Hello everybody! Today we have a new challenge to fulfil: to analyse, and
present a reference open educational Project.
Firstly, we have to choose a Project in order to analyse it in depth. I
chose "My town" because I find it interesting and useful for
kids. It is based on six different missions whose main topics are the cities
and how to manage in them. In this sense, the Project works in essential
curricular content, as prepositions, directions, the use of present simple,
descriptions and acquisition of key vocabulary related to the cities. Finally,
after completing the six missions, the student will accomplish a final task: make
a short video about their town.
In order to evaluate this Project the following points will be
analysed:1. Key knowledge, understanding and success skills: (TO IMPROVE)
At this point, I think that there is a good Project and works with key competences properly.
This project is focused on teaching students key concepts, such as how to use the present simple, how to ask for directions and give instructions, made comparisons and descriptions of places in order to use the third person and how to ask questions.
Furthermore, it works with the four skills, since each task is related to two or more of them, including how to manage with ICT tools.
To analyse if this Project is important to promote collaboration, I have to
say that this is one of the main objectives of the Project. Each task have an individual
component, as well as pair or group work, and therefore, collaboration is very
important here.
2. Challenging
problem or question: (GOOD)
Concerning challenges, I also find this project adequate. I mean that it
includes many tasks relating to ICT tools and challenges to fulfil that are
interesting and engaging for students of those ages. It also includes a final
mission to know if kids have learnt the contents at the end of each season.
As I said, I find this project very easy in content for secondary students,
because it teaches essential key content such as to compare and describe some
cities.
Moreover, in my view, this project is based on a meaningful problem to
solve that are cities and what can we observe on them. This is an important
topic because students live in cities and it is important to know what things
surrounded them, and catch their attention. Besides, they know how to ask
questions in order to find places, which is a useful tool in real life.
This point is well developed in this project. Students have a very active
role in the process, because they have to achieve specific goals in each season. Students learn
how to generate questions and share them with the rest of their classmates.
They find answers in interactive tools, such as videos or social networks and
develop their own answers through these resources. Furthermore, they have to
annotate their reflections and what they think about everyday situations.
Besides, they have to write down their process in their learning diaries
and reflect all their thoughts and how they fulfilled the missions. It would be
important that each season had their own objectives so this could increase
students’ success to deal with the big final task.4. Authenticity: (GOOD)
This project really has a real-word context because it is develop using some real tools as pictures of cities, maps… “My town” is based on real cities like New York or Liverpool. Furthermore, it is based on student’s interest because it includes many web sites that kids already know and consider interesting in their daily life. Besides, they have to find information into real life objects and manage to find information on the internet.
5. Student voice and choice: (REALLY GOOD)
Students are autonomous and are guided by teachers
in each step and mission. The tasks have clear directions but children have to
develop them by their own way. Most of the work is done by students who have to
handle with tools and times.
6. Reflection: (QUITE GOOD)
The project reflects the students´ voice in an active way. As I said, they
have to write their impressions and reflections in a learning diary and in
their blogs. Thus, they have a good opportunity to share their work and what
they are learning. The project also includes many tools to share student´s work
with their classmates and even with the rest of the world too. In this regard,
they can open a Twitter account, a blog or work with web tools such as Youtube,
video editors…
I think is easy for them to fulfil the challenges so they are one-day
challenges and kids have to complete them in that time. Thus, is more easy for students
to organize their work through seasons. 7. Critique and revisión: (GOOD)
The project includes a final self-evaluation for each student called “learning
diary” in which they have to answer questions such as What are the most
difficult challenges you’ve had?
There are many ways to show students some tools like videos, texts, webs,
blogs… through which teachers can evaluate and give them continued feedback. Moreover, teachers have some rubric to evaluate students‘ work at the end of each mission. Thus, teacher will evaluate the final posts of the blog with the rubric. Besides, they have to complete a personal evaluation about their peers´ work and their own work as a group.
8. Public product: (REALLY GOOD)
This is the mainstay of this project. Students have used different types of
ICT tools to share their products and results with people. They have to create
a blog to reflect how they complete each mission and their reflections about
the tasks. Moreover, as I have mentioned before, they have to open a Twitter
account to link their blogs and diaries.
I think this is a good way to learn how ICTs work because every children have socialnetworks and we should find a way to take advantage of them in an educational way and this porject overcome with it. Today I am going to talk you about a new tool also that is Genially(https://www.genial.ly/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FPanel%2FMyGenially ). I have found it very useful but I have to admit that the first time I saw this application I have some dificulties to manage with it. Finally, I could create my own presentation to show you more about this Project and how to work with Genially.
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