Good handwriting may be the clue to success!!!

Technology is designed to make our lives as easy and comfortable as possible.Thus, we use it for the most basic things such as writing. It seems that we have left handwriting behind and that having a beautiful letter is not a useful skill anymore. But is that true though?

On the one hand, we are used to seeing university students carrying their laptops around and typing very fast pages and pages of notes. First of all, a clear advantage from typing is that it is the fastest method. Not only that but it is also more understandable and easy to read than handwriting.
Besides, some people might say that it gives the impression that you are more professional, implicated and even "updated" with technologies, and I agree with that, because, for instance, when you are submitting a CV, a project or any important document you type it, no matter how nice your handwriting is.

On the other hand, there are also many pros in having a good looking handwriting, especially at school, where sometimes laptops are not allowed and you must write down everything. In that case, handwriting is useful and should be practised, due to that it is important to write as fast as possible while keeping in mind that you have to reread it later, not an easy task! Also the way you write may influence your mark in an exam because the teacher always takes into consideration how the test is structured and if it is visually appealing, which are factors where your handwriting influences.

To sum up, I firmly believe that both methods can coexist together and that handwriting will never die. Even if school decides to allow the use of new technologies in their classes many people would still rather use paper and pen, and there's nothing wrong with that because typing doesn't have to be for everybody. 

Are school exam results always fair?

There is no doubt that Covid-19 has challenged our education system in so many ways. One of them relates to the exams. Our grades rely very heavily on them and with the impossibility of doing them the government has struggled trying to decide how to mark their students in a fair way.


On the one hand, there has been a huge downgrade in the UK. Their government has developed an algorithm which takes into account factors such as the number of students of each class and the pass result of other students to formulate their grade ,with the aid of their teachers' estimations.
This has caused many protests by the students, who believe that this system has been very unfair. Specially the students who live in poorer areas claim that they had suffered a much drastic downgrade than the people from private school.


On the other hand, Spain is the exact opposite case. Here we were based on our teachers' reports and we added one or even two points to our grades if we had done correctly all the assignments during quarantine. Also it was more difficult to fail a subject and we were given many opportunities to pass them by doing projects. This is also unfair but the students didn't seem as bothered with the issue and most of them accepted happily the upgrade.


In conclusion it could be said that we ought to learn from this experience and find another fairer way to evaluate, because we don't have a clue of how much this situation may last.

Bread for today, but... (QUARANTINE: DAY 58)

One of the greatest loss of this pandemic is the one affecting education. Every kid from Spain is in this moment assisting to online courses instead of face-to-face classes which ,of course, are not the same in any sense; not the same amount of hours are being dedicated to the subjects, the themes are not being explained in the same way.. every single thing is different.

But how does it affect this generation of students forced to do on-line courses?

On the one hand, this will cause with no doubt a lack of formation to the students, due to that this way of teaching is not as efficient as the classic one (at the moment), and that the fact of having to adapt to the changes has slower the learning process. 

Also it could create a gap between students who come from a wealthier and poorer families, specially in large families, where not every kid has his own device to attend to class correctly ,or maybe the device is not modern enough to access to some programs. This creates a difference between kids with a lot of facilities and other without them.

On the other hand, it is helping some students to set up routines of study, they are becoming more independent, organized and also they are realizing what study methods work the best for them. All those are essential skills for students, but apparently, most of the students are not used to do those stuffs.

Moreover, they are acquiring a much higher sense of responsibility and sensibility about their futures.

Furthermore, students and teachers are improving their technological skills, they use programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which are really important.

All in all, this extreme situation is producing extreme cases. Some students are benefiting from the situation meanwhile others are ending up adversely affected. Hopefully next year things will calm down and we will be prepare for any circumstance.

Teachers armed with...

Trumps proposition of giving teachers guns was none the least controversial.
Many teachers showed openly their disagreement to the situation and also did many parents and students. Thanks to the social pressure that law wasn´t made. However just the possibility of having guns at school gave a fright to the population and re-opened the discussion about guns in general.

From my point of view that proposal was very extremist. The quantity of shoots at school in America is very high and it is due the easy teenagers have access to those weapons, so from my point of view the law of letting people have guns for selfdefense should be over. It is a very old law which has not sense in now a days lifestyle.

But this is something many Americans are not going to let happen because they think it is traditional and are not going to look up for the security of the country, so, at least it should be harder for people to get a gun and not just selling it in a supermarket. I think that if there is going to be a gun at the house all members from the age of 12 would have to pass a psychological test at least once every year or two years. I think it isn´t a total solution but it might reduce some cases.

To sum up it is a very difficult matter to fix because whatever action is done about it is going to have many people against it.

What do we need to pass English? Resilience!!!!

English is a great language to learn due to the multiple advantages that it offers. If you speak English you will be able to travel to other countries where the spoken language is not Spanish, you will be able to meet new people from other countries (online or in real life), furthermore you will have more opportunities at work.


To pass the English subject you should:
-Pay attention in class. That is vital because you have to understand what's going to be on the exam!!
-Do your homework. Also very important, because English requires practice.
-Write comments of the blog sometimes. It will improve your writing a lot and that's like "studying" for the writing exam.
-Participate in class. Show that you care.
-Behave properly at class. A bad behavior can low your grades.

And that's all. If you do all those things you probably will pass the subject and you will have learned English for whenever you need it!

25th November in our school

Last 25th of November my school, Ies Mediterraneo, decided to collaborate to give visibility to a movement which is growing bigger and bigger each year, moreover it made students think about the current position of women in our society.

The act they organized consisted in placing students in a certain way, shaping the symbol of the movement, a violet bow. The students were raising black and purple balloons and some of them read some texts talking about the topic in from of their mates.

The act ended up very good, all the students liked it and it could be said it was a success for the school. Also, a photograph of the act was taken by a dron, it interested a lot of people and now we have a picture to remember that day.

To sum up I think the idea was the best, besides it is important that the school gets involved in those topics because all kids should be implicated and tough about such an important issue.