Kathy's presentation "Femicide is not fashionable"

The second presentation of this season was made by katherine, she decided to talk about "Femicide" a very serious topic that day to day is more present in our social context where a lot woman are killed by their stupid couples. Katherine, did not just talk about femicide, she explained how this actual society is accepting this kind of behaviour as some common and normal, her example was about a jeans brand that promote its products through images where girls were hurt by bad boys.

Personally, femicide is something that makes me feel angry, I do not why some men hurts their couples up to kill them, it is something that must stop, because our society needs peace and good coexistence inside the familiar nucleus; what would happen if our children grows in a violent environment, where commit aggressions against couples is something common? are we going to have a good future as a society?, these are questions that everyone of us must try to answer.

In general, good presentation and good topic.

Nicole's presentation "stress at the end of the year"

Today, Nicole presented about "stress at the end of the year". Through her presentation, was possible to understand how a student have to face this hard period, where exams and excess of job are the worst enemies for a tired person.
Obviously, stress is something really hard to face when we are exhausted, but Nicole gave us some interesting ideas to face it; for example: do not taking the problems of the school to home, and try to adopt a positive attitude to avoid mental fatigue.
Considering that we are facing a really hard end of year, where the excessive obligations are destroying our bodies and mind, I can say that Nicole's presentation was really useful to reload our energies to finish this year in a good way.
As a short conclusion is possible to say: good and precise presentation, good job Nicole!!!

Estatuto docente: Una tragedia peor que el transantiago

The second topic that Mr.Litman recommended to us to investigate, was "Estatuto docente: Una tragedia peor que el transantiago", this is a meticulous revision of our education made by a professor of the Universidad de Chile, named Mario Waissbluth. This professor says that our educational system is experimenting a gradual deterioration where anyone person can be a teacher taking simple courses of pedagogy through internet, obviously, this way to obtain a proffesional title of teacher is not the best at the moment of speak of professional competences, I mean, that maybe, they can have the title of teacher, but their skills and general knowledge is something very uncertain.

Maybe that is the reason why most of these teachers do not want to be evaluated, without consider that they are harming our national education, or specifically our public education where day to day, the differences with the private education is clearer and unfair for the students.

On my personal opinion, the ideas of Mr.Waissbluth are something to consider, because education must be one of the most important matters in our country, where its equality and quality should be a right for everyone student who wants to learn.

If you want to know more about the ideas of Mr. Waissbluth, you can look at the complete article in the next link:

http://www.quepasa.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,38039290_101111578_365938381,00.html

Education 2020

The last class, Mr Litman recommended to us two new topics to investigate and post. The first one was "education 2020".

Education 2020 is a project to improve the education through the use of new technologies basically, but in Chile, education 2020, also wants to improve the academic level of everyone school and teacher through evaluations, technologies and new plans.

For me, education 2020 presents some positive and negative ideas; for example: the use of technologies and plans represents a huge consume of new resources for the government, but it is something really necessary to do. In the case of the negative ideas that Education 2020 represents for me, I have to say that evaluation for teacher is not good, I think that everyone teacher is academically well prepared to face his or her job in a good way, the problems are the conditions to work only; for example: classes with a huge number of students, and limited access to good resources to teach.

This is the official website of Education 2020 in Chile, click here and know more about it.

http://www.educacion2020.cl/

Fernanda's presentation "Gender Bias"

Today, Fernanda had also to present her topic, it was "Gender Bias" a very interesting matter for me.
Through this presentation, Fernanda gave some information and examples about what happens when "Gender Bias" is present in education.
For me, "Gender Bias" is something that must not be inside a classroom, because everyone student have the same rights than his or her classmates, that is the reason why teachers have to create a respect environment inside the classroom.

Daniela's presentation "il's in education : smartboards"

Today, Daniela made a very good and interesting presentation about the use of technologies at the school. She spoke specifically about smartboards which are incredible new boards that are able to being used as a big computer in front of the class. She explained, specifically its advantages to teach and how we can make new and interactive lessons with its use.

Personally, I think that the use of new technologies is something that must be present for every one teacher and school, because through its use is possible to improve the process of teaching and learning.

Eduardo's presentation "suicide & depression in teenagers"

After Diego's presentation, my good friend Eduardo started with his own presentation, He decided to talk about "suicide & depression in teenagers", explaining some aspects in teenagers which can be the reasons to commit suicide or experiment depression.

Eduardo, through his presentation made me feel worried about suicide & depression in teenagers, because it is something really common today, that is the reason why teenagers needs a permanent attention of the people who lives around them.

Also, Eduardo gave us a lot of useful information to identify when a teenager is manifesting some grade of depression or frustration, these two issues are vital to prevent some attempt of suicide.

As a conclusion I have to say that it was a very interesting and useful presentation, where the information was something that can be used for me and everyone of my classmates, some day as parents and teachers.