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  We read a text in class about the results of exchanging playground time with studying time in the United States. The aim was to improve the academic scores lowering this playground time, but they didn’t get the expected results. On the other hand, we saw in our internships that the class time has been reduced by about one hour per day and the recess time has increased by about five minutes per day compared to when we were studying in primary school. This means that we are in a different situation in Spain than in the USA. Even though students can rest a little more, they study less. As a result of this, we think that there are many possibilities to be less prepared to deal with their problems in the future. For this reason, we believe that school schedules in Spain should change. The main change which we thought is to increase the amount of time that students should be studying in class. We have been in classes which last forty-five minutes, making these too short to teach them somet

The school where the kid of the image study decided to ban the religious bangle he wears because they considered it as jewellery. This decision would be part of the policies’ school. We suppose that this is a private or semi private school because this measure is within their policies, and we doubt public schools have the power and the guts to discriminate this way. We are against this policy because we think this bracelet doesn’t hurt anyone, but we also believe that these types of schools have the right to decide and apply the rules they want, and the parents have the right to choose whether they want to bring their children there or not. If this were a public school, we wouldn't justify the measure because the owner of this kind of school would be the state, and its duty is improving the life of the people who in theory cares, especially when politicians have a good life thanks to the money they get through taxes. Not doing it would be a lack of respect for us. Our advice to the

  It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but we are going to explain their meaning later just in case. The mass media is an important thing in our lives, whether we like it or not, due to its influence on the people. In our case, we don’t like it, and the main reason is that it is unreliable. We don't know how the mass media were in the past, but now we feel that we are at a point where it is almost impossible to know what is true and what is false. We see that it writes a lot of articles with no evidence or biassed evidence to give a certain message that it can’t be given with all the evidence available. To counter this, Twitter can be a good resource, as we saw during the last years thanks to the new ‘journalists’ who will talk later of, or normal people who share things there with their phones. Neither helps the fact that they change the narrative in function of the government needs, like Winston of ‘ 1984 ’ did when he worked in the Ministry of Truth. One example c

  Hello, my name is Mario Escartín and I’m going to talk about myself.  First of all I have to say that I’m 21 years old and I’m from Barbastro, which is a town near Huesca.  I play football in a Huesca team called Peñas Oscenses and in my free time I like reading because I am a very curious person and I always like to know what is happening in the world. Other hobbies I have are walking around in the countryside, watching Premier League matches and videos on YouTube about politics and science.  On the other hand, I am a very sensitive person who likes to spend time with my family and friends.  Right now I am studying to become a teacher and I combined my studies with being a soccer coach. In the future I would like to have an academy to teach students all types of subjects from literature to science.  Hello, my name is José Ángel, I'm 23 and I'm from Zaragoza. My hobbies are football, watching anime, reading manga, playing video games and listening to music. I use social media

After watching the video, the protagonist has made us reflect on social networks and their omnipresence in all areas of life. On the other hand, she says something very interesting: ‘technology is not the problem, we are’. For that reason, we are slowly becoming addicted and this is the nuclear problem of the question, that we have to realize that everything will depend on the use we make of social networks and also teaching the new generations to know how to manage social media. In this way, we will avoid many of the problems of its bad use such as anxiety, isolation, depression, cyberbullying… In the end it all depends on us. We think that she is very right in what she says. For example, she states that 'social media is making us unsocial', which is true because we never before in history have been so connected, however we are more isolated than ever.

The world has changed a lot due to the rise of social media. It has changed so much that it is difficult to imagine a life without them. There are some examples, each one with its own characteristics, but we are going to focus on Instagram and other social media to answer the next question: Is Instagram the most harmful social network? Instagram is one of the most famous social media, with billions of users inside who share photos or videos so others can watch them. We have heard about people who suffer from addiction, cyberbullying, anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, lack of sleep, or FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), but we only saw in our environment a possible example of cyberbullying using fake accounts and photoshop. Also, we want to mention words that we heard around this social media, such as posturing, filter bubbles or distorted photos. We don’t know about people in our environment who are related with this, but we know the idea of filter bubbles due to Twitter. And talking a