📈 A N A L Y S T

 Hi workers! 👋🔨 I am Carmen Díaz 👷  and this week I am in charge of the analyst role. I really like this role because I can evaluate my group members, and I think is a reflexive role which makes you think deeply. Is really useful in order to see what have we learned and what things we, as a group, are doing well or not. 

• The best part of the activity, as always, was to stay Tuesday in University until afternoon, making our spidergram mind map. We already had a draft of what we wanted to make, and of course all of our materials were prepared. We had fun preparing our exposition and sharing ideas about the project. All of my group members have really good ideas, too many to be honest !

•  The worst part was to choose a good idea for our exposition, because we wanted to be original but we did not want to last a year with the project, so we change our exposition ideas like three times.😅

• The best moment of the week was on Wednesday when we finished our exposition, because we did a good job all together, and we were worried about our stars (hoping that they did not get nervous), but they did a really good presentation!! So on Wednesday we released pressure. 😁

• We did not have a worst moment of the week, because our group works really good, and we know each other so we do not have any problems, we talk constantly by WhatsApp, so the worst part, to say one, was to decide, as I already said before.

• We have learned this reference model, with the acronym of TPACK, which we did not know before this class.
  We already knew which steps to follow to be an effective teacher, as we learned this in the Planning subject. However, we did not know that each of this three components of TPACK, (technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and content knowledge) were related one to another and that we need to master the three of them and know how to use them correctly and jointly. 
  This is very important for us and for our future students because we could say that the future depends on teachers, we are the ones that are going to show children how to develop and empower their intelligence and skills, how to study, how to learn and react to different situations.
  We need to teach them how to adapt to the continuous changing environment, and therefore we need to adapt ourselves. With this I mean that we need to learn new things every day, we need to improve, to dominate new technologies, to know how to master our class, to teach children in a correct way that they will learn, to know how to react to different kinds of problems or students with different problems, to innovate, to stay curious...
  Therefore, TPACK is really important for us and our degree, we need this in order to be effective. We will need to master the three components and its combinations, because if not we will not be effective, and we want children to learn and feel productive, not to learn things by heart and forget them next day! Learning can also be fun! 📚💻💹📻🔭🔬🎉🎈

•  As a group we need to conserve our perseverance, our enthusiasm, our positivism, our hard working and our helping manners, because we tend to do the whole work (and roles) as a group, so we help each other. And of course, our good vibes! 💪

•  Personally, there is nothing we need to improve (as a group). Obviously we need to maintain this relationship, and we need to keep working hard.

•  TPACK is related to other contents in our course and degree in many ways. As I said before we already know the steps to be an effective teacher, and we know the theoretical part, so we need to put this into practice.

 -  In Developmental Psychology we learned that everyone has a different temperament, different abilities and skills, so we are all different in nearly all ways. Moreover, culture, socioeconomic background, family and cohorts are really important too, so we need to take this into account.
With this subject we learned that we must be aware of every differences that children might have, so we can not treat everyone as a whole, we must know how to teach them in the right way, how to treat them individually, and how we can help them to integrate and make them feel one more. So, we can link pedagogical knowledge with this subject.

- In Educational Planning we also learned lots of things related to TPACK. We learned how to be an effective teacher, how to plan our subject, how to organize ourselves, active methods to teach children, and so on. Educational Planning is link with the Content Knowledge of TPACK. We need to master our subject before teaching it, we need to know what is important and what is useful. We need to show them how to study and how to learn.

- In Tutorial Action we are learning that every child is different, they have special needs and therefore they need different treats. We also need to know how to transmit them information and to integrate them. So, we relate this subject with the Pedagogical Knowledge too.

- In Educational Research we are learning to investigate, which is related to Technological Knowledge, due to internet usage. 

- Additionally we are going to study ICT, in this subject our teacher will show us how to manage different technologies. We can link this subject to Technological Knowledge too.

• There is evident social connection with TPACK, we can see it in news, when they talk about incorporating new technologies (like tablets) to the classroom. This new methods are necessary because nowadays technology is everywhere! So teachers need to show their students how to use different technologies, and how this can be very useful for them as students and for them as social beings. By using new technologies they gain more interest, as they, sometimes, prefer active methodologies and different methods than the traditional ones.

To conclude my reflection, I will include the Twitter hashtag 🐦 #WMCY17, which means World Mobile City Project. Students from secondary needed to travel through their city, (most of the tweets were in Catalan), combining traditional methods (as maps), and the use of new technologies 📱📷, in groups.
This is a recent social connection with TPACK ! 🎇🎆