My teacher is a robot!

South korea schools are lack of English teachers, so they used to hire foreign teachers, but korean people don't trust them because they accuse foreigners of being promiscuous (They even have to take and AIDS test if they want to enter the country) as a solution for this issue, Korea has invented robot teachers called Engkeys.
Engkeys are 3-foot tall egg-shaped devices developed by Korea Institute of Science of Technology (KIST) which display an occidental woman face on a screen. This robot is controlled  by English teachers in the Philippines, who can observe the class from another place and students will hear them and the robot will even  copy teachers' reaction, thanks to cameras watching his or her face. Besides reproducing what the teacher is saying, these machines have software programs that allow them play educational games and sing songs with the kids, as we can see in the video:

Engkeys have been well received by the children, who have declared that they feel more confident talking with a robot than with a present teacher and they feel more curious to learn. Obviously authorities have been pleased with this invention too, because hiring a long distance teacher is much cheaper than bring him/her to the country.
This is definitely a good invention, especially because there is still a human controlling it, but it is at the same time a tool to make discrimination even bigger.


What do you think about this? would you like to have a talking robot in the classroom instead of a real person?

Limitless world.

Can you imagine to have the power to create whatever you want? would you like to make whatever is going on in your mind real? well, the answers of these questions are closer than you think. No, it's not money. Just pick a up your bag and you will find the object that it's always with you.

Pens are tools that make our life easier in every aspect. We can describe our secret thoughts in a journal, draw or sketch figures, persons, landscapes. Everything you want in a little piece of plastic.

I compare a pen to a magic wand, because personaly I think, with a pen I can go wherever my imagination wants to take me, that's why I always carry a pen with me. Also, you have lots of sizes and colors to choose! therefore you have lots of  oportunities to reflect in an empty sheet of paper a whole new world.

This amazing tool has been part of artists, painters, poets, writers, and of course, teachers. They are our closer friend in our everyday work, so let's try to look further an try to find new usages! A blue pen it's not only to take notes during classes, as in the video I attached below, the drawer just with a nowadays pen could make an almost perfect portrait. What about us? Let's start writing more and encouraging our students to use this object always, because there will always be an special conection between our inside-self and a pen. It's  natural and way easier to express your feelings by writing on a piece of paper than being autocorrected by a computer or getting distracted by a facebook message while you are expressing yourself.

Next time you want to write a true-hearted letter or response I challenge you to use a pen instead of a computer,

Would you give it a try?

A clear example.