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2021 ISSUE #98 APRIL A Mechatronics Major Will Soon Be Offered At UTN Are You Superstitious? In Memory Of Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino, Creator Of Mafalda INSIDE COVER PAGE 2 EDITORIAL This month our cover page is dedicated to Mafalda, a cartoon girl who cared UTN NEWS about humanity and world peace and, 3 CONARE Interuniversity Campus Will in her own way, struggled against the Move to The UTN Facilities In Alajuela problems she saw around her. If you have 4 A Mechatronics Major Will Soon Be an awesome picture you think could be on Offered At UTN the cover of one of The ILE Post editions, AROUND THE GLOBE send it to [email protected]. So far several readers have sent amazing pictures 5 China Cut “Carbon Intensity” 18.8% that we will be sharing with you soon. 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They can be used THE ILE ETHOS and reproduced for educational purposes as long as you credit you for the original creation. 7 Are You Superstitious? 9 Technology Enhances Language Acquisition ACADEMICS AND MORE 10 Thought Experiment On Post-COVID CONTRIBUTORS Jenaro Diaz-Ducca English For You Cambridge Suggests That For Universities, Blending Is A New Beginning Eugenia González Essay Writer 12 VOX POPULI Clare Goodman Academic Editor THE STUDENTS’ VOICE Christian Moya Essay Writer 13 Fast Food Consumption Xinia Nagygéller Essay Writer 14 Technology Now And Then Izabella Sepúlveda News Translator POP WORLD 15 Is There Truth In The Psychology Of Jose Soto Editorial Colour Or Is It Simply Down to Personal Alejandra Villalobos Essay Writer Taste? DID YOU KNOW...? 16 What Would Happen If Earth Stopped Orbiting The Sun? TECHNOLOGY BITS 17 Using Wakelet Collections And Spaces To Curate Personal And Collaborative Compilations LANGUAGE CORNER 19 In Memory Of Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, Quino, Creator Of Mafalda 20 English For You 21 LOUDER THAN WORDS www.facebook.com/TheILEPost?fref=ts 1 EDITORIAL Reflections On The Student And The Teacher In Times Of Remote And Virtual Learning by Jose Soto (ILE Director) After a year of working online with students, major has its particularities. A student’s success in a remote and vir- we have gained a lot of experience regard- tual learning modality will depend on a high commitment to his or ing how a language is learned. Remote and her own learning. This implies that they will need to be constantly virtual teaching of English for teachers has measuring their acquired skills and knowledge with real-world tasks. gone from being a challenge to an uncertain This also requires that they know how to deal with the process of trial process that depends on several factors. One and error that is the cornerstone of language skill formation. Among of these is the student factor. In-situ teaching many other factors, it also implies that the learner must know very kept us comfortable in our classrooms perform- well the objectives achieved and how to modify his process in order ing the pedagogical mediation that we know to modify his or her learning path. These are many responsibilities for thanks to our professional training. The student vs. methodological a person without a fundamental guide. The fundamental premise factor gives us quite a different picture if the process is face-to-face will always lead us to an important conclusion: the student will re- or virtual. In the end, a decisive factor will always be the human quire another person to be successful in his or her learning. An edu- teaching factor. cational professional will always be important. Paulo Freire has insisted that each person receives education differ- All these reflections can be compared to many others that could ently depending on his or her context and experience. Therefore, tip the balance towards the student, the process, or the teacher. what the student already knows must be incorporated. In addition, However, the human factor will remain if technologies do not solve the student not only has a learning style, but also has many ways of the permanent paradox of flesh and blood education. Artificial -in learning. In a virtual and remote learning environment, the question telligence has not yet crossed the line of completely autonomous arises as to how much these two premises can really be considered teaching mechanisms, or not that we know of yet. for successful learning and teaching. On the shoulders of the teach- Learning a language requires motivation from the learner. Part of er lies the responsibility to make it happen. that motivation is the experience with the object of learning and its Some authors, such as Sciacca, visualize education as a process guidance. It is not the same to learn a language in a face-to-face that is carried out from the person; teaching does not have an ed- environment with someone or sitting in front of a screen for three ucational character in itself, but in an instrumental function with re- hours a day. In today’s remote and virtual context, we need to un- spect to learning (1976), says the author. Could it be then that the derstand that the student will remain active in his learning as long as student has more responsibility for learning? It cannot be so from the teacher knows how to diversify the online and real-world experi- a literal point of view since the person will always look for a way to ences. More than ever, the need for a teacher has been required. find a guide to learn. This guide has lost its physical definition today At the UTN, the learning of different competencies and knowledge and has become omnipresent. If a person needs to learn, he or she depends on how teachers promote this process. Therefore, it is nec- will look for a way to do so, and today virtual environments have essary to understand that the teacher is the main factor in our insti- provided the answer. Does this mean that teachers are no longer tutional pedagogical context of 2021. Listening to the student in his necessary? or her difficulties in learning also means listening to the teacher in his Far from reaching that conclusion, it is necessary to analyze many or her difficulties in teaching. There is someone who needs to learn important aspects. A person’s responsibility to provide effective first, and then someone who must be well equipped and informed learning implies that he or she will search for the most appropriate on how to do this. way. This search starts from a need for a professional-based training Finally, lack of resources, time and space are as much of a chal- to one of a technical or immediate nature. Training in a specific pro- lenge for the student as they are for the teacher. Each has a share fession is not the same as looking for online tutorials on how to build of responsibility in the educational function, and it is the responsibility a table, for example. The focus here is on the first element, a student of proper administration to provide enough for both. If one is not does not learn a profession just by watching online tutorials. The stu- fine, the other will not be. Investment in teacher welfare is as neces- dent requires a guide based on a previously defined pedagogical sary as investment in student welfare. Reaching a balance remains process. The human factor will always be needed to elaborate such a constant challenge, and it requires a great deal a guide. This applies to language teaching as well. of wisdom and judgment as when one requires The case of language learners in an English as a Foreign Language more attention than the other. 2 UTN NEWS CONARE Interuniversity Campus Will Move to The UTN Facilities In Alajuela Translated By Izabela Sepúlveda (ILE Professor) plan of the campus, which requires architectural analysis and feasibility to define if some of the existing modules 1, 2, 3 and / or 4 are intervened or if empty land is used. This solution is projected for a period of 2 to 3 years. To implement it, a work commission was formed, made up of: Gustavo Otáro- la Vega, Director of the Administrative Area of CONARE, Gastón Baudrit Ruíz, Director of CONARE’s Legal Counsel, William Rojas Meléndez, Dean of the Headquarters of the UTN, Oscar Quirós phase involved the transfer to Morera, Academic of the UTN, Noelia th On March 8 , members of the Univer- Soto González, Administrative Head of sity Council of the Universidad Técnica the UTN of 23 courses taught the SIAU, Adriana Brenes Porras of the Nacional and the National Council of at the current Headquarters, Engineering and Architecture Unit of Deans (CONARE), held a meeting to however, due to the health the UTN and Jonathan Morales Arias, initiate the execution of the agreement emergency caused by the Director of Legal Affairs of the UTN; who to transfer the Interuniversity Campus pandemic, remote teaching have already started their coordination of Alajuela (SIAU) to the facilities of the was maintained and students work. It is expected that the building will UTN campus, located in Villa Bonita, in did not need to use the be available next year and the trans- Alajuela.