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

Week 12, blogpost by the translator - Stina

Hello! This week I was the translator and these are the 5 terms that we learnt!

1. PLE - which stands for Personal Learning Environment. Basically it is how and where you get access to the things you learn, where and how you modify and with who you in the best way learn. This picture describes it in a more clear way: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7507760420_684a385f66_c.jpg

2. Different type of learners - This week we got to experience that their are small differences of how we individually learn in the best way possible. For example their could be students who learn better by: learning by doing or just to listen or read.

3. Multiple intelligences - The thing is that this week we could notice that multiple intelligences had a link between the way we learn. We could add different things of the eight different modalities and add them up to how well we learn something. Even if this is another subject, psychology and learning is something that is linked and it was useful in this case, for our group.

4. Educational learning - Which leads us to the topic of how a teacher should see learning. There are many ways of learning and also many student that learn differently. Even if some students are diagnosed the same, lets say for example with autism there is no shore way that these two students will have the same learning ability. HERE, is good articles to understand it better.

5. Thinglink - THIS webpage was something that we found useful and interesting for this week. It was useful to upload and send out links in the picture to express our ideas, of different ways of learning this time. It is also something that our student will be able to use in tasks in the future to create and share ideas all over but also a fun way to learn about things and learn how to take care of keywords of the things you learn.


Hasta luego!

Week 12, post by the Facilitator, Mitchell

Hello everyone!
This weeks task was about our own  Personal Learning Environment, personally I like this type of tasks that involve reflecting, specially if its about how do you know something, or shall I say metacognition .. (educational psychology student joke, badumtss)
From the task there is no much I can say to you about my self because I already am one of the subjects who we explained where we learn from so in this same blog you can see the post where we explained basically what would be my PLE.
And speaking now as a facilitator, today was a very easy week for my role; since on Monday it was bank holiday we didn't have any class, so for this week we only had to meet in class on Wednesday where they explained the task and that same day we had enough time to do it. So since my job is to keep people "focused" and that I really didn't have to do any specific task as the facilitator, and because I have an also team of course!
Anyway, thats it for this week if I can help in any way let me know and I will be pleaded to
Have a nice weekend!

Week 12, blogpost by the Analyst, Ebru

Hi everyone !!

This week it is my turn to be analyst of the Ladies & Gentleman group. This week our subject was PLE which Personal learning environment. Firs of all, I want to give the definition of the PLE exactly.

The term personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools, communities, and services that constitute the individual educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning and pursue educational goals.

When it comes to the evaluation part as the role of the analyst, this week we have chosen 3 people in the group and we started to discuss these 3 people's personal learning environment. Me, Stina and Mitchell were chosen. Each of us started to talk about our personal learning environment.And then we put one photo which we think represent us in Thinglink. Actually this week it was not much like usual weeks because we all hadn't roles and there is not much thing that I can evaluate as an analyst.
If I evaluate the group work as the worst and best part, there was not anything worst and as a best part ; when each of us ,the chosen people, said their learning environment, the rest of the group tried to listen us and analyze our model of learning environment. Also, the tool Thinglink was a good and useful one that we can use it in our daily life like other accounts. It can be used in every area of the education or any other areas.That was all for this week.

Have a nice weekend!!
#Ebru#

Task 10, PLE, Mitchells picture

Mitchell learns mostly from working, as he works teaching (watersports) his day a day at work is full of interactions with other people, interactions that allow him to learn. When you spend all day in a place like a sailing school every day you have to treat with someone different, and theres many opportunities to learn from. For instance, every person you teach has a job or a hobby or something you are going to learn about while talking to him in the lessons, you can also learn from the people at your work place, everybody has to learn from a colleague when new in a job.
Nevertheless, work isn't the only place where he learns, he also often reads articles on internet (through self interest) and through everything he is studying at university, obviously.

Task 10, PLE, Ebru's picture

                                        

Hi! Iam Ebru from Ladies&Gentleman group. I want to talk about my PLE.

I am a kind of person that love to learn something by interacting with people who are older or more experienced than me. Also, making associations between things are important for me because it is always a good way to not to forget something. I mean the more associations you make, the more knowledge is permament .Inspriation, create, colloborate,connect, communicate,research are core elements that people should have these features. I think like many people, I have these more or less.Moreover, I like to learn searching on the internet or looking for some sources in the library. I generally use Google, Powerpoint,Blog,Twitter,Facebook,Instagram etc. When it comes to criticize myself, as everyone can not be perfect, maybe I can use more technological apps both to save my time and to be more creative because these tools provide many opportunities. Why I chose this picture ? Because, suppose that I am an unexperienced little bird that I am trying to learn to flying from older birds and share their ideas. 

Have a nice weekend!

Task 10 - PLE, Stinas picture.

I have chosen the suitcase as a picture that represent my learning. Just becuase I mostly learn by doing. I need to exerience things to understand better and to get a better point of view. And the symbolic meaning of the suitcase is that I choose what, how, when and from who I want to learn. I can either pack or unpack knowledge or choose to make some experience more important for myself. I think that, that is why I like learning by doing just because you get to reflect more over the things you are leanring and it gives you a chance to change your mind and be creative about the things you learn. Which is important to know when you re a teacher just because no child will learn in the same way so we need to give them a lot of oppurtunities to learn in a way that is best for them.

That was all. Hasta luego!