Dark side of text books
A.- General description
The idea for this activity was to make something that showed the disadvantages of text books and what other methods could we use to teach without their help. When we first started this activity, we didn’t exactly know what to do, because we weren’t exactly against text books. We started thinking about what we could do and then we realized that there were some bad aspects about text books. We decided to make three short advertisements because we thought it was a great idea and it would be easier to understand.
B.- Product:
In the first video we dressed up as villains and superheroes and we tried to show the disadvantages that textbooks presented for children and the advantages
Advertisement 1- Text Books.
Movie made by Education Rush Hour.
date: March, 2014
In the second, we made a video about a class in which the teacher didn’t explain the lesson and the children had to learn from the text books.
Advertisement 2- Text Books
Movie made by Education Rush Hour.
date: March, 2014
The last video was a visual critic against text books in which text books destroyed some things that were important, like money, autonomy…
Advertisement 3- Text books
Movie made by Education Rush Hour.
date: March, 2014
C.- Roles on its preparation
Carmela Navarro Artés: Facilitator
Alejandro Orenes Almira- Farmer.
Miriam Riquelme Gil and Elena Rivera Gallego: Stars.
Mari Luz Rodríguez Gambín: Translator.
Elena Sánchez Valverde: Analyst.
Alba Yelo Maquilón: Journalist.
D.- A summary about what have your learnt from it
We learnt how to get something from a topic we didn’t agree with. For example, we got different reasons why the text books weren’t as great as they were supposed to be and we put them in common to make the three videos. Also, we learnt new ways of teaching, not just the text books or teaching dense contents to children. We all can agree that this activity was very important because we could see different ways of teaching the same thing (with videos, with tales, with games) but not using the most common method.
E.- Self-evaluation:
We would put an 8 for the entire group because we think we were good workers and we made it great.
Carmela Navarro Artés: 7, because we think she worked very well that week.
Elena Rivera Gallego: 9. Elena was one of the stars that week and she did a great job. In the last minute, she got ill and she couldn’t do the presentation, but she worked really hard.
Mari Luz Rodríguez Gambín: 7. As Carmela, she did a great job and her role was very well done.
Miriam Riquelme Gil: 9. She was the other star and she worked very hard too, helping with recording, the performing and then presenting.
Alba Yelo Maquilón: 8. Alba was a great worker that week. She brought her camera and recorded the three videos and then uploaded them to YouTube.
Alejandro Orenes Almira: 1. Alejandro was a bit of a mess that week. He didn’t come to class, and when we met up, he didn’t show up. So we put a very low mark for him that week.
Elena Sánchez Valverde: 7. She did a great job, like Carmela and Mari Luz, and we put a good mark for her.
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