Week 7 - STAR

Hi everyone! I'm Paula Manzanares, and this week I have assumed the role of the star within the whole process of exploring tasks that require digital competences such as computational thinking and coding. We first did our zoom meeting on Friday 23th and, starting from the website "The hour of code" provided by Linda, we realized that it wasn't only an alternative of instructional planning to introduce coding as a form of computational thinking, but also was useful to engage student's knowledge in creating themselves forms of technology through activities that facilitate that commitment and that are present in the hour of code . These ones are divided in "poor or not internet" and "no computers or devices", as we had to choose three, the third one was free of that two categories. In the end of the meeting, we assigned two members per activity to work on it , which means proving its features and reflecting our experience on a common document. After thoroughly researching any added value or ethical problem according to the activity type (in my case a self-led tutorial) and describe them, we reunited again on sunday morning to try to demonstrate the gained knowledge by answering the questions of the task. Regarding the first one we, we thought that 3th grade of primary was suitable to implement the three activitie's requirements and children's abilities. In the second question (Bloom's taxonomy), two of the activities reached the level of synthesis, what progressively involves: identifying the matter, expressing the idea, interpreting the instructions and relate the simplest functions with their intended technological concept. The Kriss-Kross puzzle also reached the level of evaluation as it allows to assess their evolution. As for the fourth question (added values) we concluded that specializing in these types of activities incorporates new directions or even approaches to the assignments as a result of the final product, so it works well in terms of customization and targeted communications. For analysing the development of each activity and therefore being able to answer this question, we also checked the rubric for e-learning tools of task 5. What concerns to questions three (content / standard from the curriculum in which each activity focuses) , five (ethical problems) and six (changes that enable adapting students performance to working at home), as they are not common for the three activities because these ones specializes in a different manner depending on the question, they are answered and explained in the podcast we sent to Linda through the app of iVoox by the person in charge of the respective activity. On Monday afternoon we created a kind of dialogue that showed the entire exploration we made about the three activities and that included the answers to the questions. To do so, we divided the content of what we were going to say in the context of a radio program and each member talked about the activity he/she had been fond of and familiarized with. On tuesday in the early morning we did our last zoom meeting, and each one recorded their specific part so that later it could be all put together and ready to send it to Linda. We also evaluated the platform of "The hour of code" and add the result in the document of privacy and ethics on education tools.

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