ANALYST TASK 9

 

Hii Fantas-TIC people!!!! As you already know I´m Mª Carmen and this week I have been the Analyst. So my mission has been to evaluate my colleagues and their work during this task and also to make a reflection of it.

I have to say that this is our last task on the subject of Resources and ICT (RICT) and for this week we have had to create an infographic in which we gathered all the relevant information about the main elements of the holistic model of teaching competences for a digital world, that´s teaching in the digital world.

Nowadays, we find ourselves in the so-called Digital Era, in which possessing digital skills is essential to being a good and effective teacher, as they have to teach and prepare the students for the world in which we actually are and in the future, we will since the technology is the present and will be the future in a more advanced way.

Everybody knows that technology has changed the world in all the possible aspects, in the way of thinking, writing, communicating with others, acquiring knowledge, …

In the past, our families hadn´t had anything to search for and now everything we want to know is on the Internet. Moreover, the way in which we communicate with each other has changed a lot because with the emergence of the TIC we have replaced the lecture for images on the Internet and also we have created unconsciously a new way of talking, I mean on Whatsapp for example, we use some words in a short way, so then in an exam might be some people who make mistakes by the habit of writing in this way on the social networks, and this is just one example of thousands. However, technology offers us plenty of opportunities in our personal but also in our professional world. In addition, it helps teachers to make a more dynamic and interesting lesson, so it engages students to learn in a different way, become more autonomous and also to have  critical thinking  to have opinions about the world in which we all live, among the many things technology brings to both teachers and students.

Taking what we have seen in the previous tasks, to become a teacher in our days is more complex than it could be in the past, because of the non-existence of technology. What I want to say is that to be a teacher it´s really important to have technological knowledge and that it has to be related with the pedagogical and the content knowledge you must have, so that´s is TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) that I have mentioned before, we have studied in the previous tasks.

Focusing more on this week´s task, we have learned how to be an effective teacher in the digital world from the six elements (digital experts, enhance reflective practice, generator of pedagogical practices, teacher´s PLE, relationships between families and learners, and social engagement) we have had to reflect on.

As for the best and the worst part of the task, I have to confess that the best part has been that we all have to meet and see our faces on zoom. For me, and I supposed that for my colleagues too, another thing that I can consider the best is to have some knowledge that is going to be useful for us, as teachers, in the future, since with doing this task we have learned how to become a better and effective teacher and also the importance of having some technical skills that are relevant nowadays for us as future teachers to teach our future students as well as for them in their personal and professional environment.

Nevertheless, I have to say that maybe the worst part of this task has been to summarize the whole text to collect all the information in a few lines to put them in the infographic.

Taking in mind all the tasks we have been doing throughout the four-month period, analysing  the work in my group, I have to say that we have progressed throughout the time because, from my point of view, I think that in the first task we were a bit lost but then when Linda give us some feedback about each task we were trying harder and focusing even more on what she wanted to see from us, exploiting our potential and effort to the fullest and our critical thinking through reflections.

In conclusion, I have realized that nowadays is relevant and useful to know how to use digital tools and also that our Personal Learning Environment(PLE) is really important for us because we can obtain information and knowledge of different apps that we use every day, for instance, we use Tik Tok, Instagram and a lot of more apps, and I have become aware of how much knowledge we can acquire if we use these apps as a useful medium instead of waste our time with them.

I hope you found my reflection interesting and that you liked all the posts during the course of my group and me. 

Have a Fantas-TIC week!!!