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Marcelo Trivelli

Presidente de Fundación Semilla y Miembro de la Red Regional de Educación para la Ciudadanía Mundial de América Latina y el Caribe.

Put yourself in my shoes

Today, talking to two firemen while I was filling up my car with petrol, I brought up the subject of migrants and they both said that they were the country’s biggest problem, and one of them referred to migrants with…

The brain develops in social interaction

For now, and surely for a long time to come, social interaction will be irreplaceable. If robotics and artificial intelligence make us think it might be possible, the human brain is so complex that we are still far from it.…

Learning through trial and error

On 20 April 2023, SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever built. The Starship space vehicle, designed to take people to Mars in the future, took off and after four minutes exploded without a crew on board. The great aerospace challenge…

Calm down, calm down, don’t let’s not get carried away

In difficult situations, humour is a good medicine that helps to reflect and put things in the right perspective. The popular Mexican series, El Chapulín Colorado, in which the superhero plays a grasshopper with humour and childlike innocence. Calma, calma,…

Learning to ask, the challenge of AI

Talking today with a grandmother who has observed education for the last 60 years, first as a pupil, then as a mother and now as a grandmother, she was telling me that what remains unchanged is the definition of a…

The dream of a happy school

The International Day of Happiness was celebrated on 20 March. It was established by the UN (United Nations) following a proposal by the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has made the happiness of its population one of its political objectives. The…

Feminist Allies

Every year on the eve of the commemoration of International Women’s Day, 8M, the role of men in the feminist and gender equality cause is discussed. The ever-present question is: Can a man be a feminist? The general dilemma arises…

A new school year begins

March arrives and a new school year begins. Many families are relieved to return to their work and domestic routines as their children start school, but it is always accompanied by the stress of the economic demands placed on them…

Generation gap and the Viña del Mar Festival 2023

The day after the Viña del Mar 2023 Festival Gala, christened “Zero Night”, I had the opportunity to be in conversation with other people of my generation. Listening to comments such as: “it was an indecency”, “they don’t know what…

Goebbels is present in the social networks

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi hierarch in charge of the regime’s propaganda, systematised and made public his technique, which he used to achieve one of his political objectives: to establish Aryan supremacy by carrying out an ethnic cleansing that exterminated more…

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