Maslow's pyramid

Maslow's pyramid

Maslow's pyramid (Hierarchy of Needs) a part from its basis, which is related tp physiological needs, is really subjective. Once it is not clear enough what he meant with the other terms, for example safety (peaceful atmosphere, no agression) or security (feel protected, comfortable about every activity) and so on. It must be said that some activities by being challenging or aiming to get the students more sensitive about a social issue may cause anger, stress, conflicts instead of pleasure and self-confidence, those activities are necessary in order to improve the students' logical thinking, social relationships etc... It is also important to mention that nobody is equal so hardly the activities will fulfil everybody´s needs.

In class we had to answer the following question:

Maslow's pyramid of needs is a well known model of motivation. With your partner, come up with some example of how certain "ordinary classroom routines may in fact be important precursors to motivation for higher attainment. At what point do these routines become dull, boring or ineffective?

I believe that overuse of any activity (music, video, lab class etc...) or of the way the activity is done (Group work, Class work, Team work, Pair work, Individually) can make a class boring, but you can not take it as law, Iknow many kids who enjoy playing tha same game over and over again.

So the teacher must be sensible and chose according to its goals.

Hope to get your comments on it!

Bruna  

Crossing our universe

      Across the universe offers to its public much more than The Beatles´ songs, on the film you can see different perspectives of war, love and life.

    There is a young man, who was Lucy’s boyfriend, going to Vietnam´s war because he feels that it is his obligation as an American citizen, while Max, Lucy’s brother, has to go to the war, once he dropped college, when he comes back he has serious mental issues.

   Lucy gets involved with a group of peace demonstrators, which by the end showed to be too radical for her. Jude, a British man, Max´s new friend and Lucy´s boyfriend, a talented artist, sees the demonstrators and the war as violence, although he wants the world to be different.

   By the end of the movie, thoughts of how our society is and how do we behave about it are helpless. Sometimes it seems that we don’t do nothing about it or even worse we pretend not to see what bother us (poverty, injustice, violence), as long as we can carry on our lives. Where are our believes, values and ideologies? Are we a lost society?

   There is an interesting videoclip, called The fear, which shows what is happening to our society according to Lilly Allen. The link is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wGMlSuX_c. Is this it?