13th TASK

Knowledge

1. Define with your own words what is Critical Ecoliteracy
2. Name the environmental education’s goals.
3. List the three types of Environmental literacy.
4. When is expected not to be extant commercial fishery left active in the world?
5. Tell what matrix domination is.

Comprehension

1. What consequences can you predict all these global warmings can bring apart from the ones mentioned in the text.
2. How do you associate Environmental literacy and Ecoliteracy?
3. How do you interpret the next sentence “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds”?
4. Why do you think environmental education is important?
5. “We face nothing less than the unprecedented transformation and domination of the planet” How do you interpret the sentence above?

Application

1. How does the social transformations affect the global ecology?
2. Illustrate with your own words the Bateson’s stantent that says “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds”.
3. Illustrate with five examples how the human production and consumption has culles organic habitats and species.
4. Demonstrate how the environmental education may help to create a more ecological and suitable world.
5. Identify the goals of environmental education.

Analysis

1. Why is  an environmental education required in every society?
2. Explain with your own words the phrase by Michele Archie: “using the environment to boost academic performance, increase student motivation, and enhance environmental literacy”.
3. What can you infer from this quote: “Until today, Critical Pedagogy almost completely disregarded not just the cosmopolitics aspects of ecological termins in terms of threats to present and future life conditions of all humanity. It disregarded the fundamental philosophical and existential challenges of subject relations, in which ‘nature’ is not conceived as a standing reserve either for mere human consumption or as a potential source of dangers, threats, and risks”.
4. Select two of the most important concepts of the text and explain them.
5. How does Rudolf Bahro arrive at the conclusion that most institution environment protection “is in reality and indulgence to protect the deterministic structure”,  which removes concern and responsibility from people so that “ the process of learning are slowed down”.

Synthesis

1. What changes would you make in your life to solve  some of the environmental problems?
2. Suppose you could develop a global economic model that is friendly to the planet and does not affect its natural development. What model would you think of?
3. What could be done to maximize environmental education in Colombia?
4. Can you think of an original way to promote Ecoliteracy among young people?
5. If you had the opportunity to decide on the use of animals for commercial purposes: would you implement the creation of places such as zoos or aquariums? Would you support the use of animal skins in the fashion industry?

Evaluation

1. Explain each one of the environmental literacy and select the most important according to your criteria
2. Judge the following statement and support your position by arguments:

I disagree with the anti-globalization protestors who suggest that poor countries should somehow be saved from development by keeping their doors closed to trade. I think that is a recipe for continuing their poverty, not erasing it. More open markets would give the world's poorest nations more chances to grow and prosper.

3. Make a comparison between environmental literacy and  ecoliteracy and explain how they differ.
4. Could you recommend some strategies to solve the social problems presented in the text? persuade your readers to use the strategies you proposed.
5. make a summary of  Bower's theory presented on page 536.

Intercultural Communication

Discrimination in Colombia

     Discrimination can be seen in many ways, one of them is to judge and treat in a different way because of the color of people`s skin and it is most commonly known as racism.  This kind of discrimination has prevailed in our society for a long time ago. There still be the belief that Afro-Colombian people are the ones that only can do the hard work and only for little money, the ones that cannot have privilege and education because they only were born to work as slaves.

     Firstly, Colombia is the home of the third largest population of Afro-descendants after Brazil and the U.S. Unfortunately, that fact does not count for us to be more respectful to Afro-people. Contrary, we still are skeptical about this issue of racism. To give an illustration, in 2014 on a famous Colombian newspaper in the classification section was found the next sentence “A female surgeon doctor with college degree Internship in Clinic Inscription. 25-30 years old, of white skin. Needed, a personal interview Dr. Guarín, next July, 22nd, 10 A.m.”. This is just one of the many more examples we can find in Colombia.

     Secondly, it is very sad that darker-skinned people work for low-paying jobs and the socio-economic state of the country is very telling of how Afro-Colombians are prioritized in society tension where suddenly just being black or African-American becomes rare or inadequate.

     To sum up, Colombia is a diverse country full of different people with different customs and ways of dressing, living and think, we should be more tolerant and human with any kind of racism. All of us have the same rights and duties even Afro-Colombians, in that way we should avoid this horrible habit of stereotyping and judging people just because they are different to us.

Eleven task

Whose viewpoint is expressed? 
Political science teachers 
What does the author want us to think? 
I believe the author wants us to think in the huge challenge political science teachers have to face at the time of teaching at the age of Donald Trump. Due to the fact that most of the people do not agree with his way of thinking and administration, for the reason that it has been different to the prior administrations, in other words, it was a huge change for both teachers and students. Consequently, teachers have to be careful and subjective at the time of giving their point of view. 
What viewpoint is not expressed? Whose voice do we not hear?

I think the viewpoint that it is missing in the article is student's voices, because we only can say how teacher feel and experience teaching political science at the age of Donald Trump, but not how students face that same situation.
What is an alternative perspective of the text?

I think there is not an alternative perspective in the text

Can you think of other questions this text responds to?

I think this text also responds to how political science teachers do to manage this situation in his classes. 

DRAFT

The implementation of ICT in the English learning process in Colombia

       ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been used in almost all field of life and education is not an exception. The implementation of ICT in education has recently started to appeal the potential and significant progress in language learning.  It has had a big impact in the education world and it could be used from preschool through to university in order to facilitate students and teachers in the teaching and learning English process. In other words, ICT needs to be implemented in the English learning process in Colombia due to the fact that it has been publicized as potentially powerful enabling tools for educational change and improvement, as a significant role in the learning process especially in learning a language.

     First of all, there is a need in Colombian education to implement ICT, to innovate in terms of the methods and strategies used by the teachers to teach English. According to Hartoyo (2008) asserts that English language teaching has been shaped by the search for the ‘one best method’ of teaching the language. Therefore, Colombian education should put the management and knowledge of ICT as one the requirement to be teachers. In this way, students probably will feel more motivated and excited about learning a second language. That is to say, teachers have to find the best way to catch students’ attention, be innovated and creative with all the resources technology brings us in order to make the process of learning English easier and effective.

     Secondly, teachers should teach students how to make a proper use of these technological devices. As Hartoyo (2008) stated in his book, a computer is a tool and medium that facilitates people in learning a language, although the effectiveness of learning depends totally on the users. To put in another way, it is not only about implementing ICT in classes but it is also about teaching students to be good users and take advantage of all these useful technological sources because it could be a big distractor in classes if students do not know how to manage technology.

     Unfortunately, there exists a big factor that plays against the implementation of ICT in education and it is a big challenge for teachers mostly. It is that most of the schools in Colombia do not count with the proper technological resources to implement technology in classes. To give an illustration, most of the public schools here in Neiva do not count with the equipment to implement ICT in classes, they have a lab with a number of computers but they do not count with internet access, so it would be the same as having no technological resources. Therefore it would be more difficult and demanding for teachers to make English classes more motivating and innovating for students.

     All things considered, it seems to be a necessity to implement ICT in Colombia to develop and make English learning more effective, to achieve language proficiency, and make classes more interesting and inspiring for students. In this way, the process of acquiring and learning a second language will be easier for both, teacher and students. Without leaving aside the fact that we need to tackle the problem of the lack of technological resources in public education in order to make education effective and equal for all students.