This week our task called Fiction & Reality was based on the concepts of
"Complexity" and "Relationships" in school context.
Here we have 6 real news we have
found online. Each one is connected with one part of the first text about
complexity (Chapter 1). And then, we have tried to imagine one real situation
in which each one of the 5 model of school relationships from (Chapter 4) were
present.
CHAPTER 1: COMPLEXITY THEORY
RELATED TO RECENT NEWS.
NEW 1: Schools lead to the “transparency
law”- The Complexity theory in schools.
Relation:
This new is related with the Theory
of Complexity in schools because this theory is based in the emerging knowledge
among the connections between the different levels of schools, which boundaries are
mixed and ambiguous.
In this specific case, the complex
relationship between the parents, the direction of the schools, the sindicates, the
politics and the school surroundings have had a connection from which an specific interest
(Transparency for choosing school) has emerge.
They have created a new idea and shared
it between the different levels of the institution in a very complex but effective way
and that is basically what the author was saying in this subtitle, which is a clear
explanation of what has happened in the new.
NEW 2 The context of a complex
organization- : The teachers , weak link in the
emerging school
network.
Moodle is a very useful tool for
school in which students can access to the material of the classroom and also can exchange
information, but the problem that see its creators is that in Spain teacher
are not taking advantage of it, they are teaching students in the same way.
This is
related to this chapter because in Spain schools have a different context from other
countries based on its history of traditional practices and that may be the reason why it’s
difficult for teachers to introduce innovative practices.
NEW 3: Emerging knowledge through
connections- ABP project.
It talks about a new project known
as ABP (project-based learning) to promote the acquisition of knowledge through
other methods.
Teachers are launched to challenge
students to learn through a classroom project that may involve challenges and create
compilations sites, create videos, organize exhibitions or build useful items
for the classroom.
The ABP changes the dynamics of the
classroom in various aspects: the role of the teacher transmitter passes
information to facilitator and guide, students assume the burden of learning and work
cooperatively. Students who develop projects using ICT
NEW 4: Diversity and redundancy-
Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom.
Nowadays social media and
technology have a huge importance not only at schools but also at universities, according
to the data the 80 percent of the members of the faculty use social media but there
some platform that have been more accepted than others a clear example is youtube,
but others like twitter have had a less impact in the colleagues live, but now a group of
teacher give us five characteristic to include twitter as a good tool for using at
classrooms which are the following ones:
Twitter allows to create a personal brand because good
grades without a strong personal brand make more difficult to find a job, also
Learning to be concise, because you have to adapt to the 140 characters, Teaching
executives about social media. Bringing clients to classes, personifying characters on Twitter.
NEW 5: Balancing randomness and
deterministic order- Continous hours.
18% of all Aragón's centers change
its hours to continuous day.
This change can alter the climate in schools and can thin
the environment as well as students and components that have to adapt to
the project but most of them think that this does not bring any improvement in the
educational development of children.
This is related to the fact that schools are in a
changing context that moves between traditional schools and innovative ones. A
school that remains in a deterministic order and don’t adapt to changes may belong to
traditional schools.
NEW 6: Complexity theory and changes in
school- Apple includes new apps in iPads to
facilitate its
use.
This new explains that Apple has
improve the software of it's devices to make education better for both students
and teachers.
In general teachers like this innovation because it facilitates
the integration of tics. On the other hand this transformation is not About the
apps, the teachers are the important point, who must know how to include innovative
practices.
Tics help avobe all in planification of the classroom, so it may help
education, so first is pedagogy and then technology. This is related to this chapter because it
says that education is based on multiple factors that affect each other can be concieved
in many ways, like the example of teachers integrating technology in different
ways.
