sábado, 18 de octubre de 2008

Technophilics Vrs Technophobics

Technophilics Vrs Technophobics

The technophobic view sees technology as a threat because of its inherent capacity to alianate individuals from our common humanity and shared social situation. In this view, technology obscures or distorts human nature, or technology creates circumstances in which people no longer have to interact face to face, allowing for a moral distancing that disinishes our obligations and responsability to others.

martes, 14 de octubre de 2008

Good and Services





One of the most basic ideas in economics is goods and services. More than anything else, money is spent on goods and services. It helps to know the difference between them.
A good is something that you can use or consume, like food or CDs or books or a car or clothes. You buy a good with the idea that you will use it, either just once or over and over again.
A service is something that someone does for you, like give you a haircut or fix you dinner or even teach you social studies. You don't really get something solid, like a book or a CD, but you do get something that you need.
The basic difference is that a good is something you can hold in your hand (unless it's something big, like a car or a house).
Now, a service can also contain a good. Someone who fixes you dinner gives you food, which was bought. In this example, the food is the good and the person's fixing it for you is the service.
In the same way, another example is when your teacher gives you a service by teaching you social studies. Your teacher also gives you a good by giving you a textbook.
Your teacher teaching you social studies is a good example of a service that you personally don't pay for.
And not all services are economic, either. A service can be as simple as reading a book to someone. This kind of activity doesn't cost anything, but it is something that one person did for another.
Remember, the one thing that sets goods and services apart is the ability to touch them. You can touch a good, but you can't touch a service. You can touch the result of a service but not the service itself.


martes, 23 de septiembre de 2008

Teaching Methods

Teaching Methods

the teaching method is conformed by Grammar-Translation Approach, The Direct Approach, Reading Approach, Audiolingual Method, Community Language Learning, The Silent Way, Functional-notional Approach, Total Physical Response; those are the differnt method of teachin. To begin, Grammar Translation Approach is a method where students have to write and to make composition about different topics, it is because students have to practice the writing skill in order to learn the correct way of write; After, The Direct method is when students have to talk, interact with other people and students can practice that by dialogues, conversations moreover teachers have to explain in oral form it can be with pictures and gestures. Then, The Reading approach is when students have to be develop by the reading skill and in the same way they are practing pronunsation, entonation and punctuation because this approach is focus on that. Afteraward, In teaching method is the Audiolingual method that it is based on memorizing is is so close to speaking and writing skill because students have to develop themselves by talking with a correct way syntax. Another method is The Silent way. In it, the teacher uses verbal commands, some pictures and gesture in order to students can understand what about is the topic expose by the teacher. Finally, there are differnt types of teaching methods and they are very important because each student has different way of learn and teachers have to try to explain them according with their corresponding method.

martes, 16 de septiembre de 2008

Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences
The Multiple intelligences is an educational theory, first developed by Howard Gardner, it describes the different kinds of "intelligences" exhibited by human beings. The most common categories of Multiple Intelligences are: Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Verbal-Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Naturalistic, Intrapersonal, Visual-Spatial, Musical. The Multiple Intelligence depends of the abilities of each person, because each human being has different abilities to develop.
Bodily-Kinesthetic: This intelligence is for people who have the ability in practice sports or dance.
Interpersonal: This intelligence is for very friendly people that like to share with ohter and they like to give advices to other and they love interact with many people.
Verbal-Linguistic: It is for people who like to write and read. they prefer all the things about readings, spelling words; all related with spanish subject.
Logical-Mathematical: This intelligence is for people who likes mathematic subject. they prefer all the things about numbers, symbols and also they like computer programs.
Naturalistic: This intelligence is for people who like nature. They protect all kind of spicies, it can be animal or plants. People don't matter if is a dangerous animal only they are worried in protect it.
Intrapersonal: It for people who like to do things by themselves, they prefer to work alone because it is the best way to learn.
Visual-Spatial: It is for people who have a strong vision. they have an excellent imagination and they can see the things in different way.
Musical: It is for people taht develop their abilities in all about music; for example rhythm and tones.

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Holidays and Celebrations

Halloween`s History

On October 31st, you will likely see witches, ghosts, goblins, skeletons, demons, and other evil characters knocking at your door and hollering "trick or treat", and they will expect a treat or you will be tricked. There will be parties where kids (and even adults) bob for apples, tell fortunes, or go through haunted houses. There will be decorations of jack-o-lanterns, witches on brooms, and black cats. It is the only day of the year when we give free food to strangers and display carved vegetables on our front porches. . . .when you really think about it, October 31st is a very strange day . . .Where did we get this celebration called Halloween?
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.