My favorite (English) poet: Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

Daughter & Father

Father and Daughter (Michael Dudok de Wit)

Montessori Toys (The use of modern technology in a Montessori environment)

The Good Things About Video Games
They are a fun, social form of entertainment.
When played with others, they encourage teamwork.
They build competency with technology.
They improve eye-hand coordination and concentration.
As children master the game, self-confidence and self-esteem grows.
Some help children develop math, language, and critical thinking skills.

Making Wise Choices
Research games before you buy. Read reviews and talk to other parents, not jst the person trying to sell it to you.
Look for games that require strategy and problem-solving skills. Be aware that even games rated “E” for everyone, can still contain violence.
Look for games that are non-stereotyping.
Buy games for multi-players that encourage cooperative play so children learn to interact with others.
Sit down and play the game with your children. We even have a few that our whole family plays together. It always surprises my son when I say, “Hey, why don't we go play a video game together.”

Setting Limits for “Screen Time”
Research shows that children are spending increasing amounts of time playing video games - 13 hours per week for boys, on average, and 5 hours per week for girls.
Screen time is any time the child spends in front of something with a screen: a TV, a computer, a video game. Some families set a weekly allotment. Some limit it to when the homework is done, or only on weekends.
Banning video games is like telling children they can't have any candy. If something is seen as completely forbidden, they will find a way to play.
Encourage other activities. If their favorite game has a particular character, why not read a book about it? Or draw pictures? Or make up stories?

As much as we may not like it, technology and video games are here to stay. It is up to us as guides to work with our young people and encourage them to make wise choices.

http://www.montessoritraining.blogspot.com/2008/03/video-games-in-montessori-home.html

http://www.sauganashmontessori.com/

http://eu.spore.com/splash.cfm

What is Montessori elementary?

What is Montessori Elementary - Spanish en Yahoo! Video

1933
Rosa Elena Fergusson funda en Aracataca la escuela María Montessori, de la que Gabriel García Márquez será alumno.
1936
Gabriel cursa preescolar y 1.º en la Escuela Montessori para ingresar posteriormente a la escuela pública de Sucre. Comienza su lectura de Las mil y una noches, obra que fascina al escritor con solo 9 años.



http://cvc.cervantes.es/ACTCULT/garcia_marquez/cronologia/1927_67.htm

Biografía[…] Gabriel García Márquez aprendió a escribir a los cinco años, en el colegio Montessori de Aracataca, con la joven y bella profesora Rosa Elena Fergusson, de quien se enamoró: fue la primera mujer que lo perturbó. Cada vez que se le acercaba, le daban ganas de besarla: le inculcó el gusto de ir a la escuela, sólo por verla, además de la puntualidad y de escribir una cuartilla sin borrador.

En ese colegio permaneció hasta 1936, cuando murió el abuelo y tuvo que irse a vivir con sus padres al sabanero y fluvial puerto de Sucre, de donde salió para estudiar interno en el colegio San José, de Barranquilla, donde a la edad de diez años ya escribía versos humorísticos.

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/reportaje/garcia_marquez/


Lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2005
Muere la maestra de García Márquez
A los 96 años de edad murió la profesora que enseñó a leer y escribir al escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez.
Rosa Helena Fergusson Gómez, quien fue maestra del novelista hace 70 años en el Instituto Montessori de Aracataca, falleció de un infarto en su casa de Medellín.

El Premio Nobel de Literatura la recordaba como la maestra de su vida.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4457000/4457740.stm

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Founders of Google.com, Jeff Bezos of amazon.com, and many others, credit Their Montessori Education For Much Of Their Success

TO BE CONTINUED...

About teaching

Lead your child by the hand to the great scenes of nature; teach him on the mountain and in the valley. There he will listen better to your teaching; the liberty will give him greater force to surmount difficulties. But in these hours of liberty it should be nature that teaches rather than you. Do not allow yourself to prevail for the pleasure of success in your teaching; or to desire in the least to proceed when nature diverts him; do not take away in the least the pleasure which she offers him. Let him completely realise that it is nature that teaches, and that you, with your art, do nothing more than walk quietly at her side. When he hears a bird warble or an insect hum on a leaf, then cease your talk; the bird and the insect are teaching; your business is then to be silent.

Diary entry (1774-02-15) Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

COOL MADNESS

Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
...

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPasXx-xiAg

Questions about our universe

Professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.

EXTINTION - EXTERMINATION - EVOLUTION?

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes. . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla”

“Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world!”

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”

Taken from: Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

That's why I'm not a Darwin's fan!

DURANTE EL PERIODO DE LA CONTIGENCIA POR LA INFLUENZA.

Powers of Ten.

"Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music and should be perceived as such."
- Joachim Ernst-Berendt



Producida por Charles y Ray Eames en 1977 con el objeto de explorar el tamaño relativo* de las cosas desde lo microscópico hasta lo más grande.

* "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity." -- Albert Einstein

p.d. tambien existe una version con narración de Phil Morrison (original) y otra por Morgan Freeman ¡Yo prefiero la musica!

Origen del arte.

Baraka. (1992) Ron Fricke.



"Matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, We are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, Theres no such thing as death, Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves"
- Bill Hicks



The Baraka Ramayana Monkey Chant
A sonic re-enactment of the battle between Prince Rama and the evil King Ravana that’s depicted in the Ramayana. BALI, INDONESIA.