Intelligence

Coursera: The Future of Education

Activity 2.5. What is intelligence?

• During your own education, how has your "intelligence" been assessed?

Through my first years of school (elementary, junior school and highschool) it was mostly tests. Traditional methodologies were used by my teachers.

• How has this affected the educational opportunities you have been given? 

 It is a big change to face learning through practice and applications, though it should be the most efficient way, it takes time and effort to get used to new ways of learning, thinking and participating when the brain is used to memorize everything and forget about it the next day.

• What judgments have people made about you that have been affected by an assessment of your "intelligence"?

I have been told to be shy and not self-confident. Beeing a young researcher among very experienced persons sometimes makes me feel in a very competitive environment and it does affects my motivation but I've never been judged by any assessment. 

• Do you consider yourself to be a "learner"? Why?

I try, so I belive half of the job is done. Everytime I get myself into a learning process I end up wanting more, it's easy for me to get excited about all new and old stuff.

Future of Education

Coursera: How do we learn? 
Activity 1.4. 

What do I think I will be able to get out of this course? 

• Current references on learning theories.
• Know and improve my learning process.
• Reflect and share ideas about each lecture and reading.
• Work on my blog, write my observations and things I discover over the week.

What ideas do I already have about the future of education?

Over the years, education has been structured by a not-flexible frame, limited by time and space, rules and politics. It has become a necessary, and in most cases, a mandatory training cycle, but it has also prove to be a dysfunctional one. We can't tell the future, but by analyzing the present we can try to define our possible actions in this matter.
Education -in most countries- is facing problems such as overpopulation; information overload; lack of resources; introducing institutions into an adaptation to new societies,  forcing them into hasty and wrong decisions.
On the other hand, education may receive support from the same aspects, it all comes to the point of considering the REAL need of learning of every person and society. Changes on education have to be made in this line, researching on how we learn and looking forward new methodologies on this still unkown process.