Universal Teachers #soyer17/18

Hi, I am Diego and this week, I have been the facilitator for the group ''Universal teachers'' and I am going to tell you how it has been the week for me and what I think about what we have done. As I am writing and working on my computer, I am remembering the great activities that we have in our subject this week. First of all, on Monday, we were working on groups to know what TPACK is and how to express it in an information map. While we were working on this, I realized that I like it a lot the role of facilitator because personally I like to have everything organized and I like to see all my partners and me working together and helpfully in order to progress not only with TPACK, but also as a group. However, we also had to decide a pet for the group and its name, in my opinion, this ‘’extra-activity’’ was very difficult because we didn’t get in agreement for one option until Wednesday. The second day of this week was the Wednesday. On Wednesday, all the groups...

Looking back at the TPACK project the whole class had to do, we can get many important concepts that we will be able to use in the future as fully-flegded teachers.  TPACK: First, let's take a look the name itself, TPACK, which stands for Technological, Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. This TPACK is is a relatively new phenomenon in the field of effective teaching, it mainly focuses on how teachers, when implementing technological tools to their teachings, can reach a higher level of effectiveness. TPACK considers aspects such as understanding how technologies make contents easier or more difficult, knowing pedagogical techniques that implement technologies to foster teaching, or how technologies can be used to either create new epistemologies or reinforced the previous ones. This framework is the result of the interconnections of the three aforementioned cores of education. So now we are going to check those elements individually.  Conten...