Learning Evidence

When we think of our classes or sessions, we tend to think of them as the traditional way they have always been, this is to say a text book, chalkboard, the teacher in front of the class giving long explanations, homework, really straight routines and so on.

But it is really important to look further and realise that we are teachers in the 21st century where our students coexist with Information and Communication Technologies, the so called ICTs and, this is why our teaching practice should change not a little but a lot.
Taking into account the challenge of this week "detecting weaknesses in my teaching practice and finding cases of good practice that can be an example for me" I must say that it has been very productive and motivational.

My classes are usually too traditional and I would like to encourage my students to work in a collaborative way and also to use ICTs more than I already do it. This is why, from my point of view, both gamification and flipped classroom would help me to change my teaching practice.
Motivation is one of the most important elements in the teaching-learning process and, for this reason, we should all begin using tools, techniques and methodologies oriented to its development.
According to my teaching practice, I have to say that although I always try to motivate my students searching for attractive actvities related to the contents, I feel that what I do it's not usually enough.

For this reason, after a reseach using the open eTwinning list, I would like to try to use different apps in the classroom. Some of them are:

-  Plickers, a tool to revise concepts, assess our students or simply to obtain some feedback.
- Quizizz, similar to Kahoot. You can create games or tests to challenge your students.
- ClassDojo, tool for teachers to encourage students to promote different skills. It also connects parents with their children learning process.
- Playposit, a very useful tool when you are an inexperienced flipped "classroomer" as I am. It helps you to add questions to the videos that your students are watching.

Hope you find some of these ideas interesting and want to learn more about the tools I just introduced here.
For me, this is a new challenge.

eTwinning in 140

Last week I started learning many things related to eTwinning through the 2nd edition of the Open eTwinning MOOC.
This course is going to be carried out until the first week of June and, during this time, I will have to develop different activities. One of the tasks that I have been asked to complete this week was to tweet in 140 characters what eTwinning means to me. This was my tweet:

So for a general idea, 140 characters is enough. But if we want to give more information it's obvious that we will need more than that.

When we talk about eTwinning, we refer to a community of schools, teachers and students from Europe that want to develop projects taking into account the social, historical and cultural background of the different participants.
This is the reason why eTwinning is the tool to never stop learning. We can always find someone with our same interests and education needs as cooperation is the main objective.

Thinking of the possible eTwinning projects that can be carried out, there's no limit. Everything you can think of can be done.
This is a great learning opportunity not only for students but also for teachers as they all learn something. On the one hand, students can learn history and culture facts about the co-worker country, practice the second or third language that they are studying, get to know the differences between their own country and the team member country. And on the other hand teachers can exchange their teaching experiences, methodoligies, assesments, etc. Something like a job shadowing with the convinience that you can do everything from yout r school by using a computer and ICT's.
This is why eTwinning is a classroom with no walls or borders.

1, 2, 3 MY PRESENTATION!

Hello everybody!

I'm Mrs.B and I would like to welcome you to my new blog about education. 
In this site I will try to talk about different aspects related to education such as methodology, pojects, good practices, apps that can be used in the classroom, eTwinning... 

For my first post I've created a very short story about me so that you can get to know me a little bit better. 

Please, feel free to leave your comments. Any feedback will be really appreciated.

You can read the story here

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