Week 3: TRANSLATOR

Task 3: Exploring Tasks with Digitals for Primary School Children

This weekly task consisted of explaining, after our experience, a game for the primary classroom which we had to choose from among other group games.

• Pecha Kucha → Japanese method for making a presentation.

• technology → Technology refers to methods, systems, and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes.

• partnership → Friendly, collaborative and supportive relationships among peers.

• message → the information or verbal statement that is sent to your secret friend through the use of the used application.

• compliment → a remark that expresses approval, admiration, or respect.

Those important aspects during the realization of the task to highlight are: the development of the game to be able to give our experience, the use of ICTs to be able to explain and create the Pecha Kucha, and the elaboration of the script in which the information had to be explained for twenty seconds each slide.

With this type of games in class children not only children learn to manage this type of application with the use of technologies, but they can achieve connections and empathize with other classmates with whom in class they do not usually interact, plus for those children in class who have low self-esteem or problems with other classmates in class, it is the perfect time to make them feel better with a simple nice phrase that their secret friend dedicates to them. Also note that depending on the subject in which the activity is performed, as for example in the subject of English, it is a good way to practice the language as it is necessary to speak English to send the message.

On the other hand, for those children who do not have an electronic device such as a cell phone or tablet to access the web and record the message would have more trouble performing the activity so that in case they could not access any electronic device it would be left without participating in the game.