REFLECTIONS

The book;

At this subject, we’re working with a book called 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom which is written by Carol Read.

I think it’s a book so complet. You can find there a lot of things about how to teach a foreign language to children.

It’s very useful above all if you’re a teacher. This offers you some resources and methodologies about how to do some funny and interesting clases. Doing this, you can call children’s attention and it’s more easy they will finish learning.

In conclusion, I recommend it for the reasons I’ve just mentioned before.

The team work;

About the team work I have little tos say.

I’m really satisfaced with my mates and our work. They are great, it’s too easy working with them. All group members provides information trying to do the best that we can.

We always want that our effort will be rewarded with task’s result. In that case, it has been so good, we are surprised with what  we got.

As you as can imagine, if I will have to choose people to wirk again, I will select them anew.

On the other hand, talking about to work in groups, I think it’s a good way to learn, because four people know more than only one. We share all our knowledge and we reflect about which are the best ideas for the task. And that’s all.

ICT;

Now it’s turn to talk about ICT. If someone doesn’t know what ICT is, I will try to explain it in summary:

Richey defined educational technology as "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources". The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) denoted instructional technology as "the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning”. As such, educational technology refers to all valid and reliable applied education science, such as equipment, as well as processes and procedures, that are derived from scientific research, and in a given context may refer to theoretical, algorithmic or heuristic processes: it does not necessarily imply physical technology.

In my opinion, I think it’s a good way to teach children because it calls more children attention than learning only with a book. And it’s more easy children will be motivated.

Storytelling;

Well, I imagine lot of people know what storytelling is, but if simeone doesn’t know it, in one of my posts it is explained. It’s so simple and interesting too.

Storytelling is one of the methodologies that I have seen and learnt in class and more I like.

With this kind of activities you can have fun with children and they like it so much. Children are having fun at the same time they are learning, so it’s too important to bring importance to this activity. They love stories, so why don’t we usually use this advantage to teach them? They can learn a lot of vocabulary, tune their ears, and therefore they can learn some new forms to speak English (the language you want they learnt).

I really like this activity, I had fun with my team when we worked it, I think everybody has to try out, I recommend it. Remember, it's necessary a lineal sequence, the pre-telling, the telling and the post-telling have to be connected.

Class activities - Creativity - Flexibility;

Class activities were great, I’m too satisfied with what I learned, I think that all my knowledge of this subject will be useful in a future when I will be a teacher.

The teacher taught us how to use creativity in various activities and how to be flexible with children. She always has provided freedom us to do the task (above all in the storytelling), it was a way to learn why important is the children's creativity and to have a flexible attitude with them.

Creating the blog;

Finally, I’m going to talk about the idea of create a blog. To be honest

, I found it difficult because I can’t say all that I want to say in another language that it’s not my mother language.

On the one hand, I feel I have spent a lot of time with this task since I’m not so good working with new technologies such as the blog. That is the first time i have used this tool.

In addition, working with the blog I think it’s a good form to introduce the ICT in the society and in education. And it’s too great can share my knowledge with other people.