Portfolio Module 2

Your personal thought:

• What did you learn?
• How did you learn?
• Do you have any problem?
• Would you like to investigate a bit more about any subject?
• Which question do you propose to someone who read this post to help you with CLIL?

THE COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Teachers should promote interaction and cooperative work among students to enable the construction, consolidation, extension and modification of information and knowledge they are acquiring during the learning process. In order to get and process all the knowledge obtained from the interaction among pupils some skills will be developed on the way. In front of a task, they will have to understand the ways in which information and/or knowledge is available, select what is relevant for a specific purpose and present it to their classmates in a useful and understandable way. These tasks allow students to develop cooperative habits and aptitudes through teamwork. Moreover to strengthen cooperative work can educate students within a framework of personal self-improvement apart from the competitiveness that may arise in certain activities.

It is very important to promote cooperative work because students are integrated in the construction of the learning process, giving them an active role, letting them participate, improving their academic performance and their learning outcomes, fomenting interaction and relationship between students and allowing socialization as well as knowing different perspectives about a same topic.

In CLIL lessons students must be provided with extra motivation and confidence as they are not comfortable in learning contents through and L2, that’s why we have to foster an education that is based on solidarity, equality and respect. It is very important to carry out activities where confidence and communication among students are the main point. In this way there will be a social cohesion between them in the classroom, and we will be creating a proper relational and emotional atmosphere. Students will not feel uncomfortable or demotivated during the learning process because they will be accompanied by their group of classmates. At the same time, while doing cooperative work teacher may offer some adjusted and personalized help to each group. Providing this kind of support is very important because it involves the creation of the ZDP, which allows pupils to modify the schemes of knowledge through interactivity and promotes acting autonomously in their own group.

I think that everybody while doing the activities, reading the modules, and so on, sometimes we find some problems that make us stop, think deeply, correct what we have done, reorganize our previous knowledge, and consequently, learn. Mistakes are proof that we are learning. 

I would like to investigate more about the Piktochart and the Canvas, because I will have to make a poster about a project my school is taking part in (Project Sharing to Learn). These two resources/tools will allow me to introduce the topics in a different way and also students will recieve more visual inputs. I have seen that you can also attached videos, not just pictures, which is also great. With a Piktochart you can have all the resources just in a poster. 

Well, focusing on ICT and CLIL my question would be: do you know any other tool or resource as for example Piktochart, Canvas, Glogster that we can use to put into practice during a CLIL lesson.