Hello everyone,

Today I am writing to tell you about an amazing experience that I had last Tuesday! I went to a class in an Elementary School for reading books and having good times with little students! Before I went there, I was a little scare with the idea of handle many children at the same time. However, they were very cheerful and friendly, and I could feel like a kid again! In addition, before we came, they got ready everything to us.... like cookies, plays, places that we could read books for them, etc.
By making a contrast with my times of Elementary School, I could see that the way they teach children have improved a lot. Nowadays, the little students have 3-4 teachers taking care of them ( my time only a teacher for 20 students); there have students from many countries, such as China, Chile, and here which helps the students to live better with differences between cultures; they know how to write ( I have just learned when I was 7)....
In the future, I wish more students at IECP could have this experience too... Some tips that I could give is: If possible, they would have more time with them; they should practice some plays before; maybe they could learn a song or dance in group and during the visitation, they can teach the kids.

Thank you guys,
Have a nice weekend !
Diogo Machado.

Diogo Machado

January 30, 2013

Reading 3A

Summary #1

Multitasking In the Car: Just Like Drunken Driving

In the NPR article “Multitasking in the Car: Just Like Drunken Driving"(2008), Jon Hamilton focuses on the discussion that driving and chatting on the cellphone is a terrible idea. First of all, the author emphasizes that if someone are chatting on his cellphone while he is driving, his performance is going to be as poor as if he is legally drunk, since this attitude can distracted someone to the point where he devote less brain power to focusing on the road. Second, Jon Hamilton shows that when we get more experience on driving, these changes give us the ability of multitasking, which is do something else while drive. So, for support the idea that chatting and driving is really terrible, they did a series of experiments with the professional pianist, Jacob Frasch; because as a driver, a professional pianist can do a complex task while play his instrument. Therefore, they asked Jacob to play a song while talk about his childhood, and play while read a magazine article, and also like a driver navigating an unfamiliar route, they asked him to answer math problems while he was playing. So, Jacob hit a few wrong notes while was doing the tests, and the experiment’s results proved that even someone is really multitasking in the car, probably he would cause some accident while are chatting on the cellphone. In fact, driver inattention is involved in about 80% of crashes, according to a 2006 study. In short, the article acclaimed to driving and chatting is not safe.

Hamilton, Jon (2008, October 16). Multitasking In the Car: Just Like Drunken Driving. NPR News. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates/story.php?storyId=95702512

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Hello everyone!

I am new as a blogger and I think that it will be the first post of my life.... (: So, first I would like to meet you better and say some important things about me. My name is Diogo, I am 20 years old, and my home country is Brazil. Some people don't know a lot of my country, so it is a huge country with a variety of different kinds of people who often like to have fun. In fact, Brazil have a lot of amazing things to do, such as Soccer ( just for remind you that the World Cup will be placed there this year ), Carnaval (a big event ) and others. So, I like to have fun and have good moments.

In my childhood I used to play soccer, and enjoyed with my friends good moments. I had lived until I completed 17 years old at my hometown city, Sao Paulo, and after moved to Santa Catarina for study Mechanical Engineering. In fact, this city is a island and have a lot of beaches in the coast; I really love enjoy good moments at the beach for surfing and hang outs. In the middle of 2013, I started my exchange program at the United States, and I am going to be studying at Penn State, at State College, until final of 2014. For while, I've taken English classes that should be helpful for my under graduation.

One word for describe this new experience in my life is AMAZING!

Diogo.