Learning English at this year in the university has been such a great opportunity to improve my skills in this subject. I studied English at school, but it wasn’t the best way to learn, because we were too many students and some of we knew more about English than others, so my teacher had to teach basic English to all of us. Thus, we didn’t get a good education at English, but here in the university all of that changed. Here, when I did the English test I stay in English level 3, since that I’ve been learning and improving myself at this language.
This semester has been so great at English, I liked so much our teacher Alvaro, I think that he is so fun and relax and I also like that he creates a great atmosphere around us, that makes us be more confident about our English. I think this kind of atmosphere that our teacher creates is very important when we are learning, because this atmosphere is like a push to us in our English that makes us to learn more.
By the other hand, English at this semester has been such a great opportunity to find a way to express myself by these entries, and of course, this is even better when I write them in English because I’m also learning when I do this. I think this kind of learning with blogs is very modern and psychologically talking, is a very nice way to develop our competences at English. Like I said, this kind of learning is a very good example of competence because this way of learn makes us to articulate or resources (language skills, vocabulary, motivation, etc) and move them to a successful development of a specific work: English. But that’s not all; for this to be a competence we also have to develop this competence by ourselves, but always with help: our teacher.
In conclusion, a good atmosphere at class can be a good environment that can push us into a better level of learning, and if we combine that with two different classes of English (blogs and normal classes), this can be even better, because this makes us to learn more. So, I’m glad of being here in this class, but I’m also very sad that we will finish this course next week. I’m very happy and satisfied with the results of this course, I really learned a lot this year.
sábado, 14 de noviembre de 2009
viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2009
Some challenges in Psychology
My discipline, Psychology, has too many challenges that now is facing.
For example, in technology we have several issues about scientific area in our discipline. Psychology has two completely different paradigms: quantitative and qualitative. If we use quantitative paradigm, maybe we will use some technological methods. For example, if we want to know about memory and how does it work in humans, we have to use the quantitative paradigm and probably we will use some new technology such as electroencephalograms.
All of us know that science has the power of knowledge in its hands, but there are too many studies that criticize that paradigm and show how wrong they are. This show us that not all is good enough and of course, science has too keep improving itself and show us how good and useful it can be in different problems.
I think that social matters have to be the first challenge that psychology has to face. Our discipline studies humans, his behavior and mind, that’s why psychology has the power to change the society, because all of we (humans) are the society, and today we are not taking serious that problem. But that is not in our hands, today we don’t have the power to change our society like the way we want, because Psychology is not recognize as a serious discipline with the power to do that, and that is too sad, because we study humans, we know humans, we can predict human behavior, but we don’t have the power to make them to believe us.
Education and Psychology must to be lovers and they must to walk together and think together how to make them both better, like good couples. But, that is so far away from reality. Education has been a blind and death discipline, because they don’t take us seriously like we need. We have been produce a lot of knowledge that can be use in education, but education is a lonely discipline, they don't pay us attention, they need a good partner, they need psychology.
So, those are some issues and challenges that psychology has to face, for its good. We can make the world better, but the world has to allow us first to make that real.
For example, in technology we have several issues about scientific area in our discipline. Psychology has two completely different paradigms: quantitative and qualitative. If we use quantitative paradigm, maybe we will use some technological methods. For example, if we want to know about memory and how does it work in humans, we have to use the quantitative paradigm and probably we will use some new technology such as electroencephalograms.
All of us know that science has the power of knowledge in its hands, but there are too many studies that criticize that paradigm and show how wrong they are. This show us that not all is good enough and of course, science has too keep improving itself and show us how good and useful it can be in different problems.
I think that social matters have to be the first challenge that psychology has to face. Our discipline studies humans, his behavior and mind, that’s why psychology has the power to change the society, because all of we (humans) are the society, and today we are not taking serious that problem. But that is not in our hands, today we don’t have the power to change our society like the way we want, because Psychology is not recognize as a serious discipline with the power to do that, and that is too sad, because we study humans, we know humans, we can predict human behavior, but we don’t have the power to make them to believe us.
Education and Psychology must to be lovers and they must to walk together and think together how to make them both better, like good couples. But, that is so far away from reality. Education has been a blind and death discipline, because they don’t take us seriously like we need. We have been produce a lot of knowledge that can be use in education, but education is a lonely discipline, they don't pay us attention, they need a good partner, they need psychology.
So, those are some issues and challenges that psychology has to face, for its good. We can make the world better, but the world has to allow us first to make that real.
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