Week 2, Blog post by The Analyst, Mitchell

This week we had to think about five concepts related with education and also provide images that define or represent those ideas. We found this activity very helpful for us because it made us share our opinions about education and how each one of us would improve it, as a result we all got to know each other more as a group and more importantly, we learned about education by ourselves, the beast way, speaking and having conversations reaching our own conclusions. This also was the first step to improve as a group, to socialize and get to know each other. Being a group formed by such diversity the weakest point we could’ve had was to not know each other; but luckily for us that has an easy solution that we have already applied, speaking together. If we keep working as a group together like we have done, our weakest point will turn into our strongest. Thus this activity has taught us more things from many new ways of learning to another way to work in groups differently to in other subjects, or the importance of presenting your activity in class and the importance of presenting in teaching. The good thing of this learning methodology is that apart from what you get to learn in your group you also get to learn a lot through the others groups presentations and also observe how they have learned new things as a group. 

 As the analyst I think our hardest part of the activity has been having such a short time to prepare the activities and having to meet living all in different places, but we have known have to resolve this by using Skype which was possibly the best moment of the week for us, and we have also found a spot we all have free that we are going to use in order to complete the tasks together. This is also the solution to what we identified as the worst part of the week for us, finding moments when we were all focused on the project at the same time. Other than these little problems that have already been resolved, we think we have done very good as a group, we have breen creative and used our own ideas and this is definitely what we should maintain for the following weeks.

 Overall it has resulted very effective, because the way we have worked on the activity has also been secondary forming us to become teachers, a teacher has to be constantly thinking of new things and ways to make better presentations and to help the students learn.