Last blog assignment

I selected an article named Increasing Vocabulary through Activities, by Celia Webb.
I chose this article because it is always interesting to know different ways of learning.

This article it is about the participation of the five senses in the vocabulary learning.
The students remember better associating a word with a smell, touch, taste, or sound. So is recommendable exploring new activities.

For example take a class, any class to learn a new skill. Choose something you are interested in and which requires you to use your hands. Each class will have their own vocabulary to describe the equipment, the processes, and the materials. The increased activity will create more connections in your brain. The greater number of connections your brain is able to make with each word, the more likely it is that the word will become part of your working vocabulary.

An other way can be visiting a museum, this is a great choice because they often feature interactive displays. You'll learn the words associated with the focus of the museum. Your brain will link the experience of the museum and record about the trip.

Also working in the garden. Their you will learn about lexicon of gardening, wich is rich in Latin-based words describing plants. Latin provides the roots to many English words in the areas of law, science, and religion. Understanding this words can help you deduce the meaning of other words that are new to you.

Learning new words can be easier, more enjoyable, and result in better retention if you can use multiple senses in the word-learning process.

CAREER-RELATED TOPIC

Construction of Environments of Learning

Construction of environments of learning is a new way of the process education - learning and his biggers characteristics are that: the child is the center of the learning, the teacher is a mediator of the learning, and the work with environments favored.

I have learned very much on this topic, for example that the child must be the protagonist in the process, must construct the learning for himself. This way the child develops the thought critic, comprehensivly of the facts, and formulates and solves problems following his own ways. He obtains significant learnings that in the future he will be able to apply in different contexts.



The teacher to the being an associate in the learning, does not direct the activities, he is a guide , leaving the child to be motivated as his own interest.
The environment adapts according to the lenses of learning, using material and psychological resources that are related in order the activity. The materials must be within reach of the children, the room must be wide, in where they can move freely, to be employed at the floor, and to sit down in pillows when they want to do it. The teacher must motivate the pupils to realize the activities, asking if they are interested in a topic, which they it would like to know on this, and of that way would approach it.
I would like to know in the practice, schools where this educational system is realized, that obviously, is very different from the traditional system.
Also I would like to know on more technical things of this topic, as activities and materials didactic.
I'm interested in this topic because it is a different alternative of seeing the education - learning, and can be a way of giving quality to our educational system, which has a very low level.

Web-sites of my area

As I mentioned in the first publication that I did in this blog, my area of study is the education, which centers in the education - learning process for children. Therefore, I have chosen two web-sites that are related to this, they are very useful for the persons that have an interest in the area.
The first web-site is, and I chose it [ http://www.education.com/ ], because it is a good tool for the teachers and students that look for help in Internet. This page offers information about of the different educational stages of the persons, of the psychological processes, and how they must be approached to achieve learnings. Also I liked that in this page there appear different articles and investigations that serve to learn different related topics.

The second web - site that I chose is [http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html ], because this is full of research and information of any person interested in the topic of education wanted to have. Besides the information is published weekly what gives more value to the page.