The evaluation for this week is...

This post is about the evaluation of the other groups' mindmaps. To do so, we have focused on the content, the exposition, the creativity and the poster itself.

Firstly, the Meerkatsoyer1415 group had a very complete content but they only show us an example of the subject in the mindmap. If they had given us information of all subjects, it would be perfect. However, the poster wasn't creative because it was a printed image.

Secondly, the Power Puff Teachers  group had a very creative poster, it was one of the most worked posters. The exposition was good  and the content was complete too , although the star spoke very quickly. 

Thirdly, regarding  the Umpalumpas group, we found the poster very creative and well done. The content wasn't very complete but the exposition was very good although the star was a little nervous. We understand her position because it's the first time. 

Fourthly, the Keep Calm and Keep Organized group had a very big and clear poster. The exposition was very good and the content was clear but they got confused with the part about the subjects.

Fifthly, the Platypus group had a very original and creative poster, the exposition was one of the best of the class in our opinion. The content was clear and complete.

Sixthly, the SevenUp group did a good exposition although the content was a little short.  The poster wasn't very creative but it was clear.

Seventhly, the ItsChOOL group was awesome in every aspects because they had a very original poster, the content was very complete and the exposition was very entertaining and enjoyable.

Eighthly, the Busy Bess group, concerning the posters, it was one of the most original with the robot. The content and the exposition were very dynamic because the star was interacting while she was explaining the mindmap.

It's the turn of the JOURNALIST!

Hi followers! I'm María García and this week I have been... (drums) the journalist!

I'm going to tell you how the task we have had to do this week has been:

The activity of this week consists in explaining the concept of TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge) through a mind map where we had to develop this concept with its relationships between all the elements that form TPACK. Moreover, we had to link all the subjects of this year with the different parts of TPACK.

First, when our teacher explained to us the activity of this week. We didn't have idea about what TPACK is and how to do a mind map, but she gave us the information about it and we started to organize us!

Monday 9^th, we decided that we had to meet on Wednesday afternoon so Rebeca Cascales (this week's facilitator) organized the work of the group. Each member of the group had to look for information about TPACK and have it done for Wednesday.

The first day of work, all the PowerTeachers brought the information and we started to work hard!

We met in a study room in Luis Vives' library and we shared all the information that we had looked for. Then, we decided the main information we had to use for the explanation of TPACK, we decided where we had to put the courses of this year, we chose the photos for each concept and we developed the way to show this information in a mind map.  

We thought that it would be a good idea to do a dynamic mind map: We decided to do several parts for the explanation of TPACK, so this was our idea: We would buy a white cardboard which would serve as basis and the context of the process of TPACK. Then, we cut out three primary colour circles and we stack them on the white cardboard.

Then, we cut out three smaller circles where we put the words and the initials of the combination of the three main concepts (technology, pedagogy and content), that were TPK, TCK and PCK. The colours of those words were purple (TPK), orange (TCK) and green (PCK), the combination of the primary colours.

Finally, we cut out one circle (medium size) where we put TPACK and one photo in the middle. Apart from the first three circles, we stack the other circles with blu-tack so we could paste and take them off easily to overlap the components of the model in order to make it more dynamic and fun. Besides, we also worte the names of the subjects of this course on the little cardboard.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

On Thursday 12th we met at the canteen to do the mind map. We bought all the material and we did it! 

Finally, on Monday 16^th, the star (Silvia García) exposed the mind map in class.

Another duty of the journalist is to choose one blog/website from outside the class and a blog from our own class. So, first I'm going to show you what blog from outside the class I really like:

http://viajandoporahi.com/ 

I chose this website because first of all I LOVE travelling. I really love visiting places, knowing new cities and towns and other cultures. So, I wanted to choose a blog/website which was about travelling. I chose this one because for me the presentation of the website is great: The woman who created this blog/website is a writer and traveller. She develops the blog/website in an amazing way. She put in different parts the organization of the blog: places where she has been (one part for each continent and countries), the photos she has taken in all her travels, advices, challenges, guides about whatever aspects in the travels, questions and answer, information about her books or how to contact with her, etc. Also, she put a gadget where you can read a chapter of her book and I thought its original. Finally, a funny thing I saw in this blog is that there is a part which call ''Surprise post'' where the ''blog-oracle'' decides the post to see for you. I think this blog is amazing and the people who loves travelling should read it. So, travellers... visit that page and enjoy it!

To end with, I have chosen the blog of Seven Up! from our class. I have to say that all the blogs are good, we have just started with the blogs and we aren't familiar with blogs yet and how to develop new tools to make the blog more attractive. However, I have chosen Seven Up!'s blog because I like how they have developed the tasks and I really like the fact that they put one post about working with Skype and another about their experience working online. I think that it's original and great. So, I hope you visit their page and enjoy a lot seeing it! Here's the link of the blog:

http://7upgroup.blogspot.com.es/

Watch our video to see how we have worked for this activity!

I hope you enjoy visiting our blog and you like our activity!

TPACK RESOURCES

Hello everybody!! I'm the farmer this week and there, you can find all of the resources we have been using for prepare this task during the last week, since my function like farmer, was recolecting all the informatino used to do this task.

 In the section of mind map, you can find, a general mind map with the references of the diferents tasks.

Images:

https://clarekosnik.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/image-children_clipart_reading_circle-315x254.jpeg?w=150&h=121

http://images.clipartpanda.com/listen-to-teacher-clipart-jcxprrjcE.gif

http://www.socialmatt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tech.jpg

http://saintmartin.schooldesk.net/Portals/SaintMartin/District/images/RWL%20IMAGES/Ed%20tech.jpg

http://edutechdebate.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/mooc-learn.jpg

http://www.knowingforsure.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Knowledge.jpg

http://purelymoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/school-books.jpg

http://www.bilinguismoytecnologia.com/wp-content/uploads/educacion_TIC1.jpg

Website documents:

Koehler, M. (2011, May 13). What is TPACK?. In Tpack – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/tpack/what-is-tpack/

Rouse, M. (2005, September). ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies). In Teach Target. Retrieved February 12, 2015, from http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/ICT-information-and-communications-technology-or-technologies

What is educational technology?. (2012, April 21). In Department of educational technology, ETEC-Conections. Retrieved February 14, 2015, from http://etec.hawaii.edu/aboutbackground.html

Learning. (2015, February 3). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved February 13, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning

Principle of teaching. (n.d.). In Carnegie Mellon. Retrieved from http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/principles/teaching.html

Video:

Kymmons, R. Kymmons, R. (Narrator). (2011). TPACK in 3 minutes [Online video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wGpSaTzW58&feature=youtu.be

Literature review:

Mishra, P., Koehler, M. (2006). Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge. The Teachers College Record, 108(6), 1017-1054. 

This is the mind map of the references we have used:

I'm the analyst this week and this is my work!

 Hi, I'm Anthea and this week I'be been the Analyst.

a) What was the best part of the activity?

The best part has been being the whole group together, telling what we could include in the project and giving explanations about why we thouht our own ideas were the correct ones.

After all, we have done an exposition, in which the star has explained the work and the teacher has made some questions to make sure we all know what our project is about.

b) What was the worse?

The worse part is getting nervous when we have to do our presentation to the whole class, because we are afraid of making mistakes, although we shouldn't be, because everybody is wrong sometime.

c) What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?

The best moment of the week was when we were working on this project together and giving many ideas for the way we would do it.

d) What was the worse?

The worse moment arose when we had to agree and stablishing a specific day for meeting and do our project.

Apart from this, it hasn't been nothing bad about the group's work.

e) What have you learnt?

We have learnt many things about the topic of this project, TPACK. Although it hasn't been the only thing, there are others such as organizing or coordinating our work.

From my point of view, it has teaches us not only how to do our work, but also how to communicate among us and make sure we take the right decision, which is really important for us because before becoming a good teacher, we have to make mistakes and then learn from them.

If we don't make that mistakes now, will them arise in the future when we'll be teachers? This wouldn't be good at all, because we wouldn't have a person who tells us which the right way is, and, for that reason, we wouldn't teach things in the appropriate way.

f) What do you need to conserve -as group- for the next weeks?

We have to conserve the enthusiasm we have worked with all the week and be positive about the projects, which will help us in the future.

Another thing is that we get on well with every person of the group and that helps us to tell what is wrong or if something doesn't works properly.

And the last thing is that if something doesn't work good, we know how to separate what happens in and out of the work's group; it means, arguments because of the project can't affect our personal reactions.

g) What do you need to improve -as a group- for the next weeks?

We have to improve the organization of the group, because there were moments in which we didn't know what to do and how to go on.
Another aspect I have to take into account is that there is a lack of content in our project respect to the other groups, even though we will do our best to improve everything, but mainly this part.

h) How THIS content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?

It is related to all subjects, because each one is included in some part of TPACK. For this reason, it's important to know what they are about, which contents they have and how to teach them.

i) There is any evident social connection of this content (news, politics, etc.)?

It is connected to the increasing use of the social networks and electronic devices (tablets, computers...), because it's more and more common work with them. So we have to know how to use them for teaching children in the future.

Here comes the STAR!

Hi! I am Silvia, the star of the group POWER TEACHERS this week. This Monday I have had to explain in which consists the TPACK model and how we can classify the different subjects that we have during this course in each component of the model.

I must recognize that I felt very nervous when I knew that I had to be the star, because we had not done any work yet and I do not know exactly what my obligation was. In addition, when we learnt about the task that we had to do I felt even more nervous because I do not feel very confident when I must speak to a big group, above all when I must speak in English. Anyway I should say that at least I have felt good when I have done the exposition, because little by little I have felt more confident and as the groups were formed by not many people I have not felt very nervous or embarrassed.

First of all I have started our exposition explaining the necessity to introduce the new technologies in the education and how it can be a difficult challenge for some teachers, who must to take into account the importance of the context to develop new and creative strategies in each situation and subject.

In the second place we have done a little summary about what are the three main components of the TPACK: content (teacher’s knowledge about the subject), pedagogy (teacher’s knowledge about the methods and processes of teaching and learning) and technology (the knowledge that helps us to develop different ways for accomplish different tasks).

In third place we have explained hoe this three elements interact between them, and to represent it more clearly we have used the combination of the three primary colours. In first place we have talked about the technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), which is based in how the introduction of new technology can influence in the teaching and learning processes. In second place we find the technological content knowledge (TCK), which is how technologic and content interact and constrain one another. Thirdly, it is the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), which is based in how the content of a subject can be transform when we use different methodology or pedagogical methods.

Finally, to finish with this first part of the exposition, I have explained how the interaction of the three main components gives us the TPACK (Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge), whose main aim is a good teaching with technology, for which is necessary a good understanding of technology, content and pedagogy, because it helps us to incorporate easier the technology in teaching, learning and people, especially teachers and students.

Now, to explain the second part of the task, we have been going to classify the different subjects in the different components of the TPACK, although I must say that in this part I have started classifying it in one form and at the end, in the last exposition, I have had to change some of the classifications. For example at first we have classify Spanish, English and Theories and Institutions in content, Sociology in technological content knowledge, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology and Diversification and Tutorial Action in pedagogical content knowledge and finally Planification, Research and ITC and School Organization and Educational Resources in TPACK. But at last, as I have said, we have had to change this classification because we had not understood properly what we had to do, because we had to classify the subjects taking into account how they would help us as teachers in the future. So finally, the classification of the subjects is: English and Spanish in content, Theories and Institution, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology and Diversification and Educational Context in pedagogic and, finally, Planification, Sociology, Research and ICT and School Organization and Educational Resources in Technological Pedagogical Knowledge.

First exposition

Last exposition

To finish with this post must say that, despite the nervousness, I think that it has been a very good experience in which I have felt good and have learnt more about the TPACK, in what it really consists, his components and how useful it can be for our future. Besides, I have learnt (in a correct form although at first we were wrong) how the subjects of these course can help us to develop this method as teachers.

And my first role is.... THE TRANSLATOR!

Hi bloggers! I'm Alba García and this week I've been assigned the role of the translator. As this is our first task properly speaking, I am the first translator, so I hope to do it properly and clarify the five main concepts of our project on the TPACK model. 

Five of the most relevant concepts in this task are the following:

* Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK): it is a conceptual model which is essential for effective teaching and the effective integration of knowledge in the classroom. TPACK "attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge" (Koehler, 2011). 

The concept of TPACK was born of the union of three primary forms of knowledge: Technnology Knowledge (TK), Pedagogy Knowledge (PK) and Content Knowledge (CK). At the intersection of these types of knowledge emerge combined forms of knowledge, which are: Technological Content Knowledge (TCK), Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK). Finally, at the intersection of these three combined types of knowledge is the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK). 

* Information and Communications Technology (ICT): it is a term which includes any communication device such as the radio, phones, computer and network hardware and software, etc., or any communication application, such as videoconferencing, distance learning, etc. 

ICT allows access, production, processing and communication of any type of information in a range of codes in which we can find image, text, sound, and so on. 

*  Educational technology: it enables learning and improves performance by creating, using and managing proper technological processes and resources. In other words, it is dedicated to the development and application of tools destinated to promote education. 

* Learning: it is the act of acquiring new knowledge, skills, preferences, behaviours or values, or modifying existing ones.

* Teaching:it is the act of providing new knowledge, skills, preferences, behaviours or values to a set of people who don't have them. It is a complex, multifaceted activity which requires the teacher to combine the different activities and objectives flexibly and simultaneously.

 

 

 

The BOSS is here!

Hello everyone! My name is Rebeca Cascales Ribera and  this week my role has been the facilitator. 

During this week  I had to coordinate and control the group. Apart from distributing the roles,  I had to direct and control that the whole group had worked properly together. The boss of the group has the task of being the key person in the solution of personal affairs between members and guaranteeing the quality of our blog.

 The roles of this week are the following: 

To summarise the week, we started when we listened the explanation of Linda at class and the exposition of this project. It was very exciting because it was our first project and it was about something that we've never listened about before, the TPACK model.  

TPACK is a combination of three important components as Technology, Pedagogy and Content. Working with this combination would be very interesting because you're using everything and learning from lots of places. 

I decided that each group member would read at home the information and do their own schema to make it easier to gather the information in the following meeting, that it would be on Wednesday. We met and we put together all the information and made a common schema about the TPACK. It was like a brainstorm and it was worthwhile because all together gathered the most relevant information. On Thursday, we would meet in the School Organisation and Educational Resources hour of class and would make our poster that would be used to expose the project on Monday by the star.

  

Moreover, working in group is always something very important and difficult because of the different opinions, different ways of doing things, etc. but in this case, we have coordinated very well as we have done the whole project without misunderstanding, irritations... 

To conclude, we're proud of our work and we hope you enjoy with us. I would like to congratulate my group because of the work and of the good experience we have lived.