Last Week .- the course ends

We have been working for ten weeks, learning many new things that for sure will serve us in our daily activities in the classrooms, I remember when I began talking about technology in the first post, then we continued the whole process talking about technology and the final conclusion is that we have to use it everyday,  teachers must be skillful when using computers because we have to teach our students, if you remember students learn with our example they learn by imitating their teachers, of course at the end the will become autonomous learners but after giving them the tools they need to succeed .

Another aspect we have to keep in mind is that we have to assess our students the most accurate we can, so they can trust our job as teachers and also because they will have the chance to improve what they are learning everyday, I also agree on the use of rubrics to do a great job and reinforce what the students need to reinforce, as I told you those days, in my country is a little bit difficult to implement rubrics right now but some teachers are working on that to improve the quality of education .

I really enjoyed working and playing with some tools internet offers, I liked the experience of doing some power points really interactive, I learned how  to do them, and I also learned how to design web quests and so on, when I applied them in class it was kind of rewarding see the students' faces.. they really enjoyed those activities.

We have to consider the use of technology in our classrooms, teachers are learning new things , they are learning to learn because the society pushes us to do the best for the students, we live in a era of technological changes, but these changes focus on the ability a student has to learn, we are applying tasks according to the level of acquisition a student has, we have to adapt all the tools strategies and methodologies in this process.

We must take advantage of the resource internet has, we have to be a little bit curious, a teacher is a researcher inside the classroom and we have to change our point of view of just going to class an share something we know, let's share more than that for the benefit of our students.

Week 9: Multiple Intelligences

In the last decade we have been dealing with multiple intelligences stated by Gardner, since then the view of education has changed dramatically. Nobody knew that every human being has a different way of acquiring knowledge, this fact made teachers change the whole view of how to teach.

We know now that in a single classroom you find different ways of learning of the students, we know that there are students that always get the best scores in some subjects, but the same students can get low scores in other subjects.

We have the chance to create different tasks or assignments according to the characteristics of each student, but for knowing what task to send the students, we must know each one of them and their personal environment and characteristic, we have to the sign different tasks for a single theme, so meanwhile some students of developing interactive power point, others could be developing a video or something, just for telling an example.

It is a mistake to believe the we can reach a desired goal sending the same project to the whole class, so we must be aware of the students` characteristics and the intelligence or intelligences he/she could have.