Block 4: References and Activities

Activities:

We did an activity based on a video from the film "The butterfly's Tongue" which was about descriving the teaching method and answering some questions about the way of teaching from the video. I like to do such activities because they let you know if you have really understood what the theory is about, and sometimes they illustrate some aspects of the formal content that may you hadn't understood at all. In the concrete situation we 

analyzed we could see a teacher doing an outside activity, during all the video the teacher was giving knowledge to the kids but they were not just memorizing it from a book but, for example, the teacher asked questions about the previous knowledge that the kids had already acquired in order to start building the new one from them. He also make use of the natural resources that he had in that moment as a tool to make the learning process more interesting, he shows the things he is talking about in the real ambient, etc.

References:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n1_zblZmDjE Piaget: Cognitive Stages of Development

In this video made by some classmates we can see how the different educative process and social background can influence in the kid's stage of Piaget. The boy and the girl appearing on the video have the same age, so they were supposed to have the same abilities to solve the puzzle but they don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fHW08NoCwA - Teachers TV - Guided Writing

In this video we can see different resources used (depending on the course) to improve student's writing skills. For example in this video we can see that teacher's ask for everything instead of correcting directly, they give constant feedback in order to make the kid able to correct his or her own mistakes in that moment and improve his o her essay all the time, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O647x42uTyk  Teachers TV - Primary English - Reading Community

This video show us different innovative activities to motivate studens in the reading process, some of the most used factors that we can find are the motivation, the contextualization of the reading and the teacher's model.