sábado, 9 de marzo de 2019
LoTi Framework
M04RTY PRODUCTIONS
MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez
English Teacher
LoTi Framework
March 9th, 2019
taken from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h1L6Kz0qJQpQhySIbKuw5qQPReJsXQ-c/edit
What is a LoTi Framework?
The LoTi Framework can be considered as the rubric in which any teacher is able to manage technology on the class. This rubric is divided into six different levels each level corresponds to a different level of improvement. Every single level determines what the teacher or the user can do with technology or computers. The levels describe deeply every aspect. Nonsense is considered as level 0, Awareness is level one, Exploration is level 2, Infusion is level 3, Mechanical Integration and Routine Integration are the levels number 4, Expansion is considered as level 5 and Refinement is considered as the maximum level for this rubric. Now the question is in which level are you?
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Level
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Category
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Description
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0
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Non-Sense
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Learning experience is not standards-based. There is no knowledge on the topic.
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1
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Awareness
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Resources are not used or used by teacher to enhance lectures, there is no technology involved to catch student’s attention.
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2
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Exploration
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Resources are used by students or the teacher for information gathering or extension activities, little implementation of technology.
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3
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Infusion
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Products emphasize complex thinking skill strategies (problem solving), technology is pretended to be applied.
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4
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Integration
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Teacher and Student are fully engaging in self-directed problem-based learning. There is more implementation of technology in the class.
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5
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Expansion
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Products are authentic and solve student-centered problems using all available resources. Teacher and students can create productions using technology.
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6
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Refinement
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Products are innovative, authentic, and extend beyond conventional strategies. At the same time both, teacher and students are more than capable to create new and authentic content using technology.
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Self-Evaluate
According with the previous chart is hard to make a decision to classify myself in one of the previous categories because personally I consider that I am able to create great digital content using a computer for example I consider myself in the expansion level, however if I take into account the usage that I give to technology in the classroom and how much are my students to create I would say that we are in a exploration stage.
Steps to follow
For next year I would like to be in a refinement stage and be able to create great content for my personal purposes but at the same time to be able to introduce even more technology with my students. The steps to follow are simple I am going to continue studying on different fields like audiovisual creation and prepare my self to be a graphic designer.
Final Remarks
Nowadays technology is everywhere we are going, for example in restaurants, hospitals, in our houses but even more important for us in our schools, and as teachers we must realize that technology is an amazing tool to teach. Many sources of information computers and internet are today’s weapons for many teachers worldwide. Besides this technology became more powerful every day, that it will be the day that notebooks and pencils will no longer required to teach, and everything will be with the use of computers, tablets and laptops. But until that day comes is a difficult fight for teachers to get access to this kind of technology because not in all schools, students had the opportunity to have a computer laboratory where to study, make research and to get access to the internet. Because in many schools there is no money to finance computers labs, because most of these equipment is really expensive to maintain and not just to maintain also to buy and to get qualified teachers to teach students, because computer labs always needs to have the best equipment possible to teach, besides it need to had good internet connection to use online software some that are for free, but basically one of the problems to introduce technology to the classrooms is that all the equipment required is really expensive.
Digital Resources
M04RTY PRODUCTIONS
MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez
English Teacher
Digital Resources
March 9th, 2019
created by Raúl Mora Rodríguez
Introduction
The opportunities that we have available today for education are almost infinities, the huge amount of resources that we can find on the internet are incredible, and most of the time these resources are for free. Which implies that the user can create great projects or information with all the elements available on the web. Besides, it is important to remain that we live in a digital world. All the information is and technology at the same time are here to stay. The effect that new technologies had in our society and in the education system, how is it? The technology is necessary and useful, and it is an essential tool for education and teaching and it is adapted to globalization. We are going to see some pro and cons about the technology in our educational system and evaluate it, take in count the identities and made the relationship between technology and the globalization; the educational challenges are part of this topic and the development that they made. The technology is very important in education nevertheless it is not the main support of it.
Feedly
Feedly is a great web page in which the user can find precise information for professional development. Feedly provides the user with great resources of information to create or to complete investigation projects. The user can follow different pages of multiple topics and all of them vary from one to another. The user will decide which information recover for the project. As well the user can create folders with the different types of information.
https://feedly.com/i/welcome
Quizzes in Google Forms
Google forms offer the user multiple advantages to making use of this type of tools allows the teacher to create quizzes or even exams to evaluate his/her students, even without being on the same physical place. Students can take the quiz from their phones or computers in whatever place they are. One of the greatest advantages of Google forms is that it sends the result for the quizzes or exams automatically after they are done with the exam. This facilitates teachers work, besides, students will receive an instant result. The evaluation becomes more interactive at the same time.
https://www.google.com/forms/about/
Concluding remarks
There will be always debating about this controversial topic but what do we think about being part of the society and this advance? Do we think technology is a very useful tool in education or it is just a distractor on it? What kind of secondary effects does technology have? Technology is one of the most powerful tools that nowadays teachers had because there are a lot of tools and equipment that can be used for teaching. For example, with the use of intelligent boards teacher and student can learn about a lot, accessing to the internet to search about a specific topic or looking for information given by the teacher and so on.
Also, with the use of some interactive web pages’ students can learn about different types of things and subjects like math, social studies, chemistry and a lot more. For the students that enjoy the reading exist a lot of books that can be accessed for the teacher to give to the students to practice or to read just for fun.
Technology can be consider as a really good activity because students will feel excited to study with the use of technology, instead that the old boring way to study with physical books and normal classes just hearing the teacher talks for hours, this can be considered really boring nowadays because with the great technology that we have and get access to its amazing all the things that we can develop with the students. But not also students will be benefit from this great opportunity; teachers as well will get a lot of strategies to teach but obviously depending on the teacher because there are old schools teachers that prefer work with old strategies and this can result very boring for the students and it will have more work for the teacher, because it’s so simple teach with the technology the only thing that you need is a computer and a lot of imagination because you don’t need money either, because most of the programs available for interact teaching are for free , there is no excuse to continue teaching in the age of dinosaurs, so it’s really important to be updated every simple day, in order to be technologically competitive, and remember to get access to a good connection of internet in order to develop all the great techniques that you have in mind, because even with all the technology existed, you need the most powerful creation of the humankind, that’s right, the internet.
sábado, 2 de marzo de 2019
AWESOME E-TOOLS APPLIED IN EDUCATION
AWESOME E-TOOLS APPLIED IN EDUCATION
M04RTY PRODUCTIONS
MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez
English Teacher
Virtual Learning Environments
February 23rd ,2019
Introduction
Nowadays we have classrooms that are one hundred percent prepared to impart classes completely digital with a lot of resources that will help the students to learn in a more interactive way. But it does not matter how much access to technology do we have every single day in our classrooms the teacher it is going to play a very important role.
The teacher is the one that guides the class and all the good and interactive things that are going to happen thanks to the implementation of technology in the classroom and here is important to remember the famous quote by Bill Gates founder of Microsoft Corporation, that says technology it’s just a tool and the teacher is the most important part of education. And basically, this is the main purpose of this investigation to identify the use of technology in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms. For this reason, is important to look for applications or webpages that help students on this process. Diigo, Blogger, and MindMup are awesome sources that we can use for this purpose.
Diigo
Diigo is a very useful webpage in which the user is allowed to analyzed information from multiple webpages and use that information for later. In my personal opinion, Diigo is a really good source for teaching. Students will be able to use the information they analyzed and use it as they want. It is for free and very interactive. https://www.diigo.com/
Blogger
Blogger is a page that allows users to create content about any topic they decide. Blogger has a lot of advantages referring to education. Students are able to create the pages and share the information that they want. However, the teacher is able to guide students in the creation of the content for the page. And obviously, the creation of the blog will contribute with the students learning for this reason it needs to have meaningful learning. https://www.blogger.com/
MindMup
MindMup is a tool that allows the user to create awesome Mind Maps using their creativity. MindMup had multiple elements that allow the user to complete the task in a more creative way. The mind maps are downloaded or can be post it in every single place on the internet. https://www.mindmup.com/
Conclusions
Nowadays technology is everywhere we are going, for example in restaurants, hospitals, in our houses but even more important for us in our schools, and as teachers, we must realize that technology is an amazing tool to teach. With a lot of sources of information computers and internet are today’s weapons for many teachers worldwide.
Besides this technology became more powerful every day, that it will be the day that notebooks and pencils will no longer require to teach, and everything will be with the use of computers, tablets, and laptops. But until that day comes is a difficult fight for teachers to get access to this kind of technology because not in all schools, students had the opportunity to have a computer laboratory where to study, make research and to get access to the internet. Because in many schools there is no money to finance computers labs, because most of these equipment is really expensive to maintain and not just to maintain also to buy and to get qualified teachers to teach students, because computer labs always needs to have the best equipment possible to teach, besides it need to had good internet connection to use online software some that are for free, but basically one of the problems to introduce technology to the classrooms is that all the equipment required is really expensive.
Technology is moving so fast nowadays that to have good labs is very difficult because, with the constant updates on software and hardware, it results almost impossible for teachers to have equipment in excellent conditions. But it will be excellent that every single teacher had access to the all-new technology for educational purposes to teach their students with the newest electronically tools, so the students are able to learn with excellent equipment but also with a good instruction by teachers. And with good orientation plus good equipment, the electronically teaching is going to be amazing.
sábado, 23 de febrero de 2019
Virtual Learning Environments
Created by Raúl Mora Rodríguez, 2019
M04RTY PRODUCTIONS
MSc. Raúl Mora Rodríguez
English Teacher
Virtual Learning Environments
February 23rd ,2019
Introduction
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important part”
- Bill Gates
For no one it is a secret that technology has change the way that people live every single day, since memorial times the human being has been able to understand the environment and all the things that surrounds it.
And how everything works, since that moment in the history of mankind when we create the first tool to help us to work and live every single day better, it was then when technology was born and since that moment the technology has just only grow in every aspect form the car industry and passing for all the fields in human history until get to the education field, that by the way it is important to say that is the most important aspect.
Technology has always played a very important role in education, the implementation of the technology has always been presented in the classrooms since years ago but sometimes with some relevant and small changes, but it is nowadays in the twenty first century that the technology has taken more importance and relevance worldwide, it is possible to find technology in every single place on earth.
In every single aspect of the human life technology has been always presented and in education it is not the exception, the constant use of technology has always been presented in the classrooms but with some small additions for example when the English teacher used to play tapes in the Stereos with Cassettes besides the VHS players and the Big Square TVs that most of the time were in the classrooms back in the old days. Since technology was introduced in the classrooms it only has chanced through the years just like any other field of the human being for example science, health and transportation.
For this reason, it is important to analyze all the possible ways to introduce technology in the classroom and VLE is a good way to do it.
What is a Virtual Learning Environment?
A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a set of teaching and learning tools designed to enhance a student's learning experience by including computers and the Internet in the learning process. According with the previous definition provided by (Rouse, 2011) , We can define that VLE are going to be all the important elements that we introduce to the class to simplify or use technology with students using online learning will introduce the opportunity to have more interactive classes and information that students are going to use to learn. Considering, that we live in digital world.
Characteristics
With the use of Virtual Learning Environments students and the teacher are going to be able to. (LEEDS, 2019)
- Students can access different sources of learning.
- Personalize students learning experiences.
- It can be used to design a class.
- It is possible to include Videos, Images, or even links.
- Students can create wiki tools.
- All the activities need to be linked with real life
Advantages
Using Technology in the Classroom allows you to experiment more in Pedagogy.
As an academic professional, you will learn more about how to effectively design and execute a class guided with technology. Whether it’s a dramatic change such as teaching with a flipped-classroom, or just adopting a single tool for a specific project or term, you’ll learn something new in modern academia. Being well-versed in technology can also help build your credibility with students, and even with fellow colleagues. (topthat.com, 2015)
According with the previous paragraph mentioned by topthat.com in which they make emphasis in one of the most relevant and important aspects about the implementation of technology in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms. And this point is that with the implementation of technology the classes are going to be more dynamic and interesting for the students. And for the teacher as well the access to information it is possible to say that is almost unstoppable. Because with a great access to the internet whatever teacher can figure the millions and millions of web sites available to find out information and practices for the students. For example, it is possible to find out practices about pronunciation with the consonants, vowels and rhythm that exist in English besides there are uncountable practices for grammar for the students.
We Live in a Digital World.
Neither you, nor your students, should go back to the 19th century when they walk into your classroom. Using technology in the classroom can prepare your students for a future deeply rooted in technology. (topthat.com, 2015)
According with the previous paragraph mentioned by topthat.com in which they mention textually “We live in a Digital World”. Right now, we live in the 21st century and the effect of the globalization it is been present in every single country and place of the world. And in every single aspect of the human life technology it is taking a good place. Education is not the exception to this new a globalized world, because the technology is being presented in almost every classroom worldwide turning education into this new globalized and technological world.
References
( 6 of March of 2015). Retrived from topthat.com: https://blog.tophat.com/6-pros-cons-using-technology-classroom/
LEEDS, U. O. (Directed). (2019). Introduction to Virtual Learning Environments [Movie].
Rouse, M. ( March of 2011). whatls?.com. Retrived from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-learning-environment-VLE-or-managed-learning-environment-MLE
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