ANALYST TASK 7

Hello fantastic people!! I’m Amparo and this week I’ve been the analyst. I’m in charge of the weekly evaluation of the group members’ performance and making a reflection.

For this week we had to make a podcast talking about our experience trying the platform “The Hour of Code”, many teachers use it in order to promote computer science. We coded three games there for ages between two and five years old. We recorded everything we did and then on Monday we recorded the podcast for Tuesday.

At first, our experience coding was resulting quite complicated. We were having difficulties with the first game. We were starting to frustrate as we did not know the right way to do it and we spent most of our morning trying to figure it out. At the moment we understood it going step by step, we coded two games in the time we coded the first one. I could say this was the hardest part of the week.

On the other hand, the moment of preparing and recording the podcast was more bearable. I felt that everyone was doing their work without wasting time. We could let what we were going to say the afternoon before Tuesday. Then, on Tuesday’s morning, we agreed which parts were going to say, assigning each one of us a part.  

Unquestionably, this activity has helped us as future teachers. Living in a world constantly changing and, currently, in terms of technology and digital tools, we believe it is extremely important to prepare the children for their future as much as we can. Technology is a big part of our lives, so this kind of activities must be worked at school. 

Furthermore, presenting the task in a podcast gave us the idea that we could do this in the future to record us explaining something to the children, or to do a similar activity with them. As is a creative way of presenting come content, they would be more interested and motivated to listen to it or create one them. 

Indeed, I feel like the group has improved so much in terms of production. We are being more productive each week. As we know each other more, we know how we work together, we do not waste time. Also, knowing how the teacher wants the work, we prepare the tasks faster and better. I hope we will stay like this for the rest of the course and even better. 

In conclusion, while doing this task I felt that everyone was contributing and we were understanding each other very well. We were enjoying the activity so much once we had understood how to code, as for the majority of us was the first time doing it. In general, we believe we are doing a good job and we work very good together, we all respect others ideas and take them into account.

This is the reflection for this week, hope you find it interesting. Have a great week!!