The use of ICTs in the Teaching-Learning process. (Meetings about ICTs)

During five weeks, I have been attending to a meeting about the use of ICT in the primary education classroom. These meetings took place on Wednesdays. 

It have been a great experience because I have learned different ways of teaching, more motivational for children, and also different ways to take advantage of the New Technologies in a educative way. Maybe some people, especially parents, think that it is not a good idea that the student spends too much time using the tablet or the computer, but this idea changes If he/she is using it because he/she is studying, searching for information, asking for help or doing an activity. 

Actually, the majority of people think that computers or smartphones only are useful to use facebook or whatsapp, but the truth is that we can use that to learn, to improve; in the end are facilities offered by the Information Society in which we live.

All these teachers who have come to perform the meetings, have showed different digital materials that we could use in the classroom when we work as teachers. For example we could use digital platforms as Moodle  which is a virtual place in which the teacher can upload the different documents, activities... that the students are going to develop during the year, and they (teacher and students) can use the forums and the chats to ask for help or to debate a topic. There are lots of digital platforms, and teachers can take advantage of them because if they use it during the class, the students don't have the need to use textbooks. 
Nowadays there are schools where the students don't use textbooks, but they use digital books. The teachers of the school make the books using augmented reality or QR codes. 



Another important reason why ICTs are so positive is because permit the involvement of families in school. The majority of parents aren't enough envolve in the education of their children because of the job, or because they are not sure if they have to go to the school to talk with the teacher. Through these digital platforms parents can talk with the teacher and are more informed about the contents and the achievement of the students during the course. In this way, the student is the protagonist of his teaching-learning process, because he looks for information, he talks about the different topics for example in the recording of a video to explain something to the others, and because the activities are so motivational for him so he wants to learn more. 
The students not only learn in the school, but they also learn at home, and their parents can learn with them. If a student cannot go to the school because he is ill, he can look at the digital platform and do the activities that his classmates are doing in the class, or the teacher can upload a video as a virtual class, in which the student can understand the topic as if he was in the class. 

It is important to keep in mind that the teacher has to follow some steps in the creation of a project to work with the students or in the creation of an activity. The teacher has to have confidence in his students, he has to follow the different contents and objectives that appear in the Curriculum, he has to create an educational community, not only into the class, but also outside it, and finaly he has to be able to achieve his students' knowledge about the topic. 

Those testimonials are great. In some videos that the teachers showed us in the meetings, we could see how the children learn while they are having fun, and we could see also the desire they had to do new things, to learn. And I think that it is a good point, because it could be the begining of a better education, an education that prevails durint all the life because students trudly learn, and not repeat contents constantly; contents that they are going to forget after doing the exam. 

 
<<They are not glasses to fill them content>>

I'm a little afraid of the idea of eliminating textbooks, because If there aren't books, and teachers teach the students using tablets and computers, probably in the future the students won't know how to write using a pen, they won't know how to paint using a brush. Technology has a lot of advantages, but I think that maybe teachers could use it a few times a week or something like that. The reason is because, I agree with the use of ICT, but sometimes I think that it is excessive, and because it's not the same to paint usint the tablet and paint using a brush, or build something using a software and build something in the school workshop using wood, and different tools such as hammers or pliers. 
It could be a good idea maybe to build an object using the tablet and later print it in the 3D printer, but they could do that once a month if they have done the homework everyday, as a reward. 

One of the teachers told us that in the future probably teachers will teach using mobile phones, so each student will have a mobile phone also. I don't know if new Technologies are so good, but I don't like the idea of using ICTs everyday, I think that teachers can work with the students using manipulative materials made by them, but not necessarily in a digital way, but of course it is only my opinion. 

It is another way to improve their creativity, autonomy and responsibility in the development of the activity, and also they become as protagonist of their teaching-learning process. 

-What do you think about? 
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Education a matter of two school and family/ The importance of family-school collaboration in education. (Unit 6. Pedagogy)

It is a very interesting topic because it talks about some realities that we can find in the educational community. For example one of the parts of this topic talks about the risks that we can find in the relation between teachers and parents; we as future teachers have to learn how to solve these conflicts or to reduce the degree of this risks, because these relations affect to the child directly. 

It could be an important information to work with students. 

At the end of the topic there are some questions about it to make clear the different contents. 

It is very important the good relationship between the family and school.

It's hard to make the good relationship between parents and school, as there are conflicting schedules that make it difficult to have time and also the parents are not always willing or conversely, teachers are not always open to collaboration.

This relationship becomes today in a very strong pillar for effective and positive responses from the educational and personal development of students. It has been shown that in the absence of this cooperation the child will have many problems in school evolution and many limitations occur.

Education is a long process that begins being taught by the family and then school and needs of both sides to achieve full educational and personal development of the child.

The school must accept the importance of participation and collaboration of parents in the education of children and the need for cordial relationship between teachers and parents to teachers to perform their function effectively and completely.

The center should have the ability to bring together parents through original, attractive projects where parents of school education of their children feel.

The meeting point is the children. You need to understand the school as a whole, in its entirety: as forming sociable, educated, active and participatory society people.

The key to generating this meeting point between teachers and parents is to show the importance of family involvement in school education of your child and that without such collaboration is significantly affecting the overall development of the child so. The center should provoke the interest of parents in the school plan to understand the values that prevail in the center and as practice carried out throughout daily life.

It is necessary to movements by the school to be able to get relations of participation, cooperation and training with respect to students and families. And the movement by parents to understand comprehensively their influence on learning processes in the transmission of values and human relations.

Throughout history education has been changed. The family has grown from patriarchal or matriarchal formed by grandparents, marriages, uncles, aunts, children, grandchildren and where women did not work if it was not the head of household, education and care of children and parents were what worked and they taught the profession to their children; a fully industrialized nuclear family, who live in the city and consists of a marriage or couples either the same sex or different sexes and not as many children as before and also women work outside the home and grandparents often live with family and something important school is responsible for the education of children along with dad homeschooled by parents.

But despite all these social changes families it remains a core of people in qeu relationships are, experiences and personal interactions are shared.

Before LODE parents went to school only individually, to treat certain issues of Education, but today parents are in the center as participants and their opinion counts.

Mainly we named the Ecological Model of Bronfenbrenner which highlights the context in the development of behaviors and its possibility of modification. It understands the relation as a means of community intervention.

There are some models more, but the point is that those models won’t be effective if there aren’t  respect and goodwill between people.

• TYPES OF PARTICIPATION.

-Expert Model: The professional assumes the control of the situation.

-Transplant Model: The expert says the family what to do according to his experience.

-User Model: The family takes the decisions.

Teachers are best placed to increase opportunities for parental involvement in the education of their children, this not only helps the children but also allows families to better understand the different facets of their children. To achieve this collaboration, teachers adopt the following attitudes:

1. Explore and enhance the resources of families: for this the teacher can ask for help from parents, organize talk time with parents, etc.
2. Give the family and the child his role in changing: here has a very important role the child. Which favors the change is:

-Help parents to detect differences, teachers should give parents techniques that can help detect problems.

-Not accept that the change is attributed to something outside of the family, and that is consistent in accepting the cause of problems

-To show and strengthen its position in parent family hierarchical level.

-Pay attention to the change produced in the pupil.

- Do not blame the parents of what happens to the pupil

3. Economize effort and time intervention
4. Having activities in which they can participate (collaboration in the classroom, after school for the training of parents, etc.)

They are groups of parents involved in the participation of formal education of their children. It can only be formed by parents whose children are enrolled in the school in which this association is, and there is no limitation of participants. Some of its features are:

• Defend the rights of parents regarding the education of their children
• Facilitate parental involvement
• Collaborate on educational work

If families are involved in the education of their children they will have more opportunities to excel in their studies. Therefore there should be a link between the family and school.

Some of the strategies that can be used for family involvement are:

• Propose issues that are of interest to parents and their concerns related to their children and their education
• Recording sessions classes their children to see their behavior in class
• Create discussions

This article highlights the importance of joint work between parents and teachers in educating children from kindergarten to primary and secondary. Traditionally this collaboration is considered key in Early Childhood Education and neglected when the children get older. To address the integral education of students is necessary that families and teachers act together.

To carry out a integral education of students is needed communication channels and a joint and coordinated action of the family and school, only then the intellectual, emotional and social development of children is produced  in the best conditions. This joint action will stimulate the child the idea that he is in two different but complementary spaces.

There have been significant changes in our society that have not neglected the family and school, for example: the nuclear family is becoming smaller, they live in separated urban areas, the number of single-parent families has greatly increased…

I think that this topic explains the different problems and situations that teachers can reach when they are in relation with parents and families, in a complete way. 

It could be iimportant to keep in mind that both parts have to think in the other part, and they have to try to reach an agreement in a pacific way. 

If you want to say something about this topic or if you want to give me your opinion you can do that giving me a comment or if you prefer you can send me an email to the next address: albialbita@outlook.es

Digital Porfolio Rubric. (Pedagogy)

This post is about the rubic of this digital porfolio. First, I am going to show you the rubic that I have done about this porfolio. I have tried to be as critical as possible, deciding the best option according to the structure and the information that I have written here. 

Secondly, my classmate Ana Cristina González Rubio has done a rubric about my porfolio. It is such as an opinion about it, and here you can see what she thinks about. 

I think that this porfolio is complete, although it has some mistakes, I think that I have done a good work. I have tried to develop the different topics as much as I could, and I am very happy with my classmate's opinion. 

I am very proud of this porfolio.