1st TASK 3th Term: EDUCATION

Redefine how you view education. Understand its true meaning. Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book on someone else's opinion on a subject to pass an exam. Look at it, Picasso was educated in creating art; Shakespeare was educated in the art of [word] that was written. Colonel Harland Sanders was educated in the art of creating Kentucky Fried Chicke. 

As the paragraf says, first we have to understand the meaning of education. When we think about education what comes to our mind is students memorizing pages and pages, entire books. The most intelligent of them is the one who knows more, or in other words, the one who has copied the book's information in his head. 

Education it can be seen in different ways. Every one of us has maybe a talent or an hability in doing something. You can play the piano since you are a little kid while you don't pass history exams. But who cares? When you grow up you may become an expert musician. Or you can start writing stories that are amazing but be bad at maths, where is the problem? You are a good writer! The big deal is that our society has an idea of what education is, they treat us like if we were machines, when in fact each of us is different. So let's start from there, from changing our view. Education is how you focus your life, how you use your tools to be who you really are. 

Emerging Technology Has Positive Impact in Classroom

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SUMMARY:

Stacey Roshan is a mathematics teacher of a private school that made an experiment through technology to see how the results of her students increased. Roshan could see during three years how her students were confused and stagnant.

Most of them wanted to work just problems in class, for this reason Stacey changed her lessons plans: by using Camtasia Studio, she uploaded her video lectures so they could listen to them in their house (as homework) and once in class, only work in problems. In this way, students were more motivated and had and active participation in class. Stacey Roshan experienced how her students marks increased rapidly by this method. Lots of teachers start to use technology in their class and all of them saw the positive benefits of it.

Tracy, director of an Academy who implant technology in his center, said that having a flexible budget helps to innovate in education. He is sure that: If it's successful, it's designed to be replicable in the public schools." Regarding to public schools, new initiatives have been promoted, for example, the use of Ipads in class.

VOCABULARY:

Replicable: aplicable

Lectures: conferències

Stagnant: estancat

PERSONAL OPINION:

Being in 21st century, we might change some things in education that for us are normal and traditional. We have to adapt our lives with technological advances and take profit from it, in all the fields. Stacey Roshan is a PROOF that a good use of technology can help students in their marks, and use the time in the best way. She is still doing her job, but in other way, a way that really works and motivates students.

In my case, we use technology in class (as in English, Psychology or History) but I really believe that we could improve it and expand it to all the subjects. Although it seems to be difficult, I don’t think that we will carry on with our traditional method much longer. I hope in a future we can enjoy technology as a normal fact in education and admire how can helps us.