Wednesday, June 13

FreeTopic♥ Killer Whale.


A FREE TOPIC TODAY! And I’m going to talk about the most magnificent animal in the world: The killer whale♥, a sea mammal.

This animal is wonderful in every sense. They could be killers, but they don’t kill human been, and that’s because they just eat what their ancestors ate… and yes, they have the possibilities to eat human any day and pass their new diet to their progeny.

The main feature of this animal is his color: Black and white. White on the underside and around his eyes; and black in their back, including finds.

Leaving out the appearance, this is my favorite animal, principally, because of their teamwork. To hunt, they 
work together and, all that they hunt goes to the youngest members of the pods (where they live in groups) and the oldest, and the rest for the others. Their teamwork is impressive; they just know what to do in the moment that they have to do it. Another aspect that I think it’s outstanding it’s that, the species that they hunt are powerful that they are, and that’s why they have to work together to eat and survive.  

Probably not wise that the orca, like the humans, have different way to communicate to each other, depending in the place where they live; like have different languages. I mean, to me this is something amazing, because, we all know cats… and cat meow here, and there, as well as in the united stated and China. But the killer Whales have different languages and different way to communicate both verbally a bodily.

Also, I want you to know that the killer whales are one of the fastest animals in the sea with a record of 55 km/h and also one of the most widespread on earth.

Finally, I have bad news. The killer whales are in lower risk and the global threats including hunting, human disturbance, habitat loss, prey depletion, pollution, entanglement in nets and collisions with vessels. Orcas used to be killed by people to obtain meat and oil, but commercial hunting ceased during the 1980s.

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Wednesday, June 6

"Changing Education Paradigms"

Ok. Todays assigment is talk and give an opinion about the video by Ken Robinson: "Changing education paradigms". And he started presenting the principal topic, which is "That every country of earth at the moment is reforming public education, and there are two reasons for it.

  • First is about economy. Just because it is unpredictable today
  • Second is about culture. we are trying to preserved our roots, and we are learning all because of what happened, we are doing what we are doing because of the adults's mistakes... and thats mistakes is what we definitely don't have to do.

The adults said that we have to study and then we have to have a job, but today the children don't believe that, and the adults take that as a mind disorder. But what they don't think is that the corrently system of education was designed,  conceived and estructured for a different age, in the intellectual culture of the enlightment and the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution. Certeinly, in that epoc there were people who said "NO" to the education and that's because that the people who had not money did not deserve education (that was a primitive way of thinking) And if you did not have money, you are a part of the non-smart people. This system has prompted chaos.

As I mentioned, the children think that this system does not work so we give them ritalin xD and we are taking them away from all the stuff that doesn't let them pay attention and we give them boring assigment.

But then, Ken Robinson says that the education is modeled about what the society needs, not about what we want to be or what we want to contribute to it.

Finally, Robinson said that we all have the potential to be geniuses, but we all lose our "geniusity" as we educate. And the great learning happens in groups, colaboration is the stuff of growth, but the system forces us to work alone as individuals.

This audio really makes me grow♥

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