Getting started: the first week

Time passes by so quickly. Now we are entering our second week of course. But, what happened last week?

On Tuesday, our first day, we started by introducing ourselves: our names and our previous teaching experience.

We continued by watching a presentation while we discussed about why ICT is necesary in Primary Education. Motivation, communication, content curation, cooperative work... self-training.

We talked about the jobs in the future to come and realized that some of them may sound a bit odd at the time such as earthquake forecaster, commercial space pilot or memory surgeon. We did agree on the skills our children will need to develop: problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people skills and STEM. [Top 10 Jobs in 2030: Skills You Need Now to Land the Jobs of the Future ]

A question was due to be made: Do we know our kids? What are they into these days? Digital divices since they are little (digital natives?), online videogames, social media at an early age... Are we ready as teachers?

It was a nice talk but after watching the presentation it was time to check what we had learned that day in a fun way. What better option than playing a Kahoot! And even better, there were some prizes to be won, something is better than nothing! We had a really good time.
The last few minutes were spent by getting acquainted with the virtual campus on Aula Virtual.

On Thursday we worked on our computers. Unit 1: First things first. Our first activity was to open our learning journal, the blog we are going to update every time we finish an activity in order to post our reflections, share our digital artefacts and so forth.
Blogger, Wordpress or Tumbler were the options chosen by the students.

The second and last activity for the day was to cartoonize ourselves. We had to turn ourselves into our avatar. To do so we were offered apps such as Tellagami, Doppel or Bitmoji, the last one being the most appealing to us.

Here you are some of our avatars: