Post about the last project.

Gonzalo Gallego Clemente. 1ºMEPB.

“LAST PROJECT CONCLUSIONS.”

ITC AND IMPROVEMENT SCHOOLS. Team Perk.

This group talked about how ITC resources and how this resources could help to improve teachers’ methodologies, administration issues, class environment, communication between schools… This tool if it’s properly use by teachers and pupils can  open a variety set of possibilities. Digitil systems promote interaction which is equal to social learning between the children interaction with technologies and among their classmates and teachers. Technology causes a big problem for teachers, it is in continuous development. So teachers need to be prepare to be in continuous training to manage this resources and explore the advantages of this tools. For last,  there are many interesting apps that foment equally learning and enjoyment and which is traduced into motivation between students. And there are many electronic objects that could be used in a class as robots to motivate children with own-experience activities.

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING. Wanderlust team.

This group explained why is so important to teach children to interpret their emotions and social reactions in order to get a higher understanding of how is society in general. To develop this knowledge the teachers should continually ask children how they feel and how they are. They should prepare activities in which children would be in different situations and tell us about how they feel in each one of them attending to the differences emotions and stimulus that are implicit in each activity. All this activities are oriented to prevent possible negative attitudes inside a classroom as bullying that is the main problem between children nowadays. For last they teach us how to develop empathy in class through an activity  “Walk on my shoes” that consist on putting on each other’s shoes facing different conflicts and exanimating the different emotions and solutions that are born with this conflict and the different solutions and feeling of the different members of the class towards the same conflict.

WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHER IN THE SCHOOL. Modern students.

They started their expositions talking about why some issues as bullying, exclusion… Are produced nowadays inside schools. They talk about what is the role of the teacher in this cases mediating between students and how the students could transform their roles into mediators aswell. Then they talk about a book “ the arqueology of  feelings” in which are described  five steps to link feelings with learning that are: excavate, discover, investigate, protect and expose. Finally they put a video in which are more clear  the ideas about mediation and how to mediate since different positions and contexts.

INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS. Amigos del football.

In this exposition the topic was “inclusive schools” and they give us a variety set of characteristics about how an inclusive school should be.  Then they give us the differences between integration in which kids with difficulties prepare themselves to enter to schools, and inclusion in which kids don’t need preparation to enter to schools because they already inside the school. The main difficulties that stop this inclusion are economic and social aspects that at this moment are not solved but it depends on society to change this difficulties into advantages. For last they give us two real example in which inclusion education is applied “O’Peluro” and “Amara Perri” that are two school in Spain that use this method.

ICT AND LEARNING DISCAPACITIES. Crónicas viajeras.

They explained us what are the main incapacities that we can find in a classroom. This incapacities are:  autism, down’s syndrome and motors disabilities. In their map they reflect what are the main difficulties that this kids have as: socialization, distractions, unadapted facilities… The solution that they give to answer this difficulties  is technology. Technology can help this kids giving them integration support, helping concentration and comfort, through tools as MP3s, cameras, tablet…

COMMUNITY LEARNING. Musical chairs.

Resuming in one phrase their work is the coordination between teachers, pupils and parents. This method is meant to promote the feeling of a community inside a school or the school being a community in which all their members help each other to improve their community.  To get a good coordination between the individuals it is necessary the existance of cooperation, collaboration, comprehension… And there is process to get a good coordination and it has three phases:

·         In the first phase we think about the all possibilities that could improve our center (Classroom, methodologies…)

·         In the second phase we select the more factible possibilities to improve our centre.

·         In the third phase we have to put it in practice.

Conclusion.

In a school there many aspects that need to be consider. In one hand we have social aspects as the involucration of parents in their children education and the different relationship that need to stablish with the different teachers and viceversa and how this relationships could help the learning process of the kid. In other hand we have economic aspects in which are include the budget and the resources that a school should give to students in order to facilitate their learning as ICT methodologies but sometimes this resources can’t  be given because of the budget but there are some issues as school adaptation for children incapacities that should be in the first place in the money inversion. And for last learning aspects in which we could include teachers’ metholody, pupils’ attitude, pupils interaction… And we need to have clear the main problems that we could fight along our teachers’ carreers as bullying and the solutions that we need to give to solve this problem and the mediation with kids that are going to be the creators of this problems.