I
have just discovered a couple of days early that Teacher’s Day, is recognised
by the UN, and is the 5th of October. That’s a bit of a shame as I
always thought (and been told) that it was the 27th of November. I
think I’m going to stick to the date that I’ve always known it to be, as it
makes me happier to have a double celebration on that date, my birthday and Teacher’s
Day.
With
that said, I would like to focus on this entry.
The
conference about the Ballard of the Happy Teacher, from Ricard Garcia, was a
success, all the information he gave us about new gadgets and applications we
can find on the net was so interesting that I decided I had to try some of them
in my Didactic Units. Of course, I’ll
edit this entry to show you all the final result.
These
kinds of activities are really catchy and engaging for students, no matter what
kind of learning type they have, as it’s something new, and as they prefer to
use visual and interactive apps related to ICT, I think we should use them as
an incentive to keep them learning and not as a substitutive of the
pen-and-paper activities.
Some
apps that Ricard showed us are in this pyramid, others are not, and have been
replaced with new ones. I’ve checked them all and some are better designed than
others, or the usability appears easier than others, but even if we could only
use the ones in this pyramid, that would be more than enough.
To be
a 2.0 Teacher, we do not need to use all the apps in the internet, or know
every single one that appears, as there are thousands, but it will be
interesting to see whether the ones we use are effective for our pupils.
