Low-risk activities

I agree with main points of the article. In fact, I think one of the biggest problems in chilean’ schools is that teachers are boring, I mean, their activities are boring, so the students cannot and don’t want to learn because they are not interested. Moreover, most of the time, the contents do not belong to their realities and likes, and also that affects their processes.
Another thing is, many times teachers do not include students in their decisions, then pupils don’t feel part of their own learning.
The thing is that the article shows us good ideas to put in practice to make the students learn.
In Chile we need some less risky methods, as in the text said, the innovative activities are not risky, so we need teachers learning these kinds of things to improve the learning of their students.
In Chile, many times teachers just impose their thoughts and points of view over the student’s beliefs, actually without asking or without letting them express their opinions.
Now that I’m working in a school, I can prove, in some way, that kids learn with enjoyable activities and they work as well when something is fun and interesting to them.



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speed dating in UK....

Speed dating in UK

Well, this news is about having speed dates, the thing is that you can meet someone in a room just for 3 minutes, then a bell rings and you have to move to another room to meet someone else. If someone likes you, you have the chance to write in a card that you want to know her/him and the organisers will contact you and prepare a date.
When I read this new, the first thing that came to my mind was; that kind of things are just to have fun. Actually, I don’t believe that in 3 minutes you can find your “special one”. But it’s a good idea to meet people and make friends...
However, if you believe in “love at first sight” maybe you could find the right person and work out together.
In my opinion, three minutes it’s not enough time to be taken by a person, even though, you never know, maybe it’s a big opportunity to find the love and be happy with her/him.


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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/britain/speed_dating.shtml

Dave Eggers on helping public school children

Today, I am going to talk about something that I think is really interesting.

Helping people is something really important to me because in my opinion it makes you a better person, but more important is to help people when they need it.
We never know when we could need help, so it's essential "to stand in someone else's shoes".

I think that we have to help people to make things better because if we don't help each other we are not going to be able to live in a better world, with people who really care about others.
Sometimes people talk about help others, but words are just words. It's time to do something, such as this guy we have to know that we are able to help people. It's a lovely idea.

well, that's it.

I really like this video =)

Best!





Eggers, Dave. "Once Upon a School". TED.com. Filmed Feb 2008- posted Mar 2008. Online. May, 15th.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html