Second module

October 22nd, 2009

The students were organized in the classroom and they were expecting to listen to their teacher and at the same time they were observing me. They asked about my name. The teacher invited to the students to look at the board. There the students observed the windows symbol and some students said that this symbol was the same in their computer when they turned it. The teacher asked to the children who has commuter at home and all of them said that they have computer and they turn the computer. So the teacher asked to the children who turn the computer and 17 of them raised their hands and said that they worked with their parents in the computer and turn the computer alone as well as they shared and watch videos and movies together. Besides some of them said “ asi es como se prende my computador tambien y yo lo prendo solito”.

Most of the kids pointed to the board and whispered in groups. They were motivated waiting what the teacher will show them. Then, the teacher asked them about the virtual homework and they said that they worked in their computer. Then, the teacher click on every link and asked them about the classroom objects and most of them answered correctly to every pictures that the teacher pointed. They answered in chorus and raising their hands shouting..yo…yo se. Moreover, they followed the song order and they answered correctly the questions about the story while the teacher was reinforcing the answers. There were about 3 or 4 students that translate most of the things they listened to from the videos. For example, the video about the teacher and students they performed stand up and sit down.

Finally, the teacher showed them some printed pictures the students brought as part of the homework and she asked them what is this one by one and most of them answered correctly. While the teacher was passing one by one some of the students started to speak and a girl felt nervous given that she was crossing her fingers. The teacher closed the section playing Simon says. She put some realia on the floor and asked student by student to follow a Simon’s order. Students wanted to pass all at the same time and the ones that the teacher chose, followed correctly the order.

References

Classroom. [google online images]. Retrieved November 1st, 2009 from http://images.google.com.co/images?hl=es&source=hp&q=Classroom%5B1%5D.jpg&btnG=Buscar+im%C3%A1genes&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=

Something to highlight from the first module implementation are:

On the one hand, that we are really happy given that in the survey the parents made a comments about the nice experience working on each activity from the first module. For instance, one of them had technological problems with the work sheet to print, so he decided to buy another computer in order to develop the module and to help his child to use this nee way of learning for them. This showed us the parental help and guidance with their children and the role of them using technology resources in the learning process of the children.

Moreover, parents made comments such us : “ Es un aprendizaje ludico” “ con imágenes y sonido es más interesante aprender” “es interactiva y permite el apoyo en casa para aprender más” among others. This made us felt very motivated to create and improve the other modules in order to favor the positive attitude towards the course.

On the other hand, we consider the flexibility, creativity, open mind and reflection during the creation and implementation process very important taking into account the parents and very young learners’ feedback, their reactions, concerns and needs by analyzing the survey parents filled in, the comments from them. For instance, in the action a comment wrote in the survey was about the importance of include easy activities to develop, because the activity in the worksheet was a little difficult. Besides, they had to find in the magazines people making different actions and cut and paste them in the right place. They also had difficulties to find people swinging and sliding. It not only made us to reflect on the ways to improve the activities but also it took us to think every time we create a worksheet if it was easy and accessible to develop or not.