Week 3. Blogpost by the analyst - Stina

This week’s activity has been to make a map of how the model TPACK works and how this model can help teachers improve their teaching skills. The best part of this activity has been to analyse this model and to really understand how complex the teaching profession really is. I believe there hasn’t been a worse part of this activity but if we must mention one thing it would probably be when you came to class and saw everyone else’s map and how creative they had been. Our group is easy to work with and I think we have a lot of good ideas but we need to work with the creative part to become a better team. Once again, we notice that to become a teacher today you need a little bit of everything to be the best. You also need to be flexible. The thing I like best about our group is that we all are aware of these things and that is one quality that is necessary to get better as well. Especially in our profession or just daily life.

What we have learned this week is that not all qualities that a teacher needs is in the TPACK model, but it is a great resource to use when teaching in today’s society, with all the media and technological knowledge all the kids have today. It is about time that today’s teachers take a step forward into the technological knowledge, otherwise we will prevent the kids from learning necessary things. This is very typical in Sweden. The older generation of teachers do not want to join social media or even try to work with computers but this is just, as I said before, preventing the kids to learn important things. We have also learned about creating mind maps in order to be more meticulous.

For next week, we will take this task as a lesson and give our work some more attention and love. We will also try to put our good ideas into use and think creatively. What we will bring with us from this week are our methods of presenting our work and our open and reflective minds.

We believe that this content is important for us to be aware of. In this course, our daily life and of course, for our degree. This is actually a big topic in Sweden right now about how teachers can be better tutors by using technology and also of course how they use their pedagogical knowledge to present the main content. Therefore, we think that it is important for us in Sweden as well as in Spain to follow the news to always stay updated and informed about new methods to use in classrooms.

This was all for this week. Hasta Luego!