As I said in my last post the students are going to be involved in setting up a company. today I am here again to show you how I have been trying to enrich my clil project.
One of the greatest ways to work with students not only to make them learn, but also to enjoy and know themselves and others is cooperative learning.
First of all I would like to explain you what cooperative learning means. In Fernando Trujillo´s words the first step to achieve students´ cooperative learning is creating a paceful and affective atmosphere. Once students are involved in this context they will be able to work in groups, which means, each student knows their responsibilities within the group. Therefore the achievement of the cooperative learning depends on the teacher´s role and responsibility.
According to the idea of cooperative learning and from my point of view, as a teacher, I would add two types of activities in order to give my students the opportunity to meet each other and starting to work first in pairs and then in groups of 3 or 4.
Activity one: divided into pairs, students will write 4 special numbers which have a special meaning for each of them, for example: 2: number of brothers or sisters, 23 my birthday and so on. The student who is next to you will try to guess by questioning what do these numbers mean.
In this activity, students are going to talk about themselves and at the same time they are going to know more thinks about their peers.
Activity two: students will work in groups of 3 or 4 students, they will watch a video about types of companies and they will be asked to analyse it according to a rubric. From the prototype of the project, students will take part to in the assessment process. After analysing it, they will make a short presentation highlighting the main aspects they think should be taken into account. This activity is going to be the first time they face such a difficult task.
In order to enrich my project I would like to give my students the opportunity to share their improvements and phases of the project in a class and online blog. Apart from their personal blogs, students are going to share their projects, improvements, even questions or doubts in a class blog. The objective of this group blog is to share our ideas and our entrepreneur projects with anyone who visit us. In other words, students will see how useful their projects can be and I am sure it will make them feel extra motivated.
On the other hand and as you will see in future posts, this project will collaborate with other online project. the idea is to collaborate online with other teachers and students sharing our ideas and improvements. Therefore, we are going to share something and we are going to have the opportunity to learn many things from students and teacher who are working at the same time all around the world.
According to the idea of the collaborative methodology I am going to apply to the project, I have designed a visual metaphord. The online tool that I have chosen to create the display is called Storyboard That. The tool will give you lots of scenes, characters, textables and so on but at the same time you can edit them changing shapes and colors. It surprised me how easy is creating a whole story in a short time. I would recommend it for those whose digital skills are not highly developed. The visual metaphor itself needed to be attractive but simple and effective. So from my point of view the most important things that have to be taken into consideration were: the final sentences (key message) and the length of the metaphor, it means the time people will need to spend in order to understand the message. According to the final result, which you can see below, the metaphor is very simple and I think it doesn´t take more than 4 seconds to be understood.
Here you can check the visual metaphor I have created:
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Self reflection
I should admit that enriching the prototype of my project have made me think about the viability of my project itself. Prototyping anything could look easy but if you start thinking about how to connect it with the real lesson it can turns very difficult. I was asking myself about the opportunities they are going to have to communicate, the ordering of the tasks, etc.
On the other hand a according to the visual metaphor I was trying to use some other digital tools like canva, pixton or creately . According to the time you consume and the tools it has, storyboard that is from my point of view the easiest to use but at the same time one of the most useful I have tried.
I hope you like the way I have tried to enrich my project and the visual metaphor.
Hi Raul, I like very much your visual metaphor the idea of creating a storyboard is awesome. I think that do in it in that way your are going to engage a lot of people because it is very visual and attractive. Moreover, I like very much the idea of your storyboard without any word because you leave to the reader to imagine how your open educational digital project will be.
ReplyDeleteWell done and terrific work mate!!!!!
Hello Raul! I just wanted to comment your post because I was impressed on how you describe collaborative learning. I really want to apply it to my own project. Besides, I enjoyed so much your Storyboard, it's quite clear for the students! Seemingly, you are in the right way to create a brilliant project!
ReplyDeleteHi Raúl! Your visual metaphor is amazing! I really like the way you use it so as to transmit your aims regarding collaboration learning. Moreover, your entry is very complete and I have learnt a lot while reading it.
ReplyDeleteKeep going, mate! You are creating a really nice project!
Hi there !
ReplyDeleteThanks for presenting and explaining the tool you used, Storyboard That, since it is absolutely interesting and useful to explain contents in an engaging way.
I would like to highlight the first activity, in which students are going to get to know each other, since it is a different way to do it.
Moreover, I like the fact that students are going to work with rubrics, since they are going to apply their evaluation skills.
Besides, I would like to say that your visual metaphor is definitely attractive and that the sentence you created is definitely motivating.
All in all you did a great job !
Great visual metaphor, Raúl! For me, it is quite fun and it reflects your collaborative project in a simple and clear way, as well as it is a different way to explain it from a normal flyer. I think the idea of creating a company is awesome and students will learn a lot about that experience! Thank you very much for sharing your activities completely, because I am found of learning new activities from innovative teachers. I am looking forward to read your next post!
ReplyDeleteHello Raúl!! I really like the way you want to enrich your educational project. Besides, I also like the idea of letting students take part into the assessment, as it will help them to make a self- reflection. Moreover, your visual metaphor is very clear and fun. I think you have done a great job!!
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ReplyDeleteHello Raúl! I truly think you did a great job. I like everything of your post, especially the visual methapor you created. It is very original and it makes me think about the importance of collaborative learning with in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI can´t wait for your new post!
Hi Raul! awesome post! It helped me a lot. I like your activities and the online tool that you have used to represent them. I am waiting exiting for your next post!
ReplyDeleteRaúl, I really liked your ideas. They are very useful and I also got some inspirations for my own project. Furthermore I think the format of your visual metaphor is amazing. I am looking forward to read your next post!
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