Showing posts with label 0.Illustrating Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 0.Illustrating Words. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Translator. 2 Practices: Illustrating Words & Exploring TPACK

This week, I would like to highlight some words which are the most important ones that have been used to develop our practices.
 
On one hand, in our first practice I would like to emphasise the world “BELLIGERENT” because the group who had to guess the meaning of our picture had some problems and they put “INDIGNATLY” instead of “BELLIGERENT”.

Belligerent: Person or a country engaged in fighting or war.

On the other hand, in our second practice I would like to emphasize the following words:

TPACK: Conceptual model that provides teachers a mental framework for thinking about the different areas of knowledge related to effective teaching and the interaction of knowledge and skills which are necessary for the effective integration of technology.
TPACK framework is composed of three primary forms of knowledge: TK- Technological Knowledge, PK- Pedagogical Knowledge andCK- Content Knowledge. They are essential to good teaching and learning and they are also essential for the successful use of technology in the classroom.

Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) is a comprehension of how teaching and learning can change when we use technological tools. This includes knowledge of the advantages and limitations of such tools to promote or restrict certain kind of pedagogical designs and strategies.
 
Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) is an understanding of the mode in which Technology and Content influence are hold back one to another. Teachers need to become an expert of the subject and also they need to have an appropriate comprehension of the mode in which the subject material can be changed by the application of technologies.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) includes the essential part of the activity of teaching, learning, curriculum, evaluation and reporting, such as the conditions that promote learning and the links between curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy.

TRANSLATOR:  Irene Martínez Bermúdez

Practice 0: Illustrating Words

To make this assignment we have chosen 5 words/concepts from a list and we have illustrated them. These concepts are:LearningTeachingFutureSuccess and Belligerent. We have decided to put these words because they seem easy to illustrate and fun to other classmates to find them out. Although we thought it was easier to understand these concepts using pictures, we have preferred to represent them through drawings, because at the beginning of this activity we had a very clear idea about how to represent this kind of concepts; and we also considered them more "artistic".

We have employed messages (words, numbers, phrases) throughout the drawings to set up the concepts and to avoid possible mistakes (When I grow up, Fight the power ...).
We have noticed that the group who had the task to relate concepts and words drawn of our drawings has not had much difficulty; however, one of the answers was wrong (Indignantly instead of Belligerent). We think that this mistake is because of they are two terms that can be easily confused by just seeing the picture we have done. We will try to be clearer in the future.

This has been a very interesting practice. We have tried to illustrate concepts that are a bit abstract; and in the process, we have seen how a symbol can be illustrated in different ways without using spoken language
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LEARNING
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TEACHING
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FUTURE
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SUCCESS
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BELLIGERENT