Good-bye ELI
As I become familiar with Vancouver rain, the time I leave ELI is coming. I’m glad to finish this session, but I’m unwilling to apart from my friends. I met great teachers in ELI. They are passionate to teach students. Also, all students study hard. Especially, my reading class was one of the best classes.
Honestly, I think my reading class was the toughest class. It started at 8:30, and I had to leave my house to take a bus at 6:30. Also, I’ve never expected lots of homework. I considered Studying in ELI was to experience other culture, so my metal attitude was different from many of students who want to attend UBC at the beginning of this session. I didn’t study hard. However, as time passes by, I’ve realized my mind was wrong. Other hard-studying students encouraged me a lot.
I think most helpful work for me is summarizing and paraphrasing. I’ve learned English reading to take a language certification test. I usually focus on answering question, not grasping the meaning. These activities help to understand the text as a whole, and convert the author’s ideas to my own thoughts.
I thank Eilidh. I learned a lot of things. She is really hard-working teacher. She might be more tired than me because she took responsibility not only for me, but also other students. When I had my homework corrected, I was impressed because I felt her efforts to give me advice.
After a month, I’ll be attending a new school in England. I’m worried about my new life and study. However, I’m sure that many things that I learned in ELI will be very useful to me.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
520R Journal #4 Ji Min
Summary of 'Globalization in an Aging World'
In 'Globalization in an Aging World', Serdar Sayan, who is the reporter of Korea Herad, reveals that the graying population in developed countries will deeply affect on not only themselves, but also developing countries. UN revealed that the world’s population will grow to 9.3 billion while graying population will grow up to 2 billion and especially the population of over 80 will increase dramatically, account for 19 % of over 60 populations by 2050. Dropping birthrate and long life expectancy are main reasons of the growing aging population. Rich countries are more largely affected by these reasons than poor countries. In developed countries, workers who support pensioners by paying taxes are decreasing promptly. It requires demands welfare systems and causes lack of government money. Developed countries will be in difficulties with insufficient labor, economies and resources allocation, and that situation will affect on developing economies. Migration of the largely growing population of developing countries can help lacks of labor in developed countries. In case of Japan, to maintain enough labor, 10 million immigrants per year will be need until 2050. However, it needs very large scale of immigration. Importing manufactured products from developing countries can help the aging population in developed countries because rich countries have powerful economy to deal with trade with poor countries. The increasing graying population in developed countries will has effects on global capital movement, especially raise the interest rate because the elders in rich countries spend lots of money, but don’t save it. It will restrict the relative abundance of capital available to poorer economies. Combining globalization and aging let underdeveloped economies more dependent upon developed countries.
Reference: http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2002/0820aging.htm
In 'Globalization in an Aging World', Serdar Sayan, who is the reporter of Korea Herad, reveals that the graying population in developed countries will deeply affect on not only themselves, but also developing countries. UN revealed that the world’s population will grow to 9.3 billion while graying population will grow up to 2 billion and especially the population of over 80 will increase dramatically, account for 19 % of over 60 populations by 2050. Dropping birthrate and long life expectancy are main reasons of the growing aging population. Rich countries are more largely affected by these reasons than poor countries. In developed countries, workers who support pensioners by paying taxes are decreasing promptly. It requires demands welfare systems and causes lack of government money. Developed countries will be in difficulties with insufficient labor, economies and resources allocation, and that situation will affect on developing economies. Migration of the largely growing population of developing countries can help lacks of labor in developed countries. In case of Japan, to maintain enough labor, 10 million immigrants per year will be need until 2050. However, it needs very large scale of immigration. Importing manufactured products from developing countries can help the aging population in developed countries because rich countries have powerful economy to deal with trade with poor countries. The increasing graying population in developed countries will has effects on global capital movement, especially raise the interest rate because the elders in rich countries spend lots of money, but don’t save it. It will restrict the relative abundance of capital available to poorer economies. Combining globalization and aging let underdeveloped economies more dependent upon developed countries.
Reference: http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/2002/0820aging.htm
Sunday, November 9, 2008
520R Journal #3 Ji Min
Cell Phone and Our Lives
We spend most of our time with a palm-sized small electronic that we call cell phone. It is always placed very near us to use anytime. We often realize that we get in a panic if we don’t bring our cell phones. Why do we rely on cell phones? Is it good for our lives?
It is true that cell phones make our like convenient. We don’t have to remember others’ phone number because our cell phone remembers all phone numbers instead of me. We cannot wake up by ourselves without a cell phone. It makes us get up every morning with a beautiful melody. If we’re bored, we don’t need to do other things because our cell phone has a lot of entertainment factors.
However, if we think about cell phones for a while, we realize advantages of cell phones can be defined as simply good things. We are addicting to convenience that cell phones give us. We feel nervous and tight when we don’t bring it with us. According to the number of message that we receive in a day, our feelings change. If no one calls up, we feel withdrawal symptoms like an alcoholic who can’t drink. Remembering phone numbers is impossible without cell phones.
Cell phones replace part of ours lives such as memory and friends. Smart cell phones never forget numbers and schedules, and funny cell phones make us entertained. However, we should be aware that although it can be considered useful, it can’t be regarded healthful in our lives. As we depend on a cell phone, we are going to be a dummy.
In conclusion, our lives and our thoughts are under the control of cell phones. It is requiring us to more rely on itself. To be released from control of the cell phone, we should keep away our cell phones from us.
We spend most of our time with a palm-sized small electronic that we call cell phone. It is always placed very near us to use anytime. We often realize that we get in a panic if we don’t bring our cell phones. Why do we rely on cell phones? Is it good for our lives?
It is true that cell phones make our like convenient. We don’t have to remember others’ phone number because our cell phone remembers all phone numbers instead of me. We cannot wake up by ourselves without a cell phone. It makes us get up every morning with a beautiful melody. If we’re bored, we don’t need to do other things because our cell phone has a lot of entertainment factors.
However, if we think about cell phones for a while, we realize advantages of cell phones can be defined as simply good things. We are addicting to convenience that cell phones give us. We feel nervous and tight when we don’t bring it with us. According to the number of message that we receive in a day, our feelings change. If no one calls up, we feel withdrawal symptoms like an alcoholic who can’t drink. Remembering phone numbers is impossible without cell phones.
Cell phones replace part of ours lives such as memory and friends. Smart cell phones never forget numbers and schedules, and funny cell phones make us entertained. However, we should be aware that although it can be considered useful, it can’t be regarded healthful in our lives. As we depend on a cell phone, we are going to be a dummy.
In conclusion, our lives and our thoughts are under the control of cell phones. It is requiring us to more rely on itself. To be released from control of the cell phone, we should keep away our cell phones from us.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Creativity In Adulthood
Creativity In Adulthood
Everyone wants to be more creative, but we feel that creativity is evaporated by aging. When defining creativity, we often consider curiosity in relation to creativity. In childhood, we were curious, and not afraid of trying to do new things. However, as time goes by, we lose curiosity and don’t like doing something new. Where does our creativity have gone?
This article provides lots of information about creativity in adulthood. The author introduces other authors’ point of view about creativity. There are very interesting studies about it.
Creativity is basically inborn and unchangeable, but it is influenced by environment such as education, family, physical and psychic well-being. During age of 5~7 when a formal school starts, creativity of them decreases by 40%. Most authors agreed that education prevents early talent from transforming into adult creativity because it emphasizes logical thinking than diverse thinking.
There are disputes about continuity of creativity between children and adult. Some of them think that creativity of adult and children are different because adults have very small creativity that comes from childhood. However, the others insist that there are some points of sameness of creativity between childhood and adulthood.
One author concluded that innovation and novelty are characteristics of youthful thinking, while adult creativity shows late-life thinking such as synthesis, reflection and wisdom. Usually, adult creativity graph is a bell-shaped curve. Peak is in 30s, but after 40s, creativity decreases increasingly. However, some research suggest that the pattern is changed by longer life span and slowing physical aging.
There are a variety ways to enhance adult creativity. People need appropriate environment in work place and educational institutions such as constructive feedback and offering rewards. Brainstorming and thinking the familiar strange and the strange familiar can be helpful to be creative. Sometimes fear of failure hinders being creative. It can be overcome by lizard therapy. Physical and psychic well-being is important to maintain creativity.
Additional, there is an interesting experiment about environmental influence of creativity. Men maintain creative space for their own, but women make a little space of creativity for their family.
It appeals because most topics about creativity are related to children. However, this article doesn’t. It focuses on adult creativity. This is important topic of me not only as an adult who feel loss of creativity, but also as a student who are studying art that is deeply related to creativity. The most interesting information is that creativity doesn’t disappear but change into different form such as wisdom. I’ve never thought that late-life thinking is kind of creativity. I think it’s true because sometimes we are surprised at a solution that our elders(such as teachers, parents and grand parents) suggest. Their solution comes from very ordinary things, but we never imagine applying it as the solution. What the creativity is if it’s not creativity!
I think that the biggest obstacle to be creative in adulthood is fear of failure. It blocks us to imagine and try something very creative. This article provides variety ways to overcome that but I want to know other people’s own solution.
Everyone wants to be more creative, but we feel that creativity is evaporated by aging. When defining creativity, we often consider curiosity in relation to creativity. In childhood, we were curious, and not afraid of trying to do new things. However, as time goes by, we lose curiosity and don’t like doing something new. Where does our creativity have gone?
This article provides lots of information about creativity in adulthood. The author introduces other authors’ point of view about creativity. There are very interesting studies about it.
Creativity is basically inborn and unchangeable, but it is influenced by environment such as education, family, physical and psychic well-being. During age of 5~7 when a formal school starts, creativity of them decreases by 40%. Most authors agreed that education prevents early talent from transforming into adult creativity because it emphasizes logical thinking than diverse thinking.
There are disputes about continuity of creativity between children and adult. Some of them think that creativity of adult and children are different because adults have very small creativity that comes from childhood. However, the others insist that there are some points of sameness of creativity between childhood and adulthood.
One author concluded that innovation and novelty are characteristics of youthful thinking, while adult creativity shows late-life thinking such as synthesis, reflection and wisdom. Usually, adult creativity graph is a bell-shaped curve. Peak is in 30s, but after 40s, creativity decreases increasingly. However, some research suggest that the pattern is changed by longer life span and slowing physical aging.
There are a variety ways to enhance adult creativity. People need appropriate environment in work place and educational institutions such as constructive feedback and offering rewards. Brainstorming and thinking the familiar strange and the strange familiar can be helpful to be creative. Sometimes fear of failure hinders being creative. It can be overcome by lizard therapy. Physical and psychic well-being is important to maintain creativity.
Additional, there is an interesting experiment about environmental influence of creativity. Men maintain creative space for their own, but women make a little space of creativity for their family.
It appeals because most topics about creativity are related to children. However, this article doesn’t. It focuses on adult creativity. This is important topic of me not only as an adult who feel loss of creativity, but also as a student who are studying art that is deeply related to creativity. The most interesting information is that creativity doesn’t disappear but change into different form such as wisdom. I’ve never thought that late-life thinking is kind of creativity. I think it’s true because sometimes we are surprised at a solution that our elders(such as teachers, parents and grand parents) suggest. Their solution comes from very ordinary things, but we never imagine applying it as the solution. What the creativity is if it’s not creativity!
I think that the biggest obstacle to be creative in adulthood is fear of failure. It blocks us to imagine and try something very creative. This article provides variety ways to overcome that but I want to know other people’s own solution.
Article: http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-4/creativity.htm
Title: Creativity in Adulthood. ERIC Digest No. 204.
ERIC Identifier: ED429186
Publication Date: 1999-00-00
Author: Kerka, Sandra
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education Columbus OH.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Difference of academic reading and reading for pleasure
Why we read what we read? We read something because it is fun, but sometimes we read to get knowledge. We consider former as reading for pleasure and the other as academic reading. There are three differences between academic reading and reading for pleasure.
To begin, reading materials are different. A material of academic reading is professional such as theses, articles and scientific journals. However, that of reading for enjoyment is easier and more general things such as comic books. For example, nobody read a scientific journal for amusement because it needs a basic knowledge to understand. We get a headache instead of pleasure.
Secondly, Academic reading takes more time than reading for pleasure. When we read essays, we deeply concentrate on that. If we don’t understand contents, we read again and again until we understand it. However, we don’t read carefully while reading for fun. In addition, sometimes we don’t try to understand it.
Lastly, academic reading is not just reading, but reading having a purpose that we want information to make our own. After academic reading, we memorize or write down contents that we think it is important because we want our knowledge to mix with information got from reading. Also, in order to digest information into our own knowledge, we should have critical view to information and know how to discriminate what information is useful. However, after reading for amusement, we hardly think carefully about the contents.
To sum, academic reading and reading for pleasure are different because of difference purpose. While academic reading requires more time to understand and need critical view, but reading for pleasure doesn’t need that kind of things. Information that we get from academic reading lasts constantly, but reading for pleasure lasts instantly.
To begin, reading materials are different. A material of academic reading is professional such as theses, articles and scientific journals. However, that of reading for enjoyment is easier and more general things such as comic books. For example, nobody read a scientific journal for amusement because it needs a basic knowledge to understand. We get a headache instead of pleasure.
Secondly, Academic reading takes more time than reading for pleasure. When we read essays, we deeply concentrate on that. If we don’t understand contents, we read again and again until we understand it. However, we don’t read carefully while reading for fun. In addition, sometimes we don’t try to understand it.
Lastly, academic reading is not just reading, but reading having a purpose that we want information to make our own. After academic reading, we memorize or write down contents that we think it is important because we want our knowledge to mix with information got from reading. Also, in order to digest information into our own knowledge, we should have critical view to information and know how to discriminate what information is useful. However, after reading for amusement, we hardly think carefully about the contents.
To sum, academic reading and reading for pleasure are different because of difference purpose. While academic reading requires more time to understand and need critical view, but reading for pleasure doesn’t need that kind of things. Information that we get from academic reading lasts constantly, but reading for pleasure lasts instantly.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Welcome!!!
Hi
I'm JI MIN(not Jimmy!!!!!) in 520R.
I'm sure that you don't know about me, so I'd like to descrive myself.
I have two cute(sorry;;) dimples on my cheek, and baby face(soooooooorry). My nick name is Bonobono. Do you know Bonobono? It' s a character of Japanese animation. I'll show you Bonobono later.
I'm happy to meet you!
Have a nice day!
I'm JI MIN(not Jimmy!!!!!) in 520R.
I'm sure that you don't know about me, so I'd like to descrive myself.
I have two cute(sorry;;) dimples on my cheek, and baby face(soooooooorry). My nick name is Bonobono. Do you know Bonobono? It' s a character of Japanese animation. I'll show you Bonobono later.
I'm happy to meet you!
Have a nice day!
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