Helder Touças

Lifelong Learning, Informal Education, Innovation & Creativity, Ed Tech, Cidadania crítica. Eu e os meus, great webdesign, art, parenting e elementary school.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

This is your reminder that Cleopatra lived closer in time to today than she did to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza. They are impossibly old.

More mind-blowing facts about the world's most enigmatic structures:

1. They are aligned to true north with incredible accuracy. The Great Pyramid is just 3.4 arcminutes off perfect alignment, or precision of ~1 millimeter per meter of the length of its base.

2. The Great Pyramid was the tallest building in the world for around 3,800 years, until it was surpassed by Lincoln Cathedral in the 14th century.

3. They do not contain any hieroglyphs or paintings, nor were any burial treasures or mummies found within. By contrast, the tombs at the Valley of the Kings are decorated with intricate hieroglyphic texts and artworks from floor to ceiling.

4. They were once covered in gleaming white limestone casing stones (as pictured). Some researchers also think the capstones at the top were plated with precious metals.

5. ~2.3 million stone blocks make up the Great Pyramid, averaging 2.5 tons in weight. Quarrying these with little else than copper saws, chisels and pounding stones, then transporting and lifting them into place, is the most remarkable engineering feat ever accomplished.

6. The casing stones and inner chamber blocks of the Great Pyramid were fit together with such high precision that a knife's edge cannot fit between them.

7. The Great Pyramid weighs nearly 6 million tons in total. Today, the only structures exceeding this are the Great Wall of China and the Three Gorges Dam.

8. When Napoleon visited the Great Pyramid in the late 18th century, he (correctly) calculated that it contained enough material for a 10-foot high wall around the entire perimeter of mainland France.

9. Of the thousands of hieroglyphs found across Egypt, none of them mention how the pyramids were built or how the Egyptians cut stone. In fact, there are very few Ancient Egyptian texts found which mention the pyramids at all.

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Estamos juntos🙌 ! Vamos transformar Lisboa num ecossistema único de Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida. #LCA visite https://t.co/uAWHOLFmby

[Lisboa @CamaraLisboa]

🌍 🚀 Lisboa Cidade da Aprendizagem
Conferência Internacional promove debate sobre desafios e oportunidades de aprendizagem contínua e valorização de competências em #Lisboa

Inscrições 👇
https://t.co/LyGcfQwuWS

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

🚀🚀🚀 Estamos a lançar a maior Rede de Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida de Lisboa!
Participe na I Conferência Lisboa Cidade da Aprendizagem, 11 de maio, às 09h00! 💪 https://t.co/Ufuywm2WdB

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

E se todas as oportunidades de aprendizagem, formais e não formais, estivessem visíveis e acessíveis num mapa da cidade?

Vamos debater como fazê-lo, na I Conferência Internacional Lisboa Cidade da Aprendizagem.

Tem interesse? Inscreva-se e consulte o p…https://t.co/DQ7egc3FEA

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Mal podemos esperar!
Estamos a criar um ecossistema único de Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida em conjunto com mais de 40 parceiros, incluindo a Ciência Viva, Centros de Formação, a Fundação Inatel, o El Corte Inglés, entre tantas outras organizações! 👌

Ins…https://t.co/U85gTbuOWY

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Estamos juntos!
Vamos transformar Lisboa num ecossistema único de Aprendizagem ao Longo da Vida. #LCA Lisboa Cidade da Aprendizagem | Lisbon City of Learning https://t.co/r73etNUW6o

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Hurrah 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Lisbon City of Learning is finally taking off! ✈️

[Luísa Dornellas @DornellasLuisa]

Lisboa quer ser Cidade da Aprendizagem https://t.co/ZiCgkN6dzm
#ALV #Lisboa #Formação #citiesoflearning #badgecraft

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Bom #Carnaval ! 🤣 https://t.co/m57n1CJ36w

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

What a privilege it was to share the Passaporte Competências Digitais da CMLisboa | Digital Skills Passport with such a talented group of people! 🎉👌
I’ve always been passionate about #OpenBadges and its power to enable citizens from every walk of life t…https://t.co/yW56IRDAGC

[Digital Skills Passport @ Lisbon @DigitalSkillsLX]

Interested in #microcredentials & #assessment?
Join us this Friday, feb 10, 15:00 CET or 14:00 LIS on our Live Webinar!
Sign up at https://t.co/bBChqTuDe1 👈

#educators #digital #growth #webinar #citiesoflearning #microcredentials #digitalskills @CamaraLisboa @EAEA2020

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

One of my top 2022 posts👇
#AI #InteligenciaArtificial #Bot #diary #Biography

[michelle huang @michellehuang42]

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child"

some reflections below:

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Foram 2 dias intensos de formação sobre #inclusaodigital e #cidadaniadigital 📱🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️.

É urgente acelerar a participação democrática de tod@s e romper o tecnocentrismo em Lisboa 🇵🇹 e na Catalunha 🇪🇸!

Benvingut @fundgentis! Bon treball gentis & @DigitalSkillsLX !

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Map shows the endangered and extinct languages of Europe.

[EAEA @EAEA2020]

EAEA reiterates the important role that non-formal #adultlearning and #adulteducation can fulfil in supporting #refugees, to empower them to continue their #learningpathways, but also to facilitate #socialinclusion https://t.co/EzgrdgkK6n

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Foi um prazer participar no paper Europeu EAEA sobre o papel da transformação digital para a democracia e para a sociedade que queremos. 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️📱🖥

Conheça os desafios e as oportunidades da #digitalização
no paper @EAEA2020 & @CamaraLisboa

[EAEA @EAEA2020]

Are you in need of some new year's read on #digitalisation and #democray? 💻🗳️ Find EAEA's context paper and policy recommendations here:
https://t.co/zaKT4G36iX

@DafnIkek @APCEP2014 @CamaraLisboa @AdBpolJuBildung @DIE_Bonn

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Foi uma ótima conversa sobre o papel central das competências digitais para o exercício da cidadania!

Obrigado à MILObs e à 🔈Antena1 pelo convite!

[Digital Skills Passport @ Lisbon @DigitalSkillsLX]

“Devolvemos às pessoas a oportunidade de exercerem plenamente, como toda a autonomia, a sua cidadania digital.”🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️
Oiça a entrevista completa na 📻@antena1rtp
Obrigado à @ObsMil pelo convite!

https://t.co/u9xWUzChtr
@CamaraLisboa
@eusoudigitalpt
@incode2030
#weareale

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

What an empowering session! It was great to take part at #EAEAconf from @EAEA2020 and discuss #digitalcitizenship
🙌👍
Fantástica sessão sobre #cidadaniadigital !
Obrigado pelo convite para participar na #eaeaconf da @EAEA2020

@CamaraLisboa @DigitalSkillsLX @incode2030

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Such an empowering moment! It was great to take part at #EAEAconf from @EAEA2020
@CamaraLisboa @DigitalSkillsLX @incode2030 💪

[EAEA @EAEA2020]

What competences are needed for #DigitalCitizenship? Our participants are discussing it with Chiara Palazzetti and @heldertoucas at the #EAEAconf workshop taking place now. @FORMAazione @lisboncouncil #digitalisation

[Helder Touças @heldertoucas]

Que competências permitem a #CidadaniaDigital?🤔
Entusiasmado por conversar sobre #cidadania e #transformação digital na #EAEAconf internacional @EAEA2020🙋‍♂️!

[EAEA @EAEA2020]

What competences do adults need to be digital citizens? Helder Touças from Lisbon City Council invites participants to share their views on the topic at the EAEA Annual Conference 18 Nov.
https://t.co/Wgm4KPgUlf
#EAEAconf #digitalisation #citizenship @weareALE #WeAreALE #GEMMA