REFLECTION 4 - Internship

First of all, I would like to contextualize that I did my internship in Jose María Huarte School and in order to write the reflection clearly and in an organized way, I am going to answer question by question.

    -  Which new technologies have I seen my tutor use in the classroom to teach?

Although the school had a computer lab where there were 25 computers, the classes from 3º levels to 6º levels didn’t make a lot of use of it because of the interactive whiteboard which there was available in each class and that consequently they used every day.
According to the article, since 2009, every each fifth-pupil will be provided with a notebook computer and their classes will have an IWB. In my school, they didn’t have any notebook computer, but they had an IWB as I said previously.

Having an interactive whiteboard in the class had the advantage of having a blog, so most of the tutors created one in order to upload projects which could be seen by the families and educative resources so that students could practice contents taught in class at home.

In addition, we used the interactive whiteboard to search interesting facts on the internet, to know the meaning of words, to watch videos from YouTube, to make projects such as creating a photo story, to do exercises prepared by the teacher or to write documents and upload it to the blog.

    - Which new technologies have I seen my tutor use outside class to prepare things he is going to use in class?

I have to say that my tutor tried to make use of the new technologies to teach and to prepare things for the class, and she was always interested in knowing new programs. Also, she was doing a course which attended one day per week so as to improve her knowledge. The course includes a wide range of practical ideas and web resources that teachers can directly use with their learners. 
According to the article, the teachers of fifth graders will be provided with training, and in my school the teachers from the third levels were provided with training couse.

On the other hand, from time to time my tutor created her own activities in http://www.educaplay.com/, which is a webpage in order to create drills such as riddle or crossword so that students could learn the vocabulary in a funny and attractive way. Moreover, she made use of the web page called http://quizlet.com/ to devise flash cards. This web allows you to play there or print them for the class.

And on the other hand, at times my tutor searched on the internet useful resources.

    - Which new technologies have I seen my tutor use for organizational purposes (not for teaching the subject)?

On the one hand, my tutor used Excel programme and Educa to register the students’ results and their assistant.

On the other hand, there is a school’s email to be informed about when the meetings are, and also the school used Dropbox to upload and share with the teachers important documents about the school.

  - Which new technologies should my tutor use which I think would improve teaching? Why? mention specific technologies you would use and how

I would use the followings tools or programs:

• Animoto in order to create online videos from photos.

• Google Calendar in order to manage office hours for parents’ students, exam dates, delivery jobs, etc.

• Although my tutor created interactive activities in educaplay, I would strong recommend her to use hotpotatoes.

To sum up referring to the article, I think the school and the teacher tried to includes the promotion of ICT.  And it was considered as a key competence and is covered in all subject
areas of the curriculum