Tuesday 25 March 2014

Analyst Post - Esmeralda Martínez López

Hello everyone! I'm Esmeralda, the analyst of this week. I suppose that you already know in which consist my work but I will explain it again. I have to make a reflection about the task of this week and also I have to evaluate each member of the group. This week the reflection is about the whole course of the subject because the task was to make a video summarizing our knowledge.
As a general idea, I am really happy about our work as a group because this week we have worked very hard. Firstly we tried to find the deep content of each task that we had done. So we made a relation between the purpose of the tasks and the competencies that we developed doing them. We used the TPACK framework to integrate all the tasks because it is a model of modern education which combines, in an excellent way, technology, pedagogy and content. If we put away root learning and textbooks our work as future teachers will be more dynamic and interactive as well as students learning.

On the one hand, the best part of the task of this week was when we valued the knowledge that we have learned and when we realized the competencies that we have developed. The purpose of this subject is more than learning content, the purpose is to develop competencies which help us to solve problems outside the scholar content using the knowledge that we had acquired.                                                          
Thinking on that, we took a teacher's view to investigate the main purposes of a good education and we made a reflection about how each of the tasks helped us to reach these purposes. Regarding to that reflection, we arrived to the development of competencies and we tried to explain them in our video in relation with each task.
We learned that the objective was not only the final result, it was also the procedure. We arrived to a final result but we passed for some steps before reaching the objective. We had to understand the task and to investigate how each of the tools worked in order to use all of them in our work. With these steps, we learnt autonomy, cooperative work, how to learn on our own, how to investigate about a specific topic, how to organize our ideas, etc. And it not only works for this subject, it is useful for our work as teachers. We have opened our mind and we have understood that we have a lot of different ways of teaching apart from the traditional one. It is time for us to innovate, to discover new ways of teaching, allowing children not only to learn by heart but also to investigate on their own. Why can't we be innovative teachers? Why we have to work with old methods when there are a lot of new methods to discover? Why children have to learn for passing exams rather than for realizing as a person? And the most important thing, if we have the opportunity of changing it, why don't we do that? It's our moment, we can do it!

On the other part, the worst part was the day of presenting our videos to the class. It was a difficult situation for us because we had the worst scores of the class and we were frustrated about it because we really do not thing that our work was so bad. In fact, we worked a lot on it; we though carefully the idea that we wanted to transmit and we tried to explain it in our video as clear as possible. But then, we talked with Linda and she explained us that the grades were not based on the quality, it was a question of preferences and maybe, our work was more boring than others or something similar. So we will work hardly on it to improve as much as possible. We realized that our work had several things to improve and we will try to do it better at the next task.

To sum up, this week the work was great because we realized how much we have improved these months. However, it was a bit frustrating because of the results. We will do it better the next time, sure!

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