critical and creative thinking

OUTLINE Topic : ICTs are new era materials that help students to increase their exposure to the target language. Should teachers start using computers instead of English books in classrooms? 1. Introduction: a) Thesis statement : although ICTs can be cataloged by some institutions as an obstacle to teaching; today's teachers must receive new technologies as their allies in the learning process, since they enrich students learning. Examples: -Using technology in the classroom is a good strategy to promote the different learning styles. - Students become more responsible because they take charge of their own learning. 2. Body paragraph 1 a) Topic sentence : Using technology in the classroom is a good strategy to promote the different learning styles. - Supporting detailed : when using technological devices students are able to develop their activity in the most comfortable way for them, adjusting to their needs. 3. Body paragraph 2 a) Topic sentence : students b...

How do you think Frankfurt School thoughts can be applied to today in our own culture? Frankfurt thoughts can be applied today in our culture by encouraging students to construct their own knowledge, it could be doing new research studies and implementing an education that is contextualized. It means an education that is not removed from reality and can respond to social issues. We have to start moving away from the passive role of students and from that education which believes that students have to be a container that has to be full of theories, to be builders of knowledge in order to encourage a social transformation. That theory could be a utopia, but at the same time could be possible if teachers encourage the student to do research and to reflect on what they are learning. 

1.How does Michael Sandel support the thesis that "over the past three decades we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society? He supports that thesis making an example about education, because in the field of education nowadays society wants to buy motivation and knowledge in students, and those are things that do should not have a price. We have a market society because society not only wants to buy products, but also values. 2. What sorts of arguments are offered for and against the assumed proposal of paying young children two dollars for every book they read ? arguments for say that students start reading because they are getting money, but time after it will become a habit and students will read for themselves. arguments against say that when you start reading because someone is paying you, you will not love it because you do not have the real desire to read for yourself, so you will read for love of money and not because you love read...