State to ensure the child's right to have, to live, and to grow in a family environment".

He explains that "only those children and teenagers who no longer have any chance of adoption through traditional channels are included in the app. In other words, they are already there because they haven't found prospective parents in the national, state, or local registry. Therefore, these are extremely difficult adoptions that would normally not happen".

And he celebrates that "845 children and teenagers have been featured on the app during this period [of five years], many of them with disabilities. We have confirmed adoptions data: 133 have been made through this app".

Poorest of the Poor

Kreuz moves the audience when he states that Paraná has more than four thousand children waiting for adoption, "who anxiously seek a family." He adds: "I always say that the child who is in a shelter is the poorest of the poor. Because this child has lost everything. They have lost their friends, lost their relatives, even lost their father and mother. So, it is up to us, as a society, as a State, to make every effort."

The presentation by journalist and A.dot creator, Adriana Milczevsky, begins with: "I want to tell you that if you hear any noise during my speech, it's my heart". She comments on the relationship between professional editorial production and A.dot. "There are many communicators within the group, and Dr. Sérgio believed, as we did, that communication is a tool for transformation. Through the app, more than one hundred lives have become sons and daughters".

Vice-president of the TJPR

Vice-president of the TJPR, Judge Joeci Machado Camargo, proposes the following reflection: "We all believe that we can bring a little happiness, that we can bring a little of our work. But not our bureaucratic work [...], but from our hearts. We see children here who, in one way or another, are sheltered. And when we leave here and look at the streets? We will find homeless children".

Since 2018, the sale of cannabis-based products has increased by 342.3%. Between 2021 and 2022, more than R$ 77 billion (approximately US$15.4 billion using an exchange rate of 5 BRL to 1 USD for illustrative purposes) were transacted. The figures are from a survey by the Cannabis & Health Portal released by Agência Brasil.

Last year, prescriptions increased by 487.8%. The number of doctors who recommended purchasing from pharmacies also rose, from 6,300 (2021) to 15,500 (2022).

The medical specialty with the highest number of prescriptions was neurology (33%), followed by psychiatry (26%), geriatrics (8%), general practice (5%), and orthopedics (3%).

Read the full article on the Agência Brasil website.

Low-income families in 439 Brazilian municipalities may lose their television signal after the implementation of 5G. 5G is a data transmission technology that promises extremely high speeds. Not all cell phones are equipped to use this technology. Even expensive and relatively new models are obsolete. The frequency used for 5G is the same one these families use to watch television.

The state with the highest number of at-risk municipalities is São Paulo (163), followed by Santa Catarina (36), and Paraná (33).

For families registered with the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadÚnico) and currently have a working antenna, the federal government is providing free digital satellite dishes. According to the Ministry of Communications, about 1.5 million Brazilians meet these requirements.

A.dot has reached the milestone of 120 completed adoptions. The figure comes from the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná (TJPR), in the latest edition of its official report. A.dot is Brazil's first adoption app for children and adolescents, launched in May 2018. Due to bureaucratic issues, such as the notification model issued by the local courts, it is estimated that the number could be higher.

Available for iOS and Android platforms, access is restricted to those who are registered with the National Adoption and Foster Care System (SNA) of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). In this latest version of the app, verification is performed automatically, which consumed virtually all of the project's financial resources. Today, more than 12,000 users are authorized to access the platform.

In the first years of operation, the TJPR assigned teams to manually verify authorization to access profiles. Sending individual codes was a major headache at the time because, among other reasons, communication was done by email.

Between 2021 and 2022, the number of requests for initial meetings, when a prospective parent wants to meet the child in person, increased by 68%, from 138 to 232. Now in 2023, 46 trial cohabitation periods are underway.

A.dot gained national recognition after being featured on an episode of Globo Repórter.

Responsible Experimentation

Created as "a last chance" for profiles that deviate from the typical adoption requests (people with disabilities and sibling groups, in particular), the project faced setbacks. Even internally, there were concerns that the app might unnecessarily expose the children. This issue was completely overcome, and A.dot gained the attention of the Paraná State Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.

Two main challenges were top of mind: adherence to the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) and the General Data Protection Law (LGPD). In these and other instances, A.dot proved not only adequate to the requirements but also successful in terms of facilitating adoptions.

Conscious Adoption Support Group

The application was created in partnership between the Conscious Adoption Support Group and the Court of Justice of Paraná (TJPR). The Group also promotes training for prospective adoptive parents, which is mandatory for adopters. Currently, this training is also undergoing digitization, using the Microsoft 365 platform.

The inmates in Brasília listed by the Federal District Penitentiary Administration Secretariat are separated, in the following chart, by sex and age. In the chart's first row, you can select which data you prefer to view. Three male inmates were removed from the sample due to inaccuracies in the Secretariat's report. The data refers to the period between January 8th and 11th, 2023.

Source: Department of Penitentiary Administration of the Federal District.

There's plenty of real-world data to support my hypothesis that the world is getting dumber. A reporter said this week that "the sun is shining in Cascavel" (it's been doing that for over 4 billion years). But you're here too. Maybe you've already noticed.

We have no more steps down to take.

Let's settle this matter once and for all, then. This same reporter said that "the city needs more latent action" in cleaning the plaza. I start my good morning with so much joy! 😂

I haven't watched TV in a long time.
Whenever I turn it on, it's just bad news.
Like Raimundos said in their song Liberdade de Expressão:
‍"I listen to the radio, and it's all crap, and on TV, there's nothing I like".
‍‍Deixa eu falar (name of the song).

What we have “achieved” is the realization that television journalism is retrograde, if not ridiculous. Disguised as Instagram, it manages to be even more ridiculous — to paraphrase Fernando Pessoa. The architect Fernando Camargo has just graduated from university. We have zero influence over him when it comes to news. His text, in the screenshot, is chilling.

On the afternoon of last Monday (4th), three communication applications went offline worldwide. It’s unlikely that anyone missed it. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which reached the second, third, and fourth places, respectively, among the most downloaded globally in April of this year, suddenly stopped working – and took about seven hours to come back online.

The news – even on television – offered a technical explanation, which represents part of the problem. When reporters wrote or spoke about "DNS", they offered the public an engineering justification for the outage. We ask whether such information could effectively contribute to an individual's understanding of how the network functions.

Although the issue of "DNS", the digital address, summarizes, perhaps hastily, the reason for the problem, it is pertinent that the press discuss the aspect of big tech's responsibility in daily life. To what extent have individuals and companies become dependent on digital services for personal relationships and business practices?

Some headlines highlighted the decline in Mark Zuckerberg's fortune in the face of the access problem. Such fortune could be put to the test given the intention of compensation claims. For lawyer Kaique Yohan Kondraski Servo, however, "it would be difficult to prevail against Facebook, given the condition of fortuitous event or force majeure, which is what the platform defect resembles."

For some, being without these programs meant being "without Internet". With the Facebook failure, there was an increase in the number of complaints against telephone and internet providers. Some people even fiddled with their routers, trying to regain lost access.

Walled Gardens

In some phone plans, access to certain platforms is not charged. Even if the customer has no credit, they can continue browsing. This is "zero-rating", which has contributed to the idea of "walled gardens".

For the lead researcher of the Research Group on Political Communication and Digital Democracy (Compadd) at UFPR, Rafael Sampaio, "a change began to be felt starting with Web 2.0, when platforms started creating digital walls. People spend most of their time within these platforms. So, if that specific network stops working, the Internet as a whole also stops, in the user's experience".

What risks does this perception raise? How much do we, in the communications industry, contribute to the maintenance and even strengthening of these "walled gardens"?

Bolsonaro's statement on Milton Ribeiro's arrest, which GloboNews is showing now, is excellent. Presidential. He basically says that if the Federal Police arrested him, there must be a reason. But my reflection doesn't have much to do with that.

What damage to the image of the government and pastors this Ribeiro has caused. I don't know him, I've had little interest in the Ministry of Education since Weintraub; I understood that these intellectual tragedies had their time, like a fever.

Unlike most of the evangelicals I know, some of whom are leaders, Ribeiro's ilk disgusts me with their contempt for what is human. Messianic, golden sprigs of creation, they fantasize that their religion covers the ignorance they live in and defend.

Still on Ribeiro's ilk, they are "ugly, weak, and blear-eyed" (SERAINE, G., personal correspondence). I've never seen such ridiculous megalomania: in churches, they hear that God will give them nations, that they will be recognized as servants of the Most High, that they will become rich. They are nothing but fools.

As for those new to the faith or the little ones, we have before us a scandal difficult to overcome. If the "more traditional church", so to speak, such as the Catholic Church, starts thinking of a way to advance for another two thousand years, what about these little neighborhood storefront churches?

In celebration of Women's History Month, Célia Souza, PhD in education, is hosting the workshop "The Inner Child & the Feminine". In an interview with Lab Jornalismo 2030, Célia explains her choice of topic.

Sgarbe — What is your workshop about?

Dr. Célia — It's about the inner child and the feminine. It's about something I discovered as an adult. The inner child is a theory from analytical psychology. The child is an archetype, and its ideas are transposed to the collective. There are many facets, but we will address the wounded child, which is a personal experience. My wounded child blocked me in many actions.

S. — What does this have to do with Black female entrepreneurs?

C. — I'm a parenting educator, and there's a huge discussion about the life of a child. Many of us have lived through experiences where the child wasn't right, was stifled in their creativity, and so on. There are paradigms that neuroscience, child psychology, philosophy, sociology—which even has a dedicated field, the sociology of childhood—have been confronting. There are traumas that can be eased. You were a child, and your inner child stays with you for life. We hear things like:

—Shut up!
—You can't talk!
—Children should only obey!
—Children have to eat everything!
—Children don't do science!

And then the adult lives with childhood issues.

There's also the adult who hasn't grown up, and there's a boom in this issue. Many people are over 30 and can't leave their parents' house, can't work.

This inner child needs to be embraced, needs to be informed that it's not necessary for their journey to be marked by trauma.

Service

The workshop is a partnership with the Afroempreender & Crescer mobilization. It's this Friday (11th), at 6:30 pm, at 450 Rua Marechal Deodoro, room 808. The ticket costs R$ 30. For information, the WhatsApp number is +55 96 98135-3284.

Lab Digital 2050 is launched at ISE Business School headquarters in São Paulo In a discreet meeting following a breakfast featuring red berry donuts, eight media labs were introduced to São Paulo’s intellectual community.

The president of the ISE Business School Board, Professor Dr. Carlos Alberto Di Franco, stopped by to greet us in friendship and mark the occasion. As a demonstration for the launch, the data analysis lab utilized a corpus of comments left on the professor’s YouTube channel over the past six months. Sentiment analysis was conducted using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence technology.

In the featured photo: Ágata Soares, Professor Dr. Carlos Alberto Di Franco, and myself.

A solid opener

Dr. Ana Brambilla and Raphael Müller. Photo: Vinícius Sgarbe.

ISE professors and Lab mentors Dr. Ana Brambilla and Raphael Müller gave presentations, acting as organizational sponsors. Müller recently returned from Barcelona, where he was engaged in activities at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. He argues that victory in life occurs when an individual's resources are utilized. “David, when he fought Goliath, for example, didn't use others' weapons. He wouldn't even have known what to do with them,” he contends.

Dr. Brambilla delves into the profound meaning of the genesis and development of a business, from a philosophical perspective. “The realization of an entrepreneur's potential is to become a business owner", she instructs. For her, "it is a source of pride to see a project conceived in our school come to life and reach the market with such strength. The enthusiasm of the managers, Vinícius and Ágata, is clearly the main fuel for a proposal that emerges with the noble and rare objective of improving human communication in its multiple perspectives”.

Partners

The Lab's founding partner, linguist Ágata Soares, explains: “We are launching the 2023 product line. This presentation officially marks the beginning of the company. We have invited people who are part of our development, many of whom are spokespeople for brands we enjoy working with, as well as representatives of international delegations, and Sgarbe’s mother”.

Curitiba-based entrepreneur Oberdan Pallu, psychologist Janine Sgarbe, and the director of institutional relations for the Master: Media Business program, Dr. Glaucia Noguera. Photo: Vinícius Sgarbe.

The director of institutional relations for the Master: Media Business program, Dr. Glaucia Noguera, writes: "The [course] Entrepreneuring in Journalism was created in 2020 to enhance the knowledge of media professionals who were already entrepreneurs or had the desire to start their own businesses. Sgarbe fit into both categories: for some years, he had been running his own projects, but he enthusiastically cultivated many other good ideas that remained on paper. Lab Digital 2050 was one of them, and it was shaped throughout the classes and mentoring sessions. Hosting the official launch in São Paulo is, for the Master: Media Business program, a source of great joy and satisfaction. Entrepreneurship involves significant risks, and on this celebratory morning, Sgarbe and Ágata proved that, with strategy and passion, dreams can become reality".

For me, Sgarbe, the company is born from a deep awareness that work should have a broad purpose, and that the "true values of life" that have ceased to be appreciated, as Freud invites us to observe, tend to be rediscovered through simplicity.

I am a veteran of the first class of the Entrepreneuring in Journalism course at ISE. A kind of "Sunday school" compared to the prestigious Master in Media program. Let it be public and known: rarely is professional work as well cared for as it is at ISE. I experienced something similar when I became a partner with journalist Cassiana Pizaia in our production company Outras Terras Filmes (Other Lands Films).

Professors and researchers at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Kelly Prudencio (center), Carla Rizzoto, and Rafael Cardoso Sampaio have published the book "Collective Actors in Tension". In recent years, the three doctors have held prominent roles at the university, including coordinators of graduate programs. They are familiar figures in the Juvevê and Reitoria buildings.

The preface by the "Pope" of political communication, Wilson Gomes, states: "As I always say, we live in an open-air laboratory of innovative political experiences, of great impact (for better or worse) and accelerated. Paying attention to everything, keeping an open mind, and reinforcing convictions are essential attitudes (...)".

There are texts by journalists and researchers Helen Anacleto (master's colleague), Nilton Kleina (CBN colleague), and social scientist Bruno Nichols (friend from a deathbed), and a memorable list of others.

The scientific council includes the coordinator of the journalism program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Suyanne Tolentino de Souza.

Suyanne was my television professor during undergraduate studies, Kelly and Carla taught Recognition Theory, and Rafael is my advisor in political communication. For my dissertation, we are preparing something about death threats against judges.

In the chicken yard, I find Jorge dressed for the fields. He swings his machete, striking at the bases of velvetleaf plants, which, when not considered a weed worthy of eradication, are said to be beneficial for hair health.

Adjacent purposes tend to be short-lived in the wild. If you want velvetleaf for your hair, cultivate it. Here, in the chicken yard, these weeds, sprung from finger-thick stalks, stubbornly resistant to pulling, are not welcome.

The drought kills trees in Campo Largo da Roseira. The larger trunks and branches fall first to the ground, then to the pile to be cut, and finally, they meet the stump. Finally, because from then on their fate is the fire, which itself isn't eternal. It’s a small stove fire operated by a city child as a recreational activity. From a world-altering tree to a bizarre toy. My God, we must care for nature.

And when the rain comes, furious. Lightning splits the trunk of the ivaí, Eugenia myrcianthes, delicious to the palates of mares. The wild peach tree has entire leaves and leaf margins, opposite phyllotaxy. The small fruits are yellowish like araçá. Jorge:

When it dies, the branches rest on the other trees for a while, but, tired of the imposition, they gave up.

The sounds of Saturday morning are similar to those of any other time or day, except for the roar of gasoline-powered brush cutters. There is a great accumulation of noisy machinery in the peace of the countryside. What a pressure washer or a vacuum cleaner is to the city, brush cutters are to the countryside. Birds, dogs, leaves, and cowbells sing symphonically.

Aroldo Murá, a true-blooded journalist, was sharp when it came to matters of intellect, with no patience for errors in logic or Portuguese grammar. He was implacable on these points, right up until the very end. During his time at the newspaper Indústria & Comércio (Industry & Commerce), he would deliberately dismiss the journalistic skills of newcomers, pushing them to craft compelling stories. A high point of this strategy was his immediate hiring of an intern who wrote a good note. The intern was Gladimir Nascimento.

It became customary to call the journalist Professor Aroldo Murá. He himself, not infrequently, referred to himself as "Professor". "Don't let the Professor down", he would say when commissioning a piece for his blog. In more than 60 years of news practice, alongside his gift of self, he was admired by students and colleagues, and reserved space in his editorials for classic and comical antagonists. The man knew how to provoke, often, and many other times he corrected himself publicly.

For contributors to his own blog, among whom journalist André Nunes, a loyal and ever-present friend, stands out, he habitually complained about absolutely every text that contained explicit or subtle criticism of any public figure. And he posted the texts anyway, without a single modification, even while exclaiming, "You're going to make me lose all my advertisers!"

In the late 2010s, he joined forces with the administrator and former State Planning Secretary Dr. Belmiro Valverde, architect Manoel Coelho, journalist Michelle Thomé, photographer Felipe Pinheiro, and others, and helped to establish the João Paulo II Education Center in a vulnerable area of Araucária, in the Curitiba Metropolitan Area. The school, at the time, was an institutional provocation taken to its ultimate consequences, providing a very high level of education, full-time. The cost per student was the same as in the public school system, but with funding from US philanthropy.

A few years ago, he called a long list of journalists and invited them: "Let's interview Luiz Geraldo Mazza". He received everyone with a lavish spread, and that afternoon the inner workings of Curitiba and Paraná were laid bare. It's all recorded on video. It was confirmed that the capital truly is a small city, with experiences both noble and infamous, as befits any inhabited city.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, through the Instituto Ciência e Fé (Science and Faith Institute), he promoted a series of online lectures with representatives of various religious beliefs. There was everything from the least known or popular to the Blessed Sacrament. The respect with which the Professor treated each guest and each question is a lesson in professional ethics and human sensitivity.

Journalism in Paraná loses a sage who was also generous. A father to countless "children", he always bid them farewell with a blessing in the form of a cross. Now, it is hoped that, given the advantages of proximity, he will ask God's help for Paraná and Brazil. And that he will intercede with the Creator for the life of journalism.

At 6:44 pm this Sunday (8th), it's worth celebrating that the headlines don't carry any death tolls from the events in Brasília. The seats of the Three Powers were occupied and damaged by people whose descriptors are numerous and imprecise. From a basic political standpoint, anarchists. From a psychoanalytic perspective, primitives, or ignorant masses. In any case, no condition grants those people the noble titles of patriots or nationalists.

These ignorant masses are particularly wounded by their defeat at the ballot box, in a clear manifestation of fragility. That is, the cognitive restriction operated by forces such as Protestant religious fundamentalism and the misery of political representation culminates in this sadness: "in the past, I wasn't heard, I had a president I loved, but he lost the election despite my unrestricted support, this support cost me friendships and family relationships, I no longer have the energy to justify Bolsonaro's flight to the United States, and I don't know what to do with my time".

Given the facts about the omissions of the Federal District Security forces, the attacks against police officers and journalists at work – with video records – the calculated damage to public property is a minimal issue to deal with. I argue that breaking windows is a lesser loss than human lives.

Above all, however, the damage is moral, and prior to the concept of legislation. It is damage to the core of what identifies us as rational beings, an attack on the primacy of reason. It is serious, and its effects extend beyond Brazilian borders.

Not for Everyone

The Secretary of State for Industry, Commerce, and Services of Paraná, Ricardo Barros, defended the acts. In a live interview on CNN, he argued as follows:

"The Superior Electoral Court, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, tried to impose the credibility of the electronic voting machine. He issued a TSE resolution prohibiting criticism of the electronic voting machine. He silenced parliamentarians. He silenced several journalists who wanted to criticize. He did not convince society that the voting machine was reliable. If he had convinced society that the voting machine was reliable, and not imposed trust in the voting machines on society, we wouldn't have these people, who are Brazilians, who are there with their faces uncovered".

Challenged by the journalist interviewing him, he was embarrassed on air. I consider her attitude professionally immature, since she should have had the perspective of someone interviewing a career congressman who was the leader of the Bolsonaro government.

The governor of Paraná, Ratinho Junior, published on Twitter that he repudiates the acts.

Regarding Paraná, it is unknown whether Governor Ratinho Junior's stance of apparent neutrality, recently praised by Archbishop Dom José Antonio Peruzzo in a video, will continue to be neutral or whether he will authorize Barros' discourse.

“The purpose of education is happiness. Every path is taken so that one may arrive at happiness. We believe it’s possible to shorten that path”, states Amco CEO, Guillermo De León, to Lab Jornalismo 2030. The company's main product is a bilingual education system present in 14 countries, arriving in Brazil shortly before the pandemic.

With a lavish white booth at the Bett Brasil fair in São Paulo, Amco welcomes visitors with virtual reality glasses. The experiences showcasing the pedagogical program are autonomous and individual. Despite this, teachers, administrators, and technicians are readily available and attentive.

“One of the most striking characteristics of the Brazilian market, compared to other countries where Amco operates, is the curiosity regarding pedagogy. In any case, we are ready for these discussions”, notes the country manager for Brazil, Mekler Nunes. “What Amco is doing by presenting itself at this fair is anticipating the possibilities of bilingual learning for the Brazilian reality”.

Nunes believes that those who visit the booth “discover that Amco has the maturity, the experience, and, more than that, an educational culture of great inspiration.”

Happiness

With the slogan "Happy to learn", Amco sparks curiosity about the translation of this slogan into Portuguese. From this reporter's perspective, there is more than one possible version, such as "feliz para aprender" (happy to learn) or "feliz em aprender" (happy in learning). In any case, happiness is a central word, part of the organizational canon.

“Scientifically and academically, there are tools that measure and indicate intrapersonal and interpersonal socio-emotional tendencies quite concretely. This is complex and sophisticated; however, these studies have pointed towards competencies. We have 45 minutes [of class time] to land, to take things from the realm of ideas and bring them into practice. And our practice offers possibilities in this sense”, concludes Nunes.

Immersive Experience

The implementation manager in Brazil, Ágata Soares, reports that Amco's participation in the fair (held between May 10th and 13th at the Transamerica Expo Center) serves "to introduce ourselves. The company arrived in Brazil shortly before the pandemic, which postponed our participation in a public event”.

“Amco has a structure that enables everything from the presentation of the product to the delivery of the classroom in record time. After all, it is a model perfected over the last 25 years”.

Service

Broadly speaking, Amco provides a complete package for schools, leading them to bilingual education (with English) from elementary to high school. More information can be found at this address: falecomigo@agatasoares.com.br.

Photo: Amco's global commercial director, Daniel Kahan, the implementation manager in Brazil, Ágata Soares, and the CEO, Guillermo De León.

Theimpacts of technologies, screens, on family formation and early childhoodeducation are highlighted in the 6th International Family and EducationSeminar, right now, this Saturday (23rd). In Curitiba, the maximum allowedcapacity in the Poty Lazzarotto Auditorium of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum isfilled with participants, and there are also those following online.

Fivepresentations are expected throughout the day. The first (Angela, alreadycompleted) and the second (Ana Maria, in progress) address the pre-pandemicworld, when an unprecedented stage of digitalization was being experienced.

ForAna Maria Araujo de Venegas (Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Pontifical Universityof Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome), equipment and network connections create a newrelationship between the individual and the world, whereby a cell phone iscapable of commanding us: "find a Wi-Fi now!".

Regardingwhat we experienced before the coronavirus, "medicine challenged deathmany times. With each new discovery, we started living longer", recallsthe speaker.

Parents'Responsibility

In aninterview with Lab Jornalismo 2030, the National Secretary of the Family,Angela Gandra Martins (Ph.D. in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grandedo Sul), believes that parents must assume responsibilities regarding theirchildren's education, because they are protagonists in education. It is not,however, about hierarchical control.

AngelaGandra Martins, National Secretary of the Family:

Weare talking about a life project that children freely choose, and for whichthey have the support of their parents.

Regardingthe use of technologies and the possible imbalance in terms of time dedicatedto them, Angela catches some parents off guard.

Angela:

Whenwe talk about the problem of screens, we are not only talking about whatchildren watch, but about the preference of some parents for their cell phonesto the detriment of family interaction.

For information about thecomplete content, whether or not there are places available for today, or otherservice matters, use WhatsApp, at this link. The Seminar agenda is here.

I'm not sure I'm a progressive, because I like to fully experience everything, and I'm a religious man, for example. That is, religion as we knew it in the 80s, and from which I was formed, would have no place in the progressive future of reason. I have other conservative tendencies besides religion. Something that conservatism has brought me is an ability to see my points of view with self-criticism. I don't necessarily need to wholeheartedly embrace all the viewpoints proposed by "left-wing banners".

My main dialogue, at this moment, with conservatives has been: what are the limits? Generally speaking, I'm classified as a "left-wing journalist," although I'm only seeking coherence for social relations. Limits. What are they? Sometimes, but very frequently, I notice that conservatives (those who call themselves that) seem more like anarchists than conservatives. Why? Because a "no matter what" attitude comes into play for causes that have little to do with "keeping what works, and improving what needs to be improved".

Now in the second round, a broadcast operator, whose role is activating or deactivating channels and audio levels in a radio station, changed the station's electoral programming on his own. When discovered, he told his boss: "I put on more Bolsonaro because there was too much Lula". A donkey.

This donkey thinks he's doing what's best for Brazil, that he's promoting "the truth", "against everything and everyone." Such a breach cannot be allowed. If we are able to correct this type, we have the capacity for dialogue, to protect "freedom of expression".

The Moonshot Education Teachers' Room Journey, held this Saturday (21st) in Curitiba, is aptly named. It is a journey, a "remarkable event or circumstance". Around 30 people, from different backgrounds and cities across Brazil, attended the lectures by professors Marlon Brunetta, Paulo Tomazinho, and José Motta. The three, partners at Moonshot, have been together since the mid-2010s, when they understood that "education, sometimes, smells of mothballs". The provocative phrase is Motta's. He was the last to speak. Objectively, they deliver these contents: Jigsaw Classroom, Team Based Learning, and Design Thinking. And much is heard about "active methodologies". What is striking is that these educational technologies don't necessarily depend on software or hardware beyond an available mind and, perhaps, a piece of paper for note-taking. It has long been understood that "a classroom full of computers can be very old-fashioned", as educator and writer Luca Rischbieter reminds us.

There are real problems to be solved in the classroom. There are even enough problems to occupy the minds of educators for a lifetime. One of them is segregation. While we are used to reading news reports about the consequences of the childhood cruelties of bullying, the issue becomes more dramatic in this scenario: the inclusion of black children in schools with a history of racism. The "Moonshot boys", as I affectionately call them, are looking at this.

Engagement

And in this, education and political communication meet: in the challenge of engagement". The child may be at school, they leave home, get on the bus, and arrive at school, but their attention may not be there", explains Tomazinho. Having students "think, pair, share" is a method for them to participate in the construction of knowledge. By feeling part of this construction, the chances of knowledge retention and the creation of solutions for the real world would increase.

Physicist and Harvard professor Eric Mazur, according to the story told at the Journey, began to listen to what his students said about his content. And he realized that it wasn't what he had written in his lesson plan, which led him to change the way he worked. This professor is one of the theoretical and practical references for the boys.

Personal

As for me, I experienced a role for which I seek awareness. After pleasant and intelligent hours, we, the participants, were challenged to perform an activity x. At the end, I realized how arrogant I can be in my assumptions about "who needs this content". Something very similar happened to me while reading the Gospels. Before, I used to think: "That's right, Jesus, tell those Pharisees off!", until I understood that I am the Pharisee.

The beauty lies in the light way the Journey brings awareness.