Observatory of Educational Innovation

Reading Time: 2 minutes Durante el CIIE, los exfuncionarios analizaron las desigualdades educativas que se exacerbaron durante la crisis por COVID-19. ¿Cómo será la escuela cuando regresen todos los alumnos a las aulas? Exministros de América Latina piden que no se vuelva a la “vieja normalidad”.

Reading Time: 5 minutes What kind of world would we have if humans only performed perfect tasks but did not listen to each other? And what impact would it have if we learned to consciously feel and process everything that happens around us and understand how it affects us? An exceptional professional would mark the difference, someone who stands out for their ability to understand, connect, and act in line with the criteria of their environment.

Reading Time: 8 minutes Yesterday I saw two videos that left me perplexed. In the first, an elderly Catholic monk spoke about guilt and forgiveness. His presence and voice were moving, and what he said convinced me. From his follower count, I knew he was a true influencer. Digging a little deeper into him, I came across a video by another Catholic influencer who explained something that ended up shaking me: that the old monk is a character created with artificial intelligence.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Academic integrity is a key issue in education, as it fosters the development of ethical values and behaviors, both personally and professionally. As a teacher, one of the many tasks in the classroom is to promote integrity, ethics, and values. However, there are many challenges to ensuring educational quality because academic dishonesty is just a prompt and click away.

Reading Time: 3 minutes During Pride month, let’s remember the events that marked June 28 as a benchmark of struggle for the LGBTIQA+ community, a catalyst for a group identity driven by the conviction that other worlds are possible and by the organization that would give strength and life to rights that would materialize later. June has become a month of remembering and celebration. After decades of organizing and resistance, many of the gains in awareness began to materialize in the 1990s.

Reading Time: 6 minutes In education, it is very common to use taxonomies to organize types of knowledge and thus define clear objectives, structure classes and activities, and design evaluations. The most popular of these is Bloom’s taxonomy, a classic model developed in the 1950s that organizes cognitive development into six levels of complexity.

Reading Time: 8 minutes In memory of José Alfredo Jiménez*, Mexican composer. Years ago, I participated in an educational project for the prevention and treatment of serious addictions, such as opioid use. Thanks to that experience, I can say, with certainty, that one of the main problems of those who suffer from substance use disorders is the way we treat them.

Reading Time: 6 minutes More than mere information, data can be timeless assets: their historical relevance over time makes them an ongoing reference and an essential starting point for future research. Moreover, student data enable precise guidance for higher education policies and support various analyses that improve the educational process. The Data Hub of the Institute for the Future of Education of Tecnológico de Monterrey operates under this principle.

Reading Time: 8 minutes Previously, in the article The Environmental Cost of AI, we explored the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, particularly its energy consumption, carbon footprint, and the types of emissions it generates. In this article, we investigate the water footprint of AI and its repercussions for the environment and the communities where the data center complexes are located.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Personalized learning was one of Tecnológico de Monterrey’s three strategic initiatives in 2025, alongside the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-quality Digital Education. So states the 2025 Educational Innovation Report, which notes that more than 64 thousand students and 1,285 teachers across all educational levels of the Institution participated in these educational innovations.