Lesson 11: Personal Protection and Data Protection

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  In this lesson we are going to talk about important tips and information that we need to know when using our computer: Nowadays we use our devices for everything, and they contain a lot of private information that we need to protect against possible cyber attacks. Therefore there are som recommendations that we should consider: - Keep our devices updated. - Use safe passwords (there are websites where you can check how good your password is). - Clean regularly your devices from cookie information. - Try to hide your wifi so that only those who know its name can have access to it. - Beware of spam emails that you may receive and always check the information and the source, to make sure that nobody is trying to trick you.  In addition, because of the importance of technologies nowadays, we also spend a lot of time in front of our computers. This is why there are some recommendations that we should consider: - Maintain a proper posture. - Make sure all elements from your enviro...
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Lesson 9. Develop of digital contents: RESEARCHING IN EDUCATION

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14/04/21

The last topic of lesson nine is about the research in education. As teachers we have to stay updated and discover new applications and software that our students can use to learn everyday. To do research we have to follow these steps:

1) Think of areas where your students are having trouble in: maybe they are bored, they can't comprehend the lesson entirely, they could have some more fun with it, etc. 2) Think if you can solve this with technology or without it. 3) Explore the internet for resources or create your own 4) Create the interactive activity for your students.

The exercise we did today consisted on following these steps and creating two activities related to the topic of our group (newspapers).

Cerebriti 

This is an online and quite intuitive app, which allows you to create different types of exercises.
For finding this application you can type on your Google Chrome search engine "gamification for teachers". However, in some cases, it is difficult to understand the purpose of each game, since their definitions are very brief and another inconvenient that we find is the fact that we cannot edit a game once we have published it.

In my case, I decided to go on with our group work topic and to create content related to Newspapers. Where in the game, the children are expected to match the different countries written with their most  popular newspaper there.

Additionally, you can see in the picture below, the app allows you to choose a picture for your game (I put a pictures with a newspaper for kids), write a description or definition for it (what they are to expect for doing), and it is also possible to set a timer for children to do the exercies (I decided just one minute as it is very easy). Additionally, the programme uses ads so it can be completely free, but these ads are not annoying at all and they only appear when we are about to begin the game.


https://www.cerebriti.com/juegos-de-ocio/newspaperand039s-countries/


Live Worksheets  

For my second activity I used Live Worksheets just by searching for the name of the webpage and clicked on the first result. This webpage lets us to create interactive worksheets for students using any image as a template. The webpage rewards the users who decide to share their work with others by allowing them to create more than 30 worksheets; I think it is a fine way to encourage teacher collaboration online. 

I decided to make a template with Word by my own and gave it the format of a worksheet. Then, I followed the webpage instructions to createthe exercise: where through arrows the aim is to link the names with the proper image.


https://es.liveworksheets.com/ey1901125bv


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