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Word cloud

Word cloud of vocabulary related to a picture. Imaged based class with digital tools.

Facebook and Games: how do we use them for educational purposes?

Here is the link to the video I made with Juliana Galluzzo about his topic.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MKOmWRGLQCEs2L_gx6nPLrdWEYC0xH5M/view?usp=sharing

Pecha Kucha

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s5V1Q_0TbibG_hFI-Gb7CzkM3ZlnD04l/view?usp=sharing

Critical Tecnology

Talking about being responsible with Technology.

Comics

Educaplay

I've made a matching activity with pictures and quotes from movies and tv shows for children. I think it can be interesting for children because it is something that they can relate to or they already know. I hope you enjoy it.

https://es.educaplay.com/recursos-educativos/6183485-quotes_pictures_from_movies.html

Memes

Thumbelina by M. Serres

Reflections on Thumbelina.

In this book are presented Thumbelina and Tom Thumb, but, who are they? These characters refer to the new generations. Those children who have never had to deal with struggles like the ones of whom had been born in a country life or an era of war. These young people have a bigger and better life expectancy than the one 60 years ago. They have to live in overcrowded cities, they can plan their future, their family, and their health. They do not need to go and look for information, the information is already in their hands and they can access to it with just a movement of their thumbs. This will lead them to a great amount of knowledge at the reach of their hands. Despite this, access to information will not mean that this would be a meaningful knowledge, so what we need to do is to give all of this information and technologies a purpose. With a world in constant change, we do not need to fall behind, we need to walk side by side with Thumbelina and Tom Thumb and see what it is needed to be invented to go along with them.

Nowadays children have their heads in their hands, how is it possible? In their hands, they have a computer, a tablet, or a smartphone. These devices work as a human head, they have all kinds of information, pictures and can reason as well. Thumbelina is now connected and has collected knowledge as well. They are going through a revolution, where innovation and technologies are taking over everyday life. While a couple of centuries or even decades ago not everyone could grant the privilege of reading and writing, nowadays the words surround us. As books where a privilege too, now they have involved and come in the format of a laptop or a printed page written by yourself. But have the books been replaced? Have the knowledge needs to be found or it is already in our hands? Then why do we need to be lectured? These things are not obsolete, they are involving. Now we have e-books and all kind of information in our pockets, in our smartphones. This information, the head that they have in their hands, does not replace their thinking. They can not have a head alone, they need their bodies. They need interaction with each other, they need to move, they need to talk, they need to think, they need a soul.

Thumbelina is in constant evaluation from society. All the innovations, technologies, and facilities that she seems to have are supposed to make her better or worse? Maybe society expects Thumbelina to surpass the generations before, or expect her to fail at her work. Thumbelina is not taken into account. Society judges her without listening to her. In networks, she finds the place to express herself and to be heard. But then again society will look upon her for being connected to the technologies and disconnected from the world. She needs to find her place. Online she may be a number or a code, but she will be heard, she will find a place of belonging and equality. She is discovering a new world, but not far from the world around her as the society may think. Changing is taking place and Thumbelina is helping to create it. Like other changes and revolutions before, they are needed to prepare the place for something new to come.

As a conclusion, we do not need to look at Thumbelina as someone who is not capable to think or to feel. We need to take into consideration both Thumbelina and Tom Thumb. They are not being left behind, they are our future. What we need to do is to accompany them and to understand them. We need to hear at this new generation. The world is involving and it can not be stopped. They need to create and we need to create ways to help them reach their goals. Technologies help a lot and we need to take advantage of it. Thumbelina understands these innovations better than we do and it is ok to do so. They can help us understand the world around us better than we can do, they are involving along with the world that we have nowadays. In the days that we are going through there is more evidence that they are more capable to adapt to change. We are living overconnected because there is no other way to interact in this situation. They are the ones that are helping most of the older generations to go through this. Most of the things that society has criticized from them are the ones that we need the most now. They are showing us all how we need to learn from them.

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El ordenador como prótesis mental

¿La computadora puede actuar como una prótesis mental que compense las limitaciones cognitivas del ser humano, al igual que actúa como prótesis compensando limitaciones motrices o sensoriales?

En cuanto a las computadoras como prótesis mentales debo decir que estas no podrían actuar como una prótesis, pero si como un complemento, como plantea el texto. La mente o aparato cognitivo no es algo de lo que carecen las personas con Retraso Mental, como se las llama en el texto, hoy sabemos que son trastornos del desarrollo mental y que la utilización de palabras como retraso conllevan un efecto estigmatizador.

Es necesario destacar los aspectos positivos que puede llegar a tener el uso de las tecnologías, como el aumento de confianza, la capacidad competitiva y la autonomía que ofrece a los individuos que la utilizan.

Hoy en día la tecnología y el uso de las mismas es mucho mas accesible a la gran mayoría de la población y casi todos pueden beneficiarse de estas. Dicho esto, hoy en día no hay gran diferencia entre quienes pueden y no acceder a los aparatos tecnológicos, el uso del celular, por ejemplo, nos permite el uso de muchas aplicaciones que son útiles para desarrollar diferentes aspectos del aparato cognitivo. Juegos, canciones, videos, sonidos agudizan los sentidos y desarrollan y estimulan la imaginación y la inteligencia.

Si tuviéramos que referirnos a las personas con alteración del desarrollo cognitivo, son perfectamente capaces de utilizar y manipular un teléfono o una computadora sin necesidad de asistencia hoy en día con las facilidades que ha desarrollado la tecnología como los diseños táctiles, los comandos por voz y las diferentes aplicaciones que ofrecen, esto también permite una mayor inclusión.

En conclusión si tuviéramos que considerarlos como una prótesis, en mi opinión, la respuesta seria que no. Lo que si esta claro es que son una gran herramienta y muy útil para acompañar los procesos cognitivos que pueden ayudar también al desarrollo de las facultades emocionales como la confianza.

Webinar: Plan Ceibal

The plan Ceibal is a programme from Uruguay with the contribution of the British council to develop classes in English as a second language, there are native speakers and a lot of professionals from various countries working to teach remotely through video- conferencing for primary students in state schools.

Graham Stanley is Country Director for the British Council in Uruguay and takes part in this project. He says that remote teaching is quite challenging because you are physically removed from the learners, so you have to do it very interactively. Also is important to coordinate with the classroom teacher in Spanish in a weekly basis to make sure that teaching and learning is taking place successfully.

In order to deliver those classes it is of utmost importance to know that you will have to include digital learning technologies such videoconferencing equipment to deliver the class, websites, presentation software, etc.

In order to implement this project they started delivering laptops to students and teachers in state schools, free wireless internet and videoconferencing equipment were installed in schools across the country.

This programme is a useful tool that connects a classroom with various teachers from different countries like Argentina and Philippines. This was needed in order to solve the lack of trained and qualified English teachers. They learn not only the language, but culture too, encouraging the dialogue and improve learning and language skills.

This gives students and the teachers the opportunity to be near the new technologies and ways of teaching and learning. It also is a great chance to learn a language from native speakers, along with many English teachers from different countries. In the upcoming years it will be necessary to be up to date with the digital teaching-learning technologies that help us to stay connected, to keep in touch with our students and develop our skills in the use of devices.

#PlanCeibal #OnlineTeaching

Digital Language Learning and Teaching word glossary

CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning.

TELL: Technology Enhanced Language Learning.

CMC: Computer Mediated Communication.

Edtech: Short for Educational Technology.

Gizmo: a gadget, especially one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall.

Mainframe: a large high-speed computer, especially one supporting numerous workstations or peripherals. / the central processing unit and primary memory of a computer.

Minicomputers: a computer of medium power, more than a microcomputer but less than a mainframe.

Interactive Technologies: all forms of digital technology with a two-way flow of information through an interface between the user and the technology; the user usually communicates a request for data or action to the technology with the technology returning the requested data or result of the action back to the user.

Portable Technologies: wireless technology of wireless devices (including laptops, tablets, tablets, mobile phones, etc.)

Interactive Whiteboards-IWB’s: a wipeable board with a white surface used for teaching or presentations. /an area common to several users or applications, where they can exchange information, in particular as handwriting or graphics.

Head-mounted: is a display device, worn on the head or as part of a helmet , that has a small display optic in front of one or each eye. An HMD (head-mounted display) has many uses including gaming, aviation, engineering, and medicine .

Device: a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

Smartphone:a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps.

App: an application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device.

Internet: a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

Wi-Fi: a facility allowing computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the Internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular a

#DigitalLanguage #Learning&Teaching

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