UN(KNOWNS)

Hi, I am Alfonso, and In the next post of the blog i am goint to make a reflect  about all the projects that we have been showed during this last activitie. I am goint to explain group by group.

CRÓNICAS VIAJERAS

This group spoke to us of children with disabilities and how  technologies helped them to improve, to enter and to be more willing to participate, etc.

Basically we talk about three types of disabilities: autism, Down syndrome and people with motor disabilities.

With regard to autism they tell us what their difficulties, language socialization include thoughts and imagination, and the technologies they use are cameras and tablets to help with integration.

With repect to Down syndrome difficulties are distractions, minor initiative, and by differentation Between old and new stimull and technologies that are used as whiteboard and sing star games, just dance ... to help them with the concentration.

With regard to motor disability tell us what are the difficulties, physical and difficulties include engine and unadapted facilities and technologies they use are mp3, computers and laptops to help them adapt, communicate and feel comfortable.

In conclusión I think it is a brilliant idea to work with this type of students with the new technoliges because is not only to improve their academics resoults, it even helps them with their own abilities.

AMIGOS DEL FOOTBALL

In this case our colleagues told us about inclusive schools, a work that was very similar to our work, but with the difference that they focused more on the authors and us on the main ideas to differentiate.

They started with the definition of inclusive school and their general characteristics, differentiating between inclusion and integration.

Once this is done they started talking about the four main authors of such schools and the barriers to this type of project will be held along with a number of strategies that address impediments allowed. Examples of schools that have this methodology in Spain are: O´Pelouro and Amara Berri.

In conclusión, from my point of view it is really postive and good that this type of children who has problems could be integrated in the classroom like anything was happening and treated like the rest given them the same opportunities.

DUMBLEDORE TEACHERS ARMY

In this case our colleagues have told us about the effectiveness in schools.

Leadership is basically one of the main factors for the development of a school and to have a quality education.

This charge rests with the director and other institutions such as school teachers. With leadership important decisions affecting the educational process changes are made. Some of the skills mentioned are such as: influence, astute, decisive, Recognize, trust, innovate ...

After they have spoken of effectiveness that is demonstrated when students in a school show a good development of their capabilities in line also with their families and the context in which they areAs in this group did not give enough time to finish their exposure have two questions below:

-       Why is important leadership for schools?

In this case I have to say that the people always need to follow something or someone just to improve and change one behaviour, this we considered as role models for us and use to be the ones who inspire us. In the education context, it is really important to have a role model, one who is going to lead the rest of the teammates, but in the case of the teachers, we have to know that this doesn’t mean that this person can do what he or she wants, they have to see that has the same rules as the rest.

-       What are the characteristics of a good leader?

In my opinion a good leader needs to be a really good speaker, he has to be ready for explaining his ideas to the rest of the mates without being confused, just showing his confident, at the same time when he writes too.

He has to be from my point of view the best in all the tasks, like organization, being honest.. and for me the most important one be strong in the bad moments not to give up.

In conclusion there are a variety of factors that influence the effectiveness but the main thing is leadership. The key is that all cooperate to achieve development and quality in education.

MODERN STUDENTS

The theme of this work was ways of living together in the school, and we had making a division into four parts.

The first was the school mediation talking about why problems of bullying, violence or exclusion occur and that goals had the mediator to solve this and who could be the mediator.

The second part was a kind of peer support program that is in relation to mediation, which explains how to solve problems.

The third part of the exhibition was archeology of feelings which is a book which compares the archeology Education and carried out five steps were:

Excavate, discover, investigate, protect and present.

In last place we have spoken of a school in Finland named Kiva working with the theme of bullyng and certain online materials also to avoid any kind of harassment.

MUSICAL CHAIRS

The theme of this work was Community learnig.

They began the presentation by summarizing what community means learning, coordination in the classroom between teachers, students and volunteers.

Through this method we try to show that the school is not isolated from society and that this collaboration is needed because it is important.

The thing is how society can appear at school, and give us a number of options such as through volunteers we have said before.

These are people who have no previous qualifications to teach class, but to help teachers, lecturing, performing certain activities ... all this in the center itsel.

To achieve good coordination between them is necessary to have a collaboration, cooperation, understanding among all these members.

This process consists of three phases which are:

-       The first one: here they think of all the possibilities of improvement for our center either physical or methodology both in the classroom.

-       The second: here they are trying to choose between all these proposals the most feasible, necessary, ie those actually ralizarán.

-       The third: here they put into practice and solve the various difficulties we may encounter.

TEAM PEARK

Now we are going to talk about Team Perk. The topic of this team was ¨ITC and improvement school¨.

In this case we were shown a new type of methodology based on new technologies, like it could be tablets, mobile phones, computers, subjets apps… the main objective is to adapt this new technologies to the new way of schools, where all the students use to be digital natives so they know how this work and it is easier to teach them all the concepts and proyects that are stablished.

This even help to eliminate the exclusion because they can be a very good tool to use in this type of situations.

This presentation in my opinion has been one of the best one, because not only for the topic which is really interesting, because they put a lot of examples and explained all the advantages of having tablets and this stuff, like it could be the back of the children because with this type of methodology we will forget the heavy bags at home..

WANDERLUST

The topic of this group was ¨social and emotional learning¨.

We have to realize how important this topic is and that is what our mates tried to do, considering that maybe it could be other subjet for the future. They put the example of Rafel Bisquerra, what he says was that it is as important as math or lenguaje and it could help the children to undertand in a better way how their feelings can be, and just to improve the negative emotions and problems that they could have.

With respect to the family, this would be a good moment to make a combined class in which both the family and the students could learn about feelings and how to treat them. This group also talked about the multiple intelligences (H. Gartner) studied in Psychology, focusing in the intrapersonal which is the one related with your feelings and emotions. Also the interpersonal is important because if we develop both of them we can learn how to show our feelings, how to understand the others, and overall how to work in a cooperative way by making groups, so that in the end we are social beings.

In conclusion this topic was really interesting and in my opinion very important. From my point of view it must be considered as a subjet or if it couldn’t be possible, give the importance that it requires.

To conclude this post, and maybe the last post of the subjet I will have to say that all these topic that we have been talking about are really interesting and usefull and they cpuld be work in different ways in education.

In a summary I will stand out the main important thing that we have said. The good enviormente in a class it´s essential becuase it give to the students the confident and help that they need to improve better. The new technologies can give the students this type of advantage to improve their skills, and solving the problems that some students could have with the integration. And the last one which is the importance of having a leader who pull the others.