José Cristóbal Chanfreut Learning Diary for the Creative use of Tablets in Schools MOOC by Tobi Chanfreut

My name is José Cristóbal, I´m from Spain

cchanfreut — 2015-04-15 19:50:23 UTC

I like sports and teaching. I´m happily married and I have 3 marvellous kids. I think education has to change and using a tablet in Schools should be the next step.

I´m an elementary teacher.

cchanfreut — 2015-04-15 19:54:03 UTC

My school is situated in the South of Spain. It is a very familiar school, we have recently create a wifi network so everybody can easily conect to the internet. Teachers have a VGA projector in their classrooms. Some kids bring their laptops sometimes whenever it is required but not too many people have one.
Tablets are not very popular at school but we know they have them at home

Module 1. Question 1.2 Why use tablets?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-15 20:46:18 UTC

Books belong to a past age and evolution is here. You can not change whatever appears in a book, with a tablet, you can make your own "living" book and what is more important, you can update it so the information is not frozen.

Module 1. Question 1.3 What whole-school challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 18:54:57 UTC

As Diana says, one of the biggest challenges in my school is space. The classrooms are in some cases really small and the furniture is not thought to fit in a collaborative work, just the other way round.
Wifi network conection is another important issue to be fixed. Despite we have access to the internet eveywhere through wifi, there´s trouble when we try to connect a whole class, it slows down dramatically.
Staff. Many teachers in my school are not familiar with tablets but there is a small group eager to learn and using tablets is one of their new goal for the next decade.
Parents. They are not very collaborative in the talbet issue. We know our students have tablets at home but security polices are not yet clear and they don´t feel comfortable about sending their kids with a tablet to school, they might break it.

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:18 UTC

Due to the fact that many students know how to use a tablet I think a big challenge is to create a good learning enviorement full of creativity. Tablets are faster than the team pencil/notebook so we need to be really quick with our tasks in other not to get bored in class. So, it is a good thing to design different tasks within the same class and make small groups of work. Having trainers should be a good thing in this sense.
Rules are important. Students are used to classical rules related to traditional teaching. Now, we have to change that rules together.
Working with my faculty is another hadicap due to our schedule, we don´t have enough time to meet and prepare classes together. Due to tha fact that using a tablet the learning processes will be shorten in time, the govermental staff should consider the possiblilty of letting the teachers work two or three days in a term to plan their team work. School days without students.

Module 1

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:22 UTC

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:23 UTC

Module 1

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:24 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:27 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:34 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets? Think about the areas addressed by Diana in the video above. Which of these do you think will be the most challenging in your classroom? And how would you go about addressing these? Can you give other course participants advice based on your own experiences?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:41 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:45 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets? Think about the areas addressed by Diana in the video above. Which of these do you think will be the most challenging in your classroom? And how would you go about addressing these? Can you give other course participants advice based on your own experiences?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:47 UTC

Module 1. Question 1.4 What classroom challenges do I already face or do I anticipate facing when using tablets?

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 19:24:47 UTC

Tricider / Edmodo

cchanfreut — 2015-04-19 20:08:14 UTC

Tricider is a wonderful app. You can use it in many ways, not only with your students but with your peers. A top 10 app for sharing information.

Edmodo is another interesting site where you can manage your classroom, review information, share videos, ... it is like a facebook thing but for teachers

Learning Scenarios

cchanfreut — 2015-04-26 21:41:54 UTC

I have never heard about learning Scenarios but it is quite similar to something I´m trying to do in my classroom next year: BPL (base project learning) In the BPL there are just 4 stages but are pretty the same as dream-map-ask-show. So I think Learning Scenarios are more complete and fun.

Module 3.1 Introduction to collaborative learning.

cchanfreut — 2015-05-11 21:16:23 UTC

I usually form groups taking into account the abilities of the students. I try to mix them in a way all the abilities are present in the group: a good reader, a good painter, agood boss, ... but it is difficult at the end becuase the groups have to be big and that is an obstacle to finish assigments on time.

Challenges of Collaborative Work How do you keep your students focused and on track during collaborative projects? How do you ensure all students contribute to the task? If you have organised a similar project share your experiences (positive and negative) here.

cchanfreut — 2015-05-11 21:23:55 UTC

For me it is quite difficult to form groups and make students work in a sharing enviorement. the class space is quite small. Besides that, whenever thay are in groups I let stabish who is the leader of the group and he or she has to be in charge of their peer work. Most of the time, these goes bad and the students get bored so in some cases I have to change some members to activate their attention.

Success factors of school-to-school collaboration projects.

cchanfreut — 2015-05-11 22:15:17 UTC

I heard about etwinning but had no lucky when enrolling in a project. I think the schools must be similar in students age and equipment. We do not have tablets yet all over our schools and even we dont have án accurate internet access and these are also both items to be considered.

Module 3. Assessment & Collaboration After participating in the webinar or reading the case study report (link above), what other strategies have you used to assess group work? What are the main challenges for you when it comes to assessing group work?

cchanfreut — 2015-05-11 22:33:01 UTC

I usually create a platform that contains classes and tests of students. The platform will provide the tests after the student completes a lesson.

A big challenge to assess group work is the student evaluation in an individual basis. It is very comon that a student works more than others. While their are working on task it is quite difficult to check who is working properly and who don’t.

My lesson plan

cchanfreut — 2015-05-12 20:18:54 UTC

Here is my lesson plan based on the moon. I hope you like it and most important, understand it, it was my first time using the learning designer tool which is great. http://v.gd/4nsv7Y