Week 4: TRANSLATOR

 

KEY CONCEPTS

Competence: it is the capacity or ability a person has to be able to perform well in a task or situation. The competences for primary education included in this task are communication in mother tongue, communication in foreign languages, mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology, digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness and expression.

Cross-curricular: combining in a task different branches of the curriculum, allowing the student to integrate and associate traditionally separated academic subjects.

Bloom’s taxonomy: it is a classification Bloom created of the different learning levels, from the most basic, to remember, to the most complex, to create. These levels are also used to classify learning objectives, divided as well in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.

E-learning: digital way of learning by the use of electronic devices and new technologies.

TACCLE: Teachers’ Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments. It is an European Project aimed to address e-learning to teachers who want to implement it with their students.

ABOUT HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS TASK

This is a big task which combines different subjects, and for that reason, it needs a lot of preparation and planning on the teacher's part, as well as time, and perhaps collaboration between the different departments. Besides, as it fosters e-learning, the task assumes the availability of technology.

    For the best implementation possible of a task with these characteristics, make sure you have planned the activity with space for uncontrollable external factors, such as lacking students for the groups or the reservation of technological devices, if needed;  and that you take into account the time you have to develop it inside the classroom, since you may need to reduce or amplify the task depending on the time you have available. Also, the activities of the task should be adapted taking into consideration the students' age as well.