This document is a portfolio from Ana Satrustegui's 2014 new technologies course at the Public University of Navarre. It includes an introduction and summaries of each of the 4 weekly lessons, which focused on developing digital competence and learning about tools like content creation, video editing, mind mapping, and rubrics. The portfolio also includes a report on how new technologies are used in classrooms at Saint Mary the Real School in Navarre, where interactive whiteboards are the main resource used by teachers.
This workshop aims to demonstrate what has been a successful model for teacher leadership of the Digital Education Revolution in secondary schools. Through informal discussion and demonstration of specific software and Web 2.0 applications, participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies that have been used to overcome barriers to success that confront teachers.
The aim of this presentation is to facilitate discussion and provide participants with a toolbox of strategies to bring about a 21st Century shift in pedagogy, learning styles and learning environments. Both presenters are leaders of DER within their schools and have collaborated on a number of inter-school projects promoting the innovative integration of technology into the 21st century classroom.
Manifesto
The world is changing ever faster, typically under the influence of the digital revolution. From a
very early age child come into contact wit hit. We are convinced that the invention of the iPad
Marks a new fase in the interaction between child and the virtual World. Intuitively even very young
children manage this device. By playing they acquire skills that are important for their future in the
21st century
12 easy ways to use technology in the classroom even for technophobic teachersAdam M Smith
Click the link to know how you can use technology in your classroom. http://www.teachhub.com/12-easy-ways-use-technology-your-classroom-even-technophobic-teachers
10 Major And Emerging Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of EducationRita Lee
Innovative technologies change the way we used to learn and that happens incredibly quickly. What major technologies will define the future of modern education?
Technology And Technology Essay
Technology In English Essay
Essay on Technology and Education
Technology In Education
Technology And Technology Essay
Essay On Technology And Technology
Synthesis Essay On Technology
Technology Argumentative Essay
Persuasive Essay On Technology And Technology
Essay On Technology And Technology
What is Technology? Essay
Technology and Social Media Essay
Technology in the Classroom Essay example
Technology Impact On Technology
Synthesis Essay Technology
Essay On Technology And Technology
Technology And Technology
Essay Technology
Essay About Technology
Technology And Technology Essay
This workshop aims to demonstrate what has been a successful model for teacher leadership of the Digital Education Revolution in secondary schools. Through informal discussion and demonstration of specific software and Web 2.0 applications, participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies that have been used to overcome barriers to success that confront teachers.
The aim of this presentation is to facilitate discussion and provide participants with a toolbox of strategies to bring about a 21st Century shift in pedagogy, learning styles and learning environments. Both presenters are leaders of DER within their schools and have collaborated on a number of inter-school projects promoting the innovative integration of technology into the 21st century classroom.
Manifesto
The world is changing ever faster, typically under the influence of the digital revolution. From a
very early age child come into contact wit hit. We are convinced that the invention of the iPad
Marks a new fase in the interaction between child and the virtual World. Intuitively even very young
children manage this device. By playing they acquire skills that are important for their future in the
21st century
12 easy ways to use technology in the classroom even for technophobic teachersAdam M Smith
Click the link to know how you can use technology in your classroom. http://www.teachhub.com/12-easy-ways-use-technology-your-classroom-even-technophobic-teachers
10 Major And Emerging Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of EducationRita Lee
Innovative technologies change the way we used to learn and that happens incredibly quickly. What major technologies will define the future of modern education?
Technology And Technology Essay
Technology In English Essay
Essay on Technology and Education
Technology In Education
Technology And Technology Essay
Essay On Technology And Technology
Synthesis Essay On Technology
Technology Argumentative Essay
Persuasive Essay On Technology And Technology
Essay On Technology And Technology
What is Technology? Essay
Technology and Social Media Essay
Technology in the Classroom Essay example
Technology Impact On Technology
Synthesis Essay Technology
Essay On Technology And Technology
Technology And Technology
Essay Technology
Essay About Technology
Technology And Technology Essay
How Edtech Startups are Revolutionizing Education Today?Kavika Roy
https://prepai.in/blog/how-edtech-startups-are-revolutionizing-education/
Edtech startups are changing the way the world perceives education. Technology is fast becoming an intrinsic part of training and education. This blog summarizes how modern technology is used in education and what advantages it offers to the students, teachers, and administrators alike.
Edtech startups are changing the way the world perceives education. Technology is fast becoming an intrinsic part of training and education. This blog summarizes how modern technology is used in education and what advantages it offers to the students, teachers, and administrators alike.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
For more information, visit-www.vavaclasses.com
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
2. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
INTRODUCTION Page 3
WEEK 1
Page 4
WEEK 2
Page 6
WEEK 3
Page 8
WEEK 4
Page 10
REPORT ON MY INTERNSHIP
Page 12
CONCLUSION
Page 15
2
INDEX
3. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
The society is has suffered a lot of changes in the last few years and these are
affecting different aspects from the society. As we know from our experience,
Education is the base of the human being, and as humans, we have the nature to
remain contact with all that concerns our society and undoubtedly our lives.
Of particular note, the traditional Knowledge era has turned up to the
Technological, where we have predilection for technologies and they are gaining an
important role in our routines. The proliferation of technological devices are the
reason why it is not surprising students are designing “best-fit” solutions for their very
specific needs when it comes to the Internet and other means of communication.
Children are used to using computers, tablets, smart phones, managing with images
and all sort of videos. Therefore, children are taking advantage of the benefits of the
tools available rather than using one or even a few platforms for various tasks. In
present times, this is how they learn better.
In my childhood memories, I can barely remember how I managed with
technologies. I can assure that when I was in primary education, we scarcely made use
of a computer and teachers only taught us how to do easy activities followed up a
traditional approach. It was based upon the principle of memorising all the content
given and being able to show a good response of this learning.
I strongly believe that being taught by this methodology made me avoid using
new technologies on many occasions. However, now I was given the chance to change
my mind with this subject and endeavour to make the most of it and do my best to
learn what I could not in the past. I want to be a teacher from this generation, I want
to be up to date and be proud of myself. All in all, that is what I expect from this
subject; to change the way I deal with technology, to make use of it successfully for my
future as a teacher and to remain constant contact with it.
3
.
INTRODUCTION
4. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
4
WEEK ONE
Friday, 12th of September 2014
The first week was focused on developing a specific task on The Digital
Competence. I have heard of this competence but I did not know what actually this
consists of. The Digital Competence is one of the 8 competences which every child has
to develop at the end of her/his learning process and must be able to keep learning
during her/his whole life. This competence enables you to take the advantage of the
possibilities of digital technologies and new challenges, and it is necessary for taking
part in this new technological era in which we are living.
Within this competence there are different stages such as information,
communication, content creation, safety and problem solving. Depending on the level
of the user we can differentiate among foundation, intermediate and advanced users.
I and my teamwork were asked to work on Content Creation by searching
information accurately and creating a digital presentation. While working on this, I
discovered how competent each user can be in this field, and the most important
thing, I found that I am actually an intermediate Content Creation´s user. We set the
differences between a general user of Content Creation and a teacher. In general
terms, teachers are as competent as general users. However, teachers have different
purposes according to the use of Digital Content; what is more, they focus its uses for
educational purposes.
Apart from this, I have never known about the existence of a PLE (Personal
Learning Environment). We are surrounded by a wide range of information provided
from different sources; we must know where this information comes from and search
for more. You can also realize about how this learning environment has widen and
make a picture in your mind about all you have learnt.
In my view, I strongly believe that I will use all this useful information for my
future as a teacher. I will have to deal with digital resources and manage with the
problems that I will liable to encounter. Teaching itself is not an easy job, it can be hard
work as it should be linked to the real world outside school. What I mean by this is that
teachers need to be concerned of the forthcomings changes in the way of learning. For
so, has done the way of teaching and designing tasks for our students.
5. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
Nowadays, we have to be up to date and try to be competent enough in the
digital sphere. In the last few years, activities given to students were hardly poor and
all was expected to learn of by heart without any other purpose. Somehow, this Digital
Competence leads us to prepare better tasks for our pupils, to focus our effort on
producing authentic activities with different goals.
Making use of technology for a constructive aim it enhances you to end with a
great success in terms of developing student´s skills, raise their awareness, build up
their competence, gain knowledge and make the most of this opportunity to learn in
this technological time with its resources.
5
6. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
6
WEEK TWO
Friday, 19th of September 2014
During this week I had to read a document on Digital Residents. Never had I
hear this term before and thanks to this, now I understand more about what king of
internet users we are and how people make use of this for different purposes.
Firstly, I am starting by saying what I understood by ´Digital resident´ or a
´visitor´. A Digital Resident is generally someone who spends a significant amount of
time online using a wide range of programs either apps. What it is more; daily life
connects citizens with social media as part of their activities. However, a visitor is the
person who does not need to be using those digital devices constantly; they use them
when necessary.
After coining these two terms and having learnt them, I am able to say that I
consider myself a ´digital resident´ because I spend most of my time online whatsoever
the reason is and whenever I go. The reason for this may be laid on the fact that I have
digital devices such as computer, desktop, tablet and smartphone. Even more, I am
hooked on these gadgets and they take the most of my time.
I have explored the role of English language in relation to social networking
throughout a survey conducted among non-native speakers of English in Thailand. In
general terms, it is important to know how we make use of our digital devices to
understand what type of user we are. Nowadays, most of people spend around 4
hours per day on their laptops either their smartphones. What means that we all are
becoming `residents´. Students make use of their devices for education especially
when it comes to study English. Nevertheless, there are some who use them for
gaming or even just for social aims.
From my experience, I must assure that I have always used internet for learning
English. This provides an added value while learning. By saying so, I mean that I always
make use of online dictionaries like Word reference. Furthermore, this week I
discovered the English Thesaurus online website.
Being able to use digital devices properly can be an added value too. While
writing, students can prepare themselves for real life because in the future they will
need to write in English online.
We are living in changing times and if we are going to be teachers, we should
adapt to them. Our pupils are better prepared for this technological era than even us,
and we permanently, should be updated and get trained on digital competence.
7. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
Because of this reason, I would like to explore more about what kind of websites
children tent to use for improving their English, what they find them engaging and
what enjoy them most.
7
8. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
8
WEEK THREE
Friday, 26th of September 2014
We started this week by creating our own exercises online through the Hot
Potatoes software. Never had I have the opportunity to introduce myself in such,
which is why a felt really excited. Basically, this suite includes five applications; JCloze,
JCross, JMatch, JMix and JQuiz. There is also a sixth application called The Masher that
will compile all the Hot Potatoes exercises into one unit. This enables you to create
interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. I can highlight that
this suite is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like.
In this case, we had to cover two tasks by using Hot Potatoes. These, consisted
of creating two activities following the examples given previously by the teacher. So
for, I created one matching activity about flowers with pictures and another one about
animals. I found this very useful and I might use it for future teaching purposes. Being
able to design learning activities it is a challenge for our students. It involves searching
for information, decide which topic is going to be worked in the activities and its model
(cross, cloze, match or quiz).
Furthermore, we were introducing on video editing tools. To be honest, I am
very keen on this subject and that is why I knew about the existence of Movimaker and
the fact that Power Point has incorporated a tool to cut videos. Indeed, I discovered a
new one, Dotsub. This is very good for creating and viewing subtitles for videos in
multiple languages, transcription and video editing systems. It has a lot of positive
points; it is funny, easy, free and nothing to download. You can upload your videos,
transcribe and time caption (the official name of subtitling) them, translate them into
and from any language, and share them with the world. You can also embed the
Dotsub player onto most websites and blogs with full functionality.
I have learn the differentiation between transcribe and translate. Transcribing
is mainly writing down what someone says in that language, whereas translating, is
referring to writing what somebody says but in another language.
We used The Logic of English website to develop our transcribing task. This
website shows a new methodology in the US for teaching pronunciation and spelling
and so we worked on that.
9. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
As we are non-native English speakers I believe that most of us should ever use
subtitles for a better listening understanding. I think that transcribing itself is a difficult
task but our students will benefit from it. By transcribing, two languages skills are
worked; listening comprehension either writing. Finding tools to create your own video
transcription, to some extent, builds up your self confidence in the target language.
To sum up, I would like to explore more about this field for my own learning. I
think that this is crucial for ear training and thus for learning a second language. I came
across that the act of transcription can strengthen your ear, and develop your listening
skills but like anything else, practice makes it perfect.
9
10. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
10
WEEK FOUR
Friday, 3rd of October 2014
This week was the last one before starting the internship period. For that time,
we were asked to observe the way that new Technologies are used to teach foreign
languages in the school. Therefore, we will write a reflection and report this
information just by taking into account as follows; new technologies seen my tutor
use in the classroom to teach, which were seen for an organizational purposes and
which should my tutor use for improving teaching (if so we have to mention specific
technologies we would use and how).
During this week we worked deeper on specific subtitling tools. Even though
some students made a presentation on these, each group was also given the chance to
work on transcribing a 2min10sec video by using Dotsub. This task was really
motivating because firstly, you had the challenge of understanding the woman´s
speech and secondly, your transcription came up on the screen as most of the
uploaded videos once you found in Youtube on many occasions. Regarding my own
experience I have been introduced in many subtitling resources such as Amara,
Overstream, DivCland Media, Captiontube, Subtitle Horse, Subtitle workshop and
Dotsub. All of them are quite easy to use apart from Subtitle Horse and Overstream.
Anyway, if I had to carry on such activity in the classroom I would choose Dotsub. This
is the easiest, most complete and professional from the lot. Within it, all the videos are
private by default (which is an interesting point for children´s use), you can upload a
file either write in, and the caption is very quick to subscribed.
We started doing a web quest on two specific mind maps´ tools in which we
analyzed them and wrote a report on the ones used to create mind maps. We picked
these two from the lot; Text 2 Mind Map and Stomboard. I do really like both but I
personally think that Text 2 Mind Map is less complicated for my use and even for
children´s. What is more, I tried to use this tool on my own for a teaching purpose and
it end in a big success.
Talking of teaching purpose, I cannot forget about mentioning the Storyjumper
website. I was very engaged when I created my own story, I enjoyed myself a lot and I
went back to my childhood memories. This resource is perfectly designed for children
11. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
to create their own short books. While creating a story, the will need to cope with
finding illustrations, dragging or dropping images onto the page. After al l, I would
strongly recommend its use as a fun school activity or for their leisure time as it is
almost game-like. Children can get into creating virtual environments featuring the
characters they have brought to life.
At the end of the week, we opened a discussion about Reading Three which its
theme was Rubrics. Just I want to highlight some aspects that drew my attention on
this topic. The 30% of school failure and the origin of the problem is lead in
memorizing, owing to reduce this number rubrics are being used. Scoring rubrics
endeavor to evaluate writing examples, group activities, extended projects and oral
presentations. Furthermore, they provide students with feedback.
Since the first time I started Primary Education, most of the things I learnt were
off by heart. Fortunately, I was able to concentrate enough to pass the exam
successfully but not everyone has had the same experience. For this reason, I think
that rubrics are seen as evaluation´s guidance and as an opportunity to modify your
assessment in case it does not work properly.
As a group work, we had to discuss whether a rubric given was accurate for its
aims. I would like to learn more about creating rubrics because I will use it in my future
as a teacher. Rubrics are more specific, you can just focus on your assessment in terms
of what you what them to learn. This leads me to ask myself this question; what is the
purpose of education? Is it to teach people to know a lot or to create individuals to be
able to do things?
All in all, I personally believe that teaching is all about enable pupils to do
different things and be aware of their own skills. Hence, is very difficult to evaluate
how well somebody does something. We have to provide students with a better
understanding and they must know what is expected from them. Finally, this would
lead us to make the most of their learning.
11
12. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM
The proliferation of technology and social media has changed the way
educators teach, how the content is transferred, how students learn, and the way
teachers and students communicate with one another. The aim of this report is to
discover how technology is shaping primary school and classrooms around the Saint
Mary the Real School, Navarre.
In such, teachers are absolutely concerned of the importance of the use of
Technology as a support and somehow, this is the key of success in getting pupils
involved in their own learning. Its suitability for children at any age makes it more and
more demanding to the extent that activities are thought to be carried upon a
technological support.
During my internship project I conducted a research on how new technologies
had been implemented in the school classroom. I slightly observed my tutor when
giving the lessons. He made use of the whiteboard most of the time. This is the main
resource in Primary classrooms. By making use of this interactive support, pupils can
complete activities created in Microsoft Word because the whiteboard has several
options of writing and highlighting in colors, changing the thickness of the pencil and
sliding words or sentences. Besides, it allows you to draw, coloring, erase and shape in
different sizes. Indeed, when you finish your work, you can save it in your desktop or
else, USB.
This interactive tool is also used for the creation of mindmaps. In Science, he
works through the content by developing mindmaps on the topic. This mind map sets
different branches depending on what is concerned to study. According to the
importance given, these go from the thickest to the thinnest ones.
At present time, Youtube is gaining importance in the English classroom. The
teacher uses this for a listening purpose. English songs with its lyrics are played in a
daily basis and students are encouraged to sing them aloud. On the other hand, when
it comes to Science, all the videos were related to the topic. Those, played on many
occasions such as ´The process of getting the wool´, ´The process of planting a seed´;
Once Upon a Time ones on the ´Digestion´ and the ´Muscles´ in order to develop the
units further. This fact is making the learning process more and more engaging.
12
REPORT ON MY INTERNSHIP
13. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
English as a subject itself is developed throughout different routines. For this
reason, they make a dairy daily with the parts of the class which are repeated every
day. My tutor uses Microsoft power point to show the different tasks for a day. He has
also used this for telling a story, reading aloud or explaining grammar contents such
the present simple.
However, what came as a surprise to me is the fact that he uses a website for
reading resources. Such is entitled Oxfordowl, it has plenty of books aimed at primary
students, with listening tracks and full of implausible pictures.
Apart from the use of these resources in class, my tutor made use of ´Prezzi´ for
an educational purpose. He is very keen on developing Science topics through this
technological tool and he uploads them all to give some guidance for those who find it
necessary.
In the assessment period, he used Microsoft Excel to reflect pupils´ marks on
and different objectives achieved. Teachers also have a school platform where they
can upload the assessment, they can email parents to arrange a meeting or inform
them, and they receive emails into their inbox from the school principal. In other
words, they are updated thank to this platform called PSP.
In my tutor´s personal work time, he used to download different songs from
YouTube and look for recreational activities by using Google Search. The projects he
created by Microsoft Word where mainly booklets, cards, and information charts.
As I have experienced, new technologies chiefly are used for a teaching purpose
but in contrast, my tutor employs Microsoft Excel for organizational purposes. He
created many tables to assemble the class in groups for a class activity purpose. They
were divided into six groups with five members in each. She used colors for the groups
and a different table for assigning the role of the person in the working groups.
Regarding non-teaching purposes, he uses his Smartphone to take pictures of
the work done in class and store them for showing them all in the forthcoming
interviews with parents. Furthermore, he takes notes about odd facts and meaningful
things. He wears his phone with him in case he needs to receive calls and he is in touch
with the school.
To meet the needs of her students I suggest making some improvements in the
lesson planning. By creating a class blog and using Dotsup video editing program, I
would upload lectures to the blog and assigned them as homework. The dynamic of
the class should be reversed by adding new technologies. Instead of lecturing in class,
and do it traditionally, I could teach them easily from their homes, and even more,
problems would be sort out together either in the classroom or commenting on the
13
14. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
blog. If we make these improvements we will be gaining a lively, engaging and
motivating classroom when discussion and communications will be implemented.
All things considered, I think that in present, when it comes to using new
technologies students are more productive than they were in the last few years due to
the reliance on technology in the classroom and teacher´s positive attitude towards
this subject. Indeed, as a teacher, we need to raise the sense of curiosity and give
children the best chance to their lives in this technological era.
14
15. [NEW TECHOLOGIES] ANA SATRUSTEGUI
All things considered, I have to thank this subject for the relevant things I have
learnt on the Technological use. After takings this subjects and working through many
of the resources given in hand I feel very proud of my own work. Needless to say, I
built up my confidence to start working with technology on my own, on a professional
level; I can be in continuous contact with it. Not only I can be in this aspect but also in
a personal level because before doing this subject I felt like a fish out o water when it
came to developing a task using nothing but to a computer.
As I said previously, we are living in changing times and this is highly noticeable
in the classroom environment because technologies are becoming essential in
children´s lives. School is given a wide range of possibilities to adapt to these changes
and addresses all the limitations that may appear in children´s learning. There are an
additional value to the classroom and indeed, to the teacher.
Teacher has an important role in our society, it is a vocational job and it is not
easy at all. Taking advantage of technology is very useful to deal with difficulties in the
classroom but also, this is not a golden road, you should be competent enough to
develop authentic tasks for a motivating and engaging learning.
15
CONCLUSION