Laboratory and Virtuality in Primary Education
Code: 102088 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500798 Primary Education | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Digna Maria Couso Lagaron
- Email:
- Digna.Couso@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Bernat Rios Rubiras
Prerequisites
Students should have already passed the two previous courses "Ensenyament i Aprenentatge del Coneixement del Medi Natural, Social i Cultural" in 2nd year and "Didàctica de les ciències experimentals" in 3rd year.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The course "Laboratori i Virtualitat" aims that participants, at the end of the course, will be able to:
- Know and know how to use the different existing ICT for science teaching and learning (virtual tools, digital devices, mobile technology, etc.).
- Understand the characteristics of the experimental work in primary education and how this can be supported by various ICT.
- Incorporate ICT in science education, integrating them across all the educational planning.
- Identify positive and negative aspects of each teaching ICT.
- Provide reflections on the educational changes that implies introducing ICT in school.
- Acquire criteria for selecting, using and designing virtual environments that foster scientific skills (exploration, observation, classification, prediction, variables control, etc.).
- Familiarize with creative technologies as resources to work from technology to primary content
Competences
- Design and regulate learning spaces in contexts of diversity that take into account gender equality, equity and respect for human rights and observe the values of public education.
- Design, plan and evaluate education and learning processes, both individually and in collaboration with other teachers and professionals at the centre.
- Develop the functions of tutoring and guidance of pupils and their families, attending to the pupils’ own needs. Understand that a teacher’s functions must be perfected and adapted in a lifelong manner to scientific, pedagogical and social changes.
- Foster reading and critical analysis of the texts in different scientific fields and cultural contents in the school curriculum.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity.
- Know and apply information and communication technologies to classrooms.
- Know the curricular areas of Primary Education, the interdisciplinary relation between them, the evaluation criteria and the body of didactic knowledge regarding the respective procedures of education and learning.
- Reflect on classroom experiences in order to innovate and improve teaching work. Acquire skills and habits for autonomous and cooperative learning and promote it among pupils.
- Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).
Learning Outcomes
- Identifying aspects common to all the experimental sciences and examining them in depth.
- Identifying the difficulties in the teaching and learning of experimental sciences, and designing activities that respond to the diversity of students’ learning experiences.
- Identifying, describing, and analysing the characteristics pertaining to management of the area of experimental sciences in the classroom, and the implementation of activities involving experimentation and the use of CLTs.
- Knowing how to communicate and present an argument in science lessons.
- Planning for scientific learning situations in contexts outside of the school.
- Produce and apply resources related to the teaching and learning of experimental sciences.
- Promoting the use of explanatory models.
- Relating science with its technological applications, with its social impact on the didactic situations pertaining to the school.
Content
Section 1: ICT and scientific practice in classroom. Which ICT shoud we use, when, how and why?
Section 3: Digital tools for working with virtual models in the classroom: animations, simulations, video games and virtual laboratories.
Section 4: Digital tools to communicate scientifically: interactive whiteboard and Scratch language.
Methodology
The course "Laboratori i Virtualitat" combines different kind of work: laboratory experimental activities, experimental field activities and computer room activities. Is particularly important work in small groups and whole-class discussions.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Section 1 | 5 | 0.2 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Section 2 | 15 | 0.6 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Section 3 | 15 | 0.6 | 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 4 |
| Section 4 | 10 | 0.4 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Section 5 | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 5 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Project and final reflections preparation tutorials | 11 | 0.44 | |
| Tutories Section 5 | 4 | 0.16 | |
| Tutoring Section 2 | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Tutoring Section 3 | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Tutoring Section 4 | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous work for elaboration of deliberables | 60 | 2.4 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Preparation of final project | 10 | 0.4 | 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 4 |
Assessment
The evaluation of the subject Laboratory and Virtuality will be based on continuous evaluation and will have different sections:
- Class participation: 10% (single)
- Individual deliveries (2 in total along the course): 10% each; 20% in total (18/11/20 i 20/01/21) (single)
- Preparation of a classroom activity with ICT and TAC: 20% (microteaching throughout the course) 10% presentation (group) and 10% reflection (single)
- Initial and final reflection: 10% (09/09/2020 i 27/01/2021) (single)
- Digitization project of a school space: 20% (13/01/2021)
- Research project in the field of science with ICT tools and TAC: 20%. (27/01/2021)
It must be kept in mind that:
- According to the UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any work will be penalized with a 0 as a note of this work, losing the possibility of recovering it, whether it is an individual or group work (in this case, all members of the group will have a 0).
- Class attendance is mandatory: the student must attend all classes to be evaluated (20% of incidents are contemplated), otherwise it will be considered non-evaluable.
- Our teaching approach and assessment procedures may be altered if public health authorities impose new restrictions on public gatherings for COVID-19
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity with ICT 1 | 20% | 0 | 0 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Clasroom participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Delivery of individual tasks | 20% | 0 | 0 | 6, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Digitization project | 20% | 0 | 0 | 6, 3 |
| Final project | 20% | 0 | 0 | 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 4 |
| Pre-Post Reflection | 10% | 0 | 0 | 6, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 4 |
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