Final Task. Our design of the interview

This is the questions we have decided would be useful in deciding  whether a school is using technology effectively.

Questionaire

What has the development looked like in your school over the 10 years?

Which of the three dimensions are your school strongest? (pedagogical, technological or organisational)

How do you educate your staff and student to become good users of technology?

How much is the technology affecting the economy?

The comprehensive and customized professional development, or as it is called the CPD, that is used to develop teachers skills in the usage of technology. Do your school meet these needs?

Can you explain briefly what are the basic, thematic elements of DisCompOrg Framework?

Technological developments are happening very rapidly and it is difficult to precisely implement it. So, what is needed in the process of DisCompOrg?

Which educational organisations are intended in this framework?

Do you think the technology in your school is as up to date as necessary to adequately us it your lessons?

Do your evaluation methods have a section about technology and its use? Are these evaluation methods revised and updated periodically?

Would you consider that the persons implementing technology actually use it and themselves and are skilled with it?

Apart from the “Class rules” do you have any “Online rules”?

Would you be able to asses and give the enough feedback to a student so that he could practice an “autonomous” learning?

Would you be able to achieve cross-curricular knowledge through technology?

Week 14. Blogpost by the curator - Stina

Hello again!

This week of our final task (!!!) I chose to be the curator. We only had one source this week and you can find it by clicking HERE. It is quite dificult to make a tree out of one source, so there you go.

I really enjoyed reading the text because I thought it was really interesting. It was a good way to understand what really makes a school a good user of technology and a inspiration to future knowledge about the school organization. It got me to think a lot about how you can see a schools developing pace through only a few quoestion to see if they are ready to really integrate with the evolution of the school organization.

It also got me to think that not only as  prinicipal you have to be aware of these questions but also as a teacher and a student. People within the school organization needs to be aware of the development goal of the school in some way.

That was basically my thoughts about this week. Hasta luego!

Week 13, Blogpost 13 by the analyst Louise

Hello everyone, this week I was the analyst.

This week's task has been about the complexity of the school organization which is very important for us teacher to have knowledge about.We have read different texts about this. The texts were both in Spanish and English, so I read the English one. The subject is interesting and the text brought many thoughts to me how important it is that the development is moving forward in ICT.

The schools have been slowed down with ICT because people have been afraid of develop. I think it's good that we have access to this knowledge now before we become educated teachers. I think by include different tools in teaching catch many of the students' interests. But some schools are not there yet, they does not have technologic and that`s a big problem. So we have to change that when we come out as a fully qualified teacher! 

Otherwise, I think the work this week has gone well. Besides, some of us had to take more roles on the presentation day because of illness and other courses.

Bye, bye Louise 

Week 13, blogpost by the Translator, Ebru

Hello everyone !

This week I am the translator and here are 5 most important concepts that we have learnt this week.

Twenty first century skills:  include creativity and innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, 

collaboration and communication.

Learning organizations : is an organization skilled in creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring and retaining knowledge and at purposefully modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights ,increasing the learning capacity to reach a state of continuous change or transformation. A learning organization as a place that is:  Schools as Learning Communities asssociated with a core set of conditions and processes that support the ability of an organization to value, acquire, and use information and tacit knowledge acquired from employees and stakeholders to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve performance goals.

Professional learning communities (PLC):  a growing practice in schools that incorporates many of the components of a learning organization centered on collaboration and team learning. 

Technology’s Impact on Learning Practices: Revolutions in technology enable learners to access what they want to know, when they want to know it, in the way in which they would like to learn it—deepening our reliance on informal learning approaches.

Informal learning:

Informal and incidental learning strategies, mediated by technology, that enable organizations to target learning to individual needs without the abstractness or complexities of fixed time, fixed place, trainer. Informal learning happens throughout people’s lives in a highly personalized manner based on their particular needs, interests, and past experiences. This type of multi-faceted learning is voluntary, self-directed, and often mediated within a social context. It provides an experiential base and motivation for further activity and subsequent learning.

These are the concepts that are worth to know and also we made relationship with the Complexity Theory with these concepts; Complex Context, Emerging Knowledge, Diversity and Redundancy, Randomleness & Determinism, Change & Complexity.

That's end for this week. 

Have a nice weekend !!!

Week 13. Blogpost by the facilitator, Stina

Hello Everyone! This week I was the facilitator.

The roles of this week has been a bit unclear we think we have been a little bit of everything and anything this week, just because of illness and our different schedules. But any how, this week we have been working with the complexity of the school organization and what the factors are that makes it so complicated.

The complexity of the school organization is the most interesting thing for me as a future teacher. I love to face this kind of "problems". This is also one of the reason almost anyone is a great fit for the school life, because of the complex ways the school is ruled anyone can join with their ideas and creativity, it all depends on, where, when and how.

The reading this week I could only participate in the english texts, which I thought was really interesting. It got me to think about what century we really live in. A complex one, where the technology has occured in the centre of school, or daily lifes and in many other jobs and events. Most of the things are created through the web today which leads us to the conlcusion that this is what the school needs to develop, the technology usage. As they brought up in  the texts there is still many schools who are not ready to adapt the newest technology and this is a problem. It is a problem that the school is somehow a bit slower than society today and I guess that is why todays schools are getting a lot of criticism (at least in Sweden). They have not adapt  the right technology, information, resources or knowledge about how the technology affects our society. Even if many people are aware and use instagram, it is not enough to being able to develop och emerge the students learning and knowledge. Which is the main mission.

My last thought about this task is that I believe that in ten or twenty years the school will hopefully understood the importance of the pace that the technology has and has get rid of the factors that slows down the progress of ICT in schools, which also has been slowing down the learning. The factors could be anything as, unnecassary technology (that does not give the effect of learning as hoped), staff or the way the schools thinks about the technology use. Do not get me wrong though. I, myself believe that we all need to take a break from the usage of social media and so on from time to time, because of the stress it is showen to give us. But I also believe that schools need to enhance all the important and good things about technology so the schools can be effective and a place where learning is in centre. And who know, by that we might create a total new society??

Hasta Luego!

Week 13, blogpost by the Curator, Samuel

Hi everyone, these are the resources our group used this week:

• Marsick, V. J., Watkins, K. E., & Boswell, S. A. (2013). Schools as learning communities. In Ronghuai Huang, Kinshuk & J. Michael Spector (Eds.). Reshaping Learning . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. (pp. 71-88).

•  González, M. T. G. (2003). Estructuras para el trabajo y la coordinación de los profesores en los centros. En Gonzalez, M.T., Portela, A. & Nieto, J.M. (Coords.) Organización y gestión de centros escolares: dimensiones y procesos (pp. 57-74). Pearson Educación.

As well as these ones, we used some elements from previous tasks:

• Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital age. London: Routledge Capts 1 and 4

Week 12, post by the Curator, Pedro

Hi everyone, I'm Pedro and this week I am the Ladies&Gentlemen's curator. In this different week we have worked in another way. We have done a task about PLE (Personal Learning Environment), which I have found very interesting, and also Thinglink.
This week we haven't needed many websites and references to complete our task, but I write them right down.

- https://www.thinglink.com/?buttonSource=badgeButtonBox

- http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7507760420_684a385f66_c.jpg

- https://aulavirtual.um.es/portal/site/1134_G_2016_N_N/tool/9cd7743b-9c78-4099-af9a-550684d0ce72?panel=Main