TIC's in Chilean Education

Daniela also presented today. She started talking about TIC's in Education, but then she finished talking about SmartBoards. She made a good presentation.
I believe that technologies included in the classroom are a big advantage for children, because they can help them to learn in a different way.
SmartBoards? I believe we are too far of implementing this technologies in ordinary classrooms, because of what it costs to have one, and train onself to use it.

Gender Bias in Schools

Today Fernanda Cortés presented about Gender Bias. She was nervous at first, but then she stopped and calmed down. She gave a lot of examples of words that could sound malish to us and she gave us some alternatives to use instead of the malish words.
I believe that some teachers fall into the thing of the gender bias, when they prefer boys or girls in the class. This issue can be a little subtle, but is proved that, for example, some female teachers tend to prefer boys in their classes, but they don't even notice this, because their preference is marked in thei attittudes toward boys, treating them better than to girls.

Eduardo’s presentation on suicide and depression in teenager

After Diego, mi classmate Eduardo made his presentation. He talked about suicide and depresion in teenagers. It was a well covered topic because he took it to Chilean reality. He told us the characteristics of young suicidals and then he gave us some amazing tips about Chilean rates of suicide.

This topic helped us to realize how close it is from us. That the tips and statistics are so big that we should open our eyes in front of strange situations that could make us be alert of these tendencies.

About Eduardo's performance, he was quite good. He spoke with self-confidence and closeness, he explained the topic well and he managed the dinamic of the presentation. The only detail for his presentation was the time, due he showed us a YouTube's video that was a little bit long, about this subject. Besides everything else, he did a great job,

Diego's 'Drugs & Alcohol'

This week began a new face of the class. We have to present topics in an individual way. The first one to present was Diego. He chose the topic: drugs and alcohol.
Diego specially talked about the consequences that people obtain from common drugs in the current days.
Actually, it was a very good presentation in all ways. Diego spoke always correctly, he used technology and not abused from it and he gave us different tips about how to deal with this kind of adictions and diseases. I specially liked it because those tips aren't just useful as future teachers, but also as young people and future parents. Good Job Diego!!!

Project Zero

A week ago, it was our turn to present: Katerinne, Daniela and I.
We talked a little bit about a program generated by Harvard University, about education through art.

This project was founded in 1967. This project is based on the arts an it should be studied as a serious cognitive activity to motivate the new communities of reflective independent learners, to improve their critical and creative skills.
I believe we did well in the debate in general. The bigger problem was that as we investigated a Harvard project, there was a lot of classified information. We could get some of it, but it was mainly general.

I think that in what respects to classroom managmentl, we did very well. We weren't nervous as in other opportunities and we achieved the class objectives.

The only bad things was that there wasn't enough audience that day.