Do schools kill creativity?

Hello my dearest students!


As some of you know I have a very profund interest for education. Not just because I love to teach but because I love teaching. And also because I know that it is a very important issue for everybody.


At mornings, I work as researcher on this field studying its connection with digital culture. And because of that I have the privilege to work with great minds from different disciplines.


Today, I want to show you a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, one of the most important academics talking about how we should re-think education.


TED conferences have the slogan: "Ideas Worth Spreading" "Ideas that Change the World" and one of the most important quotes of this talk is : 


"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original"

What do you think of this video? Do you agree with Sir Robinson? Why?

HINT:

If you don't understand Sir Robinson's English please : Click on the following link and choose the English Subtitles!

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

Activity Open From March 29th to April 11th 

HAPPY HOLY WEEK

Addicted to Cherry!

Hello!!


I decided to change the day of publishing the activities on the blog to Wednesdays instead of Saturdays. So here's the new one:


As all we know, there are small, mild and critical addictions. Everyone is addicted to something or... someone, but it is very difficult to accept it. 


Of course some addictions can't be compared with others but let's talk about the minor addictions. 


In my case, I'm addicted to candies...:S Yes I am. Not to chocolates but candies, if they are  cherry flavored even better :) ahh... and cakes, now if  it is a cherry cupcake I can die! But I'm trying to quit or at least eat less candies per day. I don't want to get too fat or have  any more sugar blood problems. 


This is a funny and a little dramatic  French animation called "LE CAFÉ" about the dangers of getting addicted to coffee:

This is not the one that I originally posted, the previous one was removed and had better subtitles. SORRY!

Dir. Stephanie Marguerite & Emilie Tarascou / Music Oldelaf & Mr D / France / 2007 


So, coffee is not a problem for me because I don't drink coffee ;). What about you?

What are your small addictions?
(and what do you think of the video?)

Actvity open from March 21st to March 28th

What are you scared of?

Hello everyone!!
This is the first blog for  the second term!!! Yes, that's right, time flies and we are almost half way of our classes. Thank you for all the wonderful comments about Women's Day I really enjoyed reading them, I'll give you full feedback during this week along with your first term grades :).


Now, the topic of this week is about normal things that really scare you or you feel afraid of but they are not really THAT terrible.
In my case, I'm scare of spiders ;s, I know it sounds silly for some people, but... when I was little, one night, trying to turn the light on I put my hand on one aughhh! It was horrible! I think a black spider is probably one of the most scary things in the world!


Let's see this video from an interview done by Ellen Degeneres to the actor Dennis Quaid where they discuss about things he finds very scary :)

Now, tell me: What are you scared or afraid of? bats, rats, spiders, snakes, bees, heights... and why??
Everybody has a least one thing they can't stand and there's always a story behind it!! So come on ! I told you mine now it's your turn!


Activity from March 11th to March 20th

Have an amazing (non-spider) week!!


ACTIVITY CLOSED!

WOMEN'S DAY

Hello!


This week, on March 9th people around the world will celebrate the International Women's Day. Therefore, the activity for this week is to make a comment about the video called: "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art"

I can't wait to read your comments!!! 

Activity open from March 04 to March 11th

Don't forget to sign every comment

Have a nice week!

THIS ACTIVITY IS CLOSED!!  CHECK THE NEW ONE :)