http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8&noredirect=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5kHACjrdEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM&feature=relmfu
Friday, December 23, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Origins of Punk and Rock
http://www.essortment.com/history-punk-rock-origins-significance-63991.html
http://www.essortment.com/origins-rock-roll-63982.html
http://www.essortment.com/history-punk-music-england-1976-1981-60665.html
http://www.essortment.com/origins-rock-roll-63982.html
http://www.essortment.com/history-punk-music-england-1976-1981-60665.html
Cultural Revolution on Paper
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| This is the picture designed after re-reading the text, sharing the ideas each student grasped from the text, looking for pictures on the web, asking art teachers their opinion about the first sketches, listening to their pieces of advice on how to draw and paint walls. Thanks to: Graciela and Felipe. Bibliography: Hobsbawn, Eric (1994), The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Chapter Eleven: "Cultural Revolution", p. 320-343. Vintage Books, US. |
Monday, December 5, 2011
Cultural Revolution: Sketching out
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| Sketches made in class after first reading of the text. Esbozos realizados en clase después de la primera lectura del texto. |
Bibliography: Hobsbawn, Eric (1994), The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Chapter Eleven: "Cultural Revolution", p. 320-343. Vintage Books, US.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Disposal: What is being done in Bragado about the large amount of garbage we produce daily?
Student: Brabo David Ariel
Topic: Disposal
Subject: Language and Culture.
I made an interview to a friend of mine called Daniel, who Works at ECOBRAG.
He is in charge of the machines.
Here is the interview:
David: How long have you been working here?
Daniel: I have been working here for six years.
David: How many people works in Ecobrag?
Daniel: there are about forty people working here right now
David: How many garbage are you recycling per day?
Daniel: Well, I’ll say between 40 and 60 tons each day, it is a lot, but this is only a small step in order to help the planet.
David: That’s for sure, anyway, how do you spread your work to create conscience in people to recycle?
Daniel: Well, there had been many campaigns for that but most of people don’t listen…so it wasn’t very successful in that way. We do what we can; the rest is up to people. One time, for example, we delivered green garbage bags so people should put their recyclable garbage in there to help us to recycle and classify that garbage, but it was useless. There was a lot of unrecyclable garbage there so we couldn’t do anything with that, and so it has been cancelled.
David: That’s a problem…
Tell me, what kind of garbage do you recycle in here?
Daniel: Well there’s a lot of things, for example, paper, plastics, glass, hard plastics from chairs, cans and aluminum.
David: Do you use any kind of chemicals in the process of recycling?
Daniel: No, absolutely not. We don’t use anything like that. It is a whole natural process
David: I see. That is good. And how is this process? Could you explain me a little?
Daniel: Sure, I’ll tell you. First we have the trucks full of garbage, we throw that into a tolva, from there, the garbage goes through a cinta elevadora to a machine that breaks everything into small pieces. And from there it goes through a cinta transportadora where people start to classify and separate garbage. There are a lot of steps to reach the wanted results but this is the basic of the process.
David: Ok, Daniel I won’t bother you anymore, thanks a lot for your patience and for explaining all this to us.
Daniel: No, thanks to you and I hope that this helps to improve the recycling in our city
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Materials Economy
The materials economy is a lineal system in which stuff moves through different steps; extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Despite it seems to be a well-organized system, it is in crisis because it is based on finite resources. It was originated after the Second World War and its purpose was to produce more consumers’ goods leaving aside (add adjective or expand) aspects such as healthcare, education, justice, self-transportation and sustainability.
* Extraction: exploitation of natural resources. Nowadays, the population use more global resources than they should. It is not taken into account that resources are scarce and that the indiscriminate use of them does not take into account nature´s rhythm.
Deforestation, mining, water and hunting are trashing the environment.
* Production: in this stage we use energy to combine raw materials with chemicals so as to produce all kind of stuff. Our industrial production systems use vast amounts of natural resources, water, energy and chemical compounds to churn out pollution, work and community health problems and products, many of which contain toxics known to be harmful to human health and the environment.
* Distribution: it is the sale of all the products that were made in the previous stage. Generally, that stuff is produced in the first world and in that way, as the factories are situated there, the prices are low and people consume more and more. As a result, first world countries earn more money. However, for those places not everything is nice. Not only are they losing their natural resources, but also the fresh air, employers are not well-paid and they have their health insurance whenever their bosses want. That is called externalized true cost production. (The information here is wrong, check and correct this!)
* Consumption: That stage is the hard system; the engine of prices; the top priority for both government and corporations. They make consumption our way of life; our ritual. Nowadays, we have become compulsive consumers so as to maintain the flow of materials; it is our primary identity. There are some effective strategies for consumption such as:
* Planned obsolescence: design for the dump; it means design things that can be not be useful more rapidly so as people buy again these things. However, things can not break so fast, so another strategy is:
* Perceived obsolescence: Sellers convince us that we have things that are useful, but actually these products will be not on fashion in a short period of time. They are changing constantly, so people should buy the new product so as to be on fashion and to be part of the system. Moreover, advertising and mass media in general play an
important role in the consumption of people, because they are all the time telling us that we must go shopping so as to be happy. (use language to explain the ideas mixed here!)
* Disposal: This is the part of the materials economy that we all know the most, because we are constantly tossing junk. There are many different ways of dumping the garbage like making holes on the ground, incinerating them, throwing them to the water or even exporting. Disposal has to do with consumption speed; it means that we consume so many products that we have to have to throw them away when they are not on fashion anymore. But people are polluting not only the air but also the water, the land and as a result, they are changing the climate. Moreover is important to say that synthetic chemists are controlled so as not to damage people, scientists do not know if they are dangerous when they are in contact with other chemists. In conclusion, all chemists pollute the environment. ( coherence - information does not flow)
* Extraction: exploitation of natural resources. Nowadays, the population use more global resources than they should. It is not taken into account that resources are scarce and that the indiscriminate use of them does not take into account nature´s rhythm.
Deforestation, mining, water and hunting are trashing the environment.
* Production: in this stage we use energy to combine raw materials with chemicals so as to produce all kind of stuff. Our industrial production systems use vast amounts of natural resources, water, energy and chemical compounds to churn out pollution, work and community health problems and products, many of which contain toxics known to be harmful to human health and the environment.
* Distribution: it is the sale of all the products that were made in the previous stage. Generally, that stuff is produced in the first world and in that way, as the factories are situated there, the prices are low and people consume more and more. As a result, first world countries earn more money. However, for those places not everything is nice. Not only are they losing their natural resources, but also the fresh air, employers are not well-paid and they have their health insurance whenever their bosses want. That is called externalized true cost production. (The information here is wrong, check and correct this!)
* Consumption: That stage is the hard system; the engine of prices; the top priority for both government and corporations. They make consumption our way of life; our ritual. Nowadays, we have become compulsive consumers so as to maintain the flow of materials; it is our primary identity. There are some effective strategies for consumption such as:
* Planned obsolescence: design for the dump; it means design things that can be not be useful more rapidly so as people buy again these things. However, things can not break so fast, so another strategy is:
* Perceived obsolescence: Sellers convince us that we have things that are useful, but actually these products will be not on fashion in a short period of time. They are changing constantly, so people should buy the new product so as to be on fashion and to be part of the system. Moreover, advertising and mass media in general play an
important role in the consumption of people, because they are all the time telling us that we must go shopping so as to be happy. (use language to explain the ideas mixed here!)
* Disposal: This is the part of the materials economy that we all know the most, because we are constantly tossing junk. There are many different ways of dumping the garbage like making holes on the ground, incinerating them, throwing them to the water or even exporting. Disposal has to do with consumption speed; it means that we consume so many products that we have to have to throw them away when they are not on fashion anymore. But people are polluting not only the air but also the water, the land and as a result, they are changing the climate. Moreover is important to say that synthetic chemists are controlled so as not to damage people, scientists do not know if they are dangerous when they are in contact with other chemists. In conclusion, all chemists pollute the environment. ( coherence - information does not flow)
Monday, September 26, 2011
In touch with these days education
Ours is an English Teaching Training Course. Nevertheless, we have wiggled our way into translating. But the kind of translation we have come up with goes beyond passing meaning "in other words". Patently, words count: the ideas put forward in the words of native speakers are translated into the English of English learners. Though this is not it. The task implies translating information from a genre into another, from one source of information into another, from the classroom to the cyberspace and from there, to another place as real as our classrooms at school. This is traslating, isn't it?
As a teacher in charge of a new generation of teachers-to-be, it is not a must for me to teach students to use technology. Indeed, this seems to be the part they are teaching me. But there is a role I must play just because education is unthinkable without teachers. When teachers and students work together education has a chance. It is this firm conviction that underlies the work on this blog.
We- students and teachers- are working together to create and recreate this blog with the following aims:
As a teacher in charge of a new generation of teachers-to-be, it is not a must for me to teach students to use technology. Indeed, this seems to be the part they are teaching me. But there is a role I must play just because education is unthinkable without teachers. When teachers and students work together education has a chance. It is this firm conviction that underlies the work on this blog.
We- students and teachers- are working together to create and recreate this blog with the following aims:
- to provide accurate information elaborated by students after watching the videos and reading the texts quoted below,
- to share the products of our tasks,
- to put forward our ideas and thoughts,
- to show our doubts and concerns,
- to ask questions to people who are likely to know better, or might know something different about the contents we deal with,
- to receive feedback from beyond the classroom.
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