As I'm wrapping up this final assignmnment I want to use a last post to reflect a little bit on not only this blog, but the subject we went through this year. During 2021 all the tools and theoretical frameworks detailed in this blog were worked on and explored in order to know the role that technology can have in the classroom. And that was the final purpose of this blog, showing how these modern ideas and tools can improve lessons and help students reach real understanding of any topic. During these two lesson plans the theory studied during the year was applied in different ways, but the main frameworks that I considered when planning were Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, Active Learning and one that I haven't really gotten into so far, the TPACK model. First, I considered that students need to go over Bloom's low order thinking skills before going up to the high order ones in order to organise how they acquire the knowledge before they use it in more complex ways
For our second lesson we will start by checking homework from last time and using it as warm up excercise for the main activity of the day that will also work as a final product for the unit. In this class students will also need to use their knowledge of vocabulary related to the environment, a topic that has been fully covered in previous classes. 💪 Warm up activity: To begin the new lesson students will need to have done their homework and uploaded statements and questions to a Padlet board. When the teacher starts the class the Padlet board will be displayed on the TV, students will then have to join the board through their phones and choose different quotes to transform into reported speech, meanwhile the teacher will be looking at these sentences and giving a "like" to the correct ones. This short activity is an instance of active learning, students are creating the content and applying the theory they are studying on their own, the teacher is the