Educational Studies

The Class

There was different kind of students in the movie. Teacher had different techniques to deal with the variety in the class. He was trying to make jokes to motivate the students and trying to care about the level of the students when he and another teacher were talking about the book they have to choose for the lesson. When the students didn’t like something in the lesson, he was asking for their suggestion. He was trying to motivate students by encouraging them in the thing they are interested instead of punishing. Nevertheless, he was sarcastic to the students occasionally, which could decrease the motivation of the students. He was also not impatient enough with the students. He was rude to the students instead of keeping calm when the students were rude to him. 

The students were teenagers which was a challenge for the teacher. The students think that they are mature enough to do whatever they want. The second challenge was they had different backgrounds because of it was difficult for students to understand each other.

I would like to relate the movie to the group work. Students were studying individually during the class. They didn’t have any group task and activity. A group task could be good to make them to know each other as there were new students in the class in the beginning of the semester. Also, they could understand each other better, if they would have to work together and see view point of the others. However, the organization of the tables was in pairs and this can lead students to work in pairs. Sometimes they were asking to each other about the things they didn’t know so it was a good way of learning. They also could learn from each other in this way.

I also would like to focus on Esmeralda. She was a teenager who has her own opinion. She was hardly affected by the others but she also was so passionate on her opinion. I would like to relate her behaviours to the identity. There were a lot of different identities in the class. Each of the students had different identities. One of the students named Arthur was trying to defence himself against to criticism about his appearance. Arthur had a different personal identity and Esmeralda was insulting him because of his personal identity. The same happened with Wei, he said Austrian as a word that he couldn’t understand and Esmeralda insist on the common knowledge of the word Austrian. It was a negative attitude to his personal identity, again. Our communicative interactions help us to establish an identity. It can change in many ways during our whole life. Esmeralda’s opinion about the others was a criticism about their identities and she was not aware of the varieties of identity. She was thinking her identity is the only one and she usually didn’t respect the others. 

Educational Studies

Timeline 

We created a timeline of  events in our life that shapes our identity. We decided our Personal, Relational, Communal identities. You can see them in the following link and one of my friends tried to analyse my learning style. She thought that I'm a Theorists which means:

  Who tends to be more analytical and detached rather tahn subjective and emotive in their thinking and prefer a structured situation with a clear purpose, but learn less well when they have to do things without knowing the principles or concepts involved.

On the other hand, I think my learning style can be a mix of theorist and activist. I like to learn by the principles and conceps but I also like to be in new experiences and ideas, problem and oppotunities. This was an activity that gave us the opportunity to think about the identity , our own identity and learning style. The important events shaped our identity .

http://prezi.com/od_rl5jvilqi/copy-of-identity-timeline-exercise/

Deep Learning & Surface Learning

Deep learning:

*Students take an active approach.

*More successful in exams. 

*Easier to solve surface questions. 

*Aim is to increase the motivation .

*Relates the old information to the new one. 

Surface Learning:

 *Information memorized for the exams.

*Focus is on the right answer.

*Students take a passive approach. 

Educational Studies 2

Subject: English and Environment

Age / Grade: 13-14/7-8

Aims :

• Ability to use the knowledge in the target language.

• To be able to understand and appreciate other cultures and others’ cultural view of the world.

• Students will be able to view cultural values.

• Ability to think critically and discuss in the target language by using a cultural perspective. 

• To be able to understand each other and work collaboratively.

 Activity

Every student will choose a picture from their culture and prepare a little explanation of the picture in English. The teacher will form some groups of five to six members. Then the students discuss the pictures of the new knowledge and choose the most interesting one. The whole group write a presentation of the picture and present it to class.

We choose the group investigation approach to combine English and Environment. The students can make a written and oral presentation. Teacher can help the students and observe them. The teacher is a guide for the students and students are more active in this approach. The students work in groups which is helpful to share their knowledge. They can have cooperation in complex groups.

Made by Arda Işık and Jsabel Mühlheim

ICT - FAIR

ICT - FAIR 

We had an Ict-Fair on 21st november. We were so exited since we haven't been in an activity like this before. We set up and orginised our own stand, present our ethnographic studies through the programme that we chose. People visited our stand and we presented our presentation, programme to them. Our programme was Prezi and our ethnographic study was about Christiania. There were two more stand that present prezi except for us in the fair. 

We had a lot of fun with our awesome erasmus friends and it was a lot of fun to present our programme to people. We also visit other stands and got knowledge about different kind of programmes. I have learned new programmes that I would like to use. I have also learned different qualities of the programmes that I have already known. It was both entertaining and instructive.  

This is the link for our presentation, you can watch it through this link. 

http://prezi.com/obfdgvotqnbp/christiania

We also created a handout for the people who were visiting our stand. This is the handout which includes an overview of our programme, has a look in the qualities of it and looks out how to use it effectively in the classroom. 

PREZI 

Prezi is an alternative web tool to boring Powerpoint slides, and it lets you prepare impressive, rich, visual and interesting presentations. You can prepare more effective and attractive presentations than you do with ppt.  The file types that you can use in your presentations are jpg, pdf, video and swf. Prezi needs membership, but you can get into the Prezi world without any payment. You can share your presentations on the web pages and you can use your Prezis without any internet connection by downloading on your computer. This web-based tool allows the user to fly from location to location and to explore the relationship between ideas on the presentation, sometimes with turning elements upside down, sometimes zooming in or out. The theory behind Prezi is that our ideas are not linear, but rather bundles of interconnected concepts that are better captured as a whole with many parts. Prezi allows the user to illustrate the relationship of concepts to one another.

Benefits of Prezi in Education Settings

1.  A lot of movement
2.  Ability to share with a large group
3.  The meeting feature allows multiple users to edit it at the same time
4.  The marker feature allows you to circle and highlight important features
5.  The zoom feature lets you focus in on certain topics
6.  The versatility
7.  Keeps people’s focus longer than PowerPoint
8.  Non Linear slide arrangement
9.  Looks more professional than PowerPoint

10.  Allows endless creativity!                                                                 

Ø  Prezi can be used with either a PC or Macintosh computer. Users need a high-speed Internet

connection, an up-to-date supported web browser and operating system, a minimum of 1 GB
computer memory, a scroll mouse or touchpad, and a recent
version of the Adobe Flash Player program for Prezi to be more effective in a school practice.

Bitstripsforschools comic

Alice and I made a comic by using bitstripsforschools program.It is about problem that students are unused to cognitive strangeness.

imindmap

We made an imindmap today. I think Veronika,Ana and me made a good job , it looks good :)