COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

In my previous post "prototype-your-open-clil-educational", I showed you a tool to make a draft of my open CLIL Lesson. This work is very related to the previous one since I am going to propose a methodology to carry out this project.
Cooperative and collaborative learning is based on teamwork, in which the teacher will be a mere guide to learning. I am going to show you more information about this methodology through a new tool that I have learned to use to make diagrams and to be able to show the information more easily, called Cacoo, that you can use it to synthesize the information that you want to give your students in a fun way.
You can find more information on the following website where I have extracted the information of this methodology (information).

This diagram was created by Beatriz Arance through Cacoo

As I have already said, in my previous project, the students had to build a weather station. To be able to implement this methodology, the class will be divided into groups of 4, in which each member of the team has a role. In this way children are responsible for their own learning. Each group will have to carry out a part of the project and everyone should ensure that they do well, since the project at the end will become common and all parts must be well made to make it works. Working cooperatively children will help each other, see their own failures and they can correct this errors with their peers´help. On the other hand being a collaborative project, children can talk among themselves, move through space, consequently they will be more entertained and they will learn through critical and reasoned learning, which over time they will remember that learning more easily.

Once the project is completed, students should contact other schools in which the same project has been carried out. In this way they will be able to compare the meteorological results of other cities or even of other countries. This contact can do it via email or create a blogg in which they can write the results obtained day by day. This way we are working collaborative learning outside the classroom.

And to finish the students, after a period of time, they will explain in class the results obtained and evaluate their own learning process. We could use the help of an external agent who will explain to the students the reason why the differences between the results of projects among other schools.

In this way we managed to turn our project into a collaborative project. Then I leave you a summary of the steps that you have to take into acount, through a tool that I used in my blog before, called Canvas.

Created by Beatriz Arance through Canvas

Photos from Emaze and Thinglink

Through this project I have learned that through cooperative and collaborative work, children's learning is deeper and dynamic, and it provides more values to children, such as respect, teamwork or fellowship.

Prototype your Open CLIL Educational Digital Project

The new challenge this week is to create an open educational project. For me to be able to elaborate it and to take into account all the points that must appear in the project, I have been helped by a template that includes sections such as contents, objectives, methodology, evaluation criteria or education standards. Thanks to this template you incorporate all the points in the project.
My project is called "Weather forecast". Throughout theme the contents that are going to work are the air and its characteristics, and the climate and weather. Through the observation and application of the different activities, they will have to recognize the differences between these contents. Following a cooperative methodology and the work by projects, since considering that each one we have capacities and in equipment, we can enrich more.
It is a very dynamic and fun educational project for the students, in which the final work will be the construction of a meteorological station that will bring the children closer to a more real learning.

Picture taken at http://www.sunhatsandwellieboots.com/2014/05/diy-weather-station-for-kids-to-make.html

I share with you the latest tool I learned in #ictclil_urjc. Thanks to #issuu you can publish your work and show it to others. 
This is very easy to use, you only have to do the document in word and then publish it on the website of issuu and follow a few simple steps, they will publish your work and you can share it in different social networks.

Then, if you click on the link, you can see the template about my project. 

I hope you enjoy!
My Open CLIL Educational Digital Project 
Created by Beatriz Arance López