MOOC THE GOAL MINDED TEACHER : CHALLENGES TO TRANSFORM STUDENTS LEARNING (post 2)

Mission Student Challenge: LEARNING TO CATEGORIZE ANIMALS

Mission Description: The pupils in year 3 will need in order to accomplish this mission

Mission Overview/Steps:In An A4

1.-  Find the scientific name of the animal chosen

2.- Categorize the animal as type of invertebrate/ invertebrate animal kingdom living thing

3.- Prvide some characteristics of that animal (2 or 3)

4.- Show us a photo of the animal or a link to a 1 minute youtube video

5.- By doing this, they Will prove to us that they can be good scientists

Objectives:

The pupil can classify animals and categorize them.

The pupil recognizes specific characteristics for different animals (ie insects have six legs only)

The pupils widens his/her knowledge of animals

Purpose:

By following this mission, the students learn to enrich their own personal knowledge, their peers’ and the rest of the school as they will do a short exhibition of their findings to year 1.

Recommended Tools and Resources:

There is a template of the google doc to use for the A4 animal categorization.

The following webs

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/science/ 

Initially they only had the instructions in their blog of what they had to do in an A4 for their classmates. 

If you follow all the steps indicated for your homework and your presentation you will earn the wild roar badge.

I hope you like it. My students got it this morning! They loved the badge. I used Credly to design the badge. 

MOOC THE GOAL MINDED TEACHER : CHALLENGES TO TRANSFORM STUDENTS LEARNING (post 1)

Through INTEF I found out about this MOOC, which I felt instantly attracted to. The title I found revealing and when I read about the content it  definitely caught my attention.

So here I am after my first week, having been asked to write in a blog about my first assignment and building my learning portfolio.
I've published my photo with three pictures relating to my likes and purposes. I've pinpointed myself in the map and from now on, I will keep a weekly entry of my work.


INTEF MOOC: THE GOAL MINDED TEACHER

A través de Educalab, INTEF, encontré este MOOC que me llamó muchísimo la atención. El título y su contenido me interesaron y ahí estoy inscrita y realizándolo en la actualidad. Me han pedido que construya mi portfolio de trabajo y experiencias del curso, realizando una entrada semanal. Así que aquí tenemos la primera, ya he publicado mi fotografía con pegatinas/iconos que representen mis gustos o ideales, también me he señalado en un mapa mundi y ahora estoy aquí con mi primera entrada de blog. ¡A por todas!

¿QUÉ SON EDUCALAB E INTEF? / WHAT ARE EDUCALAB AND INTEF?

EDUCALAB
Educalab es un lugar de encuentro para los educadores. Su objetivo es apoyar a los docentes y a todo el sistema educativo español desde el conocimiento, la cercanía, los datos y el análisis, la investigación, la experimentación y la innovación. 

www.educalab.es 

Dentro de la interesantísima web de Educalab nos encontramos con INTEF, siglas del Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formació del Profesorado. 

Intef organiza periodicamente cursos, moocs y noocs, spoocs y en abierto. Dentro de la web podeis investigar el significado de cada uno de ellos y donde te lleva, como te formas en cada una de las modalidades. 

EDUCALAB is a web from the Spanish Ministry of Education created for educators. The objective is support the teachers from knowledge and investigation, from experimentation and innovation. 

www.educalab.es

Once you are in educalab you will find INTEF, the institution specially addressing education technology for the teacher. They have many courses, MOOCS, NOOCS, SPOOCS and others, surely you will find them interesting. They are convenient as you can do them from home. 

BEHAVIOUR ISSUES - PROBLEMAS DE COMPORTAMIENTO

Behaviour is a national problem in schools in England, review finds

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/24/behaviour-is-a-national-problem-in-schools-in-england-review-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Blogger

SOCIAL MEDIA AND CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION

Is social media causing childhood depression?  Reading this BBC article and having recently celebrated in school the International Day of Safer Internet for Kids -6th of February- makes me reflect in the vulnerability of children.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42705881