Humor is als part of the reflection process. If somebody have told me that I was going to make a joke about technology I would have said "no way". Well, things have changed.
jueves, 14 de enero de 2010
martes, 12 de enero de 2010
My first stop
Lots of frustration, tears and almost quiting is the botton line of my introduction to web 2.0 course. Now, since the end of the first module is close I need to make my "first stop".
What have I learned to make me a fascilitator?
- I have to persue my goal of being a better teacher for future generations
- I have to catch up with the tools there are out there.
- I have to reduce the gap between generations
- I have to accept that students learn with different tools.
- thanks God, no matter the generation, they all need to think, digest and reflect on the information.
I had some prejudice towards on line education. I thought it was easier, WRONG!!! IT IS NOT. It demands other strategies, activities but the effort is there, in all the activities and planning the teacher needs to make. Also, in the self discipline the students need to have to accomplish the goals of the course and personal ones.
Each of us have different strenghts. Putting them together in a group work like wiki, or answering a survey is a way to develope team work, and teach from the experience the fact of benefits of teamwork with no prejudice at all. Teamwork is possible on line. collaboration among group members helps the group production.
Peer editing didn´t exist as part of the vocabulary of my teachers decades ago. Now, for me, peer editing is a strength that a fascilitator can use to show collaboration is the answer to overcome difficulties, or to learn and master a new information. Peer editing is useful not only to develope writing skills, and to check that everybody has participated. Peer editing is a great alternative to develope awareness of other people´s need, tolerance to differences.
My first stop is a positive one. I am happy with what I can do now. I am not crying any more and I don´t feel like technology is not my friend. My first stop in my road to becoming a fascilitator has brought me with new ways of working with my computer, having more "space" in my brain to see the cyberspace and have more than 3 windows open at the same time. My assessment?, being able to teach some peers/mates new thinks that I discovered using google has been the most rewarding moment in this journey.
What have I learned to make me a fascilitator?
- I have to persue my goal of being a better teacher for future generations
- I have to catch up with the tools there are out there.
- I have to reduce the gap between generations
- I have to accept that students learn with different tools.
- thanks God, no matter the generation, they all need to think, digest and reflect on the information.
I had some prejudice towards on line education. I thought it was easier, WRONG!!! IT IS NOT. It demands other strategies, activities but the effort is there, in all the activities and planning the teacher needs to make. Also, in the self discipline the students need to have to accomplish the goals of the course and personal ones.
Each of us have different strenghts. Putting them together in a group work like wiki, or answering a survey is a way to develope team work, and teach from the experience the fact of benefits of teamwork with no prejudice at all. Teamwork is possible on line. collaboration among group members helps the group production.
Peer editing didn´t exist as part of the vocabulary of my teachers decades ago. Now, for me, peer editing is a strength that a fascilitator can use to show collaboration is the answer to overcome difficulties, or to learn and master a new information. Peer editing is useful not only to develope writing skills, and to check that everybody has participated. Peer editing is a great alternative to develope awareness of other people´s need, tolerance to differences.
My first stop is a positive one. I am happy with what I can do now. I am not crying any more and I don´t feel like technology is not my friend. My first stop in my road to becoming a fascilitator has brought me with new ways of working with my computer, having more "space" in my brain to see the cyberspace and have more than 3 windows open at the same time. My assessment?, being able to teach some peers/mates new thinks that I discovered using google has been the most rewarding moment in this journey.
jueves, 7 de enero de 2010
a must to reflect on
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid9958061001?bctid=60298428001
a video that is more than inspiring
a video that is more than inspiring
martes, 29 de diciembre de 2009
back to hwks
I have been thinking and worrying about how to teach critical thinking skills/strategies. Then it hit me: teaching student's to be 'critical' - according to whose definition of 'critical'? Teacher? Teacher trainer? Student? Academic?
who is a critical thinker?, the one who questions? not an easy task or role.
who is a critical thinker?, the one who questions? not an easy task or role.
New language
Surfing the net?, I don´t even know how to swim!!
but that is what makes languages fantastic. Language shows the creativity we have to put together words and make sense of a new reality: cyber space.
I am surfing the net, and I love it.
It demands to remind ourselves our task because we can get lost in the wide variety of information.
I am sure how digital natives handle this fact, or how they digest all the pieces of the puzzle.
I just hope they have time to reflect on what they are finding, reading, learning and studying.
but that is what makes languages fantastic. Language shows the creativity we have to put together words and make sense of a new reality: cyber space.
I am surfing the net, and I love it.
It demands to remind ourselves our task because we can get lost in the wide variety of information.
I am sure how digital natives handle this fact, or how they digest all the pieces of the puzzle.
I just hope they have time to reflect on what they are finding, reading, learning and studying.
more spinning wheels
Wall-e has provided another component to reflect on: human contact. I laughed at first when those people in read started falling out of their chairs. I didn´t laught a couple of days ago when I watched again at home.
All of them were using tech, and they were even living on it, and by it.
I know it is a movie but it made me wonder, ´cuz I also watched an episode in "two and a half men" in which a girl is chating to a buy using computers of course but sitting in the SAME couch at the same time!!
Would we be computer´s adicts?, in a way that computers will read the world surrounding us?
those people did not notice daylight until the computer told to change the color!
and those 2 kids were laughing at a computer, instead of seeing each other and laughing with each other.
Is that what is waiting for us in the future?
don´t know ... I better concentrate in my hwks and not notice the spinning wheels now.
All of them were using tech, and they were even living on it, and by it.
I know it is a movie but it made me wonder, ´cuz I also watched an episode in "two and a half men" in which a girl is chating to a buy using computers of course but sitting in the SAME couch at the same time!!
Would we be computer´s adicts?, in a way that computers will read the world surrounding us?
those people did not notice daylight until the computer told to change the color!
and those 2 kids were laughing at a computer, instead of seeing each other and laughing with each other.
Is that what is waiting for us in the future?
don´t know ... I better concentrate in my hwks and not notice the spinning wheels now.
sábado, 26 de diciembre de 2009
reflection
I have high hopes with online education:
1.- Student center class.- since we have a direct contact with our students, no matter their number in class, we can have a real student center process. They tells us what they think, they show us what they can do, they share more pieces of information.
How can we (teachers) help them shape their world with critical knowledge?,
well, feedback is a key element. By giving constructive feedback we can keep their ideas rolling and growing. With appropiate feedback we can guide them in their ideas to develope their own.
2.- Peace.- Reading, learning, thinking about a new theory, content or experience students can concentrate in one thing only: their task. Without having the influence of how people looks like I strongly believe that we can create relationships based on knowledge. As long as more teachers involve their students in tech for their hwks, we slowly develope a community interested in results and team work. Diverstiy, tolerance will come along the learning process.
1.- Student center class.- since we have a direct contact with our students, no matter their number in class, we can have a real student center process. They tells us what they think, they show us what they can do, they share more pieces of information.
How can we (teachers) help them shape their world with critical knowledge?,
well, feedback is a key element. By giving constructive feedback we can keep their ideas rolling and growing. With appropiate feedback we can guide them in their ideas to develope their own.
2.- Peace.- Reading, learning, thinking about a new theory, content or experience students can concentrate in one thing only: their task. Without having the influence of how people looks like I strongly believe that we can create relationships based on knowledge. As long as more teachers involve their students in tech for their hwks, we slowly develope a community interested in results and team work. Diverstiy, tolerance will come along the learning process.
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