Argumentative Essay

Technofilics Vs Technofobies

As we know technofilics are people mostly kids or boys (teenagers) that are addicted to any apparatus for instance: Cellphones, Computers, Video Games. In my opinion this term "Technofilic" could be considered as an illness because it becomes addictive in the same way if we consume any drug or even alcohol. Technology must be as a helpful tool in our lives but we do not have to abuse of them and their advantages.

Technofobies is the opposite term of Technolics, technofilics are people who rejects technology at all this kind of people think that technology is useles for our lives. As i said before technology must be seen as an useful tool but we have to avoid the excess of use.

Easter eggs for windows

It was so difficult for me to understand what it is, but the definition i got from Easter Eggs for windows is that it is hidden material in pages or even programs that can help to benefit the user hiddingor saving own information. this could be a great idea if you want to save information in any part of the internet.CONFUSING RIGHT!

Aphasia and dislexia

Aphasia is an impairment of language ability. This class of language disorder ranges from having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak, read, or write. This ilness could difficult the normal development of a child because this illness damage specially kinds beacuase is developed since the birth of the kid. 

DIslexia is the difficulty of reading and for this reason it is imposible to understand very well texts. My opinion is that Aphasia has a higher grade of damage in a kid because not only is difficulties in reading also it damages the capacity of speak and write and the treatment for this illness is so hard to apply and last years treatening.

Interview

School System Report

What is the reality of the school? What is going on with the system? What could be a potential solution to our system?

Well as everyone knows the education of our country is governed by an entity called MEP (Ministry of Public Education) a definition I found in the internet, I think it is not very exact definition of this institution it says: The Ministry of Public Education is an executive branch agency of the Republic of Costa Rica in charge of ensuring the maintenance of a high quality education across the country. however, I think that in our country we have not found a degree of academic excellence, because we are facing social problems that affect the area of education. Also, the education system is made up in a bad way because there is disorganization and we have achieved few objectives in education. I think, some of our problems in education are caused because there are difficulties and constraints faced by educators, teachers have to teach in very difficult conditions, with few resources and very large groups, educators work is exhausting, educators have little freedom to mold their classes to the needs of their students and the region where they work. These difficulties have, to teach in our country is a bit difficult in addition to other problems in the design of the curriculum in our country, this disadvantage has caused: the education system fails, it fails because our children and teenagers do not learn important values​​, the  boy gives the current data and knowledge but not teaching to think, in this country the boys studying to pass exams also, today's education does not prepare young people to work and finally the Costa Rican education does not prepare well in such important areas as reading, writing and basic mathematics. These problems have made ​​our education becomes inefficient and can not progress in thearea of teaching. however we have achieved some challenges but with great difficulty education has been the computer and Internet access in schools, the authorities talk a lot of effort made by the country in education, but does not invest enough in that area, a serious problem of education is that many teens drop out before finishing high school. Also Students have many weaknesses by teachers because:

1-educators spend much time at conferences.
2-Most educators are poorly prepared to offer a quality education.
3-Educators have many benefits, including long vacation, retire young and better pension.
4-One of the main problems of the Costa Rican education is that educators do not have enough properly trained.

Another weakness of our education is the deterioration in the relationship between parents,educators and students:
1-The parents have moved many of its responsibilities to teachers
2-educators no effort to do their job.
3-The teaching profession has lost prestige.
4-The teachers have less and less authority over the students.

Changing the subject of weaknesses and problems, I'll provide a list of three aspects to be taken into account to improve education in our country. Taking into account these threecould try to improve these areas to provide a potential solution to our education.

I think the first weakness of our education system is, how badly was designed the curriculum, and i think that our education is mostly designed for memorizing and not learning, it affects and blocks, the creative ability of many students also, as it is designed to require all students to strive in the same way becuase everybody are teaching the same thing. that does not allow other students with higher cognitive abilities do not developtheir strengths or are not able to think beyond. 

the second point, I think a weakness, is caused by the mismanagement of money from the state, this makes the area of education under-investment. And if the money reaches the hands of the MEP, this entity does not give proper administration to the money.

And finally, the third point is related to the second and is due to lack of capital in our country, as everyone knows the economic crisis is almost always present and we can not escape it, for this reason we have many social problems. I think we can improve the area of money management and curriculum design. Improving these two areas, which are the areas that are possible to improve, we may potentially improve our education and perhaps reaching a decent level of education in our country.

Well, finally, i will talk about my observation of the class. In my observation of class, I realized that the teacher had a decent level of English and also he had experience to apply and control his class well. he was an excellent person with me but i think that the problem is not him, the problem is like i said before the MEP´s curriculum because is not well structured at all, it has some benefits but it has a lot of bad things as well. I thing that the problem mostly is not the English professors, there is a big part of professors are well equiped talking about knowledge but the things they teach and how they teach is not well but we have to follow the MEP´s curriculum and it has to change.

Website Evaluation Report

http://www.manythings.org/ )Grammar practice site)
this website I chose is very important and very useful for students who want to learngrammar because it has exercises pronouns, presposiciones, articles, verbs, phrasal verbs, conjugations of verbs, comparisons and more. Therefore this website I like. This website apart from having hundreds of grammar practice, also has materials to asess ,testing exercises this could be used in a class to assess if the students are learning or not.
This page could be used by students of all levels because it has all kind of practices.

http://www.soundsofenglish.org (Pronouciation Site)
When I saw this site I was surprised and pleased me much because it is a great placewhere students may be able to develop their knowledge of pronunciation, this web site we can find an endless number of exercises and explanations of how to pronounce different sounds in English, plus also that each sound has its phonetic representation, this site maybe helpful if applied to a class. this website can be used with beginners.

http://eslus.com (Reading skills site)
As we can see this site is selected as the site of reading skills, because it has many stories and texts, read verification can be very helpful for students. may use this site with our students giving them tasks such as sending them to read some text on the page and thendiscuss what they read in class. This site has all kinds of classifications could be used byany student at any level.

http://www.elllo.org (Listening skils web site)
This website about listening is very effective and useful because it has hundreds ofpractices listening on: cultutras, different countries, friends, travel, holidays and so on. I like this site because it not only brings listenings also has practical as a check on what we haveheard. This site could be used by any teacher who wants to increase listening skills of their students and may be used with students of any level because there are practices forbeginners to advanced students.


http://esl.about.com (Vocabulary building exercises)
on this site we can find a number of activities that can enrich our vocabulary. practices can be found on topics such as: meals, travel, talking to strangers, giving personal information, giving directions, sports, occupations, and more. Could be used in class at any levelbecause this web site gives us the freedom to choose what level we want and practices thatwe issue practices. it could teach us much about vocabulary and also could increase our writing and comprehension.

Communicative approach

Communicative language teaching makes use of real-life situations that necessitate communication. The teacher sets up a situation that students are likely to encounter in real life. Unlike the audiolingual method of language teaching, which relies on repetition and drills, the communicative approach can leave students in suspense as to the outcome of a class exercise, which will vary according to their reactions and responses. The real-life simulations change from day to day. Students motivation to learn comes from their desire to communicate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics.

This Method could be the most direct method to envolved our students with our learning but not also to envolved them to learn what we want to teach, also is the easiest way to teach the method of repetition, i mean they can see how you are talking and they are going to imitate our speak by looking minutely what we said . A key to be succesful with communicative approach is to talk about interesting things this can get or catch the attention of your audience in our case as future teachers of our students.

Curriculum Theory and Practice

The curriculum model has been being changed for years, and what I understood from the reading the curriculum emerged in years of ancient Greece. A curriculum usually does not show the importance of the themes or the order to be considered is more influenced by the content, it is more important and the education is the way that we use to transmitte effectevely all the curriculum design. Nowadays is assumed that the models of curriculum are given effectively, Objectives are set, a plan drawn up, then applied, and the outcomes measured but in the late 1980s and the 1990s many of the debates about the National Curriculum for schools did not so much concern how the curriculum was thought about as to what its objectives and content might be, this ideal was  a revolutionary step for people related with schools and plan were concerned about what they were triyng to get in their schools. Ralph W Tyler planned some different questions about what the school needed to follow to find how to set the curriculum 1. What educational purposes should the school seek to attain?
2. What educational experiences can be provided that are likely to attain these purposes?
3. How can these educational experiences be effectively organized?
4. How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained? 
With this questions this Tyler was trying to look for an excelent curriculum desing starting from some school needs and also focus on the student. A diagnosis is always required wherever you are trying to design or create a space for the curriculum because we started from diagnosis. for example you need to find the needs of the school, if they have the sufficient resources needed for the model of your curriculum, or if the curriculum is within the reach its resources, not only, the search should focus on the needs but also in the formulation of objectives, content selection, content organization, selection of learning experiences, Determination of what to evaluate and of the ways and means of doing it.