Journalist - María Mula Pérez

Hi guys! I am María and this week I have been the journalist, so I am going to relate the realization process of our work.

                                                                          
On Monday we started organizing the tasks.     The first aim was understanding what was       exactly our work.

When we had the first ideas and references to start the activity, we divided our work and we initiated the creation of our video! At first, we were a little lost, but each one used her imagination to give different points of view, ideas, etc.

 Esmeralda and Alba had an excellent "brain storming" so we decided used their ideas to realize our video. They use to be original and that day they was really inspired!. Rosana is the best managing computers, she is really well on it! I helped her to realize the video and later I elaborated with Esmeralda the "slides". Blanca draw our "little ant", and although she draw it a lot of times, finally she did an excellent work! In addition she is very responsible and tidy.

Mari and Raquel form an excellent team to complete and to apport new ideas, and Raquel has been our video voice-speaker.




Then, we joined every parts and we got a only structure. We had got it!

Finally, our last meeting to conclude with this activity was on Thursday. We tried to improve our video and to review it. It was the best day because we had fun!

On Monday we presented our video, and we participate in Eurovision! 

The results weren´t the best but we observe the other videos and we learnt a lot with them, so we will try to improve it for the next time!.

I hope you like it!

Translator Post

Hi, readers! I’m Blanca and I have the role of Translator this week. It’s nice to write once again in our blog about the last task “What we have learnt during the course in School Organization”. This role consists on explaining the five most important words of the week. It has to include the definition of each concept with my own words and based on academic resources. The words I have chosen are:

Competence: A competence is a learning that we can apply to resolve problems that happen in live. It is necessary the knowledge related to each subject to develop the education. The main competencies which can be highlighted are: personal, social and ethical competencies.

The personal competence is all this information that is important to us as future teachers; we also should be teachers in a TPACK framework.

In social competence we have learnt working in groups respecting other ideas, dialoguing, dealing problems…

The ethical competence consists of respecting other cultures, religions or don’t influenced children with our own thoughts.

Context: is a set of circumstances or facts which surround a particular event, situation, statement or idea. Related to education, the two most important backgrounds are social and the economic context. There are some problems in the public school, such us the money, the economic context, the cultural context (which consists on respecting other cultures, religions, etc) and the age (which is composed by the mental and the chronological age).

Knowledge: is a human faculty which results from interpreted information and from understanding information, concepts, experiences or individual interpretation through experience, association or education. In an organizational context, knowledge is an important element in the intelligence and the competences of people.

Moovly: is a web tool which is used to create videos, presentations being attractive to children and adults. With this tool, we forget about slides adding for example: voice, sound, music, etc. It has a timeline interface with which you can synchronize everything you put on the video. Then, when you have finished, you can publish it on YouTube, Facebook, put it on a website or download it. The presentations 3.0 can be done with animations of the same web, Moovly. With it, it is easy to convert the traditional presentations into creative videos.

Objective: is the proposition of a goal or purpose to be achieved, and that, according to the area where it is used, has some level of complexity. It is one of the key players in the planning process. A goal can be achieved individually or otherwise, as a group, for the formation of a team. In both cases, efforts and will be moved by prior arrangement to achieve the objectives.

Finally, I would like to say I have learnt a lot during the semester of this subject and that with this final task, I realized how much we have acquired. At first, it may seem that you have learned a lot, but it is with this type of activities when you understand the development of creativity, the passion of teachers, the importance of education and above all, the way you want your students to learn in the future.

Greetings!

Our knowledge

Hello! We are The Little Ants, the task of this week is about what we have acquired through the activities which we have done during the course.

First, we have to take into account the social and economic context, for example: that the main problem in the public school is the money, the economic contexts, the cultural context (respect other cultures, religions, etc) and the age (mental and chronological). At first the subject seems a bit difficult because we had to do a lot of activities and in different ways which we had never done, but instead of give up we saw it like a challenge which we had to pass.

Secondly, we have to set our objective, what we want to reach, when and how.

The main problem is that the teachers forget the objectives of teaching and that the main thing is the students.

Then, we choose the tools what we are going to use, we have to take into account the economic contexts of the school and the different competencies. A competence is a learning that we can apply to resolve problems that happen in live. It is necessary the knowledge related to each subject to develop the education.

It is important to mention that TPACK is the base of the modern education; to reach an effective teaching is important to know the knowledge of technologies, pedagogy and content. Technology gives students a lot of resource.

Teachers do a bad use of textbooks they can survive without them. Textbook limits students’ knowledge and creativity. They show just one reality they represent the power of editorials and political ideas and children grow up influeciated by them.

Mercedes Ruiz also shows us that are other ways of learning such us creativity, innovation and the important of language. Educators must be open-minded a teacher is a story teller.

Through this methodology we have developed some competencies: personal, social and ethical competencies.

The personal competence is all this information is important to us as future teachers; we also should be teachers in a TPACK framework.

In social competence we have learnt working in groups respecting other ideas, dialoguing, dealing problems…

The ethical competence consists of respecting other cultures, don´t influenced children with our own thoughts.

As students of primary school, we value all these things, because these things will be very useful in our life. We have realized that in our future as teachers want to be teachers in a TPACK framework, innovating and using more resources than textbooks because we have the control of our classes and we can teach through the resources that we want. To do this is important to feel that we can achieve all the things that we want. 

In this task, we have gone deep in the contents of each task, so that, we have looked for the background and the competences we have acquired.

We have to say, that in the presentation of the videos, we saw the work of each group and then we put the scores being critical.

Here, you can see our work of this week: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Cxt6bzCQM

Definitely what we have learnt is that “TEACHERS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD”. 

Stars Post.

The work of star has been divided between María Dolores and Rosana. Our work consisted on presenting the mind map about TPACK.

In the last classroom on 10th February we explained our mind map. At the same time in this work we have learnt what is TPACK, in this way, Technological Content Knowledge attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers to integrate technological in their teaching. As Mishra and Koelher found, there are three keys of knowledge, they are:

-Technology: the knowledge about various technologies which are applied in class.

-Pedagogy: the knowledge of teachers in practices, methods and strategies.

-Content: the knowledge of teachers about the subject which they have to teach.

The most important is the relation between these components:

-Technology and Pedagogy Knowledge (TPK): teaching and learning can change depend of the use of technologies.

-Pedagogy and Content Knowledge (PCK): the knowledge in a pedagogical way which is use to teach a specific content.

-Technology and Content Knowledge (TCK): understanding on how technology and content are relationated.

As an instance of all this and in relation with our subjects; in the technological part we can find Investigation and ICT and Scholar organization and educational resources. Similarly, Planification of educational action, Developmental and educational psychology, Sociology of education, Scholar organization and educational resources and Diversity of student body and tutorial action are into pedagogical part. And finally, English, Language and literature and Theories and institutions of education belong to content part.

In this way, we can observe that the most number of subjects are into pedagogical part and, conversely, technological part has got the lower number of subjects.

By: MARÍA DOLORES MUÑOZ LÓPEZ y ROSANA SÁNCHEZ ROBLES.

TPACK in education

This week we have been working with the topic “TPACK”. In order to describe our work, we are going to explain what we know about TPACK.

As a summary, we can say that Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is the complex interaction between the knowledge of technology, pedagogy and content. Also, the goal is the integration of the use of technology for future teachers.  At the heart of the TPACK framework, it is the complex interplay of three primary bodies of knowledge: Content (CK), Pedagogy (PK), and Technology (TK). As it must be clear, the TPACK framework builds on Shulman’s idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge.

Nowadays TPACK is growing in the scholar framework.

To achieve an effective teaching it is needed a good access to technologies and knowing very well the content of each subject which the teachers have to teach. TPACK is not a new idea. Other scholars have argued that good teaching requires an understanding of how technology is related to the pedagogy and content.

Mishra and Koehler (2006) argued that “TPACK was derived from three key knowledge sources i.e. technological knowledge (TK), pedagogical knowledge (PK) and content knowledge (CK)”. There are two viewpoints about TPACK’s epistemological nature. The first one is the transformative viewpoint as one where TPACK was a synthesis of TK, PK and CK, so that the influences of each have to be interrelated. On the other hand was the integrative viewpoint, where TPACK did not exist as a unique body of knowledge; but it was a simple combination of TK, PK, and CK that came about during teaching. There is another transformative viewpoint where TPACK exists as a unique body of knowledge.

Firstly, Technological Knowledge (TK) refers to the knowledge about various technologies, to apply them in class. Secondly, Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) refers to the teacher’s knowledge about the practices, methods and strategies of teaching and learning. Thirdly, Content Knowledge (CK) refers to the teacher's knowledge about the subject which is being taught.

Technological and Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) is the relationship which refers to the understanding of how teaching and learning can change when technologies are used. The second relationship we find is (PCK) Pedagogical and Content Knowledge refers to the knowledge of pedagogy which teachers apply to teach a specific content. The third relationship is (TCK) Technological and Content Knowledge which refers to the understanding of the manner in which technology and content influence one another. Finally, (TPACK) Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, is the relationship among all the components. TPACK framework has offered several possibilities for promoting research in teachers’ education, teachers’ professional development, and teachers’ use of technology.

Now that you know the basic description about TPACK, we are going to explain the last class of Organization we had last Monday. The Star of each group explained to the class what they know about TPACK. We will do a little assessment of each group:

THE EIGHT TEACHERS: The poster was very original with the different stickers which were put by the Star of the group, Alba. She explained the theory and at the same time she added new information.

BRAIN STORMING: What we liked the most of this group was that the Star of the group, Rosana, contextualized the concept of TPACK. She explained the history.

TEACH LEADERS: This group had two Stars, Nerea and Gloria. They were fluent during the exposition and we enjoyed it a lot.

GIVE ME SEVEN: The Star, Javi, explained the theory very clear. The exposition of the group was related to the practiced we did on the previous week. He used some images to explain TPACK.

EDUCATION RUSH HOUR: Carmela, the Star of this group, was very original because she used a lot of examples in order to explain better the concept of TPACK.

STEP BY STEP: Yolanda was the Star of the group. She explained the theory very clear and she accompany the explanation with examples of the subjects we studied the previous semester.

HIDE AND SEEK: It was original, because it had relief. The explanation of the Stars, Rosa and Ana Cristina was fluent and they explained well what they wanted to say.

C’MON TUTANKMON: We liked very much this presentation because the Stars of the group, Lola and Carolina, explained the theory as if we were children of primary education. In this way, the explanation was perfect.

On the other hand, some of the Stars must speak loudly in order to listening to them better. Most of the Stars had learned the explanation by heart and also they did not talk about the context of TPACK.

Finally, if you do not have clear the concept of TPACK, we are going to upload a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2sD3K3daq8

To sum up, we learnt a lot about TPACK because we did not know what it was and we enjoy it a lot.

See you soon.