Does technology encourage teamwork?

Technology is an useful tool to face the lack of research that students have, but how positive is it related to Teamworks?
The next videos are three testimonies related to the topic.

Katherine is a Pedagogy student, she is in fourth year of English Pedagogy and also she is our classmate. she used to do her group works by internet and tells us a little bit why she prefers to do it in that way.

 

In our second video there is Magdalena, a 12 year old´s student from Saint George College. She also likes to use internet to communicate with her classmates when they have to do group works. If she doesnt have time to join with her classmates she prefers to use e-mails.

Finally we have an interesting comment. She is Heather,  an English teacher who works at Saint George College. She is from USA and she gives us a complete and interesting opinion about doing group works by Internet. Lets hear what she says and make comments about it. Do you agree with her point of view?

Claudia & Bárbara

Teamwork!

Before reading chapter two about "Some properties of work groups" we used to believe that working in groups was just something about join together because of one specific task and finish it, but now, we have a different conception about what really means working in teams!

First of all we realized about the differences between "groups" and "teams". A group has more relation with our previous definition, and it is not as committed as teams. We think that a "team" is a group of people who join together in order to work for the same goal in a cohesive way. It means that the members are really involved with all the aspects of the team, as background and atmosphere.
Background is somethig that each member has, based on their previous experiences and working with other groups, all these knowledge is really meaningful at the time

Social Diversity and Equal opportunities!

Welcome to our community!


As you can see our community name is a mix between education and creation. We decided to include these two concepts in our group because we believe that it is totally crucial to find the way to satisfy the inequalities that education has in our country and the social diversity that we are going to find in our classrooms. We think that the best way to face these problems is to be a creative teacher.


In our Working Experience you may have noticed that it is easier to work in schools where you have all the resources and materials to prepare a class but reality is different. In most of the schools there are not enough resources that could be use in order to make an updated and technological class. That is why the role of creative teachers can make the difference!


To sum up, our community goal is to learn more about the use of technology and especially how to deal with the lack of it in order to provide the same quality of education to different social groups.


Cläudia & Bárbara