Activity 1 - 2
Activity 1 - 2
Activity 1 - 2
Discussion
Attitude
5-8
8 -10
The students
participation has been
continuous but has only
provide general
concepts
ACTIVITY 2:
1. Author/Theory discussed:
John Dewey is the main educator in the United States Education system. He is
also the most important educator in the 20th century.
Dewey applies principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience in
education to get new knowledge and to make it last forever. He emphasizes
that experiences with aesthetic qualities, in other words, we live lots of
experiences but only the ones which are really important, thats to say, the ones
which are crucial, could educate us as persons. Experience is defined as the
vital sense through situations and episodes, spontaneously. In contextualism,
everything is related by emotion. Experience with an aesthetic quality is
contextualism as its purest form. We have personal stories that we can easily
go back through them and talk about them. They are the most meaningful
experiences to have.
So, as teachers, if we can create experiences with aesthetic qualities, students
will learn properly and we will be able to let them build up themselves through
these meaningful moments.
According to that, we have organized an activity trying to create a memory in
the students mind that they will never forget. What is really important for us is
not only to acquire students learning, furthermore, to produce a shocking
experience.
2. Title: Gone with the wind.
3. Activity 2:
Firstly, the class will be organized in five different groups of 4 5 students.
Each group is going to work one of the cultures present in our society. The
teacher is going to give five different options of cultures in the world
(Occidental, Arab, Oriental, South-America and Central Africa). Once the group
has its culture allocated, they will be given an hour to find out information about
it in the I.T class.
They will have to sum up the information they have found in different mind
maps (constructing them as they want).
The following day, each group will have to present in front of the classroom the
topic they have worked. This project, in fact, is not going to be expounded
nor evaluated. The teacher is going to tell them that the project has almost
finished and s/he will give them the opportunity to throw all their work through
the window. During this process, the teacher will be taking photos of it in order
to share with the children all the work they have done and how they have
cooperated with one another. The students should know that the result is
not even remotely the most important, but the process is what really makes
them learn.
4. Objectives for this activity:
- Learn about different cultures which are present in our society
5.
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6. Methods:
Class distribution: the students will be organized in five different groups of 4
5 depending on how many children will be in class.
o Time and Space:
For how long this topic will be taught?
Where are you planning to locate the work done?
This activity will be divided in two sessions.
will be at the computer class.
In the first
one,
they
There, they will have tosearch the information needed in order to ela
borate their mindmap.In the second one, they will be in their classroo
m where theyare supposed to present their project.
7. Evaluation
As we have said, there will be no specific evaluation in this activity. However the
teacher will have to take many aspects into consideration following the table below.
CAPACITY
OF
WORKING IN
GROUPS
ABILITY OF
SYNTHESIS
ATTITUDE
Give the students the possibility to talk with a person belonging to the culture
they are studying.
Provide the students a summary of the main concepts of each culture.