Teaching English in a Secondary School !

I’m not worried about the use of ITC in the classroom, I don’t consider myself a master in computing… but I really worried about the methodology I’m going to use next year!!!!!with every student in class using his/her own laptop.

I don’t feel confortable at all with this “educat1x1” stuff!!!!

From my point of view, it is obvious and as you may have seen in older posts in this blog, that what we call CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT will be very different next year, but as head fo the English department in my school, and having into account the kind of students we have, it seems to me that nobodyelse has considered all this.

I’ve made some research on this topic as I’m very much interested in it, I’ve found some articles dealing on that and telling that there must be a change in the role of the teacher. Today I’ve read two articles in the local newspaper, L‘Empordà, and both saying the same thing.

But I’ve found nobody explaining……what to do the first day in class next school year!!!!

Only the video on XTEC.CAT  the govenmental site for Catalan Teachers  (bottom right) 😆

Also this four- sheet article called Classroom Management at the Digital Age

Interesting lines on creativity by Dolors Reig in el Caparazon “Todo trabajo creativo es derivativo”
La copia es la maquinaria del progreso cultural. No es robar, sino, añado, reconocer, dar importancia, devolver la vida al trabajo que surgió de la voluntad y a veces las ganas de compartir de otros/as. Potencia también la diversidad cultural.

our English classroom

I have recently watched a very interesting videoconference  organized by Telefonica  foudation called “Resintonizando la Educacion” held at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid yesterday, the speakers were:

Mr. Alejandro Piscitelli from Argentina he has published Nativos Digitales. Dieta cognitiva, inteligencia colectiva y arquitecturas de la participación (2009) he has several blogs:

• Filosofitis: blog de Alejandro Piscitelli,
  
• Nativos digitales: blog del último libro de Alejandro Piscitelli
• Proyecto Facebook: blog del Proyecto de la Cátedra de Procesamiento de Datos

Mrs Dolors Reig, expert on ICT new trends, Education, E-learning and Social Media, she owns the blog El Caparazon, Mr ……………a secondary teacher in Andalucia, Mr …….. telefonica.

Some weeks ago, while talking on the porject called EDCAT1x1, a teachermate stated something in a meeting which caused me  great deception and strange surprise at the same time. She dared to say that using computers in the classroom was only a temporary trend that would last for a  very few years…I felt disappointed 😥 and rather ashamed 😳

I’m very fond of using my computer in the English class and  I use internet  in 1 out 3 of my classes, that’s to say once a week for every class-group. My  fourteen-year-old students are used to write their English compositions by commenting in the class blog, they also use their textbook website to revise for their exams, some of them have even produced a video in group or registered dialogues using audacity, we have worked cooperatively in webquests and treasure hunts, we have sung all together for Peace using karaokes from You Tube…

LUCKILY I CAME ACROSS WITH THIS VIDEO: Resintonizando la Educacion

It lasts for almost 2 hours but I strongly recomend everybody to watch it. It deals about interesting points such as WEB3.0, social networks such as Facebook, digital Natives, Multiple Intelligences… and the most important thing the new role teachers will have to assume.

from DOLORS REIG’ S El Caparazon
click on the words below to see the whole article

El problema está en llevar a la gente desde un modelo de orden y perfección a uno de caos e imperfección:  “Los analfabetos del siglo 21 no serán aquellos que no puedan leer y escribir sino aquellos que no puedan aprender, desaprender y volver a aprender”