Oral entry unit 2 language 8

This is the link of the oral entry, so sorry I had problems with my youtube account during all the weekend. I had to ask a friend for his help. Here it goes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3B8GlL0BA&feature=youtu.be

Journal entry unit 2 Language 8

During the unit I have learned several aspects regarding to films. However the most important practice I learned for my future as a teacher, is how to teach through films.

At school I watched many films for subjects like language, and mainly history. Nevertheless, I was never required to make a specific analysis of the film, nor did I recognize the main objective of watching a film in classes.

Having reflected upon the dossier and the unit in general, I could realize it is not easy to teach through films since not all films can help the teacher to achieve his/her teaching objective, as well as one film can be useful to achieve a number of objectives. Indeed, there exist more than one strategy to teach through films according to the objective: Film as a visual textbook, Film as a depicter of atmosphere, Film as an analogy, Film as a historiography, and Film as a springboard.

Finally (concerning to teaching through films), I could realize during the unit most of the strategies mentioned above were used in classes, not only by the teacher but also by the students as well. For example, in one class the teacher gave an "analogy" question to students about a specific film, and after discussing and answering the question, my classmates and me started to discuss about the film in "springboard" or  "atmosphere" terms despite we were not asked for the teacher to do it. This unit facilitated my learning in terms of vocabulary since in the discussions we had to speak using the specific vocabulary related to the topic.

In conclusion, we can take quite much advantage from films to do many things such as teach, learn, analyse, depict, and so on. It depends on what the teacher wants students to learn, and/or depends on us, what do we want to learn.

Link of the oral entry: I had some problems with the internet to upload it to youtube. On monday I will do it!

remake! youtube link!!

I share the link of our remake
 My group is composed by:
Natalia Moya; Massiel Moraga, Pia Montecinos and Sergio Loyola

http://www.youtube.com/v/8H6DybtB3-Q?autohide=1&version=3&autoplay=1

"The Schindler's List" Review

"The Schindler's List" review

Many people define the film "Schindler's list" as a film about the holocaust, some others mention the film is about World War II. However,  both events of the World History were portrayed by its director. Steven Spielbierg wanted to portray the reality of the world from his point of view. Notwithstanding, in "the Schlinder's List" Spielbierg tried to emphasize the importance Oskar Schlinder had during the Holocaust Germany during the Second World War.

Steven Spielbierg had a period of his life when he decided to emphasize the real history and portray it in the big screen. In 1993, the Schlinder's List was created and launched. This movie was produced by Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig. Even though, The Schlinder's list was based on a real fact, it was based on a book as well. The name of the book has the same name of the movie but it was written by Thomas Keneally.

The main actors are Liam Neeson (Oskar Schlinder), Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Caroline Goodall. 

The Schlinder's list was distributed by "Universal pictures" in Washington on November 30th in  1993, and it has a length of 197 minutes.

It was said that the budget at the beginning of the movie was about US$22 million, while the earnings reached US$321.2 million.

The movie starts with the presentation of Oskar Schlinder as a powerful, fine, rich an elegant person, member of the Nazi party. He loved spending money in expensive drinks and opulent parties.

He decides to travel to Cracow in order to build up his adquisitive power by investing money in a factory. As he is looking for cheap manufacture, he starts to acquire Jewish people since their work is cheaper than others.

Then, Jewish people is taken away from their homes and jobs, and sent to the different camps in Germany. As a consequence, Oskar decides to purchase the staff he has. The movie continues portraying the reality of the different life conditions (imposed by Nazis) Jews had to deal with.

In a moment, Oskar realizes of the cruel practices Nazi soldiers carry out toward Jewish so he decided to create a list of people he needed for his factory. He starts to invest the whole fortune he desired at the beginning in order to save Jews lives.

Having reflected upon the film, we would like to point out that what really called our attention was how real were the scenes in terms of the emotion and feelings actors could convey. You can really feel the pain, the anguish and the desperation when you are watching the film. Moreover, we can highlight how can a person change his point of view and life objective since Oskar became in a solidary and well-heart person during his adventure as an entrepreneur and ambitious man. Finally, the film is so well made that you do not feel the length.

We thoroughly recommend this film since "The Schindler's list" contributes to the development of our cultural memory from a different point of view. More than Jewish reality in those years, the film aims to make auditors understand

By Pía Montecinos, Sergio Loyola.

Perfection

When I watched the video, I reflected upon the difference between success and happiness. The girl of the video successes in everything she did. However, she did not necessarily do what she really wanted. Therefore, she wasn’t happy.

Moreover, I was encouraged by the video to doubt about what perfection is since even though the girl was perfect at playing violin and studying, she didn’t enjoy it. Is that perfection? Is perfection similar to happiness, or success?

When reflecting, I could also take the video to my real life since I felt identified with the case the video portrays, not because I am perfect in what I do, but my parents wanted to impose my future.

I was always good at math when I was at school because my father taught me (He is a math teacher), I had good marks and I got my best PSU’s score in math. Therefore, my parents chose me a career to study at the university (Civil engineering) based on acquisitive power and math. Nevertheless, what my parents did not know was that I do not like mathematics, so I just studied one year in that university since I did not like the career, even though I could earn lots of money with that profession.

Finally I was allowed to choose my own future and decide what I really want to do. I don’t know how successful I am, but I’m sure I’m happy. 

Journal Entry Unit 1: Sustainability and Accountability.

Unfortunately, due to I was two weeks absent, I cannot share many learning experiences since it was quite difficult for me to catch up on the contents of the unit, specially the readings. However, I can share some reflections related to the discussions in classes among classmates and teachers.

Even though Sustainability and Accountability are unknown and abstract concepts among society, they are used every single day in plenty of aspects such as economy, environment, and education. In terms of education, accountability takes to sustainability. For example in a school there are determined systems of assessments to students and teachers. That kind of assessment and what is being assessed is an accountable system since it supports the working of the school, and is carried out by stakeholders who are responsible and are part of the working on teaching-assessment process. As a consequence there should be sustainability if the objective of this assessment system as well as the results remain in time, although the assessment system can suffer some changes depending on the results.

On the other hand, the abuse of data management and the desire to increasing it in order to be accountable can affect students motivation since qualitative variables are forgotten. There are schools where in determined grades (7th for example) there must be only a 5% of the class with special needs, while in 6th grade the 10% of the class have special needs. How are you going the half of special needs students to make them pass to 7th? What would happen to those students who would not be selected?

Even though in education we must be accountable, we must be inclusive as well. Teachers and stakeholders in general, have to be positively sustainable and accountable (at least in educational terms). Do not forget the focus which is students' learning rather than numbers.

Link video-journal: http://youtu.be/D9BAKsC3t28.

Journal 2: Human Rights

Honestly, I have never read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights before beginning this unit. However, it was very useful for me as a future teacher to know something about human rights. I realized that people in general are not aware of what human rights are and how the fulfillment of those rights affects the social development through making a peaceful and respectful society.

Some people reflect on human rights and realized they are violated every day. Besides, there is not justice for victims of those violations. Afterwards the people who reflects ask: What would happen if I violate human rights? What are Human Rights for? When I reflected upon human rights I wondered the same questions. However, I reflected deeper and I wondered: What would happen if we really fulfill Human Rights? How can achieve this fulfillment?

It is not enough to know the history and the articles of the U.D.H.R. It is also very important to put into practice the fulfillment of human rights in order to construct a peaceful society. How can we do that? Through education. Human rights must be part of students' education, not only school students, but also among military training institutions because every single human being must put human rights into practice in order to achieve a social development.

Now that I have a basic knowledge about human rights, I believe this is the beginning of my training in order to be a complete teacher. A teacher that not only teach english, but also educate and inculcate human rights to students. If all teachers were able to inculcate human rights to every single student, then could exist a society without impunity, injustice, resentments, feels of vengeance, etc.