domingo, 21 de junio de 2009

Assignment 8

The conference it will be refeirs about three themes:
1. The extraordinary evidence of human creativity present in all the people (that creativity it’s different in each person)
2. There is a place where we don’t have idea what it’s going to happen in the future. About this theme, Ken says that the education help us to constructed our future.
3. We all agree on the extraordinary capacities that children have, specially with innovation. All the kids have talent.

Considering these themes, we can say that in the education, the creativity it’s as important as literacy, for example. Both are important and must be considered in the same label.
In the conference, Ken refers to examples that he listened, which are relationated with kids that reflect his idea.
He refeirs about to be wrong, and says that if you have original ideas, the things that you do are not going to be wrong. Because being original and creative it helps people to know what to do in difficult situations. But the problem is that kids are very frightened to be wrong, so they lost their creativity skills and depends of adults. He criticizes that education it’s very systematized.
Also he refeirs that education it’s very interested on mathematics or that kind of subjects... buy what happen with dance, art or music? That subjects are not considered in all the world... but they are important too! He says that artistic proffesions are stigmatized.
The intelligence it’s diverse, dynamic and distinct.
He believes that our inly hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity. We have to rethink our point of view about our children education conforme to what we want for the hole world.

lunes, 15 de junio de 2009

Assignment 11

Today is our last session, so I’m talking about my experience of writing, specifically on this blog
My experience of writing here has been good, because I learnt to express my ideas in English on a good way. I also learnt about grammar, techniques, and all that stuffs.
Sometimes this experience was a little bit boring because the hour of the session, because we were very tired and also because many times, you are not inspired to write and all you want is to go home and forget about English. Another thing is that I think that we can make this job in home, because we invested a lot of time being in university. I feel that I wasted a lot of time doing this in university, but I agree with this technique for learning English. I repeat: it would be very good to do this job in house and have only one session of English class.
About what I have written, I enjoyed writing about “what makes me tick” because I felt that it was a more free topic, and also a enjoyed to writing about “my life in future”, because it was a moment to the imagination and also to think about my life and what expect about it. But I didn’t enjoy writing when I have to talk about “my career”, because I’m not very sure to what I think about it yet, so I couldn’t talk about that sincerely.
But apart from that, I think that this was a very good experience to get involved with English and practice it. I have improved my connectors, syntax, about “this, these, that, those” and mostly to express ideas in other language. I always expect that for these sessions, because I have heard about them in other sites and I always had a good impression about them.
Finally, one topic I would suggest is “family and friends”, because you have a good moment with them and it’s a topic that people can expand very good.

lunes, 8 de junio de 2009

Assignment 10: My ideal job

My ideal job would be a one which let me to have a bit of freedom… preferably without a strict schedule… maybe, working at home and outside too. I don’t like to work in an office. Also, is very important that if I work with other people and share our things and lifes.
I think that to being in a job with these descriptions, I will have to be very organized because of freedom. There’s nobody watching me all the time saying to me what to do or not. I think that make the difference. But I won’t like to work as a boss, because I don’t like to feel more powerfull than the others.
Also I have to be good working by groups and respecting the different opinions.
I think I will be good to this job because I’m very hiperactive and I like very much to dealing with people. I very good creating new ideas to contribute to make a nice job… and it’s better when that new ideas are made by more people than me!
I think is very difficult to found this kind of job because the most that are in offer, are relationated with offices. But jobs where you have to work by groups, are easier to found, and I dare say that the most of the jobs are working by groups.

lunes, 1 de junio de 2009

Assignment 10: What makes me tick

Today we have more freedom to write our posts, so I'm going to talk about what makes me tick.
I think it's difficult to answer this, because there exists a lot of things that moves me, like music, movies, art and different issues relationated with those that I said before.
But now, I'm going to talk about music, because I think I know more about that, than the others.
I like music since I was a child. When I was near 7 years old, I was very interested to play the guitar, so I took classes in my school and I learned very quickly... I was really in love with the instrument. During the classes, my mother decided to buy me one, so I could practise more... I learned very difficult songs, and also I started to discovered different music bands (especially, argentine rock, like Charly García).
Three years later, I left the guitar... I don't know why yet, but sometimes I'm very repentant for that, because in the case if I will still playing the guitar, I could be a very good guitarist.
But 3 years ago, y knew another instrument. It calls "cuatro venezolano", and I like it very much because it sounds different and it's a very good accompanying to different kinds of music. That was a way to started top lay the guitar again… and I’m trying to do it, but unfortunately I don’t have enough time.
Now I'm going to talk about my conection with music ban, something very important to me. And why? Because the music always help me to relax and think about things of my life. Also, it’s important because I like very much to discovered new bands. When it happens I investigated about them and I almost started to being obsessive with them.
Something that I can rescue it’s that many times, when I listen a particular song, I remember good -or bad too- moments of my life or of a movie (for example “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John, which is played in the movie “Almost Famous”).
I think music it’s very important to our lives because can inspired us and also it’s a very good companion when someone is alone. I’m very interesting in it because it’s a good way to connect people, for example in a concert: it’s a particular and very special event where people can meet and feel undescribe emotions.