This week I have been the journalist. This week
our stars, Rosana and Cristian, during Easter they had to learn the questions
for the quiz that all the stars of each group had to participate. The quiz
consisted in a play which consisted in a board of snakes and stairs, with the
stairs you must go up and with the snakes you must go down. The first group which
arrive to the end the first win. So the teacher asked them the questions that
we made and they must answer. Our stars asked them very well!!
Here you have an example of the board:
The winner was our classmates T8T in the first
position and the second position was for “Step by Step”. Congratulations for
both groups, good job!!
Then Linda, our teacher of this subject, said
us which were the other prizes for the conceptual maps and for the best
questions. We have the second position in the best questions for the quiz with
our classmates the group of Hide and Seek.
So, we have just finished this subject, now we
must to study very hard for our next exam.
It has been a pleasure for me work with you
guys, thank you for all.
Here we have our two stars Rosana and Cristian, and at the background Maria, Fernando and me (Raquel). This picture was made before starting the quiz.
This picture was during the quiz, Linda asking the questions and each star asking them.
Before Easter my role was the journalist. To be
honest, the week was a bit different because we have to change classes due to
the interesting visits which we received. Even theses visits don’t belong to
this subject, I would like to say that them were so productive.
Firstly our function the last week was to elaborate 4 questions about each Conceptual Map which we did the last week. The questions should pick up the main aspects about the topic, and they were not able to be ansewered with a simple glance. Finally, we had to choose the eight best
questions about a topic 6: Administration and Governance at Local and/or
Institutional Level II. Moreover,
we had to assess all the questions of our partners. It was difficult, because
we didn’t have much time and we had to return the questions, so at least, we
had to assess them by photos.
What do I think about this activity? I think that it
is really difficult and it requires so much responsibility. Even it is hard, with
this kind of activities we develop our critical sense, but in reality it is so hard
assessing our partners´ work. Anyway, we are going to be teachers and we are
going to assess many many, so it is preferable that we start soon.
Regarding my work as journalist, I have made an interview
a teacher of primary education to know what is, as teacher, her opinion about the new law of
education, LOMCE.
There are many documents comparing both laws: LOE and
LOMCE. However, I have been able to see this comparison more clearly in this
document, because it appears two colors that distinguish each one.
Human beings
existence is characterized and focused in spending time and behave, both
individually and in groups. Now that we are facing the student stage, we spend
a great deal of our time in groups. What is even more, in the working world,
even if we are ready or not we will spend even more.
The big group
Of course, many times
we have no choice whether we will work alone or with more people. We are just
told what to do. GOALS? To be best apt to be prepared in order to gain aptitude
skills to be prepared and able to interact with society in general.
The Brainstorming
group, as the remaining ones have been working more than two moths, and that
fact helped us to know each other better, our goals, hobbies, hopes….
REFLEXION is a nice
way to foresee, what about the rest of your class groups?
Learning from other's perspectives
So that my role this
week will consist on going through all the groups integrated in the B section,
and ask them their general feed back about this weekly task, whether they found
it more difficult or easier than previous ones, what should be improved, if all
of them find the task difficult or on the contrary, some find them easier than
others.
I asked them whether
they found this week's task about conceptual
maps easier than Moovly, and
their general answer was that for them getting used to using Moovly was more complicated because the
had to invest a deal of time in order to get used to it. All of them told me
that concepts maps were easier that they were expecting.
Their role on the
exposition day was to work as supervisors, and for them in general the experience
was not good, because none of them could compare their maps with other groups
in order to improve or just have different perceptions, and I have to admit
that they are right, they play disadvantaged.
Their general feed
back is that the LOGSE-LOMCE differences has been approached on anoverbearingmanner,
so that, not time enough to chew the concept. For them going through Moovly or the conceptual maps did not
make any difference, as they think that every tool is new and requires time and
cooperative work in order to cope with all the subjects.
It is curious that
even though we have not been working with the rest of the groups, our opinion
in general does not differ from the rest. On the contrary, we could witness how
the team that was supervising us were telling that as much as they like to
supervise, they did not have the same opportunity to correct their own maps. We
also think that a subject like LOE-LOGSE,
maybe because the majority of us do not go often through the BOE is not an easy
subject, if we are to learn the roots of them. And we also add that I would be
great if we had more time to compare all of them.
Well my friends, that
was all. Even though working in groups is more time-consuming than individual or
interpersonal effort, at least I could report that our worries, our willingness
to exceed expectations in order to improve, and motivation overall willguide
ustogood destination.
YOU ALL ARE DOING
GREAT!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Maria's Report
As the other journalist has said, this is not an easy
work to do. When a new law is adopted, a
lot of changes appear and we had to contrast both in order to understand what
happened.
As I don´t know if the differences between LOE and
LOGSE have been clearly understood, I wanted to explain them with two videos.
They are in Spanish, because it is a Spanish legislation, so that, I will
explain them in English in order to clarify some aspects.
Firstly I wanted to say that LOGSE was a Spanish law
from 1990 to 2006 when it was derogated by LOE. So now let´s see the videos!!
The first one talks about the establishment of LOGSE
and explains it´s main functions and ways of teaching.
As we can see, this law wanted to take many specific
points from LOGSE and try to improve them. It´s main goal is to fight against
school failure from the beginning.
With this purpose It not only included improvement
measures to students in primary and secondary education, but also in secondary
education the number o subjects was reduced.
In general, students have a 65% of common contents,
having the religion subject as a voluntary one.
So know we really know the differences between both
laws, but if you have to decide which one is the best, what do you say?
Well, my answer is clear, I really prefer LOE and
these is because I hate studying only with printed materials and do an exam to
show what I have learnt. Also we have more freedom to choose what we want to
study and how we want to learn things.
In conclusion, we have lots of opportunities and
resources that we should use in order to make our knowledge bigger.
This week, Cristian and Fernando are the journalist, and about our fellings this week we can say that it has been one of the most exciting activities and we all were very motivated with our moovly project.
At the end of the videos presentations we did a kind of contest where we had to put scores to rate the other groups; The winners of this week are Hide and Seek and C'mon tutankamon, we have to say Congratulations to both of them!!
But we are working hard and we hope we will win the next week activity
We did enjoy all the videos but we are going to analyse and comment the other groups videos because we think that each one had an interesting thing to remark:
Hide and seek:
They have explained all our course with a story in which some characters travelled to a world called #Soyer1314 , they also used their voice in the video. It is very original, they deserve victory =)
We have liked it a lot, we have also apreciate that they use their own voice on the video, and the thing of the pacman eating their pictures was very funny.
Well what can we say about us... We had worked a lot in our video and we have tried to show you all the things that we have learnt in this course and each concept in the best way possible. And we hope you all had enjoy it -------> http://youtu.be/NcvMw9_AvOc
T8T
We have really enjoyed their video, the music was great and also they have represent all the activities that we have done in a fun way.
The concepts are clear but the quality of the audio is bad, we would had also prefered it with some music at the background. They have also put too much text, it was not necessary.
We found a very interesting blog about education 2.0 where you can do a quiz about our current educational concept and the concept we are studing in this subject, please don't hesitate to click in as you'll find many things in common with what we are learning in here.
Other nice place to have a look is this blog about the use of new tecnologies in education, is fantastic to find people researching and sharing the same way to think about the classroom 2.0
What is
the first impression you got from the video?
Does
anybody see any didactic innovation on the way that teachers who appear on the
video work?
Is it a
coincidence that in the video, the only activity that is performed there is
about teaching- learning?
Do you
know why editorials not only focuses in the curriculum, but also to provide
applications, rotted on its editorial companies servers in order to control the
students as well as an integral management of the institution?
Well, as I
was checking at Jordi Adell's blog, this video and his comment was what stroke
me the most. Because he is completely right. Nowadays these big enterprises
know that in order to maintain their status and its monopoly, their marketing
board of directors are developing subtle strategies in order to catch the core
market, which are teachers willing to try new ITC methods and students bored of
reading dull books. The result is that they are getting again their clients in.
But the material they sell is the same dog with different collar.
So what
should we all do in order to avoid this assault? We must open our eyes to new
methods of teaching-learning, but at the same time, to avoid falling into their
narrow nets.
Have you
watched the video? Jordi would like that people would look at the video again,
but before playing it observe the following attitudes:
Look at
the students and their bored faces, some of them are pretending that they are
interested in what the teacher with her cool instrument has to say, but the
rest look like zombies.
The
following task I will perform as a professional journalist will be an
Interview that will be carried out this weekend to diverse people, in order to
find out whether they support textbooks and editorials as the predominant
method of teaching, or if they, on the contrary think that a wide range of well
thought and planned resources will be the key to master teaching- learning
skills.....
MONDAY
The first video shows the way we have learned in school 30 years ago,
and the opinion of one of
the E.G.B student’s generation.
Now that this role is
almost ending, I am delighted to say that not only did I enjoy searching the
way journalists in general act, but also trying to imitate them and performing according
with their criteria was a little difficult when I carried out the interviews. I
am very shy, and for me it was difficult being in front of a camera trying to
imitate the journalist performance.
Even though I felt embarrassed
I would not hesitate to going through the same role again.
Apart from this role, I
was asked to search for information and translate the fable. When I was doing
it, I felt I had to change a couple of details to make sure that on the
presentation day the concept would be clear for everyone. Maybe it is because I
have a twisted mind and I always try to disguise every single concept to conduct
it to our children’s path. WAITING FOR THE STARS' PRESENTATION ON MONDAY....
The
presentation day has arrived and I will try to give a constructive opinion of
all of them, having in mind that it is not easy having to be faced with a big
audience…
So
here I will present you all the groups and their links, where undoubtedly you
can see all the extremely great creations they have done so far, which are as
good as their enthusiasm.
The first presentation
is always the one that faces different types of inconvenients, such as technic
problems among others, and this week was not an exception. Although the videos of these
group were as fascinating as creative, with lot of illusion put in it, we all
are sure that if we have the great opportunity to watch it again, we will learn
a lot!!
We were the second
group, presenting the fable and even though Fernando, our star, was a bit
nervous, the fable wasa nice way to
teach what concepts we should have in mind, in order not to follow the flock.
The best moment was
where the kahoot quiz was carried out, as we could see that many of our
classmates as well as teachers were participating, and enjoying at the same
time.
The videos of this
presentation were also very illustrative as creative, because the different
components of the group were performing from diverse locations in the
classroom, keeping us awake, following different explanations. Despite of the
fact that they were dynamic showing us with original and fake leaves the
different ways and perceptions that we acquire through a wide variety of tools,
I would have suggested them to explain why did they chose videos.
I LOVE IT!! Maria, do
not be shy next time. You did great!
The star was very
efficient when she explained why, usingonly five concepts, as clear as the transparent waters of the
Mediterranean sea.
The words were;
ECONOMICAL, EDUCATIONAL, DEPROFESSIONALIZATION, EPISTEMOLOGICAL & IDEOLOGICAL.
After her explanation
she offer us alternatives to the textbooks and what stroke me the most was to
be acquainted that nowadays where we are going through a devastating crisis,
editorials have a revenue of more that 8 millions of €.
AMAZING!!! YOU DID IT
GREAT AND YOUR GROUP WERE WELL REPRESENTED.
The explained very
well the main reason for choosing a video to represent what is going on
education. The videos were funny, but just a tip, put more emphasis on what you
are doing because with a little bit more of a kid soul, you could have done
even better.
Being original, and
creative is a quality that is scarce in our profession. The little ants group
show us that, the new teachers generation will perform better. What I like the
most of this group is that they did not go for the videos and chose a resource
that nobody else used. Comics are a very appropriate way to teach children in a
subtle way, thus we as teachers can achieve great results using them.
KEPPING A CHILDREN
SOUL IT IS THE BEST WAY TO CONNECT WITH THEM.
The first video were
a little bit confusing, maybe because of the sound’s problem, but I have to say
that the remaining videos were exceptional and original due to the mixture of
technics that this group has used, combining good drawings, music and real
images is a good way to catch the audience attention.
In this groups, as
the majority of them chose advertising videos, I was expecting almost the same.
But there were not two alike!! If I had to define what a good professional should
be, this presentation would make it clear. Even though Ana was nervous, she did
a GREAT performance, and I really feel proud of her as well as her group,
because with just a few but well elaborated words, the message touched my soul.
THE RESULTS ARE HERE, A LOT OF EFFORT, ILLUSION, HARD WORK, WAS COMBINED TODAY!!!
