Hello again 21cenTeachers!
In this post I am going to share with you the second super learning mission that you are waiting for. As I said in my previous post this mission has been developed in collaboration with my peer Raúl Oviedo, a primary school teacher specialized in physical education. If you want to find out more about him go to his blog The Science Corner or check is Twitter account @ScienceCorner1.
As we wanted to work collaboratively, we started to think about how we could mix our projects in order to design and create a challenge in which the content and language from both open educational projects can fit in in a realistic way. After a while, we came up with an interesting idea which would enable us to fulfill our ambition. This mission is going to be explained below.
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- MISSION 5: Advertisement of a company related to healthy lifestyle.
In this mission, students will be divided into the small groups (3-4 people) and they will be given a task to overcome. (After searching information and learning about the three main sectors of economic activity), students will have to create a company and advertise it to attract costumers. To do this, they will have to think about a product that they would sell or a service that they would offer to their customers. Moreover, all these companies will have something in common; these will have to advertise a product or service related to healthy lifestyles such as a healthy food and a fitness center. So, the final activity of this mission consists recording and editing a video in which students have to appear doing and promoting healthy habits while offering a product or service. After that, the teacher will upload all these videos to the blog of the class.
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Now, I would like to share with you, the video that we have recorded in order to provide our students with an example. The different scenes of the video were recorded with the video recorder of a mobile phone and then edited with the online tool Wevideo. This video editor is a free online tool which is easy to use so students would be able to create their own videos with the aid of the teacher. After this, the video was uploaded to Youtube and you can have a look at it below.
- METHODOLOGY AND TEMPORALIZATION
The methodology to follow during this mission is going to be in concordance with the methodology applied in the whole project. This means that the teacher will act as a guide in order to push the students in the right direction but, at the same time, students will work independently while collaborating with the members of their groups to overcome the challenge. In other words, students will drive their learning process by discovering and experimenting.
As far as the temporalization of this mission is concerned, the mission will last two or three sessions and it will be carried out within the subject of Natural Science. Although, it could be carried out in different subjects such as Physical Education and English.
As far as the temporalization of this mission is concerned, the mission will last two or three sessions and it will be carried out within the subject of Natural Science. Although, it could be carried out in different subjects such as Physical Education and English.
- OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES
Regarding both the objectives and competences of this mission, Raúl and I wrote them down cooperatively by using one of the great variety of options that Google offers us. We created a shared Google Doc and we designed not only the objectives and competences but also a summary of the mission and the online tools that will be used. Then I shared it by uploading it to SlideShare. You can have a look at all this information in the document embedded below.
To finish, I would like to finish my post by reflecting on the knowledge and the experience that I have acquired as well as the process of learning itself.
I must say that I have realized how important is to keep students motivated through super missions that encourage them to continue learning. These missions provide students with the opportunity of taking part in reality-based activities and creating meaningful and public products. Moreover, this challenge has given me the chance to learn how to turn traditional activities into super learning missions, which is not easy at all.
Furthermore, I must say that we, as teachers, should collaborate with each other. We have to share our ideas and projects with other teachers and take advantage of the great number of collaborative movements on the net. If we do this, we will be able to learn from each other´s work. Also, I have learned that we have to change our minds in order to create engaging and coherent missions that could be carried out in the classroom.
I must say that I have realized how important is to keep students motivated through super missions that encourage them to continue learning. These missions provide students with the opportunity of taking part in reality-based activities and creating meaningful and public products. Moreover, this challenge has given me the chance to learn how to turn traditional activities into super learning missions, which is not easy at all.
Furthermore, I must say that we, as teachers, should collaborate with each other. We have to share our ideas and projects with other teachers and take advantage of the great number of collaborative movements on the net. If we do this, we will be able to learn from each other´s work. Also, I have learned that we have to change our minds in order to create engaging and coherent missions that could be carried out in the classroom.
Regarding the online tool that we have used, Wevideo is an online video editor which is quite easy to use. I had used it before to create my elevator pitch when I was looking for partners and I was really satisfied with this tool. It allows its users to change, add and remove countless elements. In addition, I truly think that our students will familiarize with it easily in a short period of time.
Finally, I would like to thank our classmate Jesús Cárdenas. He helped us to record the video and I would like to congratulate him for his outstanding performance. He is a good friend of us and I would also like to recommend you his blog about physical exercises (visit it by clicking here). You can also follow him on Twitter: @Yisustheteacher.
See you soon!
Finally, I would like to thank our classmate Jesús Cárdenas. He helped us to record the video and I would like to congratulate him for his outstanding performance. He is a good friend of us and I would also like to recommend you his blog about physical exercises (visit it by clicking here). You can also follow him on Twitter: @Yisustheteacher.
See you soon!
Congratulations Dani!, I like your project and how you have shared it with Raúl making an awesome collaboration project. I liked also so much your video. I thing that students are going to enjoy taking part in this project!
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