Task 8: Talk Review

Hello =)! Well I must say that I really like this talk. I didn't know this website, neither this event (TED), so I think that I will put more atention to it in the future.

Sir Ken Robinson, as I read, is an important british author who is an international recognized leader in the development of innovation and human resources. In that oportunity, he talked about creativity and education, make reference to his question "Do schools kill creativity?". It is related to the public systems of education not only in England, but around the world. He criticized the actual systems because it is destroying children's creativity who goes to school, while the subjects as plastic arts, dance and drama are considered as useless ways to survive in the future, it means... get a job. Mathematics, sciences, language, history are in the top of the list, by the other hand arts are in the last position. This happened 'cause around the world children are being prepared to be part of academic world, which has as a mission, to become this kids in university profesors (or someone who can survive).

The author said that the academic knowledge is important, but arts, as a way to expresse creativity; is important too, since this hability of innovation is the most potent tool to resolve the problems that could happend in the future, then until now nobody knows.

In my opinion, and taken ideas from his presentation, we have an educational system based on the principles of "shortage", 'cause we are always doing more and more things... is never enough, and we are living as machines or robots.. not as human... we are using just our minds not our bodies ... and it is a shame because we are the two things!

He said that we should preserve and develop the creativity in our children. They will need it and I think that if we don't know how will be the world in the future (and probably we'll not be here) why can we decide by they and do more difficult the things? I means... why to destroy their imagination and therefore their future? I think that we can not do that, but how to do the opposite thing? That is a good question, I hope can answer soon.

Good bye!

task 7: My Future

Hi!
Future is something really incertain; sometimes we need to feel that we can control it because there are many things, situations and persons that we want in our life. Personally I don't like much to think in the future, I mean, I like live the present and just think what I will do tomorrow,next week and maybe the next year. Altouhg, sometimes is very fun think about it. In my opinion, to think in the future helps to set oneself goals. I have some goals: I would like finish my carrer, be a physical anthropology and work in health area doing research about illness, diseases, health state and others topics among the chilean population. Probably I would like to do a postgraduate course, related to the way of live or conditions of differents populations in differents environments. It will be useful to make comparations and to prevent situations in our population.
Respect to my personal life, I would like start a family, not with childreans, but with my boyfriend. We have a beautiful, important and increasing realtionship and we expectd still together and form a family.
To 5 years from now I hope have my own house, or maybe an apartment, and I would like have a job. At that moment I will be starting my life as an adult, it means separate to my parents even if it will be difficult cause is necessary too, so I am enyoing this stage of my life and doing the things as good as I can.
Good Bye!

Task 6: The best in my area

Hello, today I'm going to talk about the best anthropologist that I know.

I haven't know many anthropologist yet; I've read a lot of texts of different professionals in the area and others ones from another social science. As result, I just know little things about many persons. In my opinion, I´m not the right person to say who is the best in something ,but at this time I'm going to talk about Julian Steward, because I think that he did an important contribution to the anthropological science. He is an american anthropologist and archaeologist who founded a new perspective to study cultures, a theory that he called Cultural Ecology. His theory has been considered as a new version of Darwin's evolution theory since he gave an explanation about differents ways of live by means of Adaptation

and because it took into account the Environment. As well his theory provides an especifc method for research too.
I knew him in Anthropology class; the profesor who introduced him did when we were study History Materialism, which was the mean theorical develop by Karl Marx, and Steward has been considered part of that thinking. For me their approach to the study of society and populations is practice and useful so it can give aswers related with a lot of social science´s problems. I think that Anthropology must be a scientific discipline wich must predict the behavior of its object of study ; for that purpose it needs a method, laws and theories than this perspective could give and others ones couldn´t.

Julian Steward was a Profesor of many Universities in U.S.A, unfortunately I don´t know very well his research. I just can disscus about his general ideas; however I would like a lot know more respect to other anthropologist even if they belong to a differents anthropology´s schools.

For more information you can visit this website, there is a Steward´s biography and a photograph too; also there are information of several themes, science and professionals. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/steward_julian.html