TEACH PERFECT'S BLOG

Hi there again my readers, To finish this task we have chosen these five concepts as the most important ones in order to better understand TPACK and everything we have explained about it: Knowledge: are the facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. In this task is referred to content, pedagogy and technology. Connections: are the relationships in which something is linked or associated with something else. In this case how the contents, the pedagogy and the technology are linked among them. Technology: are the machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge , but computers and mobile phones are not the only technologies, a pencil, the blackboard or a table are technology too. Pedagogy: the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept. Contents: in this task is referred to everything included in a specific subject, for example in maths t...

Hello lovely readers! I am Neón and I’m going to comment to you what my group and I have done this week. As I told you in the previous post, María Serrano and Lucía Hernández have the responsibility to do the reflection in this task and they are going to tell you what we have done during this week. In this task, called "TPACK" that means Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge, what we have done is investigate about this topic because we had to learn things about it in order to explain the task to our classmates on Wednesday. With this research we have learnt some interesting things about TPACK and we have developed cognitive dissonance and meaningful learning. We have developed cognitive dissonance because we have searched information by own-selves about this useful topic for our future job as teachers because we consider that the mix between technology and education is very useful considering that, nowadays, we live in a technological era, so technology is huge...

After this crazy week working on TPACK, we have learnt how to cooperate together to do a poster and a presentation with basic ideas. We recognize that the TPACK framework is a good way of work for our job as teachers, because it show us how to connect technology with pedagogy and content in an appropriate way to be an effective teacher. On the other hand, we can see some lacks to be a good way of teaching, like for example the relationships between parents, teachers and students and the way of evaluation. To finish with this topic, I would like to say that working here with Spanish students is the best thing that happen to me in years. I used to be a lonely unicorn without a goal in my life, but now I know perfectly what I want: to be a perfect teacher and teach perfect! I can’t wait to the next week to know what we are going to do.  -Neón- Me with my classmates after our presentation.

Although we worked a lot in our presentation of our poster of TPACK, we also discovered that the others groups have done the same or more. We have noticed that they have made a good effort in preparing a good poster, they put all the principal ideas clearly and they transmitted to us that they perfectly understand this framework. We have to congratulated all of them because, even this is our first task in this signature, we all worked together and help each other to better understand the matter. We absolutely love how some of the groups have used colours to explain the connection and relationships between the technology, pedagogic and content in the TPACK and also the drawings that represents their way of thinking about this question. Also we like that some of them had funny pets (but not better than me, of course). All of them were so creative and we have to give everyone a round of applause because they deserve it. -Neón- Teachers Team Universal Teachers ...

This week has been the first in which we work by groups in SO&ER. Our first task was about the TPACK framework. TPACK is basically a way to help teachers to use and bring technology into the classroom effectively. It is composed by a union between content, pedagogical and technological knowledge.  What we have done this week was basically to search for information about TPACK and it parts and put all this info together in a poster with colours and drawings. Our group chose to do a mind map because is more visual, has key words and it’s begin in a principal idea with secondary ones. For do this mind map, we draw a jellyfish and put on it all the words we thought were important for us. We worked really hard on this because we wanted to have it perfect (like our name hahaaha).  Finally, on Wednesday, we made a 5-minutes-dating with the others groups of our classroom to share our discovering with them. The stars (Marina, Paco and me) explained to the audience TPACK and th...