UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE EL SALVADOR
Faculty of Social sciences
Licenciature of English
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English
Case Study: GPS
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Edwin Alexander Pimentel Cardoza
GPS stands for the Global Positioning System. It refers to a system of satellites and receivers that allow people and devices to pinpoint their precise location on the earth. The heart of the system relies on 24 satellites that orbit the earth twice per day. Devices that are equipped with GPS equipment receive transmissions from at least a few of the satellites and are able to discern very precise positioning data.
Global Positioning Systems For Automobiles on wiseGEEK:
• This technology allows the tracking and plotting of directions based on global positioning satellite (GPS) technology. The GPS system maps the current location with a destination to determine the fastest route.
• Telematics refers to the integration of computing, wireless communications and Global Positioning System (GPS) for sending, receiving and storing information over vast networks.
Global Positioning System Receiver on wiseGEEK:
• Most coordinate a computerized road map with a satellite link to the Global Positioning System (GPS) to display the vehicle’s location in real time. A dashboard display for vehicle navigation was a fictional idea for decades, appearing in movies featuring characters such as Batman and James Bond.
• A Bluetooth® GPS receiver is a global positioning system device that is capable of receiving Bluetooth® signals as well as the signals coming from the.
Global Positioning System Tracking on wiseGEEK:
• Global positioning system (GPS) tracking is the use of satellites along with a GPS device to track the location of a person or object on or near the surface of the earth.
• Global positioning system (GPS) technology allows people to track objects and determine exactly where they are at any given time. Sometimes, GPS technology delivers tracking information after the fact, meaning it is delayed and not current.
Questions
What is GPS?
• What is the purpose of GPS?
• What are the benefit of the study of the GPS?
• Explain how such investigation could transform life people in the world
Friday, February 11, 2011
VARK (Edwin Pimentel)
UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE EL SALVADOR
Faculty of Social sciences
Licenciature of English
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English
VARK
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Edwin Alexander Pimentel Cardoza
INTRODUCTION
In this work we will find information about VARK, but what for? The purpose of this report is basically that the learners know about the different preferences of learning, such as VARK, Visual, UAural; Read/Write, Kinesthetic, the learner will find out about his/her learning preference by fulfilling a questionnaire that will give the result immediately.
Let’s see the definition of VARK
Vark is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take in and take out information.
I have a multimodal (ARK) learning preference.
Well I have a variety of styles, basically this will help me to adapt in different teaching styles, I really like this because I understand that everybody has a different style and likes people to adapt their way since I am multi learning style, I easily adapt to the teachers way of teaching, and as a teacher I do have to understand that my students have different style of learning so I could teach using different teaching styles as well.
This I my combination style RKAV
Study Strategies (these were selected according to my own result and analysis)
The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 2; Aural: 4; Read/Write: 5; Kinaesthetic: 4
INTAKE SWOT - Study without tears OUTPUT
Aural= - attend classes
- discuss topics
- explain new ideas to other people
- use a tape recorder
- remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes...
- leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' - Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
- Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them.
- Read your summarized notes aloud. - Imagine talking with the examiner.
- Practice writing answers to old exam questions.
Read/ Write=7 * glossaries
* handouts
* textbooks
* readings - library
* notes (often verbatim)
* essays
* manuals (computing and laboratory) * Read your notes (silently) again and again.
* Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
* Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." * Write exam answers.
* Practice with multiple choice questions.
* Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).
Kinesthetic=6 * all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ...
* laboratories
* field trips
* examples of principles
* lecturers who give real-life examples
* applications * Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
* Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
* Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. * Write practice answers, paragraphs...
* Role plays the exam situation in your own room.
Conclusion
In my opinion this test is very simple and takes me just a couple of minutes to take it and the results are given immediately, it is just wonderful how we can get valuable information about our learning preferences.
The results are just like if they have read my mind or they have been spying me, the results are totally accurate, I have been learning just like they gave me the results.
These information can be use among teachers and classmates, now we know that everybody has different styles and we have to comprehend and respect each way of learning and communicate with others, definitely in this term and from now on, I will be putting in practice these learning preferences, not only in school as a student or as a teacher, but also in home with our family members and help our relatives to understand about this learning styles, for example my nephew Kevin has difficulties with some learning preferences but that does not means that he is dumb, he is very smart as the others but has a different learning preference, this information is very important and useful that needs to be transmitted also with my colleagues at work so we can have a nicer environment at work.
Faculty of Social sciences
Licenciature of English
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English
VARK
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Edwin Alexander Pimentel Cardoza
INTRODUCTION
In this work we will find information about VARK, but what for? The purpose of this report is basically that the learners know about the different preferences of learning, such as VARK, Visual, UAural; Read/Write, Kinesthetic, the learner will find out about his/her learning preference by fulfilling a questionnaire that will give the result immediately.
Let’s see the definition of VARK
Vark is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take in and take out information.
I have a multimodal (ARK) learning preference.
Well I have a variety of styles, basically this will help me to adapt in different teaching styles, I really like this because I understand that everybody has a different style and likes people to adapt their way since I am multi learning style, I easily adapt to the teachers way of teaching, and as a teacher I do have to understand that my students have different style of learning so I could teach using different teaching styles as well.
This I my combination style RKAV
Study Strategies (these were selected according to my own result and analysis)
The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 2; Aural: 4; Read/Write: 5; Kinaesthetic: 4
INTAKE SWOT - Study without tears OUTPUT
Aural= - attend classes
- discuss topics
- explain new ideas to other people
- use a tape recorder
- remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes...
- leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' - Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
- Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them.
- Read your summarized notes aloud. - Imagine talking with the examiner.
- Practice writing answers to old exam questions.
Read/ Write=7 * glossaries
* handouts
* textbooks
* readings - library
* notes (often verbatim)
* essays
* manuals (computing and laboratory) * Read your notes (silently) again and again.
* Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
* Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." * Write exam answers.
* Practice with multiple choice questions.
* Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).
Kinesthetic=6 * all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ...
* laboratories
* field trips
* examples of principles
* lecturers who give real-life examples
* applications * Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
* Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
* Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. * Write practice answers, paragraphs...
* Role plays the exam situation in your own room.
Conclusion
In my opinion this test is very simple and takes me just a couple of minutes to take it and the results are given immediately, it is just wonderful how we can get valuable information about our learning preferences.
The results are just like if they have read my mind or they have been spying me, the results are totally accurate, I have been learning just like they gave me the results.
These information can be use among teachers and classmates, now we know that everybody has different styles and we have to comprehend and respect each way of learning and communicate with others, definitely in this term and from now on, I will be putting in practice these learning preferences, not only in school as a student or as a teacher, but also in home with our family members and help our relatives to understand about this learning styles, for example my nephew Kevin has difficulties with some learning preferences but that does not means that he is dumb, he is very smart as the others but has a different learning preference, this information is very important and useful that needs to be transmitted also with my colleagues at work so we can have a nicer environment at work.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
TEACHIN PERSPECTIVE INVENTORY
Module 3
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic: Teaching Perspective
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Students: Carlos German Rodriguez
Edwin Pimentel
Project 3: Teaching Perspective
Objective: To identify our teaching perspectives and to understand our beliefs about teaching philosophy.
1. General Information
I am Carlos German Rodriguez Iraheta, and I am studying a bachelor in arts at Universidad Tecnologica. Now, I am in the specialization course, this course is named Teaching and Administration of the English Language. The specialization course is divided in six modules. It is developmented in ten months. You need to approve the six modules and the TOELF test if you want to be graduated. You have to pass every module with 7.0 of grade and in the Toelf test you need to get at least 500 points all of these is a requirement to complete graduation process.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language is the name of the subject of the fourth module. This subject has the objective to introduce the students of the specialization in the management of the technological resources to be updated with the new devices, software, internet and other resources that offer the sciences.
INTRODUCTION
Teaching is not an easy task. Teacher need to have abilities to understand students and to know the different way to learn them. Many teacher are teaching in educational center, but they do not have the vocation to teach. Many of them know a lot knowledge, they are expert in much areas, but they do not have the abilities to transmit that knowledge. it is important to have both skills, the knowledge and the vocation to teach.
Teaching perspective is a site the help to many people to know theirself the best areas to grown potential and improve the more weaknesses areas.
people can take the test in no more five minutes, in that time the user answer the different option that present the test , after that the site send the result in the electronic address that you write when you fill in your personal information .In the TPI result appear 5 areas, like transmission, apprenticeship, developmental, nurturance and social reform. After you receive the result it is important to analyze, understand and interpretate your profile.
This teaching perspective inventory reflect something about my abilities to teach. I got 25 points of 45 possible in transmission area. That means that I am not a mastery of the subject matter or contend. I need to improve in areas like to provide clear objective, making efficient use of class time, correcting errors, making summarize and direct the learning with the appropriate goals. It is important to have a good connection between contend, resources and objectives in order to complete the topics. sometime a lost important time when I find an important information that I consider is important to grown the brain in the students affecting the development of the topic.
Apprenticeship is important to ask himself what students need in their live. It is important to fill them with a lot information that they will never use, or we want to prepare them to face the society and to be successfully in their live . Theory is very important in every class, but if the class does not have practice, it is a blind knowledge.
My score was 26 points in this area, I think is a low score because do not reflect my experience with students.
Developmental area measure what is the ability of the teacher to plan and conduct their class taking the point of view of students. It is important to understand that every learner has different way to learn. Most of them learn very quickly, but other students need to used other methods to learn. Teacher adapt the topic evaluating previously resources, students level with the contend. I got 28 points in this area, I expect to get a high grade in all of them.
What students are doing with the topic, or what they are thinking about the information that they are learning. One goal of the teacher is to make confident students. Students need to encourage their effort in every activity, one time they can fail, then, the challenge is to win experience to face the other problem, in this stage enter the work of the teacher. teacher foment the knowledge and values like those. In my case is was my lower score. I got 24, I am no agree with this result, because I promote the selfsteem and the self confidence in my students in every class.
Social reform means to induce to students to make changes in the society. They are the motor to move the society toward a good future. That is the responsibility of the teacher to promote changes, values and ideologies that generate changes.
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ here are your TPI scores:
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20-JAN-11
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Transmission total: (Tr) 25.00
B=7; I=8; A=10
Apprenticeship total: (Ap) 26.00
B=6; I=10; A=10
Developmental total: (Dv) 28.00
B=9; I=10; A=9
Nurturance total: (Nu) 24.00
B=3; I=11; A=10
Social Reform total: (SR) 28.00
B=4; I=11; A=13
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Beliefs total: (B) 29.00
Intention total: (I) 50.00
Action total: (A) 52.00
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Mean: (M) 26.20
Standard Deviation: (SD) 1.60
HiT: (HiT) 28.00
LoT: (LoT) 25.00
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Overall Total: (T) 131.00
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For future reference your TPI ID number is: 110120192131
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Review/Print your graphical results on-line here:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi_html/T110120192131_RODRIGUEZ_CARLOS.htm
NOTE: On-line graphic results are accessible for only six months after the date you completed the questionnaire.
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Review/Print the Summary of Five Perspectives on 'Good Teaching' page on-line here:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi_html/tpi_summaries.htm
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More information about the research behind the TPI and these perspectives on teaching can be found in
FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING IN ADULT AND HIGHER EDUCATION,
Pratt, D.D. and Associates (1998) - Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing.
For information on ordering a copy of this book visit:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/html/tpi_order_copy.htm
=====================================================================================
Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) Website
http://www.teachingperspectives.com
CONCLUSION
• It is a good site to evaluate skill or characteristic of teacher, but it is need more information about the areas to evaluate, more diagram to understand in a better way the result.
• My average is close the dominant level, I know, all people need to improve the weaknesses, but I consider this test should evaluate other areas of educational skill.
• Also, it is a cheaper way to test some areas of teacher.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic: Teaching Perspective
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Students: Carlos German Rodriguez
Edwin Pimentel
Project 3: Teaching Perspective
Objective: To identify our teaching perspectives and to understand our beliefs about teaching philosophy.
1. General Information
I am Carlos German Rodriguez Iraheta, and I am studying a bachelor in arts at Universidad Tecnologica. Now, I am in the specialization course, this course is named Teaching and Administration of the English Language. The specialization course is divided in six modules. It is developmented in ten months. You need to approve the six modules and the TOELF test if you want to be graduated. You have to pass every module with 7.0 of grade and in the Toelf test you need to get at least 500 points all of these is a requirement to complete graduation process.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language is the name of the subject of the fourth module. This subject has the objective to introduce the students of the specialization in the management of the technological resources to be updated with the new devices, software, internet and other resources that offer the sciences.
INTRODUCTION
Teaching is not an easy task. Teacher need to have abilities to understand students and to know the different way to learn them. Many teacher are teaching in educational center, but they do not have the vocation to teach. Many of them know a lot knowledge, they are expert in much areas, but they do not have the abilities to transmit that knowledge. it is important to have both skills, the knowledge and the vocation to teach.
Teaching perspective is a site the help to many people to know theirself the best areas to grown potential and improve the more weaknesses areas.
people can take the test in no more five minutes, in that time the user answer the different option that present the test , after that the site send the result in the electronic address that you write when you fill in your personal information .In the TPI result appear 5 areas, like transmission, apprenticeship, developmental, nurturance and social reform. After you receive the result it is important to analyze, understand and interpretate your profile.
This teaching perspective inventory reflect something about my abilities to teach. I got 25 points of 45 possible in transmission area. That means that I am not a mastery of the subject matter or contend. I need to improve in areas like to provide clear objective, making efficient use of class time, correcting errors, making summarize and direct the learning with the appropriate goals. It is important to have a good connection between contend, resources and objectives in order to complete the topics. sometime a lost important time when I find an important information that I consider is important to grown the brain in the students affecting the development of the topic.
Apprenticeship is important to ask himself what students need in their live. It is important to fill them with a lot information that they will never use, or we want to prepare them to face the society and to be successfully in their live . Theory is very important in every class, but if the class does not have practice, it is a blind knowledge.
My score was 26 points in this area, I think is a low score because do not reflect my experience with students.
Developmental area measure what is the ability of the teacher to plan and conduct their class taking the point of view of students. It is important to understand that every learner has different way to learn. Most of them learn very quickly, but other students need to used other methods to learn. Teacher adapt the topic evaluating previously resources, students level with the contend. I got 28 points in this area, I expect to get a high grade in all of them.
What students are doing with the topic, or what they are thinking about the information that they are learning. One goal of the teacher is to make confident students. Students need to encourage their effort in every activity, one time they can fail, then, the challenge is to win experience to face the other problem, in this stage enter the work of the teacher. teacher foment the knowledge and values like those. In my case is was my lower score. I got 24, I am no agree with this result, because I promote the selfsteem and the self confidence in my students in every class.
Social reform means to induce to students to make changes in the society. They are the motor to move the society toward a good future. That is the responsibility of the teacher to promote changes, values and ideologies that generate changes.
CARLOS RODRIGUEZ here are your TPI scores:
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20-JAN-11
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Transmission total: (Tr) 25.00
B=7; I=8; A=10
Apprenticeship total: (Ap) 26.00
B=6; I=10; A=10
Developmental total: (Dv) 28.00
B=9; I=10; A=9
Nurturance total: (Nu) 24.00
B=3; I=11; A=10
Social Reform total: (SR) 28.00
B=4; I=11; A=13
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Beliefs total: (B) 29.00
Intention total: (I) 50.00
Action total: (A) 52.00
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Mean: (M) 26.20
Standard Deviation: (SD) 1.60
HiT: (HiT) 28.00
LoT: (LoT) 25.00
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Overall Total: (T) 131.00
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For future reference your TPI ID number is: 110120192131
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review/Print your graphical results on-line here:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi_html/T110120192131_RODRIGUEZ_CARLOS.htm
NOTE: On-line graphic results are accessible for only six months after the date you completed the questionnaire.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review/Print the Summary of Five Perspectives on 'Good Teaching' page on-line here:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/tpi_html/tpi_summaries.htm
=====================================================================================
More information about the research behind the TPI and these perspectives on teaching can be found in
FIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING IN ADULT AND HIGHER EDUCATION,
Pratt, D.D. and Associates (1998) - Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing.
For information on ordering a copy of this book visit:
http://www.teachingperspectives.com/html/tpi_order_copy.htm
=====================================================================================
Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) Website
http://www.teachingperspectives.com
CONCLUSION
• It is a good site to evaluate skill or characteristic of teacher, but it is need more information about the areas to evaluate, more diagram to understand in a better way the result.
• My average is close the dominant level, I know, all people need to improve the weaknesses, but I consider this test should evaluate other areas of educational skill.
• Also, it is a cheaper way to test some areas of teacher.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
VARK
Module 3
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic: Vark inventory style Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Moratay
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez
Objective: To identify our learning style to understand the different learning strategies that can we applied in our studies.
1. General Information
I am Carlos German Rodriguez Iraheta, and I am studying a bachelor in arts at Universidad Tecnologica. Now, I am in the specialization course, this course is named Teaching and Administration of the English Language. The specialization course is divided in six modules. It is developmented in ten months. You need to approve the six modules and the TOELF test if you want to be graduated. You have to pass every module with 7.0 of grade and in the Toelf test you need to get at least 500 points all of these is a requirement to complete graduation process.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language is the name of the subject of the fourth module. This subject has the objective to introduce the students of the specialization in the management of the technological resources to be updated with the new devices, software, internet and other resources that offer the sciences.
Technological Resources are very important to be easy the every single class. It can be used to teach many people that can not to go a classroom. Many universities colleges, school, academies and educational institutions are using technological resources for many reasons, first one is a way to offer educational careers and get financial resources. Secondly, they can graduate many students around the world without campus, and the last one it is a cheaper way to teach them.
Into the classroom the technological resources facilite the learning in the students. They can learn using many ways the technology. But, students no just need technology; they need to be comfortable with the topic, the methods, approaches, the technique and the activities used by teachers. Teachers need to be very professional and know the better ways that students can learn. Every students have their own way to learn, these points are important and the teacher need to be carefully in order to be successfully in the learning.
There are many sites where students can find their way to learn. VARK is a free site where user can discover their personal way to learn in an easy questionnaire. There are four manners to individualize each preferences of the students. They call preference not style. Style need more data to be considered like that. This site is one of the most common and widely used to categorizes the learning. Students can also use the model to identify their preferred learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them .
The test result and the description of my learning style
The VARK Questionnaire Results
Your scores were:
• Visual: 0
• Aural: 6
• Read/Write: 7
• Kinesthetic: 6
I have a multimodal (ARK) learning preference.
Multimodal Study Strategies
The multimodal style of learning means that I have a mixed combination of potentialities of the learning styles. The 0 in the visual category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style. But I have a vary balance learning style. 60% of the population has that particular style.
One advantage of being multimodal is that I can adapt to different teachers’ styles; so I could be effective in different circumstances and environment. I could switch to the teacher’s way of teaching because I have many resources to understand and communicate the information.
According to my score, READ/WRITE category is the highest which means that I need to apply more strategies of learning and communicating from that category; but, I understand that I could use strategies from the other styles.
Study Strategies (these were selected according to my own result and analysis)
The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 0; Aural: 6; Read/Write: 7; Kinaesthetic: 6
INTAKE SWOT - Study without tears OUTPUT
Aural=6 - attend classes
- discuss topics
- explain new ideas to other people
- use a tape recorder
- remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes...
- leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' - Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
- Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them.
- Read your summarized notes aloud. - Imagine talking with the examiner.
- Practice writing answers to old exam questions.
Read/ Write=7 * glossaries
* handouts
* textbooks
* readings - library
* notes (often verbatim)
* essays
* manuals (computing and laboratory) * Read your notes (silently) again and again.
* Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
* Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." * Write exam answers.
* Practice with multiple choice questions.
* Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).
Kinesthetic=6 * all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ...
* laboratories
* field trips
* examples of principles
* lecturers who give real-life examples
* applications * Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
* Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
* Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. * Write practice answers, paragraphs...
* Role plays the exam situation in your own room.
CONCLUSION
• I am agree with the Vark result. I got 7 in Read /Write; this is the highest grade in my evaluation. In my opinion Reading is a way to learn theories. You can build ideas, with just read a information. I use the writing like a way to memorize concept, to study to an exam, I make diagram to understand many concept.
• The second preferences that I got in the questionnaire was Kinesthetic. My score was 6. I agree with this result. You can memorise ideas, information, and you can understand procedures, but if you do not perform the theory, you can not understated completely the learning .
• The third preference as Aural. I got six. I consider that people have the obligation to teach they know. My strategies to study are making conceptual map. It is a good way to record information because I can memorize much information and I enjoy to explain in that way.
Write your opinion about the test, the result, the learning and communicating activities. Do you agree with the result? How could this information about your learning style be used? Are you planning to use the learning and communicating strategies during the semester? Write two or three paragraphs answering the questions and providing more information.
III. Evaluation of project 2
Criteria % Grade
1. General Information 10
2. Introduction 10
3. The test result and the description of your learning style 40
4. Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences and style 20
5. Conclusion 20
Total 100
VARK is now available for corporate as well as educational use. Enquire now, and gather information about your clients and their learning preferences.
We have an electronic version of all VARK books ready for your download. The books are downloaded to your computer immediately after payment.
Neil Fleming, who added Read/write to create VARK, personally replies to your emails. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours please send your request again and give him an additional email address to respond to. Sometimes our mail to you is returned because your mailbox is full or you have made an error in your address.
:style:
The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing. Narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament discourse; broadly, as representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing
Fleming's VAK/VARK model
One of the most common and widely-used [18] categorizations of the various types of learning styles is Fleming's VARK model (sometimes VAK) which expanded upon earlier Neuro-linguistic programming (VARK) models[19]:
1. visual learners;
2. auditory learners;
3. kinesthetic learners or tactile learners[1].
Fleming claimed that visual learners have a preference for seeing (think in pictures; visual aids such as overhead slides, diagrams, handouts, etc.). Auditory learners best learn through listening (lectures, discussions, tapes, etc.). Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer to learn via experience—moving, touching, and doing (active exploration of the world; science projects; experiments, etc.). Its use in pedagogy allows teachers to prepare classes that address each of these areas. Students can also use the model to identify their preferred learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them the most.
Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration. It is also referred to as tactile learning. People with a kinaesthetic learning style are also commonly known as do-ers
I. Tasks:
1. Read about the VARK inventory: learning styles, learning strategies according to every style. Frequently Asked Questions http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=faq
2. Take the Questionnaire: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
3. Copy your score (result). Write a description of your learning style using your own description. Avoid just copy and paste. This is the interpretation of your learning and communicating style.
4. Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences from the list provided by the author of the VARK test on tha page The VARK Helpsheets, Study Practices Keyed to VARK Preferences, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets choose the strategies that you feel are more suitable to your learning and communicating style. Make a table of your learning strategies.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic: Vark inventory style Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Moratay
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez
Objective: To identify our learning style to understand the different learning strategies that can we applied in our studies.
1. General Information
I am Carlos German Rodriguez Iraheta, and I am studying a bachelor in arts at Universidad Tecnologica. Now, I am in the specialization course, this course is named Teaching and Administration of the English Language. The specialization course is divided in six modules. It is developmented in ten months. You need to approve the six modules and the TOELF test if you want to be graduated. You have to pass every module with 7.0 of grade and in the Toelf test you need to get at least 500 points all of these is a requirement to complete graduation process.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language is the name of the subject of the fourth module. This subject has the objective to introduce the students of the specialization in the management of the technological resources to be updated with the new devices, software, internet and other resources that offer the sciences.
Technological Resources are very important to be easy the every single class. It can be used to teach many people that can not to go a classroom. Many universities colleges, school, academies and educational institutions are using technological resources for many reasons, first one is a way to offer educational careers and get financial resources. Secondly, they can graduate many students around the world without campus, and the last one it is a cheaper way to teach them.
Into the classroom the technological resources facilite the learning in the students. They can learn using many ways the technology. But, students no just need technology; they need to be comfortable with the topic, the methods, approaches, the technique and the activities used by teachers. Teachers need to be very professional and know the better ways that students can learn. Every students have their own way to learn, these points are important and the teacher need to be carefully in order to be successfully in the learning.
There are many sites where students can find their way to learn. VARK is a free site where user can discover their personal way to learn in an easy questionnaire. There are four manners to individualize each preferences of the students. They call preference not style. Style need more data to be considered like that. This site is one of the most common and widely used to categorizes the learning. Students can also use the model to identify their preferred learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them .
The test result and the description of my learning style
The VARK Questionnaire Results
Your scores were:
• Visual: 0
• Aural: 6
• Read/Write: 7
• Kinesthetic: 6
I have a multimodal (ARK) learning preference.
Multimodal Study Strategies
The multimodal style of learning means that I have a mixed combination of potentialities of the learning styles. The 0 in the visual category means that I am lacking potential in that area as a learning style. But I have a vary balance learning style. 60% of the population has that particular style.
One advantage of being multimodal is that I can adapt to different teachers’ styles; so I could be effective in different circumstances and environment. I could switch to the teacher’s way of teaching because I have many resources to understand and communicate the information.
According to my score, READ/WRITE category is the highest which means that I need to apply more strategies of learning and communicating from that category; but, I understand that I could use strategies from the other styles.
Study Strategies (these were selected according to my own result and analysis)
The VARK Questionnaire Results : Visual: 0; Aural: 6; Read/Write: 7; Kinaesthetic: 6
INTAKE SWOT - Study without tears OUTPUT
Aural=6 - attend classes
- discuss topics
- explain new ideas to other people
- use a tape recorder
- remember the interesting examples, stories, jokes...
- leave spaces in your notes for later recall and 'filling' - Convert your "notes" into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
- Put your summarized notes onto tapes and listen to them.
- Read your summarized notes aloud. - Imagine talking with the examiner.
- Practice writing answers to old exam questions.
Read/ Write=7 * glossaries
* handouts
* textbooks
* readings - library
* notes (often verbatim)
* essays
* manuals (computing and laboratory) * Read your notes (silently) again and again.
* Rewrite the ideas and principles into other words.
* Organize any diagrams, graphs ... into statements, e.g. "The trend is..." * Write exam answers.
* Practice with multiple choice questions.
* Write your lists (a,b,c,d,1,2,3,4).
Kinesthetic=6 * all your senses - sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing ...
* laboratories
* field trips
* examples of principles
* lecturers who give real-life examples
* applications * Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
* Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
* Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual. * Write practice answers, paragraphs...
* Role plays the exam situation in your own room.
CONCLUSION
• I am agree with the Vark result. I got 7 in Read /Write; this is the highest grade in my evaluation. In my opinion Reading is a way to learn theories. You can build ideas, with just read a information. I use the writing like a way to memorize concept, to study to an exam, I make diagram to understand many concept.
• The second preferences that I got in the questionnaire was Kinesthetic. My score was 6. I agree with this result. You can memorise ideas, information, and you can understand procedures, but if you do not perform the theory, you can not understated completely the learning .
• The third preference as Aural. I got six. I consider that people have the obligation to teach they know. My strategies to study are making conceptual map. It is a good way to record information because I can memorize much information and I enjoy to explain in that way.
Write your opinion about the test, the result, the learning and communicating activities. Do you agree with the result? How could this information about your learning style be used? Are you planning to use the learning and communicating strategies during the semester? Write two or three paragraphs answering the questions and providing more information.
III. Evaluation of project 2
Criteria % Grade
1. General Information 10
2. Introduction 10
3. The test result and the description of your learning style 40
4. Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences and style 20
5. Conclusion 20
Total 100
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:style:
The way in which something is said, done, expressed, or performed: a style of speech and writing. Narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament discourse; broadly, as representing a manifestation of the person speaking or writing
Fleming's VAK/VARK model
One of the most common and widely-used [18] categorizations of the various types of learning styles is Fleming's VARK model (sometimes VAK) which expanded upon earlier Neuro-linguistic programming (VARK) models[19]:
1. visual learners;
2. auditory learners;
3. kinesthetic learners or tactile learners[1].
Fleming claimed that visual learners have a preference for seeing (think in pictures; visual aids such as overhead slides, diagrams, handouts, etc.). Auditory learners best learn through listening (lectures, discussions, tapes, etc.). Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer to learn via experience—moving, touching, and doing (active exploration of the world; science projects; experiments, etc.). Its use in pedagogy allows teachers to prepare classes that address each of these areas. Students can also use the model to identify their preferred learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them the most.
Kinesthetic learning is a learning style in which learning takes place by the student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or merely watching a demonstration. It is also referred to as tactile learning. People with a kinaesthetic learning style are also commonly known as do-ers
I. Tasks:
1. Read about the VARK inventory: learning styles, learning strategies according to every style. Frequently Asked Questions http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=faq
2. Take the Questionnaire: http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
3. Copy your score (result). Write a description of your learning style using your own description. Avoid just copy and paste. This is the interpretation of your learning and communicating style.
4. Select the Study Strategies that apply to your learning preferences from the list provided by the author of the VARK test on tha page The VARK Helpsheets, Study Practices Keyed to VARK Preferences, http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets choose the strategies that you feel are more suitable to your learning and communicating style. Make a table of your learning strategies.
VISIBLE THINKING
Module 3
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic. Visible Thinking
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez
Objective: to summarize the main ideas about visible thinking and its implication in an EFL classroom.
INTRODUCTION
Every day teachers and educators are looking for methods, system to teach, approaches and resources to make easy every class to understand every topic by students. It is not a easy task to teach and understand every students mostly kids and teenager. Motivation is the key to maintain the concentration all time. The question is how can maintain it? What I need to do it? The next research opens a door to work in that way.
Visible thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
It has been developed by David Perkins who works in a project of Harvard University.
It is collection of practices. Practices motivate students to perform the knowledge. Visible Thinking has two objectives. Firstly, they can cultivate abilities and dispositions to make it. Secondly, they could learn contents easily.
WHAT IS VISIBLE THINKING
It is a way to help students make educational activities using creative ideas. Thinking is a way of helping to achieve that without a separate ‘thinking skills' course or fixed lessons. Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.
Visible Thinking, which is research-based, has two goals: to deepen subject-matter learning and cultivate students’ disposition toward thinking. To reach that goal, teachers use mini-strategies, or thinking routines, they integrate into content learning. With these routines, students have methods not only to connect new information to what they have previously studied and know, but also to see how this new information challenges their thinking. It also helps students form new questions. With Visible Thinking, it gives students a structure to process new content.
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HOW DOES VISIBLE THINKING WORK?
Visible Thinking is based seven core routines that target different types of thinking
• What Makes You Say That? (interpretation with justification).
• Think Puzzle Explore (sets the stage for further inquiry).
• Think Pair Share (active reasoning and explanation).
• Circle of Viewpoints (exploring diverse perspectives).
• I used to think…Now I think (reflecting on how and why our thinking changed).
• See Think Wonder (exploring works of art and other interesting things).
• Connect Extend Challenge (making connections, identifying new information, and posing questions).
In addition to these core routines, Visible Thinking includes routines on fairness, truth, and creativity.
WHO ARE THE BENEFITERS
When a teacher is unmotivated to teach a class this is showed to students, and this affect the good environment and relationship of the class. Everybody must enjoy the class, the topic, all students must participate in every activities, they must be attend to do it and when he o she is not participating should see what the other students are doing the task in order to understand and learn every activities into the class . All of participants, students and teacher should be motivated in order to be successful the goal of the class. Students are very curiosity to learn , to touch, to watch something new and in that way can be introduce the activities .
Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. Here are some of its key goals:
• Deeper understanding of content
• Greater motivation for learning
• Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
• Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).
• A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners.
CONCLUSION
• Visible Thinking benefits all students, it provides an exciting venue for students who have not experienced success in school.
• Visible Thinking further gives students with gifts and talents a means with which to explore their ideas at a deeper level and enables teachers to provide more targeted differentiated instruction for these.
• Finally, Visible Thinking helps teachers understand how the class as a whole is decoding information and provides a tangible way for students to interact with, and learn from, each other.
Management of Technological Resources for the Teaching and Administration of the English Language (Part III)
UTEC
Faculty of Social Sciences
Licentiature of English
Topic. Visible Thinking
Professor: Martín Ulises Aparicio Morataya
Student: Carlos German Rodriguez
Objective: to summarize the main ideas about visible thinking and its implication in an EFL classroom.
INTRODUCTION
Every day teachers and educators are looking for methods, system to teach, approaches and resources to make easy every class to understand every topic by students. It is not a easy task to teach and understand every students mostly kids and teenager. Motivation is the key to maintain the concentration all time. The question is how can maintain it? What I need to do it? The next research opens a door to work in that way.
Visible thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
It has been developed by David Perkins who works in a project of Harvard University.
It is collection of practices. Practices motivate students to perform the knowledge. Visible Thinking has two objectives. Firstly, they can cultivate abilities and dispositions to make it. Secondly, they could learn contents easily.
WHAT IS VISIBLE THINKING
It is a way to help students make educational activities using creative ideas. Thinking is a way of helping to achieve that without a separate ‘thinking skills' course or fixed lessons. Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time.
Visible Thinking, which is research-based, has two goals: to deepen subject-matter learning and cultivate students’ disposition toward thinking. To reach that goal, teachers use mini-strategies, or thinking routines, they integrate into content learning. With these routines, students have methods not only to connect new information to what they have previously studied and know, but also to see how this new information challenges their thinking. It also helps students form new questions. With Visible Thinking, it gives students a structure to process new content.
.
HOW DOES VISIBLE THINKING WORK?
Visible Thinking is based seven core routines that target different types of thinking
• What Makes You Say That? (interpretation with justification).
• Think Puzzle Explore (sets the stage for further inquiry).
• Think Pair Share (active reasoning and explanation).
• Circle of Viewpoints (exploring diverse perspectives).
• I used to think…Now I think (reflecting on how and why our thinking changed).
• See Think Wonder (exploring works of art and other interesting things).
• Connect Extend Challenge (making connections, identifying new information, and posing questions).
In addition to these core routines, Visible Thinking includes routines on fairness, truth, and creativity.
WHO ARE THE BENEFITERS
When a teacher is unmotivated to teach a class this is showed to students, and this affect the good environment and relationship of the class. Everybody must enjoy the class, the topic, all students must participate in every activities, they must be attend to do it and when he o she is not participating should see what the other students are doing the task in order to understand and learn every activities into the class . All of participants, students and teacher should be motivated in order to be successful the goal of the class. Students are very curiosity to learn , to touch, to watch something new and in that way can be introduce the activities .
Visible Thinking is for teachers, school leaders and administrators in K - 12 schools who want to encourage the development of a culture of thinking in their classrooms and schools.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH
Visible Thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching classroom learning in the content areas and fostering students' intellectual development at the same time. Here are some of its key goals:
• Deeper understanding of content
• Greater motivation for learning
• Development of learners' thinking and learning abilities.
• Development of learners' attitudes toward thinking and learning and their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning (the "dispositional" side of thinking).
• A shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners.
CONCLUSION
• Visible Thinking benefits all students, it provides an exciting venue for students who have not experienced success in school.
• Visible Thinking further gives students with gifts and talents a means with which to explore their ideas at a deeper level and enables teachers to provide more targeted differentiated instruction for these.
• Finally, Visible Thinking helps teachers understand how the class as a whole is decoding information and provides a tangible way for students to interact with, and learn from, each other.
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