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Con nuestro amigo Tal Cual hablando sobre Propiedad intelectual


I chose this video because it is remarkable to know some aspects of the intellectual property. The Tal Cual's character tells us the importance of avoiding to post things that are not our authorship because it could bring us many problems. It's even a crime so we must be more careful with "copy and paste" without the author's consent. This crime is known as plagiarism.
We can see this in the streets constantly when people buy some CDs really cheap but they are not originals; they are copies.

In our academic context is very common to take an excerpt from web pages or books, but we don't cite where they are from. Plagiarism is cheating So, this is a crime and we aren't aware of this. Some people have been punished for this in the colleges and workplaces. Sometimes, they do this unwillingly. For this reason is important to know the laws. For instance, we have the law 1032 of 2006 which expresses what are the punishments or implications of the plagiarism.
Be careful with the citation and the information. If that information exists, it has a place where they were born, for example, someones' mind, institutional knowledge, etc.

"FOR MORE INFORMATION: The Copyright Crash Course, by Georgia K. Harper, 2001, University of Texas at Austin, http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm . This site explains copyright and fair use in easy to understand language."

Taken from https://es.slideshare.net/kathykhan/plagiarism-powerpoint-2427193

TENTH TASK: Intercultural communication.

The world is full of countries and these are enriched with many cultures and socities that have an own life and, of course, many customs. These customs make us different between each other. And the differences frequently create misunderstandings.  We tend to judge people without serious criterion. We talk to talk. So, in this opportunity, I want to expose a reflection about this false assumptions that we make about others.

American culture is judged by opinion instead of facts. They are well known for their punctuality, so we suppose that they are gridded people but we do not take the time to know them deeply. I have had the chance of sharing some experiences with Language Assistants who have been excellent people, very appreciative that deserve all good from us. They have taught me some customs, celebrations and traits about their culture. This has encouraged me to visit USA someday. When we interact with others, we can change our standpoints of the world.

Another misconception that could be taken in account is what people think about colombian people. It is assumed, in many parts of the world, that colombian people are dishonest and crafty, but we know indeed that we are special, humble, hardworking, and sensitive people. This kind of thoughts has destroyed our image in other countries. Generalization is always a mistake. Not all human beings are the way we think. Each person has a different story, amd this story takes place and time somewhere. We have to be aware of this. We should bear in mind these lifetimes can help us to build another view of the cultures and their societies. Therefore, the main suggestion is AVOID BIAS.

When we avoid bias, we are free to communicate and interact with others without obstacles because we do not have anything in our mind that can spoil the new relationships.

So, let's avoid bias and live paceful with others.

Today say YES to know others and invite them to build your life.

MY OUTLINE

Helpful statement/question: Garzón (1997) affirmed that Colombian education starts from the premise ‘Studying to get a good job’. Colombian government has been promoting ‘The Education for Work’ since 2010, training people in work practice by developing technical expertise and skills as well as training for artisanal, artistic, recreational and occupational performance. What is your opinion about it?  

(One of Claudia's questions)

1. First paragraph: 

• Introduction: Thesis statement: The education for work is a latent threat against the fulfillment people's dreams.

2. Second paragraph: 

• First argument:  People study technological and technical careers instead of university careers because it allows them to get a job faster and more easily.

3. Third paragraph:

• Second argument: To study something they like is not a good option because it does not make earn money.

4. Fourth paragraph:

• Third argument: The education for work is an easy way to keep the people oppressed.

5. Fifth paragraph:

• Conclusion: The education should have another view with the aim of educating people to live well and happy instead of living for work or survive.

How do you think Frankfurt School thoughts can be applied to today in our own culture?

Nowadays our culture is polluted with many expectatives about how we must be. This does not allow us to see beyond. We receive every day a lot of advertisements and opinions of the others that makes us understimate ourselves. It refers to our education which is really objective instead of subjective. This educational system looks for results and statistics. It does not worry about social and contextualized knowledge. Children are learning many things that are not remarkable for them and this cause that they are not interested in the teacher is teaching. It is a huge problematic that we, as teachers., must deal with in the future so it makes us to reflect and think about it.

We have to be able of doing away of the thought that we are still prisoners of a system. We are, in effect, but this is because we want to be.  We have the power of change the world, our little universe that we are. For this reason, we can tell that Frankfurt School is giving us some guidelines to do it. For instance, we can formulate a new concept of culture. The current definition is harming us because it forbids us to think on our own. In this moment we belong to an industry and we are producing merchandise for this. Our aim must be other. The standardization of knowledges and behaviors  can not continue being the principle of our educational system because it blinds the children's  minds. It insists on they have to be like others are in others parts of the world and being forced to reject their identity and culture.

Following the Frankfurt School guidelines, we found that it is in our hands to be critical thinkers. We might interpret our reality and this will lead us to transformate it. We must begin for ourselves with an individual Project to get individual freedom and then we will be able to empower and merge with social freedom.

What about my strengths and my weaknesses at critical thinking!

Well. Today I took a test about my knowledge, skills and attitudes about critical thinking and I could acknowledge that there are more strenghts than weaknesses and this encourages me to improve every day in every academic activity because I  don't sometimes bear in mind that my study or my lessons could be a good chance to start my critical thinking engine. I could tell that I am really good at recognising the differences between some specific terms. I am a curious person so this makes me to look for something when I am not sure or I don't know anything about it. This is  helpful to improve my skills. Morever I am very cautious when I have to express my standpoint without the intervention of my beliefs in order to not perjudice fair consideration of an issue.

However, I have some flaws in my reasoning at the time of constructing reasons or strong arguments and according to this test I have to improve how I structure an argument, identifying patterns, how to evaluate source materials, my arguments' clearness and to focus on the requirements of an activity. I was thinking and I realize that this happens beacuse of my laziness. I am aware of I don't practice. I don't write or read anything when I have free time and this is really harmful to my critical thinking.

 To sum up, I undertake to enhance all the things that I have been doing in the wrong way. I want to learn more and being a good critical thinker.

What is critical and creative thinking?

According to the activities that we have made today I think that critical thinking is related to our skill of reading certain kind of realities, interpret them and give our opinion or point of view about them through strong arguments and reasons. Everything that surrounds us is  a different world and new reality.

Creative thinking is about the process that our brain has to create something new and solve situations form our curiosity, for example puzzles