CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING

A. Knowledge : According to Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins what is a matrix domination? Collect the three types of Environmental literacy  Describe the environmental education’s goals Define Critical ecoliteracy What event happened on June 29,2000? B. Comprehension: The anthropologist Gregory Bateson pointed out that the code for understanding the basic ecological unit of survival is “organism plus environment.” What is the main relationship between organism plus environment? Is environmental literacy the same as ecoliteracy? Bateson said: "There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds." What does Bateson mean? Why environmental education is important? During the last forty years, the consumption of trees for paper products has caused that approximately 90% of the main species of fish in the oceans of the world have disappeared. What other consequences has it produced? C.    Application: 1.Accord...

TWELFTH TASK Classrooms a small society there          The classroom is a small society where you as the teacher can found in the classroom different types of students, different types of style of lives where they have to learn in the same Classroom. We can change the thinking of our students and know them that all are equal, all have the same opportunities. First, the discrimination does that bullying is in the Classroom. When you are discrimination, you start doing bullying to your Classmates. In many times, the students have almost the same ideas of their parents then they follow these ideas.For example; Some families are racist then when their child have a classmate who is the different skin of her/his then they start with some comments about that or say things offensives. Second, Each student has their bad, problems, many cases their classmates are inhuman and they take it as a joke. In the school, ...

TENTH TASK the great political, economic, social and cultural movements have affected education, so much that it limits students and teachers when it comes to teaching. The word defend we know but do not apply, in reality happens to most of us, we do not defend our own, we do not demand quality and good education in the case of public schools where we work or study and in our university. All aspects of individual possessive society have not anything beyond his or self-interest because that has taught us. Then there comes for us as future teachers and Henry Giroux asks us how are we teaching? In what conditions are we teaching? and what purpose are we going to achieve? with these questions is where we as future teachers question ourselves where we are going, how we can change the future of our students, how we can teach them to be critical of different aspects of their lives, how to teach them that privatizing the public is not a solution, and that seeking equality for a community i...

Draft The teaching of English in a different way For many years teachers have wanted to get improve the education. Each year they look methods in which their students can learn successfully. Nowadays, the use of ICT ( Information and Communication Technology) has helped in student learning, it has been a tool in their homework and studies. At the same time, the ICTs has helped the education to move forward because it is a  material support in the classroom. The ICTs can be good or bad in the classroom. It all depends on the way you teach English. First, the ICTs can be good or bad in the classroom. It all depends on the way you teach English. For a long time, in Colombia he has had a low level in English, students have not had enough motivation to learn English as necessary in their life. For that reason, it is good to implement interactive learning techniques where students feel interested in the classes. They can learn more through a video, a pla...

Outline- Could the use of ICTs improve the English learning process in Colombia?, why? Thesis: The ICTs can be good or bad in the classroom. It all depends on the way you teach English. Support arguments: If you know how to use of technologies, you could make them learn in an interesting and fun way. You can teach differently by changing the methodology and instructing them to the proper the good use of technologies. Opposing arguments: -They can be distracted by being on a computer or on a cell phone doing other things than studying. Conclusions: It depends on you as you encourage your students how the use of technologies can be of great helpful at the time of learning another language .

  What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of  Markets by Michael Sandel 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 supports it by saying that today we are no longer a market economy, but a market society, what does that mean? means that we no longer use an effective tool to organize market economies, but that we become a world where the whole place is selling and has become our way of life. What sorts of arguments are offered for and against the assumed proposal of paying young children two dollars for every book they read? he is against paying a child because reading does not need to have that kind of incentive to do things, that develops with the good habits of society such as family, teachers or good directors, if we want to encourage  children to read we can do it but not by means of money if not in a didactic way. 3.Now,...