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.
domingo, 21 de junio de 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
martes, 26 de mayo de 2009
Blog Session 9: My favourite subject
I like it because we learnt about anthropological theory and the differents postures for it. There exists many reflections about the discipline and I like that because you can reflectionate about it too and make your own theories and ideas.
Also, the classes are very entertaining, mostly because the teacher is very apationated to teach us and resolved all our doubts, and also give us time to comment the class with our partners.
This semester we have learnt about techniques to investigate, how work the ahthropologists and finally, we have learnt theories, especially from Bronislaw Malinowsky and Clifford Geertz.
Something that it's very important too, is that with my classmates started to understand how to read an anthropological texts, because we were very accustomed in school to read only literature, and at the beggining of the year, we were very troubled with that. But now I can say that we don't have that problem!
lunes, 11 de mayo de 2009
Assignment 7: My life in the future
Today I'm going to talk about my life in the next 5 years.
I think I will be finishing my career, acording to the plans, because maybe I will be backward. Maybe, I’ll be thinking about taking an international master… It could depends of the money I think, and also if there’s a scholarship.
Regarding with myself, independent of my professional life, I hope I travel a lot around the world and visit a lot of different places in different continents and countries… and I hope too, that these will be with my friends, because we had spend a lot of time together and we have live very important moments... so I want to continue with that.
I wont be married and I hope I don't have children... I'm not interested right now to have children in the next 5 years.
Also, I wish that I will have my own house -maybe with a friend or my couple- in a nice place, with all my stuff that are difficult to have now.
I’d like to be a great and interesting person, who has a entertaining life.
lunes, 4 de mayo de 2009
Assignment 6: "The best in your area"
Now I'm going to talk about the best in my field, based on my opinion.
I think is Pierre Clastres, a french anthropologist and ethnologist.
He has made a lot of ethnographic studies etnies in Southamerica, where we can distinguish the guayaquíes, the guaraníes and the yanomami.
He focuses on studying about the structure and politics of war activity and the expand logic relationated with social division and accumulation of power.
His mosrt popular publications are "Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians", "Society Against the State", "French Marxists and their Anthropology", "Archeology of Violence", and more.
I like him because he was interested on southamerican etnies, and I think that it's striking because he was french, and if he would like, he could study about freanch etnies, but he didn't.
I like him too, because their ethnographic essay are fun and you can get involved with them.
I think he is the best because he made their studies in a meticulous way, and that make serious the study.
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