5th Week. Challenge Lesson Plan in collaboration with a partner.
Reflections on this unit’s challenges.
In my learning journal, I create a new entry. I will reflect on what I learned from completing this unit’s challenges and the exchanges with other participants.
The post should answer the following questions:
- What was your global collaboration project?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/126b-Zy3rIzyVqM9IJ0jNWR2dkiGimFFnint1cVuVczI
WELCOME
Welcome to the project MINERALS AROUND THE WORLD
Hosted by Ms. Coromoto López Rocha and Mr. Jorge Alberto Aguirre Reyes
The Minerals around the World Project encourages the development of reading, speaking and writing skills while integrating technology and collaboration into the classroom and among students from different countries. Using minerals as a vehicle and countries around the world, students exchange written descriptions via blogger, and will travel around the continents to find where those minerals are found. During the project, students create, discuss, describe, interpret, analyze, organize and assess their minerals as well as the countries where they can find each of them.
Activity title: Minerals around the World.
Brief description of the collaborative activity:
MINERALS AROUND THE WORLD
CHEMISTRY (in Spanish) AND GEOGRAPHY(in English)
Prepare a list of minerals for studying in the classroom, slides with photos of mineral, characteristics in details of the minerals, ( written in English and Spanish), slides with information and photos where you can find each mineral around the world, description and information of the country where those minerals are found. Presentations in groups divided in the numbers of 6 continents and grouped the minerals in each continent. How each mineral is exploited or overexploited in the continent and country it is found. Prepare an Imovie (a film) per group. By scheduling and using Skype ( video conference) students will show their works and will share their final projects in the blog that teacher’s have prepared in advance:
https://globalcollaborationlessons.blogspot.com.es/
Teachers involved: Ms. Coromoto López Rocha and Mr. Jorge Alberto Aguirre Reyes
Description of the classes and students involved:
In Spain: 7th level(1st ESO in Spain)14th years old students, in a bilingual school, Geography ( in
English) subject.
In Colombia: 10th level, 16th years old students, in a Spanish school, Chemistry subject.
Duration: a month ( 3 sessions per week) connection among students as a group by Skype, once per week, if necessary.
Description of the classes and students involved:
In Spain: 7th level(1st ESO in Spain)14th years old students, in a bilingual school, Geography ( in
English) subject.
In Colombia: 10th level, 16th years old students, in a Spanish school, Chemistry subject.
Duration: a month ( 3 sessions per week) connection among students as a group by Skype, once per week, if necessary.
Objectives:
1. Shared knowledge among teachers and students about minerals around the world, countries where
those minerals are found, and continents.
2. Teachers help students listen to diverse opinions, support knowledge claims with evidence, engage in critical and creative thinking, and participate in open and meaningful dialogue.
3. Teacher helps students connect new information to their experiences and to learning in other areas, helps students figure out what to do when they are stumped, and helps them learn how to learn.
4. Creation of a Blog and a Diary of Sessions for the personal portfolio of the students.
1. Shared knowledge among teachers and students about minerals around the world, countries where
those minerals are found, and continents.
2. Teachers help students listen to diverse opinions, support knowledge claims with evidence, engage in critical and creative thinking, and participate in open and meaningful dialogue.
3. Teacher helps students connect new information to their experiences and to learning in other areas, helps students figure out what to do when they are stumped, and helps them learn how to learn.
4. Creation of a Blog and a Diary of Sessions for the personal portfolio of the students.
- What did planning a global collaboration project with a peer in this course teach you?
Setting up a collaborative project will require asynchronous and synchronous communication. Synchronous communication involves real-time communication. You will need to schedule a time zone friendly date and time to meet.
The world is global and with digital technologies we are connecting with others worldwide. Therefore, our students need to develop important skills in collaborating and problem solving with peers worldwide.
When you begin a new project online and invite teachers and their students to participate, you begin to widen your perspective. You see what other teachers are doing in their classrooms. Your students get to learn about new cultures and traditions, to manage technology, share with others ideas, listen to them.
Connecting with a class in another country can be tricky. And you can find many stones on the way, but everything has a solution. And we, as teachers have to encourage the situations and solve all the difficulties and problems, find appropriate activities, be sure everything is right with connections, apps, iPads, computers, The Internet, fix groups of students, teachers, meetings...Planning a global collaboration project with a peer in this course taught me that the most important thing we have to take into account when you are ready for being involved in it is....TIME. You need to have time for finding the appropriate partner who can be eager to work with you. Then, you need time for planning the global collaboration project.
But when you know it will enrich your teaching, your students will learn from others many things....you do not worry about time.
I love teaching, I love what I do everyday in my live, I love and respect my students.
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