Showing posts with label librodetesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label librodetesto. Show all posts

Monday, 24 March 2014

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: 


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

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Curator-Farmer. María Mula Pérez

Hi! I am María and this week I have been the Curator-Farmer of our task, and I put here the link of my pearltree about "the dark size of text books". I have tried to reflect the main disadvantages of text book. On the other hand, the second pearl is based on "comic", which has been the tool used by us to complete this activity. I hope you like it!




Michael W. Apple. Official Knowledge, 2nd edn (2000), London: Routledge, pp. 42–60. Retrieved from: https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2013_N_N/Grupo%201/About%20textbooks/apple_cultural_politics_and_the_text.pdf


In conclusion, thanks to this activity we have learnt to use a variety of multimedia products as well as online programmes.

Monday, 17 March 2014

Stars Post

Hello! We are the stars of the group “The Little Ants”, María Dolores and Blanca. At first, for this task, we thought that we would expose on Thursday but we didn´t have enough time, so the exposition took place on Monday.

We had to do two comics, one of them in English and another in Spanish. Using Chogger Comic Strip Creator. There, appear a dialogue between a book and children of different status, these children realized that textbooks are not as good as a lot of people think.

We had a mistake of grammar, in a cartoon we put: “we only can learn by head”, and the correct is “we only can learn by heart” as Linda said us.

We decided to choose the comic because we think that is the best and dynamic way to teach that children can acquire more knowledge apart from textbooks, for example on internet or doing dynamic activities such as go to the zoo to study different kind of mammals.

It was a bit difficult for us to find a web page 2.0 to develop what we wanted was to make it from our own drawings. Finally, we found this page which is adapted to our wishes. We chose this tool because it allows us to create the squares from photos or own drawings and it was more professional than the others we found.

We saw the links which Linda suggested and there, we have learnt that in many nations debates over the content and format of school textbooks are sites of educational and political conflict. We have understood that the editorials follow the instructions of the government and politicians, so they show the different ideologies.  The solution is not the digital text books because the children just memorize and the editorials have digitalized typical books but not in the best way as we can see in the article “Carta a los editores del libro de texto”. The problem, it seems, is that educational administration is unwilling to continue paying their textbooks on paper because it has spent a fortune on computers for children and schools. The traditional criticism of the textbook as Jordi Ardell argued can be classified in: ideological (with problems with the hidden curriculum), didactics (many of the practices of textbooks are memorization exercises), epistemological (the book is the only source of true knowledge), deskilling (nowadays, the books say what the teachers have to say in class) and economics (it produces unsustainable prices and poor quality)

In conclusion, we had a good and different experience about the presentation because in this task we didn´t have to explain a lot, our work was reflected in our comic.

Facilitator Post


Hello, I am Esmeralda, the facilitator of The Little Ants during this week. My experience in this role has been good, maybe because the members of the group get on well and it was easy to work (and to be a bit bossy) with them. This week, we have been working on the dark side of textbooks. As I have to be in charge of the Web 2.0 group's life, we have been using the HT #librodetesto on our Twitter so here you can see some of our Tweets: 



Also we put some tweets during the task that Mercedes Ruiz proposed to us: 


As well, after the presentation we received some interesting comments from our classmates that help us to improve our works. 

Also you can see that Mercedes Ruiz (@Londones) wrote us some very interesting tips and comments with some reflections to think about that really motivate us to improve and continue learning: 



The role of each person of my group during this week was:

Journalist: Raquel. She had taken some photos and videos during the week and she has commented on blogs of other groups.

Analyst: Rosana. She had to evaluate the work of each member of the group. She also had to make the reflection of the task of this week answering some questions related with the topic.

Translator: Alba. She had to find the five key concepts of the task and she had to define them looking for extra information.

Curator-farmer: Maria. She had to organize a mind map and she had to put these ideas in a PearlTrees. She also has to compile the references of the resources that we have used.

Stars: Blanca and Maria Dolores. They had to explain to the whole class the reason of why we have choose the format of comic for doing the task and they had to present the comic.

Facilitator: Esmeralda.


This week the format that we decided to use for this task was the comic. We had different tasks to do so I decided to organize the group in order to do not waste the time. Maria and Raquel thought how to create and do the drawings of the comic. Rosana and Blanca started to look for one tool of Web 2.0 that allows us to update our own images to do the comic. Alba, Maria Dolores and me started to look for some resources to catch the main ideas of the disadvantages of text books and we started to do the outline of the comic. When we finished our individual tasks, each person of the group explain the others the conclusion that she had arrived, so all of us know the main ideas. Moreover, we decided together the ideas that we will put on the comic.

I am very happy with the development of the task because all the members of the group had their activities on time.

Also, I had to solve some problems. For example, we started to work with one tool for doing the comic but we were not really sure about if this tool will be the correct tool, so we talked with the teacher the next day and she told us that we must find an online tool to upload our comic. We continue looking for other tools and finally we found the adequate one.

I have to mention that we had a special visit the last Monday on our class, which was Mercedes Ruiz' visit. During that session we also talked about the disadvantages of text book and she proposed us some alternatives: we not only have to pay for text book as the unique tool to teach, we can invest our money in buying different books with colors, forms, papers with different forms and textures, etc. After her visit, we decided to include some of her ideas in our comic so we tried to improve it.

I hope you had enjoyed the final result of our comic and the post! See you!