Dances with Wolves

This movie is one of the movies that had touched my heart deeply because expresses what humans beings are and what they could become if there is selfishness. The movie is used the figure between how two different and opposite cultures can be mixed as one. Therefore, the values of love, freedom, friendship, among others are the main aspects represented in the movie. The other aspect that called my attention is the role that the wolf has in the movie because it is the way in which the two cultures started to be together. Furthermore, I believe that this is not just coincidence because there might be to explain that sometimes animals do have values that can go further than human beings, and on the other hand, humans beings fall into arrogance and selfishness just to get power, domain, and money, not caring about the people that is around, and neither the consequences that it could carry.

The other aspect that it is important to point out is how the movie present stereotypes, and how they affect people’s life to the point to death. In the movie there is stereotyping when American people wanted to colonize them in order to teach them how to leave “properly” according to their beliefs. Something similar happened with our culture; therefore, in these cases when people thing that they are better than other people or culture, they are falling also in stereotyping. As a result, I believe that we as teachers cannot fall into that we have to promote social values; tolerance, love, respect, friendship, among others, just as the movie taught.

Social Network and Education

This is the topic that all of us should be familiar with because it belongs to our students’ world. However, from my personal point of view there should be a difference between using social networks as a tool for learning, and being part of our students’ lives. I do not like much writing in social networks, but I can invite my students to write because they are used to. In other words there will not be an extra homework, but an interesting and creativity way to express their thoughts developing a second language.

Leandro did a very good micro lesson. First, he used relevant information, which considered not only the advantages of using social networks, but also the disadvantages of using it. Second, his English was very good, but he has to be careful with overusing slangs. And third, the micro lesson was well staged and organized; however, the last activity was not appropriated to assess the contents taught because there was not time to do that. Finally, I congratulate Leandro for his presentation, and I invite teachers to use social networks with their students because I guarantee you that there will be learning after all.

Healthy Food and Academic Performance

Eating healthy food is one of the difficult disciplines to apply nowadays due to the accelerated lives that most of us have. This is one of the positive aspects to consider because it improves our quality of life. Moreover, we should be aware of this because most of the time our students come to classes without breakfast and this would be a disadvantage for them to learn and stay focus.

Renato did an interesting performance and the topic election was relevant. Moreover, he is so full of life and enthusiastic to present that his personality is absolutely one of his strengths. However, he must be careful with pronunciation, spelling, and technical words. Finally, I have to congratulate Renato because beyond the negative aspects of his micro lesson he presented the topic with energy and creativity, and I believe that we need more of that in our stressful lives.

Chilean Education on Twitter

This social network is becoming very popular due to the improvements in technology. In my personal opinion, I am not so related with social networks, but they are useful anyway. Twitter is closely related with education because it is used for teachers to expose their personal experiences, creative methodologies, and new ways of learning. Moreover, it is also used as a communicator because there are twits about important and relevant news about teachers, and education in general.

Twitter apart from being used as a communicative tool could be also used as a way to teach English because our students can expose their personal opinion practicing the language. Therefore, this could be an entertaining way to learn and practice English. Students could learn how to use new words, grammar, and reason.

Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Disorder is a very close topic nowadays because most of us have seen a child hyperactive. I remember one of my students at the school where I am doing my professional practice that is always moving, jumping, and teasing. Therefore, as teachers we have to be aware of this topic and know how to deal with it.

Fernanda did a very good research; in my personal opinion, she did a very good micro lesson because she used technical words, the information was precise, and the micro lesson was well staged. However, she overused her personal notes, and read too much from the power point. Therefore, was too much teaching talking time and too little students talking, giving opinions, and etc. Finally, I congratulate Fernanda because she managed the topic very well, she monitored the class properly during the activities, and she looked for interesting and relevant information.

Educación 2020

This page is very useful because it is created to look for proposals from the different participant of education; teachers, parents, students, and anybody that want to contribute to improve the Chilean education. They fight for achieving that by 2020 every student has a better and significant education.

This page is one of the current strategies to come to agreement on this controversial topic. Therefore, I feel very proud of it, and I think we all should become part of it in order to find different proposals, to contribute with other ideas, and to get in touch with the people’s thought.

Video Games an Entertaining Way to Learn

I was not interesting with this topic because I do not know much about video games. On the other hand, considering that we as teachers have to plan and prepare the lessons from the students’ reality I agree to use video games as a tool for teaching English but I steel think that should be monitored to avoid addiction. Moreover, Juan Manuel performed a well staged micro lesson, interesting information, and entertaining activities.

First, the micro lesson was clearly staged. Second, the information covered was balance, and he not only pointed out the advantages of his thesis, but also he explained the disadvantages. And third, the activities were engaging and useful; however, it could have been even more efficient if all of us could have played because there were like ten people being passive while the other were playing video games. Finally, I ended accepting this topic as a tool for learning only when there are supervision and the possibility of considering the whole class.