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One of the things that I really do not like me the most is Technology. To be honest, I have no idea why I am not interested in latest gadgets, laptops, and stuff like that.

However, I have to accept that technology is a necessary tool to our times. Internet, for example, has permitted people get in touch with their families, new cultures and new sources of knowledge, making our lives a little bit easier.

Despite of everything I wrote before, I would like to state that I really liked to write every single Friday about my deepest thoughts in my blogspot. At the very beginning of the year, I did not want to create a blog because I thought I will have much more important things which I will have to be worried about. Fortunately, the appreciation that I had about the blog changed completely as time start passing.

For that reason, I am very grateful for the opportunity that I have had to improve my writing ability, and also my reflexive skills. All that because language V was a course where I could find a place to reflect about the experiences that I was living in my laboral experience, and also about my feelings, my thoughts and ideas about Chilean problems…even I could made complaints.

To tell you the truth, I could say that I enjoy very much to write in the blog. Sometimes was a bit difficult to write what I thought about a specific thing, which I did not even have the answer. I would have also liked to write in the blogathon, but I could not do it because I am part of the university’s pastoral, and that demand me many time, but, when one wants to achieve things has to make sacrifices. Besides, I am happy to work for things that I strongly believe are necessary to the world’s improvement.

In short, I could write that it was interesting to write in my blog. It has been a very constructive experience to me, and I wish following writing in it. =)

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MoTiVatiOn

"IT SEEMS that Education is not doing its homework". Desmotivated students, teachers who underestimate their students, parents who are not worried about what their children are learning, and whose do not help their children to achieve their goals is just the top of the iceberg.

WE, AS STUDENTS, in many times, have experienced what it means to feel desmotivated. According to that, I could write that I totally agree with Litterjohn's points of view about motivation, and the way in which schools are leading with this strong force that has to be develop for the whole educational community: "The pretty delicate Motivation".

NEVERTHELESS, schools are killing their students, and the worst thing is that anybody does anything about it!.Teachers are not taking the pieces of advice that a teacher, as Andrew Litterjohn, is giving them in order to get better their educational practices, and education.

ALL the previous said, unfortunalely, it is an uncomfortable truth. Students are not care about their learning, their self-esteem and confidence are being affected by teachers who underestimate their student`s skills, and that also want their students behave in a silence and very quite way, not avoiding their students to learn what they really are interested in.

FOR that, I am really delighted with the idea of writing about this common problem which schools are not conscious at all. I hope to write all I think about motivation and the main problems that schools have with this beatiful word which is spelling: M O T I V A T I O N.

:::..Creativity..:::

Since I was a child I loved to create new things, but then I started felling that school was killing my skills and it just was trying to transform me into someone who I was not. I really cannot tell you when that happend to me, but I have something inside of me that told me that someone stole my mind, my creativity.

For that, I absolutely agree with Ken Robinson when he said that schools kill creativity because schools do not allow students to think by themselves. Problems come when schools want their students to create very good things, however, educational system have not done anything to improve these "created skills" in their students.

Ken Robinson told us that school and all people who works in it, had to rethink their practices because reflection was a perfect way to get better the educational system. Robinson also said that education has to be taken seriously in order to develop creativity and knowledge.

One of another things that caught my attention was the fact that in school are creating workers and not people who wants to live their life as they want to. According to that, I come to the conclusion that schools are killing creativity, as Robinson told it, because instead of developing a creative thinking in students, schools are just giving to their children the tools that they need to be good workers but not creators of new and better things.

I really think that as future teachers have to be aware of our practices, all the time in order to not to fall into the same bad things that is reproducing every single day " our dear schools".

cheer all my classmates up!