TASK 7 TRANSLATOR

Yellow news: is that kind of sensationalist press which includes headings of catastrophe and a great Numbers of photographs with detailed information about accidents, crimes, adultery and political entanglements. In the case of graphics or television, It is characterized by using extremely satured colours, principally red, and exposing information in a desorganized way.

Peers: it is a group of children of the same age. In some cultures are formed by groups of ages. Each generation has its rights and responsabilities that vary when growing older. Those who belong to the same group usually maintain contact among their lifes. An example of peers groups could be childhood, adolescents, elderly and adulthood. Peers groups have become more important through years, and its importance reside in schools, taking the place of family. Also, relationships between peer groups are more domocratic than with parents. In contrast with family, in peers children can explore rules of behavior and continue to be more and more important through life.

Context of learning: It is one of the variables that, according to several studies, influences the process of adquisition of a second language. Those variables or factors of learning are divided in two big fields: personal factors and social factors. Every theoretical framework about the processes of adquisition and learning recognise the importance of the context. In general, we can distinguish between the school context (institutional or formal) and natural context, this is the learning that is used through the natural use of the language with the interaction with natives. 

Teacher-student relationship: It is established through an horizontal framework, in which both figures exchange meanings and learn; and multidirectional, refered to the comunication and interaction between each other: student/student, student/teacher, teacher/students... The classroom is the place where the teacher spread his/her didactic and personal resources to accomplish his/her labour, modulating the relation with students. 

Reality show: It refers to a television format that intends to show real facts that happen to a group of people in a specific context. One of the most important characteristics in a reality show is that the main characters are real people, not fiction. The people that parcticipate in a reality are not actors, they do not follow a guide or script. These people meet in the same physic space and live together in front of the cameras and pass some steps. Therefore, spectators can observe through television what happen white the participants in real time.

TASK 7 JOURNALIST

This time Linda asked us to select the best of each stories we had done on chapter 4  and did a video interpreting these stories but in a reality show. So we decided to make a zapping television in order to put different programs that make more entertaining the video, and we used programs like the fourth millennium, the daily of patricia, there is something I want to tell you etc.

The first day we were organize into groups and each group started to do their work. We create our scripts and split the roles of each in the history. Writers, actors, reporters, presenters, children etc.

Once we organized everything before Wednesday we started to study our respective parts in order to make everything went well the day of the recording.

Those who participated in the various stories went, David, Lluch, Rachel and me (Silvia) who rode together in a story, and Eric, Helena and Alvaro in other story.
David, Lluch and Silvia were children and Raquel was the camera.
Eric was the presenter of the contest, Alvaro was one of the contestants and Helena helped the camera and the designer.

We put our respective clothes and on Wednesday we were ready to record. We rode several parts in different parts of the University to take different planes, a gate, a coffee shop, a class, a television set ...

The truth is that we had a very good moment because it was very entertaining and outtakes were very funny because first you're not sure how you have to do it or if you will look good in that way.

We even invented a song because for the program, there is something that I want you to tell you, as the song was in Spanish, we started to sing in English and recorded it to make the video with the letter in English.

So here you have some images of the different TV sets.

TASK 7 STORIES

CHAPTER 4

SUBTITLE 1 “TEACHER-STUDENT CONNECTION” EXAMPLE:

The teacher Juanito was correcting some exams the other day when he noticed that one particular pupil, “Carlitos”, had mixed up the local most important history facts with other historical facts learnt the last week focused on recent history of the country.

The next day, when the teacher was handing over the exams he asked to Carlitos why he had made that mistake. At first “Carlitos” dind´t answer, he was embarrassed, but Juanito said “Come on Carlitos, did you studied it by heart?”

“Yes”, Carlitos Said, “I didn´t understand the end of the story very well”

“Okey” said the teacher “Tomorrow we are going to look over the same lesson.”

The next day Juanito searched a illustrated tale about the local history and the children enjoyed it, once they had read it the made a debate about it and the teacher made sure that everyone had understood the events properly, the next lessons he did the same before the exam.

SUBTITLE 2 "CONNECTIONS WITH PEERS

Last week, it happened and strange thing in Pedro Salinas school. One child, during the break decided to enter to his class and close the door with him into the class. He was all the rest of the morning trapped in the class and he didn´t want to go out but finally and with the intervention of his parents and the police he got out of the class. In that moment, his parents tried to be relax and asked him why he did that, his reason was that he didn´t want to be in class with his peers because they marginalized him and he decided to marginalize them without giving them the possibility of enter to the class as a revenge. 

SUBTITLE 3 "CONNECTION WITH LEARNING CONTEXT"

A teacher ask to a student if he did the homework, he asked her that he didn't do because he doesnt' understand the concepts to do them. So the teacher decided to revise if the rest of the class have understood them and she noticed that some peers were in the same situation. For solve the problem, she decided to make an colective activity that consists in make groups where peers help each others, that is, those who have better understood the knowledge trasmit them to those who didn't. And the teacher to make sure that everyone has understood the concepts , she choose randomly a group of students who hadn't done their homework and they have to explain the concepts that they learn this day in front of the class

SUBTITLE 4 "CONNECTION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM"

Article: The virtual-lessons that facilitates education to school student of a small village of Spain

The small village of Piedraroca is located in the middle of a mountain next to a river. It is a small village that has a population of 46 habitants. There is no school or even a bar in the all village. Two years ago, a group of teachers decided to give an opportunity to those kids that live in Piedraroca. They create a platform that allows the child to connect to the internet and follow a normal class. The work that the teachers are doing is totally free, they do it because they want to give those childs an opportunity. The children are learning well different subjects and they are discovering the daily routine of a classroom. They like to participate and to be part o the class. In a future, the platform will be much more accurate and will allow the children to pass the primary education online.

OUR TASK VIDEO

Here you have our video of Complexity in Schools. Hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2yFf_KhNg

Task 6++ Roles

Translator part:

Complexity theory: it´s a view of how increasing people knowledge. According to this theory everyone has its particular knowledge and information already learnt. What they will do is to share that knowledge to the others and in that way everyone would learn something new about a determined topic. For example in the piece of News about a Cultural Week in a school, everyone would say what they know Sierra de Gata, and through this process we get an increasing knowledge of the participants about Sierra de Gata.

Chief: the chiefs are the bosses, the leaders of some group. For this activity we were different groups and there was one chief in each one of them. They distribute our functions, guide us in order to manage better the task and also help us whether we only have a little doubt or we are definitively lost. It´s very important to have one chief because he/she would be the reference, this kind of hierarchy ensures that the activity of the group id made fluently. It´s a mechanism for escaping of chaotic situations.

Editor: is a person who makes something as a music CD, a piece of news, etc. In this case would be a news editor and it´s the person who writes the piece of news and organizes how they are going to be presented, explained and reflected in the news program.

Reporter: it is the person that appears in the news programs and tell the audience how some current fact is going. They work as a mediator between a determined piece of news and the audience that is watching them. Their goal is to make the current affairs closer to the public at the same time they explain well and in a summarized way the most important things related to the fact. They are in the place where the fact is going and they sometimes interview some person that would be direct or indirectly related with that piece of news.

Script: is the piece of news written down in words. They are used as a guide to the presenters and the editors because all the information about some piece news or even the structure of the whole program is there. They have the function of making a pattern to follow in order to do the piece of news interesting and well organized. 

CURATOR PART

ANALYST REFLECTION

This week each group has worked to carry out a newscast in common. I think the best part of the activity was that although we worked in groups, there was a strong connection between groups, among all students, between the different roles, and a mutual help (for example Sole, a friend from another group who acted in our new).Perhaps the worst part was to collect videos and the technical problems.
I think the best moment has certainly been the recording, definitely the funniest moment.
The worst moment may be when the teacher had to remind us why we were doing this task, as it seems that many of us were more focused on making a good video than in the background.
We have learned a lot about complexity, and specifically on diversity and redundancy that is the issue that we worked on our news.
I think as a group we must continue dividing tasks in class and work on them at home when it´s not possible to work in class, but we all should try to attend to class.

TASK 6++ journalist

Complexity notices

We have made the task number 6, but our next task is to expand the work we did in the task number 6. Linda has asked us to put the news on a regular basis on our blog and have begun to make videos with notices. Linda divided us into two groups, writers and actors.

Our helena star was one of the heads of writers and our star Lluch, one of the heads of the actors.
The writers divided the tasks among classmates, editors, actors, reporters, presenters, designers etc.
Me (Silvia) and Eric we were reporters, david, lluch and rachel were actors of twitter news but rachel got bad, so Sole, another group member made her paper. The rest were writers.

On Wednesday, we did the recording day and it was so funny, because everyone was with their costumes in the University and we did a more dynamic and fun class. Some people wore very strange and funny costumes.

So in that day we must to have all recorded in order to edit the video this weekend because we have to show it on monday. So we prepared all the scenes, we divided people with their groups, we found free classes to record etc.

We really want to see the others notices because we don't know how they were and also we really want to see how the video looks like.

TASK 6: CHAPTER 1 NEWS.

  

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.

http://www.larazon.es/local/madrid/los-colegios-se-someten-a-su-ley-de-transpare- XC2015505#.Ttt1VcMuR6HiErn

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.

http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/educacion/apatia-profesores-lastra- despegue-escuela-red-501450

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.

http://cedec.educalab.es/es/noticias-de-portada/2119-aprendizaje-basado-en- proyectos-del-profesor-pionero-a-los-centros-innovadores

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.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2011/05/24/5-unique-uses- of-twitter-in-the-classroom?int=96e908

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.

http://www.educaweb.com/noticia/2016/03/17/apple-incorpora-nuevas- prestaciones-sus-ipads-facilitar-su-uso-aula-9307/

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.