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THIRTEENTH TASK

Knowledge Define with your own words what is Critical Ecoliteracy Name the environmental education’s goals. List the three types of Environmental literacy. When is expected not to be extant commercial fishery left active in the world? Tell what matrix domination is. Comprehension What consequences can you predict all these global warming can bring apart from the ones mentioned in the text. How do you associated Environmental literacy and Ecoliteracy? How do you interpret the next sentence “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds”? Why do you think environmental education is important? “We face nothing less than the unprecedented transformation and domination of the planet” How do you interpret the sentence above? Application How does the social transformations affect the global ecology? Illustrate with your own words the Bateson’s stantent that says “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecolo...
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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Gary Althen, the author of the first core reading, defines values as ideas about what is right and wrong, desirable and undesirable, and so on" (par. 1). Discuss major differences you have noticed in values and assumptions while a foreign country or community that is culturally different from where you grew up" Did anything seem "wrong" or undesirable"? Values are established in each culture by a common agreement among its members. According to Gary, it doesn't mean that all of them share the same  opinions or assumptions  of what could be bad or wrong. An example of that is the different religions that exist in each community, besides the multiple perspectives that each person have of what is bad or wrong.  In other cultures as Jewess, their philosophy is totally opposed to ours. For example, the fact that their religion does not allow men to touch a woman or greet  her shaking hands because of the concept of faithfulness to th...
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OPINION COLUMNS

1. Whose viewpoint is expressed? Lisa Fazio's vewpoint, a psycologist. 2.  What does the author want us to think? She wants to make us understand the phenomenon of Moses Illusion, and why people often let false information through. 3.What viewpoint is not expressed? Whose voice do we not hear? The viewpoint of the participants of the study and the coresearchers that conducted the study with Lisa. 4.  What is an alternative perspective of the text? An alternative perspective could be that people do not notice the wrong information in texts because they could be more focused on the most relevant facts. 5. C an you think of other questions this text responds to? How can dominant groups, manipulate thoughts and perspectives of dominated groups?
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FIRST DRAFT ESSAY

Better Level of English in Private Education        I have studied in both, public and private schools and I can say from my own experience that most of English that I knew when I got to the university was learned in private school. Students from private schools get better level of English due to the intensity and quality of English classes. In fact, most of teachers are better prepared to teach the language in private schools than in public ones. That belief could be a cliché, but I think that it is true as I have experienced it by myself.        “According to the last inform of the State of the Education (2013), just 3% of public schools teach high levels of English” (Barrantes, 2015, p.1). One of the reasons of that deficient percentage is that in private schools the intensity of English classes is higher than in public schools. In public schools students have at least four English classes weekly and each class lasts ab...
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ESSAY OUTLINE

ESSAY OUTLINE Do you think students get better English level in public or private schools? THESIS STATEMENT: Students get better English level in private than in public schools. SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH 1: In private schools the intensity of English classes is higher than in public schools. SUPPORTING PARAGRAPH 2: Many English teachers in public schools do not have the appropriated method to teach English. OPPOSING PARAGRAPH 3: Some students from public schools have a better level of English than those from private schools because they learn autonomously. CONCLUSION: The students’ level of English in public schools is insufficient compared to private schools due to the difference in teachers’ quality and intensity of English classes.
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STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING SUMMARY

HOW DO YOU THINK FRANKFURT SCHOOL THOUGHTS CAN BE APPLIED TO TODAY IN OUR OWN CULTURE? Firstly, I think that it is very difficult to find a way to apply a critical theory of thinking in education in our culture, as Frankfurt School proposes because we live in a society governed by dominant groups while subordinated groups are manipulated and controlled. Those dominant groups are the ones that build the system of education that teaches us how to obey to others or think as emancipated masses. Nevertheless, the subordinated population is stronger than dominant groups, the problem is that we ignore that. So, we as future teachers are to show the new generations the power of our culture and encourage them to revolution the organization of the society, promoting analytic and critical thinking.
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STEPHEN BROOKFIELD ON CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING SUMMARY

MICHAEL SANDEL: WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY 1.     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? The difference is that a market economy is a tool for organizing productive activity while a market society is where everything is up for sale, it is a way of life. Marketization of everything has corrupted the value of our acts. As some examples by Michael Sandel which shows that although money corrupts people’s values, they can be motivated to do things just for the results or the values they can get from it and not just for money. 2.     What sorts of arguments are offered for and against the assumed proposal of paying young children two dollars for every book they read? Some of them were in agreement with paying children for each book they read because that reward could maybe motivate them and make them to start loving reading. But others were...
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