[Cristina Prudencio]

When listening about schools of thought I keep thinking about how some of these ideas are present in my way of thinking and it makes me wonder how I absorbed some aspects of these schools of thought. This made me remember of a time when a student mentioned he wore and dressed the way he did because he chose to be this way. This led us to a conversation on advertisements and social media. So now, as I watch and learn more about these schools of thought, I am continuously pausing and analyzing my views and trying to see where I can fit them within these schools. As a parent, I’m also wondering what values are important and how I am influencing my own children. 

Legalism seems harsh and yet it unified. Some rulers might use this because the lesson states that people are bad, they fear pain, but they desire rewards, and can be manipulated. So in order to maintain power these ideas need to be in place. It’s a top to bottom power where you get rewarded for being a good citizen that does what is said to do and if not you get punished. This is all very interesting because people take parts and pieces from philosophies and can defend their thinking in different ways so the question to how we move society to an ideal one is challenging.

[Cristina Prudencio]

The Tabuchi article explains that Japan will have more coal plants even though the world is trying to cut emissions to help fight global warming. These plants will emit the same amount of carbon dioxide per year as the US passenger cars. This article is explaining that for the Olympic Games is portrayed as the greenest and the building of coal plants are a contrast to the Olympics. One of the thoughts that comes to mind as I am reading this article is how I will bring this knowledge back to the classroom. I am looking to see how I can connect this to our unit about emissions. The article touches on Japan being an advanced economy country yet they plan to build 22 coal plants. These plants are being built without really looking at how they will impact the environment because they are at the locations where previous oil- burning facilities were located. The effects of this were seen for the summer Olympics which had to be moved to another city because of the heat at the original city. I was more interested in this article because I am fascinated to learn more about a country I want to visit in the future. The article explains that Japan will invest in cleaning up emissions generated from coal but that the technology is still not available commercially. It interests me to see they will invest in cleaning up emissions but not so much in letting go of coal energy.  Although this article explains how other countries are cutting down on coal emissions by a certain year and how Japan’s disasters made it go back to oil- burning facilities, I am curious to learn more about what and or how they will work on their path for energy security and their contribution against climate change.

[Cristina Prudencio]

The Tabuchi article explains that Japan will have more coal plants even though the world is trying to cut emissions to help fight global warming. These plants will emit the same amount of carbon dioxide per year as the US passenger cars. This article is explaining that for the Olympic Games is portrayed as the greenest and the building of coal plants are a contrast to the Olympics. One of the thoughts that comes to mind as I am reading this article is how I will bring this knowledge back to the classroom. I am looking to see how I can connect this to our unit about emissions. The article touches on Japan being an advanced economy country yet they plan to build 22 coal plants. These plants are being built without really looking at how they will impact the environment because they are at the locations where previous oil- burning facilities were located. The effects of this were seen for the summer Olympics which had to be moved to another city because of the heat at the original city. I was more interested in this article because I am fascinated to learn more about a country I want to visit in the future. The article explains that Japan will invest in cleaning up emissions generated from coal but that the technology is still not available commercially. It interests me to see they will invest in cleaning up emissions but not so much in letting go of coal energy.  Although this article explains how other countries are cutting down on coal emissions by a certain year and how Japan’s disasters made it go back to oil- burning facilities, I am curious to learn more about what and or how they will work on their path for energy security and their contribution against climate change.

[Cristina Prudencio]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Cristina Prudencio and I teach 5th grade in LAUSD. This is my 7th year teaching and my second year teaching 5th grade. I am looking forward to bringing what I learn back into the classroom. When I am not focusing on teaching, I spend as much quality time with my family as I can. I also enjoy listening to music and love going to concerts. I am looking forward to doing this as soon as it is safe to do so.

Nice to meet you all.
 

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