REFLECTION ABOUT THE SUBJECT

I would dare to say that this subject has been the most practical and pragmatic I ever had. I thought that due to the fact that we have been born in the XXI century there wouldn’t be too many innovative tools or website to discover, but I was wrong.

The first thing this subject taught me is that we never know enough we have to be updated and we should put in practise all the useful things we get to know, because it is also very important to develop digital competences in order to use or apply the technologies from a didactic or educative approach. When we were introduce the different digital competences (safety, problem solving, information searching…), that as teachers, we are supposed to dominate I feel very bad with myself because I realised I have too much to work on.

I think this subject is very ambitious. We have been being tested all the time, doing jobs (in group and individually), we have had to confront complex online tools we have never heard about … But this subject has been scheduled is the best period of the teacher training degree: our second internship. Along the internship we have been able to put in practise what we have been taught in class. We have been able to used new technologies with children in a real context and this has make realised about two essential and basic thing that we should always take into account: THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES CAN MAKE OUR LIFES EASIER, BUT WE CHOOSE HOW TO IMPLEMENT THEM. Besides I would like to highlight that technologies can always do what we want and too many technical or “human” inconvenient can appear or pop up.

Despite of having been stressed and too many inconvenient drove me mad I have to admit the task that shew me the most important of the subject was the telecollaboration: WE HAVE TO BE FEXIBLE AND ALWAYS DO OUR BEST, NOT GIVING UP.

The telecollaboration also made me realised how relevant is to know other people work in order to compare it with our and get an enriching feedback that can improve our techniques or bank or resources. 

In this subject we have had to design and carry out to many presentations in English using  new technologies ( IWB, wikis, other program to design presentations like Prezi…) I can firmly say that my English communication skills have experimented a big improvement, and the most important, currently interact and explain myself in English has become something NATURAL to me. Now I am more self-confident we I have to speak in English in public and I owe this to this subject.

To sum up, I want to say that my skills and technological knowledge has suffered a big improvement since the beginning of the semester, but there are still too many things we don’t know and it is a pity not to discover them in class at the university. It seems that the big challenge starts after finishing this subject: KEEP BEING UPDATED AND NEVER LOSE THE CURIOSITY.