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Questions Knowledge Competence Ø   Who are The Enemies of Nature, according to Joel Kovel? Ø   Name what are the damages that Giants biomass nets are causing? Ø   What is the purpose of popular education? Ø   List the different types of literacy according to Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers effectively Ø   How much have been increasing the human population? Comprehension competence Ø   Describe how the modern environmental movement has helped to transformation? Ø   What did you interpret about poverty? Describe this issue. Ø   Summarize what is Environmental Education. Ø   Differentiate the methodology used in the “Zoo School” and that one that is use in a regular school. Ø   What do you understand about Neoliberalism? Analysis Competence Ø   Gregory Batenson stated that the basic ecological unit of survival is “organism plus environment.” How do you explain that relation? Ø   Explain, how the...

Santiago’s question: As Colombia is looking forward to be a bilingual country, Should public schools increase the number of hours of English in school as private schools do since second graders?  THE ISSUE OF DEALING WITH TIME One of the main issues which teachers have to deal is to manage in short English class’s time what the Ministry of National Education (MNE) demands. The MNE has stipulated some special achievements for every grade, as well as, they has demanded that by the time when students get graduate, they have to be able to speak in English, or at least, having reach a B1 level in English (according to the Common European Framework of reference for languages: learning, teaching, assessment, it is an intermediate level).   Nevertheless, most of the students from high school have a poor English proficiency, most of the time because teachers did not cover all what they were needing to teach, because of the low hourly intensity.   There is not is no...

Santiago’s question: As Colombia is looking forward to be a bilingual country, Should public schools increase the number of hours of English in school as private schools do since second graders?  OUTLINE Thesis:   One of the main issues which teachers have to deal is to manage in short English class’s time what the Ministry of National Education (MNE) demands. Supporting arguments: There is not enough time for doing a real cover for learning a language.  Short time class doesn’t let teachers to carry on long activities. Most of the task are based on vocabulary and grammar and not on producing the language. Teacher tend to be dependent on students’ book. Opposing arguments: Teacher methodologies can deal with this problem Conclusion:   If MNE wants bilingual people it is important to make a change on curriculums demanding more quantity of English class for making students realized the real importance that English and being bilingual have. ...

REFLECTION  How does Michael Sandel support the thesis that "over the past three decades we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society?" He defined a market economy as “a tool, a valuable and effective tool for organizing productive activity”. Its means having a balance economy. But a Market society  as Sandel said “it’s a way of life where market values and market thinking reach in two spheres of life previously governed by other values” It means that everything it is a society where just about everything is up for sale, everybody wants to buy everything. What sorts of arguments are offered for and against the assumed proposal of paying young children two dollars for every book they read? Against: The first one is that students just for getting the money will read “stupid books”, they will read bad books which are not going to help them. Another important one, and for me, the strongest one, was about d eveloping passion and love...

On this video Stephen said too much interesting things, he talked about how he has developed Critical and creative thinking on his students. There were some aspects I found interesting about his teaching practice. He said that his teaching practice was affected for his role as a child student. He said that  beeing a bad student helped him to understand the role of the teacher he wanted to be, because he wanted a teacher in who believe, someone closer, that’s why he tries to be a reliable teacher for his students. About critical thinking he said that he is aware of the assumptions that frame the way he thinks, and how he takes life decisions. “Critical thinking is to prepare you to take more informed actions”. Moreover, he states that someone who thinks creatively is able to view ideas and practices from multiple viewpoints. Something interesting was how he said that he treat his depression, how at the beginning he had a narrow mind, he used to think that if he used antidepressa...

TASK NUMBER 5 Barriers that I consider might be affecting my critical thinking abilities: Reluctance to criticise those with more expertice, affective reasons, and mistaking information for understanding. I think that trying to manage these barriers could be hardworking. Firstly, because they are related with my personality patrons. There is affective reasons, the first one, requires too much security, and there is a lack of that on me. The following one, is too much hard, because when i don't like someone, I don't like the things that person does. It means to leave hatred away. And that is very hard.