5th class TABLETS

Hello everyone,

This session was focused on working with tablets. The scanning of a QR code was the starting point where we discuss about the pros and cons about using new technology in the classroom.

Then we conclude that is difficult to get our students attention and cope with the explanations or some problems our students can find with the devices.

Then Maribel introduce us a project called “El lideratge digital dels alumnes a l’aula”. The aim of this project is to train some students of the class in order to help their classmates with the different tools they can be using during the class. An expert in TIC is going to help the teacher with the classroom management.

Finally we start working with the different apps downloaded in our tablet and by groups we choose one and show to our classmates the different uses and possibilities the app give you.

3rd SESSION ICT 2017

Hi everyone, I'm Gemma!

Last session was quite different so we went through the smart board. Maribel, our ICT teacher, presented us this useful tool and gave us some clues about how to get it and so on. Then, as the most practice, the better knowledge, we had the chance to interact with the smart board. She provided us a list with all the possibilities that you can perform with the tool and invited us to touch and try everything. We divided the class into two groups and we're filling the grid regarding our practice from the smart board and then from our laptops.
After the break, the teacher told us what would be the final assessment about and we also had some time to develop part of it.

Thanks for reading it!

Apps in Primary school

Even I couldn't assist to the last session of this subject, I have been very interested in the sessions focused on the Ipads because it is a topic that our school does not work very hard at the moment.

Having Ipads in the classroom is a wide chance of resources where learning is integrated and the process of teaching and learning becomes more effective. 

As I said before, I do not work with ipads at the moment in the classroom but there were some special situations during the year where students have had the opportunity to use the ipad for final projects. 

One of these situations was the second trip of our project Erasmus +. Every year, students have the opportunity to visit a partnerschool in a different country and spend a week with native English speakers sharing culture and language besides adventures and experiences. 

When we were back from the trip, students wanted to show to the rest of the students what they visited, what they learnt, their new friends, the place where they stayed... 

Imovie was an amazing tool because students could create their own project and share it with everybody via several platforms. 

The main idea was to choose what they wanted to share, organize it, illustrate it, design, write... and Imovie was an appropriate resource for our aims. 

  

Certainly, fhe fact of using Imovie was the right choice because it was easy for the students to understand how it works, to use it and to achieve the aims teachers decided.

Regarding to Bloom's Taxonomy, this activity is related to Higher order thinking skills (HOTS) where students have to analyse, evaluate and create a final outcome taking into consideration their own experience and their feelings. The fact to show the final product to the rest of class and to their families and friends, made the project interesting and motivating. 

On the other hand, I would like to consider iDoceo as a very useful tool for teachers. 

Instead of carrying a notebook, iDoceo makes it easy to assess pupils and have access to a register of all the notes, labels and marks. Apart, iDoceo has different options with different purposes useful for teachers as summary (look for students, personal details, diary annotations, notes, comments, resources...), gradebook (assessment), a diary, notes, a setting plan and a pinboard. 

                   

I have been using iDoceo this year and I have seen a big change. The fact that I like the most is that children can help me during the assessment because they love iPads and they love using them.

3, 2, 1... PACMAN!

Good morning ICT girls!

Here it’s me (Ari) presenting an activity which might ring a bell ;). The first task I prepared for this subject was related to Animals in the Wood; I looked for different tools to use in our classrooms such as a word search creator from Discovery Education; a flashcard creator, this app is available for both Android and iOS; and an interesting webpage where you can find an incredible amount of tools to use with your students. (You already have the links to access these resources but you’ll find them attached in this post too ;))

However, the one I’m going to present here is PACMAN! Once I found this resource I thought it was going to be a really interesting tool to use in a classroom, no matter the level we are as we can create activities for both the old and the youngest pupils.

First of all, I will explain you some characteristics of this resource. I suppose all of you know Pacman; this tool has been based on this videogame, the students can play it but at the same time they are answering multiple-choice questions. All these questions are first written together with the answers (both the right and the incorrect ones). It’s really easy and intuitive but here you have the steps you need to follow ;)

Now that you’ve check the steps to follow, I want to explain the use we can give to this resource in the classroom. As I mentioned before, it can be applied in different levels, it all depends on the topics we work on and the questions we create (or the ones we ask our students to create which is also an option for the old ones).

This game it’s only and engaging way to work on specific content; the questions we write can make our students work on both LOTS and HOTS. Everything we create will imply understanding and depending on the questions just remembering. But we can also ask them to look for information on the Internet, for instance to find out the places around the world we can find an specific animal, compare different places and the species living in them in terms of the characteristics of an animal, the atmospheric conditions, amongst others. Furthermore, this research can not only be done just to answer the questions but to write them. As I previously said, our students can also create these questions, which will require collecting information and at the same time work cooperatively with their partners while structuring the test.

I personally found this tool a really interesting way to work on different aspects and make our students feel engaged and motivated in a high-cognitive demanding task. Of course as teachers, we have to adapt these activities to the level, group students, their needs and characteristics; but I found it incredibly easy-adaptable and the most important ENGAGING!

Hope you find it interesting! Enjoy it! 

Here you have some interesting links ;)

All my best, 

Ari xxx