Imagine that two people are carving a
six-foot slab of wood at the same time. One is using a hand-chisel, the other,
a chainsaw. If you were interested in the future of that slab, whom would you
watch?
The best part of the activity we had to perform this
week, was the opportunity to learn a wide variety of paths to search and create
your own information with innovative tools, in order to successfully synthetize
the skills that we have acquired during this period. I have to say that not
only has it been quite motivating, but also has helped us to get gradually more
confident with new ways of transmitting knowledge.
Technology is not only on the rise, but it is also
dramatically spreading and evolving, so discovering a new tool like Moovly
has been exciting as it is a very useful application to use with children being
visual and helping on catching their attention to transmit the message.
On the other
hand, the most ghastly part was that in order to be proficient in using a video
program as Moovly or PowToon among others, requires not
only time (scarce this week), but also patience, and constancy( features not
well developed).
Using this new method is a way to acquire or trying to
achieve a new skill, which is to be able to foresee in a near future a good way
to control time in a classroom when we have to be faced with a wide variety of
diverse students. Why? Because going through this new and challenging task has
taught us that in order to be proficient when given a lesson to future students
in a class without surpassing the time, we as professionals, have to invest
time and effort to transform a 50-minute class in a productive and rewarding
experience for teaching-learning.
The best moment of the week was during the
presentation, seeing that two groups, Come On Tutankamon and T8T, have done a great
job and achieved the goal. They have been able to synthesize the contents in a
clear, cohesive and attractive presentation and in the given time, which states
they have worked hard and together as a team. It was a pleasure to see their
faces were they were scored as the best ones on the class.
On the other hand
and at the same time, the worst part of the week was when realising our work did not achive
expectations. This was for clear reasons, to name it: incoordination, lack of
interest of some integrants, working at the very last moment running like
chickens with not head.
Another bad moment
was to witness that even though the work
done by giveme7, which on my opinion it has been the best group all
this time, was not scored as I was specting and I could clearly see some signs
of langhisment among some of the integrants, due to the fact that they work so
hard on this project.
These facts send as a clear message to learn: working
in groups is important as long as all the members are playing at the same
court. Leonardo Messi would not be a football star if he did not receive
his teammates unconditional support. Therefore it is necessary to put all
members capacities together in order to create synergy, but sadly, teamwork is
understood as splitting the work, and that fact will affect the way we are
learning this subject as well as other subjects working with the same system.
For that
reason, the main goal
would be to understand that working in groups does not mean splitting the tasks
in order to become more proactive, on the contrary, as a team we all should
clearly being acquainted and share all the information we find in order to help
our classmates in case that one or more if for for any reason are not able to
perform as good as they should any of the remaining integrant are able to
substitute them without problems.
In order to get better, we really need to work as a group,
as if we were ONE PIECE belonging to
a device, setting above the group
before personal interest. Everyone should work for the group and do not expect
the group to work for him/her.
This content is very related to the course and the
whole degree as it can be applied in any subject, as mentioned above.
And finally, every step, every though, every effort we
make to progress in this subject is increasingly connected on the same
direction society in general should cope in order to be capable to exceed other’s
expectation.
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