First of all, think about this:
"Exams have been a tool to assess students in different subjects. They have been an unquestionable way to determine students' progress and their acquisition of knowledge. However, many experts are now questioning the use of exams in modern education and the limitations that this form of assessment might have."
Now, let's do the reading in page 12. As you complete the reading take out 10 keywords and 5 key expressions. With the 10 words determine which part of speech are them. Then, using the keywords and the 5 key expressions make a summary of the reading.
Once you finish complete exercise 2 as well.
Post all the answers of the task as a comment below.
1. 10 keywords:
ResponderBorrarVerbs: encourage, succeed, manage, wanted, enjoyed
Nouns: motivation, ability, kids, force
Adjective: creative
2. Summary:
Have you ever stopped to consider how stressful school life is becoming because of tests? The author starts with this question to introduce the topic that exams are not the only way to evaluate ability and it is a good way to learn because if kids study only to pass a test they forget all in a short time and also they can not develop their creativity. Besides, according to educationalist Ken Robinson, if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. Also, Robinson belives we should try to develop learning environments where they are encouraged to be creative and discover things for themselves. For this reason the educational systems have to change the method how teachers evaluate students to improve creativity and students have different ways to learn and more opportunities in the future even thought when people are looking for job.
3.
1. True
2. True
3. False: There is not all value in exams.
4. False: Our educational system does not encourages original thinking.
5. True
6. True
7. True
--keywords
ResponderBorrar1) encourages
2) allow
3) expect
4) refuse
5) force
6) develop
7) need
8) enviroments
9) manage
10) try
--Review of: "relationship between testing and creativity"
The lecture is about the actual model of education, this model is based en tests that sometimes can't reflect the real needs of the students in his education. It is incorrect to say that a person doesn't know about a specific topic only based in the result of a test. Of course sometimes the test are necessary but most of the time this tests can not encourage the creativity.
--exercise 2, page 12
1) True
2) False
3) False
4) False
5) False
6) True
7) True
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ResponderBorrar10 keywords
ResponderBorrarencourage, allow, expect, remember, help, educational, , children, manage, exams, refuse.
2. Summary
The lecture analyzes different factors about education because Monica Bolton thinks that tests and exams sometimes are stresfull for our children. Also, the educational system can't reflect the main skills of the person because the proposal is to get a result. It is very important to improve and develop new methods when a person is evaluated in this way, educational system will offer more opportunies to evaluate the real learning of the students.
2A
1. True
2. True
3. False: There is not all value in exams.
4. False: Educational System don't encourage original thinking.
5. True
6. True
7. True
Keywords:
ResponderBorrarVerbs: encourages, manage, enjoyed, study
Nouns: parents, exam, kids, model
Adjetives: brilliant, creative
Summary:
This reading talks about exams, how we suppose that are the only way to educate kids and how stressful they may become. The reading continues stating how exams force our brain to process loads of information and to expulse it later, usually giving only one correct answer. The problems is that this method discourages the creativity of the childs. Many people may feel discouraged because they fail an exam, but there are many people though have failed many exams, have been very successful due to their creativity. However the exams are indeed important to test people knowledge, but education should encourage people by discovering their abilities.
Exercise 2 Page 12
1) True
2) False
3) False
4) False
5) False
6) True
7) True
Key Word: kids - test - study - education - model - stop - success - try - creativity - encourage.
ResponderBorrarSummary:
The text explains how the actual education model, based on exams and tests, discourages the creativity of students. Spending hours studying, squeezing information in our brains the night before a test and the privation of any amusement activity to kids when exams are near, are proof of how this system is changing our vision of what learning is. According to Ken Robinson we'll never come up with original things if we're not prepared to fail; but failing is the worst you can do in this educational model. As we don´t know what kids will need in the future, we should encourage them to be creative and discover things for themselves. Despite of exams are caging people, they are also a necessary assesment tool for some professions; so, we have to implement a balance between testing and encouraging creativity in education methods.
Exercise 2
1- True
2- False
3- False
4- False
5- False
6- True
7- True
Key words
ResponderBorrarencourges (V), squeezed into (V), enjoy (V)
mistake (N), idea (N), inventor (N), future (N), exams(N), children (N)
failure (A)
Key expressions
"input-output models"
"educational systems"
"learning enviroments"
"stressful school life"
"come up with anything original"
Summary
Most of the educational systems over the world encourage input-output models where assessment is based on exams which mistakes aren't allowed. This situation
makes a stressful school life for children who squeeze into their brains facts as much they could learn before the test. Those learning enviroments turn into
a factory where students will never come up with anything original,instead of preparing them for the future. If we can't work this out, the world will lose many inventors, due to this outrageous failure. We should figure something out to make this boring process into something that children enjoy.
Exercise 2
T, F (shouldn't make), F (non-original thinking), F (could ever), T, T
Keywords:
ResponderBorrarstressfull, tests, allow, squeezed, original, creative, succed, entrepreneurs, motivation, discovered.
Summary.
School life is becoming more stressful because of tests. Parents press their children to study harder, despite of the age. It's not allowed to do something else near exam time, just studying. Too young children have to squeeze information into their brains, for using it in one exam. Our educational system discourages originality and creativity and thus young entrepreneurs. Young children must be motivated for discovering their abilities, their own ways to succeed.
Exercise 2a.
1. T
2. F.... Parents shouldn't make their children study harder for exams.
3. F.... There's value in exams but it's no the most important.
4. F.... Our educational system discourages original thinking.
5. T
6. T
7. T
Keywords:
ResponderBorrar1.Exams
2.Children
3.pass
4.educational systems
5.encourages
6.creative
7.discover
8.failure
9.future
10. Brains
Summary:
The author of this reading says that the system of education isn't the best because the way of evaluate the children makes them think that the only form to be good is pass and pass the exams and it isn't true because if they don't approve it they should believe that they are a failure. So in many cases they just introduce a lot of information in their brains and then waste it. Also says it's important to encourage the children to be creative and to discover things for themselves and in a future they can be a brilliant inventor.
Exercise 2:
1. true
2. false
3. false
4. false
5. false
6.true
7. true
Keywords:
ResponderBorrar1. Encourage (verb)
2. Kids (noun)
3. Prepared (adjective)
4. Educational (adjective)
5. Learn (verb)
6. Brilliant (adjective)
7. Success (noun)
8. Exams (noun)
9. Entrepreneurs (noun)
10. Creative (adjective)
Key expressions:
1. No wonder kids resent having to do exams.
2. It’s an input – output model.
3. If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.
4. Just because a child fails an exam doesn’t mean they’re a failure.
5. Surely education should encourage, not discourage creativity.
Summary:
The reading is about the educational system and the way that it operates nowadays. No wonder kids resent having to do exams, because normally the parents expect that the children study every day and do not encourage let them do activities that they enjoy, such as doing art or sports. Actually, when the children have an exam, most of them study the day before, and after that they don’t remember anything; so it is true that is only an input – output system, in which the children don’t learn important things and are not prepared for their labor future. Besides that, the answers are always right or wrong, and if you are wrong people label you like “silly”, but actually if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original and will never have success. Just because a child fails an exam doesn’t mean they’re a failure. We need creative and brilliant kids that want to be entrepreneurs on the future; so surely education should encourage, not discourage creativity.
Exercise 2a:
1. True.
2. False: Parents should not make their children study harder for exams.
3. True.
4. False: Our educational system discourages original thinking.
5. True.
6. True.
7. True.
10 Keywords:
ResponderBorrar-stressful(adj), -school(noun), -exams(noun), -parents(noun), -mistakes(noun), -creative(adj), -success(noun), -motivation(noun), -enjoy(verb), -ability(noun)
5 Key expressions:
-pile on the pressure
-input-output model
-develop learning environments
-encourage to be creative
-doing something he wanted to do
Summary:
The reading talks about how the exams are not the best way to prove that kids and in general al the people are learning. That´s because exams in schools are so stressful and they encourage parents to pile on the pressure. The exams are an input-output model, because they force people to learn different kinds of things only to go and pouring them in exams rooms. However according to educationalist Ken Robinson, we are running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. so we have to try that way of see educational system. Instead of use that system, we have to create a new system in which people can really enjoy what they are doing and try to discover things for themselves.
Exercise 2:
1) True
2)False: Parents shouldn´t make their children study harder for exams
3)True
4)False: Our educational system discourages original thinking
5)True
6)True
7)True
Noun: test, exam time, exams, ability, education
ResponderBorrarVerb: spending, force, fails, wanted
Adjective: creative
Summary
Nowadays, society is doing of our schools and high schools, places where young people go to suffer. There are many ways, in which people suffer in schools. Some of them are tests and exams. When you are young, your life is determined by the acceptance of your classmates, teachers and your parents. The actual education system is based in test and exams’ grades. It does not take in account if you made an effort, or if you had some difficulties. Just matter the grade that you get in an exam. This education system is forcing our students to spend a lot of time, memorizing texts, information and many other things.
The problem is not to memorize all that information, the problem is that probably after exams time students will probably forget all that stuff. Also, another problem is that in exams, teachers cannot ask all the things that you probably study, so if a student fails, it does not means that he or she does not study, it probably is because in the test does not appeared the most important things that the student have to know.
In that way, people wanted to have good grades. Just to have a degree, but it is not because they want to learn. That’s why many people are frustrated, because they are learning things that they should not learn. Also, people are losing the ability to create things by their own.
Exercise 2:
1. true
2. false
3. true
4. false
5. false
6.true
7. true
Key words
ResponderBorrar-Test (noun)
- Encourage (verb)
-Study (verb)
-Force (noun)
-Need (verb)
-Themselves (pronoun)
-Fails (verb)
-Success (noun)
-Goals (noun)
-Education (noun)
Key expressions
-Input-output model
-National educational systems
-Today’s kids
-Working lives
-Doing something they wanted to do
Summary
The reading refers that the system of education has been presented a lot of problems due to input-output model because the mainly objective is this is to obtain right or wrong answer and it doesn´t represent if a child really knows or doesn’t know. Today’s kids are the ones of the future workers and it’s important take into account their necessities of knowledge because is a reality that the world is changing and also their working lives will change, so is pretty important that the system promote a program with the necessities of each country to reduce the unemployment that is growing and also they have to consider that kids have to do something they wanted to do because with that they improve their performance.
Exercise 2
1) T.
2) F: Parents should not make their children study harder for exams.
3) T.
4) F: Our educational system discourages original thinking.
5) T.
6) T.
7) T.
Keywords
ResponderBorrar1. Encourage
2. Parents
3. Expect
4. Model
5. Original
6. Remember
7. Manage
8. Creative
9. Stop
10. Learning
Summary
The reading analyzes the actual educational system in schools and shows his mistakes, how works like an input-output model and doesn't have idea what kids will need in the future. Also critique the importance that have the exams, for example, a child who fails an exam does not mean is a failure, because he might be brilliant in other areas.
Exercise 2
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. True
stressful adj
ResponderBorrarencourage verb
coach verb
expect verb
refuse verb
mistakes noun
develop verb
achieve verv
googling verb
failure adj
Summary:
The text talks about the learning actual model, and it says that it is a input-output, in this model childrens get very stressfull, and the results some times do not offer enough evidence to recognize if the student has the hability for each job will have in the future.
Some time parents trying to coach or encourage their kids make lot of mistakes, they expect their childrens get good grades, and if they didn´t, parents can think childrens are a failure, and they are not.
Like the text say, "try googling boigraphies of young entrepreneurs" they end up being millionaires whit a cretive ideas, not whit tests
Of couse, to conclude, sometime many career need past tests to confirm the knowlodge of the future profesional
Exercise 2.
1. True
2. False they should not.
3. False there is overvalued
4. False "Our educational system discourages original thinking."
5. True
6. True
7. True
ResponderBorrarKeywords
Adjective: stressful, creative
Noun: Exams school, parents, motivation, Ability, Children, Education
Verb: expect
Summary:
The Reading is about the actual educational systems that schools use to check the knowledge and abilities of our children. Nowadays, the input-output model don´t allow educate children for the future. The only important thing is pass the exams, and change the stressful school times. For that, parents need to change the actual model for increase the creativity and motivation of our children. With that we´ll have brilliant people in the future.
2.a
1 True
2 False - Parents shouldn´t make their children study harder for exams
3. False- There´s value in exams, but other things are more important.
4. False- Our educational system don´t encourages original thinking.
5.True
6. True
7. True
Keywords:
ResponderBorrarparents,seven -year-olds,expect, remember, exams, Ken Robinson, stop, need, continue, believe, creativity.
Summary:
Nowadays, parents are very worry about their children. I know that they wish having the best to them, but they cannot expect decisions at seven-year olds. I remember that, some years ago, the exams were not difficult. We have to stop of insist on force children to study a lot at early age. They need to play, to be creative, to enjoy that part of life, because they have to grow up. When it happens, I believe in studying a lot. Ken Robinson is mentioned on the text, and he said something totally true: Children can be limited by requiring much in spite of their age. At the end, is mentioned like example Adam Hildeth. We can say about him that some kids could have very clear their future, what they want to be, but other not. They can try, fall , and get up, They just need more opportunities and believe in their creativity.
P.12 a
1- V
2-F
3-V
4-F
5-V
6-V
7-V
Keywords:
ResponderBorrar1) Encourages
2) help
3) allow
4) expect
5) refuse
6) force
7) manage
8) stressful
9) Remember
10) Model
Summary:
The reading is about the education of this days and what stressful results for the kids this actual system, because some parents require a lot of things for their children and sometimes are private of their games of the childhood and their creativity for do a generic test. It's for this reason that some people are argument that the education in the future need to change and focus in environments more specific for each kid to develop the creativity and the intellegence in they.
Exercise 2.
1) True
2) False
3) False
4) False
5) False
6) True
7) True
Keywords:
ResponderBorrar1. encourage
2. test
3. manage
4. kids
5. education
6. force
7. stressful
8. believe
9. creativity
10. stop
Summary
The reading talks about how the tests or exams have become the process for probe the knowledge. Monica Molton explains how parents encouraged their kids to make hard things or study for tests because parents want excellent scores. Actually, they force them to study and pass the stressful exams without any social media.
Education should be adapted to the person, children have capacity to explore their creativity and believe their skills. All the genius people had started believing on their abilities and skills, after implement it to a section. This to stop the commonly knowledge processes with exams.
Page 12 Exercise 2
1. T
2. F
3. F
4. F
5. F
6. T
7. T
Keywords:adj(stressful, creative). Verb (manage, believe, allow, force, need). Noun (test, creativity, generally).
ResponderBorrarSummary:The lecture analice how stressful is the school, mainly because children are tested and tested with a lot of exams, where is the creativity of each boy. Exams force most of people and children to study the night before, when really the people need some other learning enviroments where they are encourage to be creative and discover thing for themselves. But Actually still people believe to throught passing more and more exams is the only way to achieve success.
Page 12 Exercise 2
1) T. 2) T. 3) F. 4) F. 5) F. 6) T. 7) T
Keywords:
ResponderBorrarstressful (adjetive)
school (noun)
parents (noun)
exam (noun)
brain (noun)
mistakes (noun)
children (noun)
inventor (noun)
goals (noun)
education (noun)
Key expressions:
pile on the pressure
national educational systems
social networking site
goals without passing the right exams
education should encourage creativity
Summary
the article is about the school life and how the tests and exams cause to much stress in the studens without testing effectively the student's skills instead how much they can memorize most of times the night before to the test. the educational system can't prepare the children to the future because we don't know how will be the future, the school should give give to the students to learn and solve problems by themselves.
Exercise 2A:
1. T
2. F Parents shouldn't make their children study so hard for exams
3. F There is overvalued
4. F Our educational system discourages creativity.
5. T
6. T
7. T