Well, first of all I would want to say that the assignment of the role of "Curator Farmer" was the least wanted for me at the beginning of the subject because I didn't know how to do a pearl tree and I thought that it will be very difficult and I couldn't do it. Now, I think that doing a pearl tree is very easy, I could do it alone and I had nothing to worry about. I just had to put some links in some pearls, these links were about the three advertisements we did, the twitter account of Mercedes Ruiz: @Londones and the information of the words that were included one of the videos.
The topic of the activity of the week was: The dark side of Text Books. Me and my mates met at the university to do some videos about the topic showing a clear critique of the text books showing the results that the students acquire from the text books and comparing them with the results that students acquire from the teachers. The advertisements were seen at the classroom during the presentation.
Me and my mates compaired ourself with the Text Books learning that we, the teachers, are much more important than the text books because althought they are plenty of information they can't improve the students' culture as teachers do.
My next role is the "Facilitator", this is an important role and I will try to do my best to achieve our objectives.
Here you are the link of Pearltree where you can see our new work!
http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-fa=10693568&N-s=1_11008605&N-u=1_1823996&N-p=107312211&N-reveal=5&N-f=1_11008605
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martes, 25 de marzo de 2014
Mª Luz as a translator
Hello everyone!
I'm MªLuz, and I have been the translator this week when we have discuss about textbooks and its desadvantages. It is a interesting content because we know that many teachers want to change their methods in order to teach but, do they choose their own methods?
First of all, we have to know different concepts that will help us to understand the really textbook world.
- Editorials: Type of company in charge of editing and providing books in order to send it.
- Methodology: The system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline. In this case we can define how teachers decide to give lessons.
(Wordreference, 2014)
- Business: Organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers for profit. We can say that editorials believe eduacation like a business, since if they send more books they will make money.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
- Curriculum: The planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Teachers have to teach certain concepts that appear in an official curriculum. Moreover, they have to evaluate according to this document.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
- Textbooks: Manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
I have chosen this concepts because all of them are member of a educational chain. I mean, we can see TEXTBOOKS in a school, because we need it in order to comply our stage of education. Schools and teachers use a lot of books, for this, they request advice on how to use them. That is why EDITORIALS see in the sale of books a opportunity to obtain more profits,but sometimes editorials would see education like a BUSINESS, no like a right. Moreover, schools have to follow a CURRICULUM where appear the contents and objectives that they have to get, therefore schools look for "the best" METHODOLOGY in order to teach, but are books really appropiate for teaching? Could we change our traditional way?
I think that Education is more important than a business, so editorials would have think more on children than theirselves. Besides, schools as teachers must improve or innovate the class and the methodology, set aside the books and the enormous amount of contents that we can find in them.
Finally, I want to congratulate to Mercedes Ruiz (you can find her on Twitter @londoness) for her visit. We enjoyed a lot with her and we leart so much about new methodology that we will be able to practice.
Have a nice week!
I'm MªLuz, and I have been the translator this week when we have discuss about textbooks and its desadvantages. It is a interesting content because we know that many teachers want to change their methods in order to teach but, do they choose their own methods?
First of all, we have to know different concepts that will help us to understand the really textbook world.
- Editorials: Type of company in charge of editing and providing books in order to send it.
- Methodology: The system of methods and principles used in a particular discipline. In this case we can define how teachers decide to give lessons.
(Wordreference, 2014)
- Business: Organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers for profit. We can say that editorials believe eduacation like a business, since if they send more books they will make money.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
- Curriculum: The planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. Teachers have to teach certain concepts that appear in an official curriculum. Moreover, they have to evaluate according to this document.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
- Textbooks: Manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format, many are now available as online electronic books.
(The free encyclopedia, 2014)
I have chosen this concepts because all of them are member of a educational chain. I mean, we can see TEXTBOOKS in a school, because we need it in order to comply our stage of education. Schools and teachers use a lot of books, for this, they request advice on how to use them. That is why EDITORIALS see in the sale of books a opportunity to obtain more profits,but sometimes editorials would see education like a BUSINESS, no like a right. Moreover, schools have to follow a CURRICULUM where appear the contents and objectives that they have to get, therefore schools look for "the best" METHODOLOGY in order to teach, but are books really appropiate for teaching? Could we change our traditional way?
I think that Education is more important than a business, so editorials would have think more on children than theirselves. Besides, schools as teachers must improve or innovate the class and the methodology, set aside the books and the enormous amount of contents that we can find in them.
Finally, I want to congratulate to Mercedes Ruiz (you can find her on Twitter @londoness) for her visit. We enjoyed a lot with her and we leart so much about new methodology that we will be able to practice.
Have a nice week!
Carmela Navarro Artés, "The Facilitator"
This week I have been working as the Facilitator.
I think that this week we understood what we had to do since the first moment, so it make easier my job as the "Facilitator" and also the groupal work, so because of that it haven´t been such a difficult work for me.
I started my work as the boss understanding well what we had to do, then I explained it to the rest of the group and I also have been tweetting.
According to the groupal work, we started the week thinking aabout an original way to show to the class the negative points of text books, then we continued recording some videos in different places and finally the star explained each one of the recordings to everybody on Monday.
With this activity we realise that text books are not necessary at all, and there are many different ways to explain the concepts or the contents.
This week we had the visit of Mercedes Ruiz (@londoness) and with her we learnt that we are free to explain and teach what ever we want, she was a great teacher, very funny, friendly and also familiar because she made us fell very confident and ready to do all the activities that she presented to us. With her we did an activity in which we had to explain something in an original way with a slogan and then explained it, we chosen the slogan "Smirrel the Squirrel", with a picture of a squirrel jumping in the University, and we wanted to explain that the nature is everywhere.
I think that this week we understood what we had to do since the first moment, so it make easier my job as the "Facilitator" and also the groupal work, so because of that it haven´t been such a difficult work for me.
I started my work as the boss understanding well what we had to do, then I explained it to the rest of the group and I also have been tweetting.
According to the groupal work, we started the week thinking aabout an original way to show to the class the negative points of text books, then we continued recording some videos in different places and finally the star explained each one of the recordings to everybody on Monday.
With this activity we realise that text books are not necessary at all, and there are many different ways to explain the concepts or the contents.
This week we had the visit of Mercedes Ruiz (@londoness) and with her we learnt that we are free to explain and teach what ever we want, she was a great teacher, very funny, friendly and also familiar because she made us fell very confident and ready to do all the activities that she presented to us. With her we did an activity in which we had to explain something in an original way with a slogan and then explained it, we chosen the slogan "Smirrel the Squirrel", with a picture of a squirrel jumping in the University, and we wanted to explain that the nature is everywhere.
lunes, 17 de marzo de 2014
Journalist, Alba Yelo.
Last week we were working about the dark side of text books. After the brainstorming we decided to do three TV publishment against the text books.
I found a blog which talk about this topic and it helped us to understand better the topic, so I wrote a comment in spanish (the blog is written in spanish) on it.
Here it is: http://blog.lamiradapedagogica.net/2007/08/libros-de-texto.html
Here it is: http://blog.lamiradapedagogica.net/2007/08/libros-de-texto.html
We meet to record it and after 3 hours we finnished and we were proud about the results of it.
My experience being a Star, by Miriam Riquelme
I don't know exactly how to explain myself, because I'm still very excited and embarrased for this week's proyect.
First of all, I'll say that I've had so much fun doing the videos, I almost forgot that they were class proyects, because we were fooling around, dressing up as children, superheroes and other stuff. It's been a really good experience. Making, editing and uploading the videos has been something fun to do, because it's been different and not something we do in class every day.
When we came up with the ideas for the videos, we were not very sure if the rest of the class would catch the messages, but i think they did.
We had a last minute problem today with our other star, Elena. She came to class very sick and she couldn't do the presentation. Get well soon, Elena!
I did the presentation on my own and I think it went alright, basically because what I had to do was only to introduce the videos and explain why we chose that format.
I also think that the idea of putting the opinions on the page is amazing, because you can see what your classmates think of you and leave your own opinions there.
First of all, I'll say that I've had so much fun doing the videos, I almost forgot that they were class proyects, because we were fooling around, dressing up as children, superheroes and other stuff. It's been a really good experience. Making, editing and uploading the videos has been something fun to do, because it's been different and not something we do in class every day.
When we came up with the ideas for the videos, we were not very sure if the rest of the class would catch the messages, but i think they did.
We had a last minute problem today with our other star, Elena. She came to class very sick and she couldn't do the presentation. Get well soon, Elena!
I did the presentation on my own and I think it went alright, basically because what I had to do was only to introduce the videos and explain why we chose that format.
I also think that the idea of putting the opinions on the page is amazing, because you can see what your classmates think of you and leave your own opinions there.
The dark side of the textbooks
This week I was the analyst, Elena Sánchez Valverde.
What was the best part of the activity
In my opinion the best part of this type of activiy (make some videos) is how to organize the caracters who are going to present the content and the way we imagine the differents results of these videos.
What was the worse?
The difficulties we have to elaborate the videos, because when you have to record, you need a camera and sometimes is very difficult to found a good camera which make goods videos, for example the mobiles cameras are really bad for this type of activity.
What was the best moment of the week?
I'm remembering the day we have to record, it was really funny seeing Miriam and Elena Rivera in the middle of the mountain acting their roles. I also remember we were laughed a lot because one group of guys walked near of us and they saw how they were acting, obviusly they laughted about this situation.
What was the worse moment?
The fist day we had to organize the different roles and the way we were going to work that week, this day we've got some differences beetwen us, but we could solve them.
What have you learnt?
We have learnt how record, how to put in common some information and ideas about making a video. We also have learnt that teachers are actors and their acting in the clasroom are esential for pupils and the way they understand the concept.
What do you need to conserve as a group for the next weeks?
In my opinion I think is very important to conserve the respect with our other mates and their ideas.
It is also fundamental we improve our organization that in my opinion this week has been a bit bad in comparaison with others weeks.
The conclusion of this week: I would like to say the group work very hard to do it the best as possible, althoug sometimes we cannot get the best results but we go on trying it and it is essential for a strong and united group. Of course we have to continue getting better some aspects, but we have not got any problem with this, because my group are considere like a group which love getting better each week
What was the best part of the activity
In my opinion the best part of this type of activiy (make some videos) is how to organize the caracters who are going to present the content and the way we imagine the differents results of these videos.
What was the worse?
The difficulties we have to elaborate the videos, because when you have to record, you need a camera and sometimes is very difficult to found a good camera which make goods videos, for example the mobiles cameras are really bad for this type of activity.
What was the best moment of the week?
I'm remembering the day we have to record, it was really funny seeing Miriam and Elena Rivera in the middle of the mountain acting their roles. I also remember we were laughed a lot because one group of guys walked near of us and they saw how they were acting, obviusly they laughted about this situation.
What was the worse moment?
The fist day we had to organize the different roles and the way we were going to work that week, this day we've got some differences beetwen us, but we could solve them.
What have you learnt?
We have learnt how record, how to put in common some information and ideas about making a video. We also have learnt that teachers are actors and their acting in the clasroom are esential for pupils and the way they understand the concept.
What do you need to conserve as a group for the next weeks?
In my opinion I think is very important to conserve the respect with our other mates and their ideas.
It is also fundamental we improve our organization that in my opinion this week has been a bit bad in comparaison with others weeks.
The conclusion of this week: I would like to say the group work very hard to do it the best as possible, althoug sometimes we cannot get the best results but we go on trying it and it is essential for a strong and united group. Of course we have to continue getting better some aspects, but we have not got any problem with this, because my group are considere like a group which love getting better each week
Work as a Star by Elena Rivera.
Last week I
knew that I was going to be one of the stars with mi classmate Miriam. I got
the news hopefully because to do a presentation is one of the best ways to
demonstrate that I may be a good teacher. When we do a presentation about
something, in this case about the disadvantages of the textbooks, we can know
if we explain the topic well and if the people who are listening us can
understand what are we saying.
Unfaithfully,
I couldn't present our work with Miriam and I was disappointed, but I´m going to demonstrate soon that I can
do a excellent presentation, because I love to present and there will be more
opportunities to do it. We have worked a lot in this advertisements with
enthusiasm . In my view, this work has
been one of the most interesting works that we have done, it has helped us to
understand better what are the disadvantages of the textbooks.
This are the three advertisments that we have donde this week:
Finally, I
want to do completely this role again because it's one of the roles that I like
a lot. To be a star is a method to overcoming ourselves and it's very useful in
order to get fluency in order to present, to get creativity and to speak better
in English.
domingo, 16 de marzo de 2014
lunes, 10 de marzo de 2014
Being a teacher from a different point of view.
Today, we had a special class. Mercedes Ruiz, a preschool teacher, came to our classroom to talk about how we should teach in a future and she did a performance to explain it. After that we went to the street to find some picture to catch children's atention. We had to invent a dinamic and enthusiastic slogan which motivate children to study.
When we were thinking about what to do, we saw a little squirrel climbing a tree. We all decided to take some photos and after that we would think of a creative slogan. The result of our brainstorming was:
And here is the slogan: "Be natural, be educational"
Then, when all the groups had finished the activity, we went back to class and we had to present our slogan in a dinamic way. It was so funny and interesting and we all had such a good time.
Mercedes taught us how to be different teachers, how to catch children's attention and how to teach and get fun at the same time.
We are very grateful to have known her because she had such some interesting ideas about how to be a good teacher and a good performer, and we think that we can learn a lot of things from her.
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