Comentario acerca de la Teoría de Ausubel

In my opinion Ausbel’s theory creates approaching between explanatory teaching and teaching by discovery, because both can favor a participatory attitude of the student, if it realizes as a first step the search in previous knowledge of them and thus motivate the significant assimilation.

In addition to this, it provides an important functions, the technic of conceptual maps, developed by Novak, that is useful to be able to analyze the relationship that students make between the concepts, and also can be used as previous organizers that looks for to stimulate the student´s participation.

Comentario acerca del video

In my opinion it is a good critical material about education and make us think as a teacher, parents and students of how should it work and what funtion should  provide.

Tarea Domiciliaria

Answer the questions

a) What should students do to learn meaningfully?
b) What is an advanced organizer?
c) What is a concept map?


A) Non-arbitrary, non-verbatim, substantive incorporation of new knowledge into cognitive structure. Deliberate effort to link new knowledge with higher order concepts in cognitive structure. Learning not related to experience with events or objects. No affective commitment to relate new knowledge to prior learning.
B) The advance organizer is designed to provide, what cognitive psychologists call, the “mental scaffolding: to learn new information”. Two types of advanced organizers are verbal phrases and graphics
C) A cognitive map is a “kind of visual road map showing some of the pathways we may take to connect meanings of concepts”. They should be hierarchical; the more general, more inclusive concepts should be at the top of the map, and the more specific, less inclusive concepts at the bottom of the map

Read the text and find

A) The opposite of old: new
B) The purpose of mental scaffolding: to learn new information
C) Two types of advanced organizers: verbal phrases and graphics
D) A profession: student-teachers

Match the verbs with their meanings

A)Clarify                                                        1)To elaborate, create
B)Present                                                      2)To make connections
C)Make                                                         3)To contribute
D)Relate                                                        4) To introduce
E)Promote                                                     5)To make easier



A-5
B-4
C-1
D-2
E-3

Nowadays, rote learning is taking place at schools

In my opinion it’s not true at all. In my experience with the private college’s children I could observe that the students used the rote learning to study, what means that if someone makes them do some exercise to apply their knowledge or if they forget some word, it gets difficult to reorganize their ideas to express the concept they are working.

I teach in a public college, and what I’ve mentioned doesn’t happen: the students barely read, and study less, so that makes them to reason out more and remember concepts taught in class.

My opinion on the Legality of Marihuana

From my point of view the use tha cannabis  sativa  shoud be allowed only as a medicine, but never use it like a grug because it´s too bad for the people and the society.

About me

I´am Analía.  It´s my first name.  I´am 45 years old.

I have two children, Valeria who is 17 years old and Mauro who is 13.

They are the sunshine of my life.

I study to be a teacher because it´s my vocation. I like to speak with teenagers and learn about them.

I love to visit others countries, others cultures, and meet different people.

I have a small dog. It´s white and it´s a baby; it´s very crazy but I love it.

A Famous Person´s Biography

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, a village of 300 habitants near the Transkei in Mthatha. He belonged to the Madiba clan of the xhosa ethnic group, was one of the 13 children, his father Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa or (also called Henry Mgadla Mandela) had, with his four wives for a Chief Adviser of the Thembu Royal House; at the same time he was the grandson of King, Ngubengcuka, who died in the year 1832; his mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni Fanny third of the wife of Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa.

After high school, he began to study at the University College of Fort Hare to obtain his Bachelor of Arts degree. There, he was elected as a member of the Council of student representatives, was expelled along with a partner, because of participating in a student strike. He moved to Johannesburg, where in 1941 he completed his baccalaureate studies by correspondence in the Unisa. Then he studied law at the University of Wiswatersrand, graduating in 1942, as a lawyer.

He was married three times, and had 6 children. His first wife Evelyn Evelyn Mase, who died in July 2003 of pneumonia, was divorced in 1957 after 13 years of marriage. A daughter of this marriage died in age of lactation. His first son, Madiba Thembekili died in a car accident in 1969. On January 6, 2005 died his second son of Mandela and his first wife, Makgatho Mandela, at the age of 54 years in Johannesburg, and his death was associated illness AIDS, was lawyer and businessman, married twice and father of 4 children.

After 38 years of marriage to Winnie Madikizela (Winnie Mandela), he separated because of political scandals in April 1992 and finally divorced on March 19, 1996. With Winnie had two daughters, Zenani (Zeni), born on February 4, 1958, and Zindziswa (Zindzi), born in 1960.

On his eightieth birthday, on 18 July 1998, he married Graca Machel, the widow of Samora Machel, the former President of Mozambique and sponsor of the ANC, who died in 1986 in a plane crash.

Mandela is a fan of classical music of George Frideric Handel or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and usually listens to enjoying the sunset.