TASK 9. "INFOGRAPHIC: TEACHING COMPETENCE FOR A DIGITAL WORLD" - Analyst

 ANALYST: Eloy Riquelme Pineda

 

This week’s task was about creating an infographic that showed the teaching competencies. from my point of view, the best part of the activity was watching how we learned from another subject that is school organization, in which we had to do also an infographic, but we did it not so well, that if we really work as a team, giving our opinions and looking for information about the design and what is needed to do a good infographic, we can do big things. I also think that one of the best moments of this week’s task was that our teacher congratulated us for our presentation, which we found more different than the first we did. the first time we did a speed-learning presentation was at the beginning of the course, and we didn’t know more people than our university group, so it was such strange to talk to other people as well as running throughout the class when changing the group. this week we found it easier because we know ourselves much better and we became accustomed to the dynamic of Linda's classes, and we ran with more eagerness than ever, we demonstrated that our effort had a very good result and that we have been able to recognize mistakes and correct them. 

But all that glitters is not gold. We also were scared about the task because of what happened to us in the school organization, so we didn’t want that it happened again. We had many talks about what to do, many tries on the design of the infographic, and we couldn't find a way to do it, what I think was the worst part of the task and of the week, because in those moments you have to be patient with everybody and everybody have to be patient with you. But in the end, we found a way to do it and I believe that it was successful. 

As a result of all those things, apart from learning about the teaching competencies, what we found very interesting and useful for our future as future teachers, is that there are some times in our lives in which we are going to make mistakes and we can’t solve them in a minute and even less so if you are working with more people, so watching that we were able to solve all of them by talking and hearing the rest of the group members have taught me that nothing is impossible and I also became more interested in the content of the task. having a problem when doing the task made us more interested in the content and work more carefully, making us internalize things more. 

For sure, in future tasks, we need to work as we have learned this week. I really think that is the task in which we have been more of a group than ever. We were talking on zoom for hours when creating the infographic, laughing, discussing other things, and having a relaxed environment, which in my opinion is very important when working with others. 

In this case, it probably will be difficult to believe, but I can say that we don't have anything to improve this week. as I said, Is the time that everything went on wheels even though the last time we did an assignment on infographics it did not go well, and that's why I am so proud of us and it never hurts to show off something that makes you feel good and fulfilled.

Feelings aside, this task can be related to other subjects we are studying, such as research or tutorial action, because in that courses we are learning how to look for information, how to collect data or how to do a research report, what is very useful for ICTs in the sense that allows us to acquire more information than that provided by the teacher in this case and to know where to look for it and what information will be necessary for us and what doesn’t.

There are some news related with this task, for example:
https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-021-00312-8