Reflective task

Part 1: Choose three or more activities/technologies from the course; think

about why and how you could use them with your own students.
Why would you use this?
Activity/technology

I usually carry on lots of communicative projects in class in

which students work on a type of text and at the end they have
Cue Prompter to produce one. There is always an oral presentation in front of a
public and this webpage may help younger and older students a
lot enriching their final productions.
Those web pages are simple but really very useful at the same
ClassTools
time. They provide teachers with easy tools and strategies to
and
keep the students/lessons under control, to keep the
Classroomscreen
attention/motivation and even to engage them.
An easy using web page to create dynamic and rich activities.
What I liked more is that you write down the information you
Quizlet
want to work on and the web itself gives the chance to vary with
different kind of games and activities.

Part 2: Choose one activity and describe in more detail how you would use it.

Quizlet https://quizlet.com/

What group would you I would use it with either Primary year 5 or year 6 students. I
use it with? Why? find it really interesting to work on vocabulary as it gives many
different options with the same information. Besides, these
stages are used mostly to learn simple grammatical aspects
and lots of vocabulary items.

I’ll focus on year 6 and I’ll work on jobs and action verbs.

Activity aims - Learn names of different jobs

- Learn defining the job using an action verb

- Learn and use the pattern “A person who ...”

- Learn to learn using new technologies.

How would you use it? It is a 2 line school so there are two Primary Year 6
classrooms. Group A will prepare review activities for group B,
(Procedure) and group B will prepare them for A.

Three lessons are going to be used: 2 of them to think, write

and create and the last one to play.

Each student has his or her own laptop. The school is inside
1X1 project; however, students will work in small groups.

There are 5 groups: 4 of them will create the activities to play

with. The 5th one will join everything, correct possible errors
and create the Quizlet.

Resources needed
For this activity, you’ll need:
● Paper and pen
● Class book and activity book
● Notebook with notes from class
● A laptop and a pen drive

Procedure
Before the lesson
1. Students are familiar with Quizlet since they’ve played
other times before and exam revising opposite
adjectives.
2. However, remember how it works.
3. In the big group make a list of jobs we want to work
on.
4. Set at random 5 or 6 jobs per group.
5. Create one example in the big group, so that every
student understands what to do. (Pilot: a person who
drives a plane)
During the lesson
1. Students gathered in small groups and create
sentences in order to define the jobs went to them.
2. Every sentence is given to the group in charge of
correcting and writing it in the web page.
After the lesson

1. Group A shares the game with and group B shared

the game with A.
2. Both groups play in class and they can continue at
home as homework (it can also be a revision task
before the test).
Variation
Learners could also:
● Share the activity with older students in order to check
if it’s correct or not.
● Prepare the game in small groups and play in big
groups later on.
To help learners at lower levels, you could divide students in
groups and graduate the game by levels (group 1 - level 1, group
2 - level 2, ...). They could also use images in spite of sentences.
Anticipated problems & Not all students my feel motivated wit that, since they need to
possible solutions prove their English skills while preparing the game. So that, a
motivating activity could be mixing both classes and changing
(What could go wrong and classmates for a couple of lessons.
how could you resolve
this) Those students who have more difficulty can work on it at
home and bring some definition written, so that they can
contribute in their groups and not feel they are getting back.

Part 3: Reflection

What have you learnt I wanted to learn different tools and games/strategies in which
from this course and engage students using ICT’s at the same time.
how can you apply this
in your classes

I’ve learnt that we are more able than what we think to create
extraordinary activities; that most of us have a great
imagination and that it’s on our hands to start changing little by
little the schools’ reality; I mean, engaging other teachers to
this ICT world. Besides, I’ve met many new games, pages,
activities, strategies, tools ... and new ways of using usual day
life devices in class, such as the audio recorder, camera or the
calendar.

I’ve made my own notes with those activities and tools that fit
best with myself, and I’ll use a variety of them in my units. The
plan is not to use all of them all the time, I’ll try to vary make
them know new ones and get feedback from students. As I’m a
primary teacher, I would make a gradual use of ICTs, choosing
a couple of tools each term and see how students make use of
it.

I liked the course a lot but I sometimes felt that the information
given in the modules was too directed to older students.
Nevertheless, even there was little focused in younger kids,
what I’ve learnt has been a discovery and I’ve already use
almost all of it. My classes are now richer than in the past, and
I’m sure my students notice it too.