Blog #6 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

When Maria Cardenas said, “Stand on their own two feet” is because she gives support and attention to her students to live stronger and overcome trials in life despite hardships. According to Maria “But unlike me, they do not sit in the back of the classroom, scared and ignored. Unlike me, they do not hear that they will never do more than travel the country picking crops. They are growing up knowing that, like their teacher, they can stand on their two feet.” For instance, the students do not live what Maria lived, But now she encourage them to persist in their dreams no matter the adversity. Hence each child need emotional security, someone who trust them and encourages them to fulfill their goals.

I grew up very close to my family, thinking that the world was small and easy to handle, unlike when I came to the United States the protection I had in my family disappeared. Also new challenges like the college, because I did not understand the language. But live in a new family it is complicated; As well as understand new ideologies and different customs. Finally work because I had never worked, and I did not know how to defend myself or just take small breaks to drink water. Definitely worth it because I am learning a language so I have new opportunities and more likely to meet my goals. Next, learn from others as I am learning from each member of my family, get used to their ways of acting and thinking. I have met people and friends at work who have taught me many things such as taking breaks as a leader starting by guiding myself. This brings me to appreciate the value of every detail in life, such as friends, family, work, school each with its own difficulties. I feel satisfice, because I am still learning English and I never want to stop learning, and to show others that I can really stay in the college and working at the same time I am a living example that if you can still not have the sufficient resources economic to pay, but with effort is possible. Finally my family supported me and I feel better every time in the United States, although I still miss another part of the family in El Salvador. I have new friends and that makes me understand many morphs of acting and different ways of relating to each other. Again it is important to overcome each difficulty and have the support of someone important, when it is most needed, to be strong and move on.

BLOG 5:  ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA ACCORDING TO “THE WISTER TRUE”.

The video have different opinions with one same point about the internet and how this affect the society. Also the experienced professionals, and recognized for having worked among the most famous internet companies. The testimonies, and the reflection about the use of social networks is very important and has to be treated with great precision. This video emphasizes the addiction problems caused by the misuse of social media and why it is difficult to evade them.

The video “The twister true” by Steven Bartlett. Awareness about the addiction to social media is slowly destroying the fabric of the society. Steven Kotler (Author and Co-founder of flow Genome project) said: “That´s and an addictive behavior and it´s dopamine that is driving that addiction.” For instance the social media effect and interferes the most important aspect in our life without the realizing. Thus the pleasure and comfortable feelings what the social media produce that sometimes leads to uncontrolled use.

The programmers have designed tools for access, share and hole personal information for grab the receiver attention and how addiction of social media is slowly destroying the fabric of society. Such as Chamath Palihatiya said. “I don´t have a good solution you know my solution is just don´t use these tools anymore. I have it for year’s it´s created huge tension with my friend’s huge tension in my social circle…” Chamath Palihatiya is ex- programmer of Facebook, CEO funded of Social Capita, also member and property of Golden State Warriors, and Technology Health Care education. Made emphasis in that Social Media affect the connectivity between the personal behavior and the rest of the world. Also Social Media influence performance and Goals.

The slowly destruction of the society is the attractive world of the network which capture our attention and the problem of the limited use limit. Steven Kottler said: “You know essentially putting highly addictive drugs into hands of kids before then any natural defenses.” Irresponsibility and comfortability that´s easy to find on social media. But this bring with it a broad and dangerous effects. There should be a limit about how can connect to the technology, because the internet is so delicious that is easy forgot the broad and risk.

The addiction to social media is slowly destroying the fabric of the society. Learn how to use social media properly and raise awareness about use of social media. In particular I see the unreality in social media. Some people use this for work and that´s appropriate. But if we try to solve our feelings and reactions to these media in a new way good result going to be reflect. The representation about our life in social media has no value.

10/1/18

Between Four Weeks

By Ingrid Berenice Arevalo Aguilar

The last four weeks have been a new challenge and brought with it numerous important decisions. In the beginning I felt afraid of taking the READ class, but now I see it as a new worthwhile challenge. I feared the READ class because English is not my first language and I do not often read in English. While mathematics requires patience and dedication, my fear about MATH was not the same as in READ. However, I always found an excellent motivation and determination to do my best. No matter what happens around me, even if I did not know how. To paraphrase what the professor Kevin stills said. "That in order to become good at something we have to practice."  For instance, that practice will be part of a new learning process rather than just passing the classes.

The troublesome of adaptation at the beginning of the semester started because of work forty hours at Chick Fil A, which frustrated me. For that reason, I fought for several weeks to reach a more flexible work schedule. Therefore, studying made me felt enthusiastic, but I reached a time when my grades went down. The time to tried new strategies has begun. I know that an adequate method to be sure in classes is striving for A´s. But how to achieve this if you do not understand the classes? I understood studying means sacrificing comfort and those changes are a positive reflection academically. Having new methods of study and solving problems helps me work towards goals in a better way.

I know that with the help of God the most difficult challenges can be achieved. And God gives special people to help like my parents because, even though I cannot receive too much financial help. They can do what is in their hands. And I appreciate that.

Contrary to all this. I attend less to church. Eventually, that leads me to listen to online sermons, searching for new solutions and to identify my problems. Concurrently new challenge lead me to implement new strategies.

Readings becomes less difficult and much easier to understand because. As a result, the effort is always worth it. I want in the next few weeks to implement the following: although much adapt my work schedule in less hours, make time to study in campus facilities, write more to improve my writing, and seek help whenever I need. Math and Read classes have become a challenge that excites me to see my efforts reflected in the next months. As I have well as achieved in the last four weeks. 

The effort of each day rewarded in our achievements. In conclusion, try to reach excellent grades, and a motivation. Staff to achieve goals are struggles that I  has to learn to confront. Now, fear for the READ class has become a considerable satisfaction, because I  can see my achievements. 

Between Four Weeks

These four weeks have been a new challenge and brought with it numerous important decisions. Taking READ class was one of the decisions I was most afraid of, but now I see it as a new worthwhile challenge. Mathematics is a class that requires a lot of patience and dedication, but my fear was not the same as my fear in READ. However, at the beginning of the semester I was determined to do my best in READ, even if I did not know how. Besides, school was always excellent motivation for me, no matter what happens around me. To paraphrase, my teacher says. "That in order to become good at something we have to practice."  For instance, that practice will be part of a new learning process rather than just passing the classes.

 

The adaptation was not easy especially for work, I got to have 40 hours of work which frustrated me. I fought for several weeks to reach a more flexible work schedule. Studying makes me feel enthusiastic but I reached a time when my grades went down, I realized it was time I tried new strategies. I know that a very good way to be sure in classes is striving for a 100. But how to achieve this if you do not understand the classes? I understood studying means sacrificing comfort and those changes are a positive reflection academically. Having new methods of study and solving problems helps me work towards goals in a better way.

 

I know that with the help of God the most difficult challenges can be achieved. And God gives special people to help like my parents because even though they cannot offer much financial help they can do what is in their hands. And it is something for which I am grateful.

 

In addition, my social life is increasingly closed as the weeks go by. It is the fourth week of classes and the semester gets even busier, I fill all my free time studying or asking for help, this leads me to have more relationships with my classmates, these professional relations help in my academic environment.

Contrary to all this I attend less to church, that leads me to listen to online sermons. Sealing for new solutions and to identify my problems. New challenges lead us to implement new strategies.

Readings becomes less difficult and much easier to understand. The effort is always worth it. I want in the next few weeks to implement the following: although much adapt my work schedule in less hours, make time to study in campus facilities, writing more to improve my writing and seek help whenever I need. Math and Read classes are a challenge for me have become a challenge that excites me to see my efforts reflected in the next months as I have well as achieved in these past four weeks. Having new methods of study and solving problems helps me work towards goals in a better way.

AVIATION

Flying is important to me because it is something that I cannot supposedly do. Someone told me. “You have to stop thinking about great things because the only time you will fly a plane will be in your dreams." At the moment I knew that they were wrong, this dreams started to be real to me.

When I was a girl, it was wonderful to imagine that I was flying, spinning and that the wind hit my face. The interesting thing of knowing new places and to take others to fly with me, although flying is not a game. “The Aviator is a person who controls an aircraft operating it is steering controls this person knows where it is going and how to control the plane in a difficult situation."

I grew up in the best family. It was not a rich and power family, and definitely not the perfect one, but I was happy to be part of them, looking what they did to flourish. The best house of the streets in San Salvador does not mean I am rich or to studying in a private school does not mean intelligent, in a private school is to be intelligent, and trying to aid the problems only leads to getting caught in the hatred. That recovers in the streets of San Salvador is to be a strong one. To follow God is to be a winner and survive. It is not easy ignoring these facts, and is probably the reason I am fixated on flying.

Currently God helps my family escape away from all of this. Dance it was also an good escape  teenage years as I thought that dancing was another way to show my success, but over time I was never more the best dancer in school, the others just had too much experience. This help me see more than just my own needs, as I had taught others to be better than me. Even though my dance teacher was hard that made me cry a lot but it was just a preparation of what I would become, many small parts of life taught me to be strong, humble and caring.

Flying was a dream that I kept every day, I talked about it, I drew, I watched everything on television that had to do with airplanes. My cousins and friends knew as much as I did, and influenced them to study aeronautic, but the opposite It was that dream was mine, they had to change their career while I never got to study aviation, Despite others telling me to, I will not stop dancing So, the dream of being a pilot is what encourages me every day, even if I do not study now I will do it when I have the possibilities, even if I have another career.

I will not stop being a pilot in my life piloting because I build my dreams is what I could tell the one who recommended me to stop dreaming.

Cultivate intelligence for integral growth

Cultivate intelligence for integral growth, develop skills for knowledge, which allows solving problems in different areas, by applying different methods as part of everyday life, David Brooks said: "Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use experience, knowledge and the products of lifelong education that have been stored in long-term memory. It is the ability to make analogies and comparisons about things you have studied before. Crystallized intelligence accumulates over the years and leads ultimately to understanding and wisdom."

David Brooks focuses on crystallized intelligence as offline reading in a deep and exasperating way to learn intentionally, not a simple resolution of the text.

But at the same time, the fluid intelligence can referred to a comfortable experience, the online life that most of the students enjoy, including myself, for the promptly use.

In contrast, fluid intelligence can refer to a very comfortable experience, such as online life enjoyed by most students, for the convenience of solving our doubts quickly, also the parallel world of social networks; All these previous ones make us a carefree way of research and very light development to learn, as David brooks said, "Fluid intelligence is a set of skills that exist in the moment. It’s the ability to perceive situations and navigate to solutions in novel situations, independent of long experience. "

Accordingly, Sandra McGuire made a difference between studying and learning, likewise gives us an incredible and effective method called "Blooms Taxonomy"  to develop learning skills, Sandra McGuire take the case of first year dentistry students who describe the difference: "Studying is focusing on the 'what’s,' but learning is focusing on the 'how’s,' 'whys,' and 'what ‘if’s ... even if i forgot the ‘What’s’ i can re-create them.”

Explain, apply, are one of the steps for the Blooms Taxonomy that lead us to intensify our way of thinking and to develop our intelligence, possibly from fluid to crystallized, Sandra McGuire and David Brooks have common points about how to learn and how to do it, have a successful outcome unlike comfort, speed, fun and ease. Sandra McGuire said: "Previewing and reviewing are powerful and efficient ways to support learning.”

The human being will never stop learning until the day of death, tools such as effort and dedication facilitate the way.