ANALYST TASK 2

 Hello again!!!!!

This is the second week, and now I have the role of Analyst, my name is Mª Carmen and I´m going to  play it in the best way I can. Do you know what that mean this role?

Well, I have to evaluate the work of my group members, just like my work. Moreover, I must also reflect on the positive and negative points of each activity, what we have learned, whether we can apply it in future classrooms, or what we can improve as a group.

As a team, we have learned how to collaborate with each other and organize work in a way that all of us have tasks to do in our regular activities. Later, as we are doing now, everyone plays an important role. This method is very useful since we are more productive and more effective.

This week we have been doing an activity which consisted of knowing what TPACK and ACAD are and try to find some relation between them. Here you have our poster of this work.

As for the best part of this activity has been doing the drawings, the time we have spent together at the same time we have learnt the different concepts of this task and also  different apps to make original things that my classmates and I shared with each one of us, for  instance, I know one app such as Gocorqn or Genially and I tell to them, as well as, for example another classmates of my group knows what is VISME and she tell to us.

On the other hand, the worse part of this activity has been maybe the difficulties we have had to find the relation between these new concepts and also to find the main ideas of them.Nevertherless, every moment in our group is Good, but if I have to say what has been the best one of the week, I would say that it was when we had to compared and discuss our different recopilation of information, I mean when we meet to put in common our researcher about both concepts to finally do the task.  

Moreover, I don´t think that we had had some bad things doing this activity, because all are advantages; we have learnt a lot of new concepts such as, TPACK and ACAD which are very useful for our future as a teachers, because those one support both the learning and the teaching, so those methods are really useful and benefitial for the teacher and also for the student as a learner. All of these things are the ones which we have learned doing the activity at our own.

On the other hand, I have to mentioned what we have learnt in class. Firstly, we have learnt some different and useful apps to use in our daily life such as; Deepl, that it´s a very useful and amazing traductor and in this bilingual degree it´s too benefitial for us, another app is Purdue Online Writing Lab which it´s also very useful and can save time doing the APA style in our university Works. I also remember one page in which you can make hashtags to group all your information and be able to find it quickly, which is hashatit, which the teacher told us the first day of the class.

About the relation of this contents with others contents in the degree or in the course I think that in this case maybe TPACK and ACAD, are related with  Planification subject in the first quarter, since both apply to the understanding of how students learn, how to manage the classroom and how to plan tasks and classes to teach them in an organized way and following a planning.

Finally, 9 March,2021 in the classroom we presented the different group´s activities and at the end of the class the teacher give some feedback to us to improve our work. She has said to us  some advice such as, the different between task and activity, which are that a task is what you create for your students to do and an activity is where reality happens. Another aspect that she point out the differences between framework and model, which is that a framework helps you t osee reality in one way perspective, while the model is used to organize ideas. 

Moreover, she explain us the difference bertween ACAD and TPACK; the first concept focuses on the design and is based in how the learning emergent and how us as a teacher situated learning, whereas TPACK is the knowledge you have.          

As for the way in which we present the work, she has told us some useful advices for the future presentations, which are, for example, not to read a lot the content we have to say and to have more eye contact with our audience, also it´s important to do the things that she ask for and to know how to answer in a coherent way and not to answer the same she has ask us, I mean to have the ideas clear and to reflect in a mature way.

I hope you enjoy reading every Fantas-TIC moments and things we have learnt during this Fantas-TIC week !!

JOURNALIST TASK 2

 Hi! It is Marina, and this week I have performed the role of Journalist.

In this link you could see a presentation that summarise the most important things of the week.

https://www.emaze.com/@AOTFLZTIT/journalist-task-2

Now I will explain how we have lived the week with more detail.

This task has been very controversial because we realised that we had to do it on the 28 of February since it was supposed to be for the 2nd of March (there was a misunderstanding in the group of WhatsApp) so we entered in panicked on Sunday night.

When we decided to start the task on Sunday night, we were not all connected so we divided the questions, one for each one, and in this way, we all had to read the links and be aware of what the task was about.

The next day, 1 st of March, we had all the questions answered and, between the free time of the classes, we talked about what type of mapping we were going to do. That same evening, we had a Zoom call and we did the map and finished the task.

At the first moment, the task seemed to be very difficult but it was because we were very stressed and we thought that we weren´t going to finish on time. Nevertheless, when we finished it, we realized the simplicity of this task.

Anyway, on the 2nd of March, we were very nervous as we thought we had to present it but the teacher said that we didn´t have to worry about it since that task was going to be for the next week (9th of March).

That same week, on Friday, we had a meeting to improve the blog and try to make a dropdown menu but we didn´t get it.

Finally, we presented our mind map on the 9th of March. As Elena was the star, shed did the presentation and we saw the different presentations that the other two groups of our classes did.

I would like to highlight the presentation of the group Happy flowers. In my opinion, their Prezi was really cool and the presentation was very enjoyable. In addition, I love the blog of the group Black Eyed Peers since I found it very ordered and interesting.

For this task, we have used the app Gocongr to do the map as we considered that it was the easiest and the fastest one. I have to say that I had never listened to talk about it before and I think that I will use it a lot to do some schemas or mind maps since it has been very easy to use.

Furthermore, for the day of the women 8m, we posted on our stories of Instagram some of the most important women in the history of education, and we let our followers told us which were their more inspirational women. I let here the link if you want to have a look.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18199260052036316/

Finally, I would like to recommend an app that the teacher told us that is Grammarly. I had never heard of it but with no doubt whatsoever, it has become one of my favourite applications. It is better than a translator because it makes you think about the translation but it checks if what you have put is coherent, have any mistake and if it is clear.

STAR TASK 2

 Hello! I am Elena Belver Morales and this week I performed the role of Star. Therefore, I will be presenting task 2, in which we were required to gather information about TPACK and ACAD Framework and recreate their features in a diagram.

What is TPACK and what is ACAD exactly? 

We will start by explaining that TPACK is a theory that represents the relationship between 3 basic concepts that are: Content, Pedagogy and Knowledge, and how they have to interact among them to achieve an efficient teaching.

The other main concept that we addressed in this task is ACAD. It is a framework centered in the activity of the classroom where we can set conditions that are likely to lead to the types of activities that we find valuable and the learning outcomes that we aim for.

Which are the essential TPACK elements and how do they interact with each other?

Now we will proceed to explain the essential TPACK elements. 

• Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) covers the core business of teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment and reporting. An awareness of common misconceptions and ways of looking at them, the importance of forging connections among different content-based ideas, students’ prior knowledge, alternative teaching strategies, and the flexibility that comes from exploring alternative ways of looking at the same idea or problem are all essential for effective teaching.

• Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) is an understanding of how teaching and learning can change when particular technologies are used in particular ways. This includes knowing the pedagogical affordances and constraints of a range of technological tools as they relate to disciplinarily and developmentally appropriate pedagogical designs and strategies.

• Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) is an understanding of the manner in which technology and content influence and constrain one another. They both have a deep historical relationship. Progress in fields as diverse as medicine, history, archeology, and physics have coincided with the development of new technologies that afford the representation and manipulation of data in new and fruitful ways.

Which are the essential ACAD elements and how do they interact with each other?

Regarding ACAD we must say it is activity-centered and it aims to support analysis and design of learning environments. 

The essential elements to achieve this are: set design, which refers to how we arrange the physical or virtual learning environment; epistemic design, which means proposing tasks for students; and social design, which involves making decisions on how people work together.

These three dimensions come together in support of learning and, as a result, emerging activity appears —the final structural element, which deals with acts of co-creation and co-configuration when learners are required to decide what to do. 

Emerging activity is the mediator that links the other elements to learning outcomes. Without this mechanism, that relationship could not happen.

How would TPACK be useful for you?

As teachers, the TPACK framework can be a very useful tool. Since technology is developing really fast and is being implemented in every field, it is very important to take this in mind in the field of education. In this century, education has suffered a great change, and in this year in particular we have lived this on the front line. However, we should consider that the concept of technology can be applied for analog and digital technology, the old one and the new one. We consider that a pencil and a software are both technologies. 

Therefore, it is principal for teachers to use the TPACK framework, especially nowadays because of the demand of using the new technology in class. This framework provides an understanding of how content, pedagogy and technology interact with each other. Teachers should understand the base of their discipline in order to be effective. If not, students can misunderstand the information and create an incorrect framework of the concept. Moreover, teachers must know methodologies and techniques of teaching and learning, that is, they must have pedagogical knowledge. And related to that, they should have pedagogical content knowledge, which consists of the transformation of the subject matter for teaching, this transformation is different for everyone depending on their interpretations. Finally, they should have technological knowledge, this content is always changing and the definitions of it can be outdated incredibly fast.

Having all this in mind, it is evident that teachers should know the connections between the components and how they interact with each other. Here it is where the TPACK framework takes part. It provides a great range of options of how technology can be applied in education considering the other elements too. It gives the opportunities for teachers to have another point of view of how technology can be applied in education, not just like an “add-on”. In order to be an effective teacher and achieve an effective teaching, it is crucial to understand the TPACK framework.

How is TPACK related to ACAD?

In the first place, it is important to know that TPACK is how the three domains; the knowledge of content, pedagogy and technology work together in a very difficult way to support effective teaching.  

In addition, it's also relevant to know that ACAD is an emergent activity, that includes the set, epistemic and social design, that it is what happens at the time of learning when tools, tasks and people come together in support of learning. 

Once we know what are TPACK and ACAD, we can conclude that TPACK is close to ACAD because TPACK is produced when you, as a teacher have a technological knowledge, try to transmit to your students your knowledge and knows how to teach, at the same time you have developed these abilities, it's also important and necessary to have into account the environment in which you develop your courses, the tools, artifacts and resources you introduce to support learning. You also propose some suggestions about good things for students to do, besides deciding if people are going to work together or individually.

• Conclusion:

To sum up, both concepts are related between them, since if you want to be understood by your students and also to provide an effective learning you have to represent technological knowledge, you also have to know what and how you are going to transmit this knowledge to your students, that´s TPACK. At the same time you have to consider where, what interesting tasks and who you are going to teach, thus everything is included in the context of how to teach in an effective way in the context of school.

Is there any important part of the Teacher’s action which hasn’t been included in the TPACKACAD model yet? Is TPACK-ACAD sufficient to understand a teacher’s job? 

After having acknowledged all these concepts we were required to consider whether the TPACKACAD model lacks any part of the Teacher’s action. 

Personally, we believe that it is necessary to take into account that a large part of the quality of education depends on the quality of the teacher and them having the personality needed for motivating students and responding to their needs, dealing with parents and other colleagues, as well as continue working on their professional career and keep improving their teaching skills.  Therefore, it is not enough as there are other important factors the Framework is not including.

We hope you have enjoyed it! Thanks for paying attention to our presentation.

FACILITATOR TASK 2

 Hi!!! My name is Victoria Corredor Argudo and this week I have been the facilitator.

After class, we all divide the different roles. After seeing my role, I asked if everyone was happy with their role and after this, we started working. My group is not conflicted so the work has become very enjoyable.

The problem came when on Sunday afternoon we realized that the task was for Tuesday, at that time we all panicked, because the following Thursday we had an exam. After these minutes of panic, we decided to meet online and I tried to reassure my colleagues a little bit. We finally managed to finish the task.

This week I have been in charge of correcting and posting my peers work. It's been a very easy job because they all work very well.

JOURNALIST TASK 1

 My name is Elena Belver Morales and I have performed the role of Journalist this week.

The 23rd of February we had Resources and ICT class and we were asked to create pictures related to six sentences about education, learning and teaching and then upload them to Padlet. We chose these sentences: 

• “Educators are artist, the education is work of art” (Octavio Fullat)

• “Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself” (John Dewey)

• “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching” (Unknown)

• “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn” (Benjamin Franklin)

• “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhaust, never fears, and never regret” (Leonardo Da Vinci)

• “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think” (Socrates)

Each one of the members of the group was assigned a different sentence and was in charge of coming up with a picture related to the topic and then, add them to Padlet.

After this, we were required to create an Instagram account for our group and post our pictures. Our Instagram account is fantas.ticgirls and we uploaded the pictures and a profile picture.

We also created a blog (Fantas-TIC Girls) and we published our first post: WEEK 1. The Facilitator updated it writing down the role each of us performs.

The 26th of February, we held a meeting together and we created a QR code for our Padlet and for our Instagram page. We also allowed comments on Padlet, changed the profile picture, and changed the background to a greenish one. Regarding the blog, we changed the background to blue and the Facilitator updated it posting what the Translator, the Facilitator and Analyst have done this week.

Moreover, we all started to perform our roles and, since this was the first time we worked in this kind of format, we faced some difficulties. In general, we were slightly unsure of how to correctly perform our roles. 

For instance, the Translator struggled a bit having to come up with the most possible suitable definition of terms. The Facilitator felt her role —distributing the work— was not much needed as we had already done that. The Curator’s main problem was finding the pages of which we had found the sentences, seeing that when we were required to look for the sentences we did not look in advance and we did not save the pages thinking we would not need them for later.

For me, as the Journalist, I mostly had trouble trying to post a comment on a blog. I tried several times and in different posts but I could not make it. 

Also, it was difficult to keep a record of everyone’s work all the time as they were constantly collecting new information. 

The 28th all of us finished our parts and the Facilitator uploaded what the other members of the group have been doing this week.

I searched for some interesting websites, for example this blog of our classmates, where I left a comment: https://lasdefinitivasrresourcesandictumu.blogspot.com 

Also, I also found this blog to be quite useful for future teachers, but I could not leave a comment: http://rincondeunamaestra.blogspot.com 

I have also created a Genially to present my work of this week in a more visual way: https://view.genial.ly/60397a8d4d21b20d8bc3d4d7/presentation-journalist 

CURATOR TASK 1

 I am Victoria and this week I´m the curator.

My role consist on compiling and organizing in a schematic way all the information sources that my group has used for the development of the activity.

For the photos we have used open license photos from google and Pinterest and we have  edited some of them with the PicsArt app.

This are the quotes that we have used and their corresponding  links:

• Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. (Leonardo da Vinci)

https://www.learningsuccessblog.com/learning-only-thing-mind-never-exhausts-never-fears-and-never-regrets-leonardo-da-vinci

• Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

https://mahnoor-asghar109.medium.com/never-stop-learning-because-life-never-stops-teaching-ed289f27fde4

• I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think (Sócrates)

https://www.wednesdaymorningcoffee.com/i-cannot-teach-anybody-anything-i-can-only-make-them-think-socrates/

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remenber. Involve me and I learn ( Benjamin Franklin)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21262-tell-me-and-i-forget-teach-me-and-i-may

• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. (John Dewey)

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/john-dewey-said-that-education-life-please-explain-247830#:~:text=John%20Dewey%20%27s%20full%20quote%20is%20this%3A%20%22Education,through%20doing%20was%20the%20best%20approach%20to%20education.

• Educators are artist, the education is work of art (Octavi Fullst)

https://www.pinterest.es/pin/461759768034163531/

STAR TASK 1

 My name is Mª Carmen and this week I have been the star.

This rol is more or less the most important one, because I should present and expose each activity we do in our group to the whole class, but this week I do not have lot to do since I don´t have to expose nothing. 

However, I have to say that I have been very  intrusive in the padlet activity, as well as in the creation of social networks, in the design and organization of the blog and in the organization of our teamwork.

ANALYST TASK 1

I am Maria Camacho Hurtado and this week I have been the analyst.

According to my role, this week I am the analyst so I am charged to do a final reflection of our first task. Taking into account that all these things are new for us, we have been able to do the task overcoming all difficulties due to the fact that we have organized ourselves correctly to carry out the activity.

Although it has been our first task we have learnt new things about new apps. Firstly, we have created a new account on instragram and a new profile in a blog to post our activity that we did with padlet. In padlet, we uploaded photographs related with the three concepts of teaching, education and learning.

Moreover, we have been working in group all the time so we have been able to organize and distribute our work, taking in mind the opinions of our partners. We have been able to understand our partners if they had difficulties and we helped her to overcome them. 

I personally think that it is one of the most important values of working in group. Nevertheless, we have learned new tools to explain and teach new concepts to our students as a teacher and being able to use different ways to teach our students in the near future.

Refering to other roles, firstly my partners have had some difficulties to know exactly what they have had to do but after working hard they were able understand their roles. Once they have had understand everything, they were able to start and elaborate their work.

FACILITATOR TASK 1

 My name is Marina Abadía García and this week I have been the facilitator. 

We distributed the roles after doing the task as we started and finished it during the class so I couldn't distributed the work because we just decided between all (in the class time)that we were in charge of looking for one of the six sentences and create the picture that make reference of it.

Furthermore I haven't have to deal with any conflict since we all fulfill our obligations and if we had any doubt we helped each other.

I have been in charged of updating the blog so my classmates sent me their reflections and I checked that there were no faults and they were well expressed and then I posted them on the blog.

TRANSLATOR TASK 1

My name is Amparo Camacho Sánchez and this week I have been the translator.

The task for this week was to create an image for every phrase related to the terms "learning", "teaching" and "education".

My role this week consists on outline 5 terms that we consider outstanding related to the task of this week. As we have viewed the terms mentioned above, I am going to define them based on our own perception, and also the tools we have used for the activity.

The main 5 terms in this task have been "Padlet", "Instagram", "learning", "teaching" and "education".

• PADLET: 

For this activity we have used Padlet, which is an interactive collaboration whiteboard. It is very useful since everyone can put any multimedia resources that everyone is watching at the same time. We used it to put the images with every phrase related to it and then present them. 

          https://padlet.com/fantasticgirls2021/jl3mb1qy7gzyn8v1

• INSTAGRAM:

We have created an account on Instagram to post everything we will be doing during the course. Instagram is a platform where people post photos and videos. Everyone can see them, commenting on or giving likes. We use the hashtag  RICT2021# to post the photos and see the other publications.

           https://www.instagram.com/fantas.ticgirls/

• LEARNING

This is one of the concepts that we have viewed in this task. It is a difficult concept to define since it has different meanings for each person. We see it as the process of achieving something new that can be applied for something. It can be knowledge, skills or anything, it is a lifelong process that never stops. The two phrases we have used for this concept were:

- Learning is the only thing the mind never exhaust, never fears, and never regret (Leonardo Da Vinci)

- Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.

• TEACHING

It is another concept we have viewed in this task. It is the process in which people transfer his or her knowledge, values, skills to another person. There are many ways of teaching depending on the values of each person. The two phrases we have used for this concept are:

- I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think (Sócrates) 

- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remenber. Involve me and I learn ( Benjamin Franklin) 

                                Questions by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images

•  EDUCATION

The last main concept is education. We can say that learning and teaching take part in the process of education. It is beyond just academic knowledge, it starts when we are born and ends when we die. We are constanly learning, that is, we are always being educated. 

We are being educated by our parents, by our teachers, by our friends and by the society in general. The two phrases we have used for this concept are:

- Educators are artist, the education is work of art (Octavi Fullst)

- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself (John Dewey)

These terms are very connected with each other, none of them take part without one. They have many definitions for everyone, we tried to build these definitions based on our own perception, having in mind that we still have so much to learn about them.