STEMk12dialogue: January 2015

Friday, 30 January 2015

Cash machines and activities on Thursday afternoon / evening

Dear all,

You might find useful to know that you can pay the taxi at the airport terminal with credit card. Also, there are several cash machines located at the different airport terminals. You may be arriving at terminal A or B, depending on which airline you are traveling with, and in both terminals you will find these services.

Also, you will find banks and cash machines located in the shopping centre where the hotel is located. See www.paseotec.com and https://www.facebook.com/PaseoTec.mty .

On Thursday afternoon we are planning a sightseeing of Fundidora Park ( see http://www.parquefundidora.org/ ). Weather permitting, we will take a boat to go through Santa Lucía canal or we will go to the science museum at Horno3 ( see http://www.horno3.org/ ). These are very interesting places to visit, and are part of the main attractions of Monterrey. Dinner will take place also at Fundidora Park.

So, Thursday will be a long day, having an early start, visiting schools, returning to campus, and then spending the afternoon / evening at Fundidora Park. Please ensure bringing your vitamins for extra energy during the week ;–) We are sure it will be a very nice experience for everybody.

Warm regards,

Manuel and Catherine

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Final workshop agenda

Please click on the following link to download the final version of the agenda: Final agenda

Practical information before and during your stay in Monterrey

You can download a PDF version of this information here: Click

Security

The hotel is located just next to the campus and there are security guards at the entrance to the campus. Security will be given the names of participants. Generally, this is a very safe area. The hotel is located within a shopping centre.

Hotel

Hotel Fiesta Inn Tecnológico
Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2411, Col. Roma, 64700 Monterrey, NL
Tel. 81 1877 0200

http://www.fiestainn.com/es/mx-monterrey/hotel-monterrey-tecnologico

Important: Accommodation is paid in advance by the workshop. We will not pay extra charges such as phone calls, alcohol, other meals, and accompanying persons. Please ask Sandra Gudiño about the fees for accompanying persons.

Voltage and frequency

• Power plug adapter needed: Yes
• Power sockets: type A / B
• Voltage: 127 V
• Frequency: 60 Hz
• At 127V, Mexico has a lower voltage than the UK (230 V). The frequency of 60Hz differs also from the UK(50 Hz). You can not use your electrical appliances without a power converter. Laptops, tablets, cameras, smartphones, electric toothbrushes, etc, usually can be used in Mexico, as in most other countries of the world.
• Look for the following statement on the charger: 'INPUT: 100-240V, 50/60 Hz'.

Power plugs and sockets

In Mexico the power sockets used are of type A / B. For power sockets of type A / B you need a power plug adapter.

Airport Information

There are two help and information desks at the airport: one is located in National Arrivals and the other in International Arrivals.
Website: http://www.oma.aero/es/aeropuertos/monterrey/
Transfer between terminals:
Free minibus shuttles operate between the three terminals from 0500-0000.
Taxi: Several taxi companies provide services to/from the airport, you may buy the ticket there just leaving the claim luggage place (journey time: 30 minutes; fares around 20 sterling pounds [300 pesos]). Rates are based on a zone system, and also depend the kind of vehicle and number of passengers.

Important: We will refund the fare from airport to hotel Fiesta Inn. In order to get the refund, you have to give us the official receipt you get after buying it at the airport terminal. At the end of the workshop we will also refund taxis from hotel Fiesta Inn to the airport. In order to do this you will need to send us a scanned copy of your receipt or a digital official receipt by mail to Sandra Gudiño.

City transportation

Taxis are the best way to get around Monterrey. They are reasonably cheap and are usually never more than 5-8 sterling pounds to get around the city (100 – 150 pesos). If you don’t speak Spanish try and write down the address where you are going because the driver probably wont speak English. Most places (Hotels & Restaurants) will call a taxi for you if you ask.This is the safest way to get them.

Please do not take taxis directly on the street.

Taxis companies and telephones:

http://www.oma.aero/es/aeropuertos/monterrey/pasajeros/servicios/taxis.htm

Uber is also available in Monterrey. See

https://www.uber.com/es/cities/monterrey

Important: We will refund the fare of up to 120 pesos per participant or group of participants (please share taxis), for the taxis used on Wednesday 11 and Friday 13, providing the official receipt provided by taxi driver or Uber receipt.

Dinners on Wednesday 11 and Friday 13

Important: We will refund the cost of these dinners with an amount of up to 200 pesos per person. Alcohol will not be reimbursed. You will need to provide an official receipt (printed or digital).

Other meals before 9th February and after 13th February within your itinerary

Important: We will refund the cost of these meals with an amount of up to 200 pesos per person per day. Alcohol will not be reimbursed. You will need to provide an official receipt (printed or digital).

VERY IMPORTANT:

In Mexico, you will need to provide the following details to ask for an official receipt (digital or printed):

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Calle del Puente # 222
Col. Ejidos de Huipulco
14380 Tlalpan, México D. F., México
RFC: ITE430714KI0

(please note that in the previous line, the first letter after RFC: is “i”, the last number is zero, and the letter before the zero is “i” – apologies for these details part of the Mexican fiscal bureaucracy – without the correct details, we cannot reimburse receipts)

Thursday, 22 January 2015

Summaries of keynotes to be presented at the workshop

[in alphabetical order]

Dialogism: sequentiality, positioning, plurality, and historicity in the analysis of educational practice - Click here
Dr Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas
Tecnológico de Monterrey, MX

Public school as learning communities: Exploring how teachers learn collaboratively - Click here
Dr Manuel Flores Fahara
Tecnológico de Monterrey, MX
Dr Guadalupe Rodríguez Bulnes
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, MX

Analysing classroom dialogue across cultural contexts and developing dialogic teaching supported by interactive technology - Click here
Dr Sara Hennessy
University of Cambridge, UK
 
A sociocultural model to promote children's literacy practices - Click here
Dr Rebeca Mejía-Arauz
ITESO University, MX

STEM Education in a globalised world: complexities and contradictions - Click here
Dr Catherine Montgomery
University of Hull, UK

Dialogue as an end of education as well as a means of education - Click here
Prof Rupert Wegerif
University of Exeter, UK

Accepted participants

Name	Institution
Dr Rupert Higham	University of Cambridge
Dr Eliud Quintero Rodríguez	Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr Julieta Tamayo Garza	Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Dr Cristina G. Reynaga-Peña	CINVESTAV Monterrey
Dr Lorenza Ruiz Saldaña	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Dr Leonardo D. Glasserman Morales	CRFDIES Hermosillo
Dr Juan Sánchez García	IIIEPE Monterrey
Roy Alonso Terrazas Marín	Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr Armando Kutugata Estrada	UANL / Ibero Monterrey
Sally Eaves	Aston / University of Edinburgh
Dr Miriam M. Micalco Méndez	Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
Dr N. Patricia Salinas Martínez	Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr Tatjana Dragovic	University of Cambridge
Dr Jose David Zaldívar Rojas	CRFDIES Hermosillo
Dr Josef Ploner	University of Hull
Dr Ma. Cristina Moreno Gutiérrez	Cabildo del Municipio de San Pedro
Dr Max Hope	University of Hull
Dr Elvia Gpe. Castro Félix	ITESO Guadalajara
Yolima Del Carmen Olvera León	Universidad Intercultural de Quintana Roo
Dr Sally Hancock	University of York
John Richard Davies	University of Hull
Rossana Barros	University of Oxford
Dr Andri Christodoulou	University of Southampton
David Garrett	Loughborough University
Yamuna Bagiya	Coventry University
Dr Will Curtis	Warwick University
Sandra Gudiño	Tecnológico de Monterrey
Dr Paraic Treacy	University of Derby
Dr Stephanie Daza	Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Judith Kleine Staarman	University of Exeter
Dr Aksel Ersoy	University of Bristol

Record Keeper and Media Management

Adrián Lozano CINVESTAV Monterrey

Please send summary - deadline: 23rd January - and other news for the workshop

From: Anna Hodgson
Sent: 15 January 2015 14:43
Cc: Catherine Montgomery (C.Montgomery@hull.ac.uk); Juan Manuel Fernández Cárdenas (j.m.fernandez@tecvirtual.mx); Sandra Gudiño (sandra_gudino@hotmail.com)
Subject: FW: email to BC Mexico participants

Message sent on behalf of Dr Catherine Montgomery, University of Hull and Dr Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Dear all,

We are delighted that you will be joining us on the British Council Researcher Links: Educational Dialogue and transformative learning in STEM subjects in Mexico and the UK. We hope that your travel plans are underway and that you are all looking forward to the week which we believe will be stimulating, fruitful and enjoyable! We have a very impressive group of 15 Mexico-based researchers and 15 UK-based researchers coming together with two UK-based mentors/senior researchers and three Mexico-based mentors/senior researchers.

On the Mexican side our mentors are Dr Rebeca Mejia Aruaz (ITESO), Dr Manuel Flores (Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Dr Lupita Rodriguez (UANL). Our UK mentors are Dr Sara Hennesy from the University of Cambridge and Professor Rupert Wegerif from Exeter University. Dr Manuel Fernandez and I are the workshop coordinators and will also act as mentors/senior researchers on the project.

We would like to begin to get to know you and for you to know each other a little in advance of the week’s workshop. To this end we are going to begin by asking you to write a brief 500 word summary of your research interests and the way that you see your research relating to the focus of the workshop. You could include three or four key references so that we can see where your work is located in the field. In addition to this we would like to set up an online group so that you can upload a profile and interact in advance of the workshop. We intend to achieve the online group using a combination of Ning and ResearchGate. More on this later!

In the meantime we would like you to send us your 500 word summaries by Friday 23 January at the latest. Please send these to Anna Hodgson our project administrator (A.S.Hodgson@hull.ac.uk ).

We will be back in touch very soon with some more information about the programme for the week. In the meantime if you have any questions about travel or accommodation please get in touch with Anna Hodgson or Sandra Gudiño sandra_gudino@hotmail.com

With best wishes

Catherine and Manuel

Travel arrangements for accepted participants in this workshop

Dear All,

Please find below further information relating to the travel arrangements for the British Council funded Educational dialogue and transformative learning in STEM subjects workshop on 9^th – 13^th February 2015. Please read the information below carefully.

Flights

If you have not done so already please ensure that you book your flights as soon as possible. UK Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements. Participants should contact the University of Hull’s travel agent Good Travel Management - http://www.good-travel.co.uk/ - to make arrangements. Alternatively, participants can book flights themselves and claim reasonable costs back. For participants who choose to book their own flights and claim the cost back, the necessary expenditure form is attached to this email and should be completed and returned to Anna Hodgson as soon as possible – A.S.Hodgson@hull.ac.uk. Please note that only economic fares (not first class) will be reimbursed.

Travel Insurance

Participants are required to be covered by their our institutions travel insurance. Please contact the institution that you work for to arrange travel insurance.

Visas

A visa is not required for entry into Mexico for participants who hold a passport from the UK. Visa Exemption will be given for a stay of up to 180 days providing the traveller:

 Holds a passport valid at least six months on entry with one blank visa page

 Holds proof of sufficient funds

 Holds proof of onward/return airline tickets

 Holds documents showing proof of purpose of trip

 Holds all documents required for the next destination

 Confirms with their airline that boarding will be permitted without a visa as these conditions are subject to change

For participants who hold non-UK passports please check visa requirements with the relevant Embassy.

A visa is required, however, for participants entering the United States of America for connecting flights. If you are travelling via America you will require a visa waiver (VWP) which can be applied for online through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). Please check eligibility and apply for VWP at http://london.usembassy.gov/niv/vwp.html. Please note that the American government requires registration at least 72 hours before departure but I would suggest that you do this as soon as possible.

The visa application may incur a small cost (less than £20). The cost of the visa can be claimed back using the attached expense form. Please send completed expense forms to A.S.Hodgson@hull.ac.uk

For further guidance on visa please visit http://london.usembassy.gov/visas.html

Accommodation

Accommodation and reasonable subsistence is included for all participants. UK participants should send Sandra Gudiño their flight details and itinerary as soon as possible please. This is so that hotel rooms can be confirmed. Participants should not contact the hotel individually. Just for your information, the hotel will be booking is Fiesta Inn Tecnológico ( http://www.fiestainn.com/es/mx-monterrey/hotel-monterrey-tecnologico)

Once your travel arrangements are confirmed please send the details to myself (A.S.Hodgson@hull.ac.uk) and Sandra Gudiño (sandra_gudino@hotmail.com).

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Anna