Do schools kill creativity? 4:49

Ken Robinson is a British internationally recognized leader in the development of human resources and creativity. He has worked with important persons around the world. Including UNESCO, European Union and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In Early ages he was Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick.

He goes around the world giving and telling his experiences about creativity. This time we will talk about his particularly presentation on TED. There he speaks about how schools wide world stop the rise of the creativity on Childs. He said that contemporary people just care about the brain and head. Forgetting Body, all we have one! And we are underrating it.

He gave a singular example. All we never had imagined Shakespeare as a young boy. Well He had to be one, one day! And how the school has influencing on him?

Actually schools have maths and language on 1^st place, then comes humanistic sciences and 3^rd comes arts. And they are separated on this category: first visual arts and music on 1^st place then comes drama and dancing. Is this logic? Of course it isn’t. Some remarkable talents are raised on school. And this world is getting full of people who think the rights mathematics ways. Because mistakes aren’t allow. It doesn’t mean that the idea is do just mistakes. The idea is learn that we have to take some risks to do new and fantastic things. Just on the road we can fall. But this is okay.

What we need is called Evolution. We need on this world more people who think on new ways of do things and no just people who think in perfection the ways that we already have. And creativity is the same not more or less, the same important than mathematics. We need people being happy with what they are doing not just people doing things because is all what they are allowed.

Sir Ken Robinson has a extraordinary sense of humor and a sparkly performance on stage. You should watch it. Here is a link of his webpage. Regards

http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/

THE BEST! 5:36

I think that in what architecture respect, we should name Daniel Libeskind, this dude is awesome. He is such an artist. And also viewing some interviews given to BBC, he is really intelligent and simple. He is not a bragger like the most Star Architects. Like Frank or Zaha.

He is an American architect, but with Jew Origins. He was born in Lodz, in the post-war Polonia. He studied music there and then in NYC. Finally he decided be an architect in NYC.

Well, definitely he wasn’t wrong studying architecture, because his work is just amazing. I really like the expression that takes his buildings. His style is so expressive and he Is one of the best manipulating shapes and tensions. Daniel, is also so controversial with his forms. But I reckon that he, even being this way. Is so respectful with the context and places.

The two works that I most like of him are the Jew Museum, in honor to the holocaust victims. And the Ontario Royal Museum, a new construction crashing a old Building. Just amazing. They are very, very Libeskind.

National holidays and Chilean identity. What makes Chileans Chileans? 14:51

I personally believe that what makes us Chileans wake up just in these eves. We feel a deep need to eat empanadas and the favourite salad is tomato with onions. Also we like to hear cueca, even when in the rest of the year we never use to hear it. We feel way more Chileans than ever. But this just shows that we do not have a strong identity as a Chilean during the whole year. We are always looking what the rest of the world is doing and always we are introducing new foreign things.

We can talk about a lot of foreign topics, but some examples are the musical trends. Some years ago the Axé was very popular here. It brings sounds and rhythms that were way so distant of our culture. Today is the Reggaeton. As well, the paid TV has quite a lot of influence over people. Especially new generations, which are the first responsible of continue with the tradition of our country. Sometimes it feels like all the world is mixing up and we are losing our personals beliefs and rituals that make us particular.

But with all our imperfections and with our particular Chilean mind, we love to be Chilean. And we feel so proud every time Chile wins a gold medal in Olympics games. And in national holidays is allow to drunk and eat more than ever. Because Chile deserve it! Let’s enjoy in the name of the Nation!

BBC Learning English Webpage 14:21

My first impression about the website was that it was very very BBC, it may sound a bit silly, but it is obviously true. BBC has a very personal way to put their items in the layout. And also, it is very similar to the news BBC page that I currently see. And it very simple and elegant. Somethimes a little bit boring.
About the site in particular. In my rackom I liked what I saw. Im very interested in improve my talking skills. So pronunciation is way so important for me. This is why I went straight away to the part of Grammar Vocabulary and Pronunciation. There I founded a professor. She is called Alex Bellem, who help us to understand the english produnciation of southern england (maybe london). And she said that we dont need to talk with a native english accent, is okay for us to talk with our own accent but always speaking clearly and understandable. So this way we should have a fluid conversation with anyone.
What most i liked of this web site is that is very actualized! It have news that are currently happening around the world. The videos are actuals and they are always renovating and throwing new material online. This make you put more interest on the web site because is not like an oldfashion english.
And also, it have a lot of entretaining items to go inside. For example it have a part called "Beat the Keeper". That is a game where you have to beat a football keeper by answering some simple english questions.
Flatmates is like a "drama serie" but in toons. It tell us about the life of 4 Flatmates. It is in Youtube but unfourtainly this is already over. But we still can watch the old episodes in Youtube.
And the last one that called my attention was a track that was speaking about the Linking words in English. Like a cupoftea! meaning a cup - of - tea but in a fluid conversation we would say: would you give me a cupoftea? or we can say something like this "friedeks" wich means fried eggs.

Well it is an interesting site. And it is very easy to explore. And i think that is very useful. So i hope improve my spoken skills visitng it.

Until next Time.
Seb

Hey Everyone! 14:36

Hello Everyone! I am Sebastian Loaiza (21), a Student of Architecture in the University of Chile. I like quite a lot the languages and meet new peoples and new cultures. Also i like to paint and have nice times with friends. I'm very friendly and talktive. I used to be in French 1 the last semester. But unfourtainly i had forgotten everything, so i hope this won't happen again, because I'm here to improve my spoken skills on english and to share Knwoledges with others. I really want to enjoy myself trough this course because I know that is way so important to have this language as a tool for our future.
Others things of me, I must admit that I'm a fanatic of northern irish stuff because my family and good mates live here. I Love to hear music (not to play!), and I love travels, Architecture, Design, Art and Photography! By the way I like to do some sports but by now I do not make the effort to play them.
Anyway I just hope learn so much, imporve and have a nice time here.

Best Regards
Sebastian

Hi Everyone 14:25