Presentations video 'Our ideal school' of 11/03/2014

Today three groups have presented their videos about 'Our ideal school', one of them was my group. I am very satisfied with the results of my group, because in my opinion we have made a very good project. We have worked a lot, spending many hours on creating the video but I think that we also have learned many things. Not only theoretical aspects (such as the most important things of a school, not discriminate, respect each other, accept the rest without relying on race or disabilities, the best disposition of rooms, etc); but we also have learned to cooperate as a team. As I said, we have spent too many hours together so we have learned to work in a team, respect others opinions, be critical with all the ideas, cooperate between us, etc. I think the most important thing for the group to work well, is to collaborate and that everyone cares about the results and the group functioning.

Another group that has presented their video, was 'Encendiendo bombillas' composed by Elisa, Mónica, Laura Sanz and Javier. They made a long video (more than the time estimated) but at the end it was entertaining and interesting because they have included many things. At the beginning they have interviewed some directors and teachers of Alcalá and Azuqueca schools, which was very interesting. The first school was a public school of Azuqueca and after interviewing teachers and students, we can make conclusions. Students help each other but only to those who need help, without been conscious that everyone needs help. They also mentioned that they use technology in class but only to read the same of the book, so this is not a well use of technologies. Moreover, they don't cooperate too much in class only in some activities they compare between two or three people; so they don't develop collaborative skills. The second school was a private school of Alcalá and they also interviewed some teachers and students. Here there are better things but also worse; teachers make an individual follow but only too those who need more attention, they connect the topics with examples of the real life, they encourage children to learn different languages and make many activities for children to work in groups. In the other hand there are other teachers that put students sitting individually, they don't take advantage of all the benefits of technologies, and some of them give a different treatment to some students. At the end of the video they explained how their ideal schools would be by giving their own opinions and asking to some teachers of the university. They would have a school with many rooms (music room, laboratory, library, gym, swimming pool, etc), they would use many types of technologies to learn not only to read the same of the book (such as tablets, computers or videogames), they would accept all the people without discriminating anyone and they would encourage the cooperation and teams work.

 

The other group that presented their video was 'Los minions' composed by Elisabet, Ainara, Irene, Isabel and Raúl. I really like this work because they made a very creative and entertaining video. They introduced all the theoretical aspects through a story of minions where they decided to change the organizations of nowadays schools and create an inclusive one. Maybe they included many theory but the video wasn't boring. In their schools they would include all the people (even those who have disabilities), teachers would have to encourage students, they would also have to communicate with other teachers, let students to work in groups, everyone should learn from others, the school would have two elevators, a music room, a meeting room, a dinning room, a cafeteria, a break room and sports installations. At the beginning the director didn't accept the proposal but then he realized that the most important figures of a school are the students; so its organization and structure must try to satisfy the needs of children.