Bilingual

Being bilingual is not a big thing. There are many who are so my question now is what would the advantage be?

Two things come to mind as I think how we are "Learning on Time". One is the object of learning, the other is the process. We know both are united as what Eckhart Tolle described relative to the difficult separation between the I and me. The spirit and the ego of oneself. Tolle's book "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose" http://www.eckharttolle.com/books/newearth/ clearly expressed the need to be aware. Aware of the difficulty of understanding the difference between the ego and the who that we really are.

So what is the big deal about being bilingual?

The fact that languages are products of culture, and culture is about identity, one is bound to feel part of that culture, part of that identity. When cultural identities separate the individual from other cultures and when this separations are due to conflict in perception then being bilingual is a paradox. A paradox in the sense of being multiple at the time of being single. As in modern physics there appears to be a principle of superposition of states. 

"I am bilingual" is the statement where one is making reference to the process of growing with influences from two countries. Related to me, both the USA and Mexico have histories that are truly separated from origin to purpose. Systemic differences in individual perceptions and societal organizations. Being bilingual also means feeling comfortable with being un-comfortable, with belonging to a group of contradictory backgrounds, ideologies, and perceptions. With being comfortable with playing with myths that come from each culture. Playing with, and following customs that are completely unrelated. In the hispanic community of the United States this means to celebrate "Thanksgiving" as well as "El día de los muertos".   

The question I have now is: Can the idea of bilinguality can be applied to other mental exercises?

What is this all about?

Reading other bloggers talking about blogging and teaching is hard to see what is the limitation of this relationship within the learning process. As I figure my main concern is the lack of time. I have tried to keep up with reading AND writing about the use of technology in education. More so as a science teacher I have the conviction that many practical outcomes will be brought out from the acceleration of information exchange as well as the increased speed in which peer review and evaluation can be done today through the Internet space.
There is so much information and so much discussion that keeping pace with it is almost impossible. So one question I have is how one can prioritize all these avenues? and how can we catalogue all the information for future reference?

Out of the Air!

Well after several week of doing the radio (web) show about the environment finally I had to stop! There is much work to be done and other thing take priority. So let me share with you some of the things I learned.
First of all I was surprized to see how people from far away places get so involved with this kind of projects. Some of my listeners were for Peru, Venezuela, Colombia y South america and some from Mexico. After a couple of week we got to know each other quite well and continue now communicating even though the show is not on.
Second I learned how we all share the feeling that the environment is afected by all in the same way. Some are more literate on environmental issues that others but we all share the same feeling that we all are in the same "boat"!
Thrid I learned that we can always find new ways to communicate and to make our subject matter more and more relevant to others if we make it a daily issue in our lives.
So it was a good experience, one that I am so glad to have had!

The perfect child!

It takes some time to see how good our children are! ;-)

Radio Learning

These past weeks have been a bit intense! I have been playing with radio "broadcasting" in the Internet. Not that is really "broadcasting" because in the Internet all depends on how many people listen to that particular station/web site and is not really open as with the other forms of wireless communication. In any case it is an interesting possibility due to the nature of the Internet, the nature of humans and the nature of time! What we have here is that the word-of-mouth is what helps this communication to spread and the use of forums, listserv and direct emails allows me to let other people know what I am doing. Over all everybody is excited about this exercise.

Learning or "The Air"

These are very interesting times! This last Monday I started my own radio show using the internet. This has been as well a learning experience. Besides de technical aspect of the process is the socio-political aspect of it. The idea first came as I was listening to a station based in San Luis potosi Mexico and they were looking for DJ,s things didn't work out with them and I learn things about personal control and then I was invited to use Radio Gents at http://www.motoclubarandas.com and it is there where I am starting my program. It is about the environment it is in spanish and dI will be talking about energy, transportation, and in general about environmental policies.

growing faith: What is this all about?

There are many now who are interested in being part of the "environmental" movement. This is a good example of things we can do: growing faith: What is this all about?