Looking for Creativity Conservation

For today, I must talk about a Kenneth Robinson's Conference called "School Kill Creativity", made in 2006 in Monterey, California.

First of all, he is an important English expert, professor, speaker, advisor and author involved in topics related to education, creativity, arts, innovation and some others.

Second, there are 3 things that we have to know:

1) There is a lot of variety of creativity.

2) Creativity makes our future, and we don´t know how far it will go and what is going to happened then.

3) Children are expert on it; they use their imagination and innovation all the time. “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you can’t be prepare to be original” Kids are not afraid to be wrong, that is why they are so creative, but when we grow up we lose that talent.

In this meeting, Sir Robinson says that the biggest problems of education are represented by the way of teaching, because the actual system of education wastes those talents:

Creativity is such important in education as literacy teaching, but in every educational system exists the same hierarchy: first mathematics, second language, then humanities and finally arts, and this hierarchy is based only on those topics that are useful for work and now it also contribute to the access to the universities. 

In the next 30 years, according to UNESCO, the degrees will be less important because there will be so many professionals, is because of this that competency will increase, and exactly those faculties that the system destroy (especially creative) will be the most relevant.

I’m totally agree with him, we need to realized that intelligent is variety, dynamic, interactive, that is why we must reconsider all those principles of education based on the range of capabilities of the human mind. But the truth is that is very difficult to apply a particular form of education for each student. Now most of the children go to regular schools, the exceptions are those extremely talent and fortunate kids who have the opportunity to go to an especial academy to cultivate their abilities. Anyway, they are only a few. I think that this system will not change (at least in the short time), which is a shame, because maybe we are losing genius.

Solar Impulse

Hello People!

Today we have a free task, so I’m going to talk about a really interesting Swiss project that is trying to make a big change in environmental and transport topics: I’m referring to SOLAR IMPULSE. The idea is to eliminate our petrol’s dependence and is because of this, that a complete multi-disciplinary team of 50 specialists from six different countries created a particular plane powered only with solar energy. Last May 13, they complete the first international flight, from Duebendorf to Bruselas, in an airplane of these characteristics and today (June, 14) they made the second international flight, from Bruselas to Paris. Now, they expect to have the same success with the first circling of the earth and I’m sure they will.

“All that is impossible remains to be achieves” Jules Verne.

About Solar Impulse:

The project is directed by Bertrand Piccard y André Borschberg, both pilots.

About the plane:

At day it flies using the solar panels while is charging the batteries, is because of this that it can flis at night too. So it can continue day after day without stop. It has the record of flying 26 hours and 9 minutes without need any external source of energy.

This project proves that we don’t need that much the traditional energy as we think. We can reduce our dependence of fossil fuels by using others sources of energy, that are alternatives, renewables and definitely more cleaners. The most important thing is that we don’t have to wait the future, because the technology for a change exists now, but we need to demand it, that is the only way to make it more popular and at the same time help our planet.

If you are looking for more information, you must follow these links:

http://www.solarimpulse.com/
http://www.muyinteresante.es/videos-solar-impulse-avion-solar-energia-solar-el-primer-vuelo-solar-internacional

4 SHARED

It will sound weird, but I must say that I dislike internet. Well, it’s true that it is a really useful tool for work or study. But, the idea of to spend hours on it kind of boring me, I prefer to do others things in my free time. Anyway, there are some websites that I have to visit every day which are Facebook and Hotmail, I’m not a big fan, but I need to know what is going on with my friends and family.

Oh! Now I remember a page that I absolutely love! It’s www.4shared.com . First of all it’s completely free, and you can download a lot of song, movies, books, etc... It has no limit, everything you want; only you must wait 20 second for each file. There are also people that pay for them and they don’t have to wait, but definitely not me.

Of course that this page has a serious legal problem, even there is many artists that do not accept their songs there and they just removed them, like Depeche Mode, Seal, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Green day, Snoop Dogg and Prince, so if you want one of their songs you must look for it directly, no by the artist.

I know that do this is a crime against intellectual property, but I don´t care, I’m not gonna buy an original album, because they are so expensive here in Chile, I can´t pay for them, so I honestly thanks for pages like this one.

12 angry men

I love all kinds of movies of all time, except science fiction and violent  films, but definitely my favorite ones are from ’40 to ’60, when cinema was in black and white.

I’m going to talk about one that really surprises me when I watch it almost 3 years ago, it is call: 12 Angry men (1957) and it was directed by Sidney Lumet. This film tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or innocence of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt.

The problem is that the 12 men must be agree with the verdict, and for 11 of them is clear and easy: he is guilty. But only one believes in his innocence and he tries to convince the others, until he get it, after many hours of angry discussion.

This movie is honestly a master piece, because it has a screenplay so intelligent and provocative that absorbs me completely, I couldn’t take away from my sit until the whole thing was finished. Also the performance was amazing and very dramatic. I’ll recommend it absolutely, specially to someone who wants to study laws, because it shows the professional ethics that a real layer or judge must have when they face a case, they must take their job seriously, because they can define perfectly the life of someone, so they have a big responsibility, and if they are not sure of the case, they can make a big mistake if they sentence someone even when he is innocent.

Us as a Family

I don't have many pictures on facebook, so it is difficult to choose one I like.
Anyway, this is my family, my mom in the back, my two brothers and me in the middle. I cannot remember very well this particular moment, but we were normally stranded on the highway. We didn't have a car so we usually hitch hicked when we wanted to go somewhere for summer.
At least for us (the kids) that were funny and exciting, to be all day long together, waiting for someone who takes us in his truck to our destiny (could be the beach or the south); once there, we had to spend hours looking for a cabin or a room to stay by night, and all those things.
We were all happy except my mom, she hates to be in that situation, that is why you can see her frustrated, tired, upset, angry and maybe hungry too. I guess that was because she is worried about everything the whole time.
My dad took the picture almost 10 years ago, maybe more, I don`t know. In opposite of my mom, he loves adventures and this kind of crazy trips.
I like this picture because it shows us as a real family, always together, no matter what. I’m not saying that we are no more like that, but definitely our vacations don’t, because we have a car now.

Public Education

As you know I study in Universidad de Chile, a "public University" but I’m not so sure if it deserves that quality, because this university is very elitist in the way it choose the students that will be part of it, it doesn’t admit anyone, it demands a very high score in the PSU, which is very difficult to reach for someone that didn’t have the opportunity to study in a good school or maybe go to a precollege.
Another thing that increases the inequality of entry to higher education is the fact that the university fees are very expensive, even in “public universities”.

In my case, I’m studying with 2 benefits: a grant and a credit. Otherwise, maybe I could not be here, because also I have to pay the student hostel, the food and the public transport.

Is because of this, that all the things related to this problem involves me directly.

Education in Chile needs changes now; the government has to respond to the requirements of the students, basically we are asking for a better education, not only for us, but also for the future generations.

All the strikes are for calling the attention of the government, but also to the society.

If Chile wants to be a developed country can´t ignored these demands, because education in developed countries is free, is a right for all of us.

A trip

Last week, I traveled to London, I went all over the city looking for the most beautiful and interesting places and I loved it! It is gorgeous, there are so many different things to see, even when you have a really short time, everything was great (except the weather): for example the Museums are absolutely stunning. 

Well, the truth is I have never been in London; I’m just joking (lol). Now I’m going to explain what I really did:

On English class we did a task: we had to supposed that we were on a trip to London and we had to make an itinerary of it, specifying what we’ll do in which day, the cost of the entrance fee of The British Museum, The Natural History Museum, London Eye, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Musseum, The Tower of London, Camdem Market, The Tate Modern Art Gallery and Kew Gardens (which I like most, because I love Botany), how get there (between what tub station and zone), etc. This work helped us to search and took information from internet.

 While I was completing the route I notice how wonderful is London, maybe someday I’ll go there.