Is Spanish language sexist?

DEFINITION OF MACHINING

Machismo is an expression derived from the masculine word, defined as that attitude or way of thinking of who maintains that the male is by nature superior to the woman.
Machismo is an ideology that encompasses the set of attitudes, behaviors, social practices and beliefs aimed at promoting the denial of women as subjects regardless of culture, tradition, folklore or context. To refer to such denial of the subject, there are different variants that depend on the scope that refers, some are familiar (patriarchal family structures, ie male domination), sexual (promoting the inferiority of female sexuality as a passive subject or denial of desire (Underreporting of work, second-line workers), legislative (not representing women in the laws and therefore not legitimizing their status as citizens, laws that do not promote the protection of women and their Needs), intellectual (inferiority in intelligence, mathematical ability, objective ability, logic, analysis and treated as cunning, malice, subjective, low IQ), anatomical (little importance at birth, little role in biological reproductivity) , Linguistic (not depicting women in language), historical (concealment of important women within the history of mankind), cultural (representation of women in the media as a body making itself an object instead Of a human being, spectacle), academic (little importance to studies of gender, not recognition of the importance of the touched feminism), etc.

Traditionally machismo has been associated with the differentiation of tasks between men and women, and the subordination of women in many societies.

SEXISM HIDDEN IN WORDS
Sexism, sexual discrimination or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on sex, it also refers to conditions or attitudes that promote stereotypes of social roles established in sexual differences. Sexist attitudes are based on traditional beliefs and stereotypes about Different gender roles. The term is used to refer to discrimination of both sexes. Sexual discrimination is not only a concept dependent on individual attitudes, but is incorporated into many institutions of society. Sexism is often associated with arguments about gender supremacy.

In the Castilian language we can find some terms that, according to the genre, can be considered as good or as an insult. In the DLE (Dictionary of the Spanish Language) the following definitions appear:

- Perro: Mamífero doméstico de la familia de los cánidos, de tamaño, forma y pelaje muy dicersos, según las razas, que tiene olfato muy fino y es inteligente y muy leal al hombre.

- Perra: f. Prostituta.

- Zorro: Mamífero cánido de menos de un metro de longitud, incluida la cola, de hocico alargado y orejas empinadas, pelaje de color pardo rojizo y muy espeso, especialmente en la cola, de punta blanca. Es de costumbres crepusculares y nocturnas; abunda en España y caza con gran astucia toda clase de animales, incluso de corral. 

Persona muy taimada, astuta y solapada.

· Zorra: f. despect. malson. prostituta.

· Cocinillas. Hombre que se entromete en cosas, especialmente domésticas, que no son de su incumbencia. 

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WEEK 10

Hello!!! I am Marina De Vicente and this week I am the facilitator of the task.

Well doneeeee Alicia and well doneee Chalkies! This week the task has been very interested and I like how the star,  who is Alicia, do it, each week we improve contoling our nerves and this is good for preparing our exam.

The task of this week as the other was very interesting because as future teacher and as future worker we have to know what kind of personality was the correct to teach and also to direct a school.

First we read all the information and later we choose the better option for us who was the participative. I think that the content of our task was amazing but ones I see the job of the other classmates I think that we must have improved the decoration of the presentation, this time we only do banners so next time we are going to take into account this.

However I am very happy with this task I learn too much and I am very nervious of preparing the next and last task .COME ON CHALKIES ONLY ONE WE CAN!!!!

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STAR II LAST WEEK

Hi! It is Marina García! This is my third week as a star, and unfourtunately the last one, since, as you've read, the course #SOyER1516 is about to finish and there won't be more tasks. It's a pity... Despite of having too much work, we've really enjoyed during this course working in groups, fostering our creativity and adquering a lot of new knoledge...

Stop sensitiveness, let's me talk to you about this last task about relationships between the two articles we have rencently read (from A. Bolivar and M. T. González) and the two chapters about complexity and connections in schools. [All of them are avaible in the curator page]:

My turn as star helper arrived in the last week. I had to help my mate Alicia Gomis in order to expose perfectly this connections that we all have create. It was the second speed learning exposition we did, I really like it because I 've never done something similiar. For the ones that don't know what it is, let's me explain that it is a circle done all over the class by the stars of each group. They place with their poster and they have to explain the activity to one group who will be changing each 5 minutes so as to visit all the stars.

It is a really interesting way, although it is a bit tiring for stars (at the end we have no saliva at all!).
I was really confortable while talking to my mates since I've already known all of them and I am not shy anymore. Even with Linda I felt good! I was pleased to explain to them my work, since, personally, I think that we did a really great job this week.

It's a pity to say goodbye to this subject, but the end has just come. I hope you all have enjoyed as much as we've.  Thank you, bloggers, for all  your support.

Much love,

MARINA GARCÍA


PS: If you want to discover more about this topic, here is my speech, it was the piece about complexity in schools, for connections in schools, checks Alicia Gomis star's slide.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wcoKUP4bh-p9Pe2tdQNKUjZrfENnFgApnNVV5FjcIEU/edit?usp=sharing

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LAST TASK

Hello bloggers!
Here you have the link to see the news of our week. Hope you like it!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35RB4qGnFWKY2M5aDlEMzNXR2c/view?usp=sharing

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TRANSLATOR, LAST WEEK

Hi guys! I am Isabel Ramírez de Arellano Sevilla and I am the translator of this week. Here you have the last five concepts from our last weekly task:
We have focused in the organizations that appear in school and that coordinate all the teaching-learning process:

The first one we have is ''Equipo docente de ciclos'' in English it can be said  ''teachers' team''. It is an organization within the schools that is composed by all the teachers that are involved in an educational step. They work together to solve problems and they are involved with a group of students so they have a closer relationship with them. The teachers have a tutor and all of them work together coordinating the cycle.

The second one is called ''Departamentos didácticos'' in English it can be said ''teaching departments''. It is an organization within high schools that is composed by some teachers that are specialize in one subject and they together decide about that subject and coordinate what is going to be done during a school year. They don't work with the other teachers in oder to know better their students because they are in a department only with teachers like them.

The third one is '' Junta de profesores''. They are groups from high schools that are composed by the teachers that teach a group of students and by the tutor of the group. There are teachers from the different departments and subjects that have this students and together they decide the marks, the important decisions of the students' group and they make a general valuation of them.

The fourth one are ''Schools that learns''. This means that in schools not only the students can learn from the teachers but also all the people involved in the teaching-learning process can learn: headmaster, teachers, orientation's group... All this people share their knowledge and their experiences with the others and with that they emerge new knowledge from this connections.

And the last concept of this task is ''Speed learning method''. This is one method used in class that consists on divide the class into different places for learning, each group is at one of them and each group is rotating around the spaces in order to know the work from the others and learn. It is called speed learning because the time for seeing the work from the others goes from 5 minutes to 5 minutes. At the end, you can see all the works from your classmates and you will have learnt at least one important thing although most of the time you learn much more.

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FACILITATOR: LAST WEEK

Hi again bloggers! It's Elena Gonzalez and in this last task I have been the facilitator of the Chalkies.

Is there anything better than finishing this subject being the boss of the group? I think no. Why? Well, first of all I am a bit stubborn and I prefear to be the leader than being leaded. Moreover, as this was our last task I wanted everything to be perfect.

We are characterized for finishing the tasks at atypical hours (midnight), but this time we organized ourself so that it wouldn't happen again.
On Monday we were told what we had to do: a connection map among 2 new texts ("Estructuras para el trabajo y la coordinación de los profesores en los centros" by Mª Teresa González González and "Los centros educativos como organizaciones que aprenden: una mirada crítica by Antonio Bolívar")   and the chapters about complexity and connections.
As each one of us had specialized on one chapter about complexity and connections on the previous task, each of us read the new documents and looked for relationships with her chapter.

We decided to meet that evening in order to advance, to put in common all the connections that we had found and to try to start making the connection map and, surprisingly,  we finished the task that evening. In order to encourage them I bought sunflower seeds (something that we really like) and some biscuits.
I think that finally we have learned to better organize ourselves.

The exposition of our stars was quite great, so I am proud of my team and of my work as facilitator. I have loved working with this amazing group.

I hope you have liked ours posts during this months and I'll try to keep on blogging.
I'll miss you! Elena :)

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Last week, last stars!

Hi guys! The last star is here! I am Alicia Gomis and I have a lot of things to tell you.

First of all I want to say that I consider that this has been one of our best tasks due to or easy coordination and our final work, it was excelent! Secondly, on Monday I was really afraid to be the last star, but fortunately two star would be in charge of the task this time, and I have to say that working with Marina is always a pleasure because she always knows what to do in each moment.

Well in this task we were in charge of compare two new texts: “Estructuras para el trabajo y la cordinación de los profesores en los centro” by M· Teresa González and “Los centros educativos como organizaciones que aprenden: una mirada crítica” by Antonio Bolívar,  with the two of Complexity in school and the different connections. With this information what we had to do was a poster, and present it on Wednesday on Speed Learning form. So both, Marina and me prepared our speech with the other Chalkies’ help.

This is my improved part of the speech, Marina is going to show you the other part on her post, don’t miss it please!

Now you can read:

“As you know, the school is a complex context y which different relationships occur, and that’s what happen between teacher and student. They learn from each other due to the fact of teacher-student connection. 

How teachers teach has a great influence on student achievement. As we have difficult contexts, we have different relatioships and as you can see in the text “Schools organized” those relationships are different depending on the school level. In primary education we find that teachers teach more than one subject, the relationship with students is better and closer because they spend more time together. In schools, students see their teachers not only as a way of tranmision of the knowledge but also as a person they can count with. Meanwhile in Secondary Education teachers spend less time with students because they specialize just in one subject, as a result the relationship teacher-student is different.

Not only teacher and student take part on the school context but also the learning and the whole class relationship. So as Antonio Bolívar says in his text,  it is not enough that the teacher have a lot of knowledge about his subject if he doesn't know how to interact with the students. Teacher must transmit his knowledge to the students, so students begin to familiarize theirself with the new concepts (learning) and at the same time, they exchange views with other peers, so the class work as a group, there is cooperation. That means that there are different factors involved in the Organization of a school and that these factors must be connected together.

Talking about the school as an organization, we haave seen in the Antonio Bolivar’s text that it could be an organization that learn due to the fact that an organization (in this case the school)  improves, and consequently, learns, when the learning is seen at different levels; individual, group, and system learning. So that way can accomplish the desired and benefitial organization for everyone.

In contrast, we have also found in the other text that there is a big mistake in the organization of the school that produce isolated teachers and a lack of cooperation between them. The reason of that is the physical disposition of school centers, because as they don´t have a space to work together, beyond the classroom, they spend the most of their time here, in the physical classrooms.”

And that’s all, I have to say goodbye again, but this is the last time.

There have been a lot of good moments and also bad ones because it’s not easy to work in cooperative groups during an entire term, eventhough I love my mates you know, but sometimes a really would like to kill them!

I hope you have enjoy reading our posts these weeks like we have done doing them!

See you bloggers, I’ll miss you!

Alicia J

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CURATOR LAST WEEK !!

Hii!! I am Marina De Vicente and I am the curator of this week. In this moment I am very happy but at the same time I am worried, because this week is the last, so in few days we will be doing the exam.

For this task we have used:

Estructuras para el trabajo y la cordinación de los profesores en los cento. M· Teresa González González
https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Schools%20that%20learn/Estructura%20de%20centros_M%C2%AA%20Teresa%20Gonz%C3%A1lez.pdf

Los centros educativos como organizaciones que aprenden: una mirada crítica. Antonio Bolívarhttps://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Schools%20that%20learn/organizaciones%20que%20aprenden.pdf

The Complexity of Schools Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital
age. London: Routledge

Connections & Relationships
Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital age.
London: Routledge.


 Here you can see the tools and the refences that we used for doing the last task here:

https://bubbl.us/mindmap?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88ZY1s

For me this subject have been very interesting and thanks of it I improve my creativity.
Apart from the content of he subject I learn something that I am goint to use in the future, as future teachers, like work in group, respect the different opinion.. since a teacher don't work alone, the teachers work together and  this is a important point that we are going tot ake into account in our future.

I have really liked working with my group CHALKIES, we have always done the task the better that we have been able, so congratulations. COME ON, WE CAN, WE ARE GOINg TO PASS THE EXAM.
 I wish you luck

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LAST TASK: ANALYST

Hello bloggers, I am Alicia de Prado.

I can’t believe this has been our last task.

I can’t either believe how much we have improved since the first once. It is a coincidence that I have been the analyst of the first task, and also being it in this last one.

That first one, “TPACK”, I reflected about how we were like a basketball time. The mistakes we did, the insecurities, the fear. We have been evolving like this basketball team, where the cooperation and the sense of team work were the only ways to succed.

This task has been the task in which we were having our expectations on how a great task should be. We were all very efficient, we finally got to know how we could be friends of who had been our worst enemy: the time. We have learnt to argue less, and we have learnt to make decisions which everyone of us like. Of course, there is always going to be that kind of “Shut up!” or “Fulanita, stop using the pone” or “How I wish we had more individual work”. Despite of that, we have loved to work together, in our best and worst moments.

We have seen that with constancy and effort, every goal is reached. We have learnt a lot of things, things I hope we will be able to express in the final exam.

We have also strengthen our friendship ties, we know that with all the work we have done together, we are going to be very good friends. It’s what one of us always says “We are all so different, but at the same time we know how to connect to each other and do a good job”. We have been through rough moments, but for sure we have lived so many good ones.

As I always like to say, this is only the start, the long road of learning never ends. We can  achieve small goals, but we have to look forward and look for new ones, that will make us feel  completed and happy.  As Jack Kerouac said in his novel “On the Road”: “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road”. 

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 10

Hi bloggers! it's Marina García, this time as a translator of the task. This week we've been working on speeches and leadership styles! Have a look at the new terms that we've learnt.
At the end you'll also find some tips to perform a great speech.

Here you have the five main styles you can find, related to our context, it could be as a headmaster of a primary school.

1. Laissez- faire: A laissez-faire leader lacks direct supervision of employees and fails to provide regular feedback to those under his supervision. Highly experienced and trained employees requiring little supervision fall under the laissez-faire leadership style. However, not all employees possess those characteristics. This leadership style hinders the production of employees needing supervision. The laissez-faire style produces no leadership or supervision efforts from managers, which can lead to poor production, lack of control and increasing costs.

2. Autocratic: The autocratic leadership style allows managers to make decisions alone without the input of others. Managers posses total authority and impose it on employees. No one challenges the decisions of autocratic leaders. This leadership style benefits employees who require close supervision.

3. Participative: Often called the democratic leadership style, participative leadership values the input of team members and peers, but the responsibility of making the final decision rests with the participative leader. In Participative leadership everyone contributions to the decision-making process. It causes them to feel as if their opinions matter. When a company needs to make changes within the organization, the participative leadership style helps employees accept changes easily because they play a role in the process. This style meets challenges when companies need to make a decision in a short period.  It is based on cooperaation among every member.
4. Transactional: Managers using the transactional leadership style receive certain tasks to perform and provide rewards or punishments to team members based on performance results. Managers and team members set predetermined goals together, and employees agree to follow the direction and leadership of the manager to accomplish those goals. The manager possesses power to review results and train or correct employees when team members fail to meet goals. Employees receive rewards, such as bonuses, when they accomplish goals. They conquest throught external motivation.

5. Transformational: The transformational leadership style depends on high levels of communication from management to meet goals. Leaders motivate employees and enhance productivity and efficiency through communication and high visibility. This style of leadership requires the involvement of management to meet goals. Leaders focus on the big picture within an organization and delegate smaller tasks to the team to accomplish goals. It suffers a trasformation from the inside to the outside part.



How to perform a great speech:-Feel close to your audience.
- Be honest.
-Be smart with your speech's structure (don't be boring)
-Encourage people with interesting proposal.
-Be concise and authentic
  

I HOPE IT COULD BE USEFUL FOR YOU. THANKS 4 READING!

Academic fact fight. BY: Frtis Ahlefeldt-Laurvig License: BY NC
Resource: Flirck.net

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ANALYST WEEK 10

Hi bloggers, I'm Elena González and this week I've been the Chalkies' analyst.

In this tenth week we have come bak to reallity since we have worked as we used to do. Linda explained the task and each group had to do an exposition in front of the class.

This week we (specially our star) had to creat a kind of candidature for being the director of a school. For doing something like that we had to read a document where 4 types of leadership were described. I guess we had to do that because it can be useful for our future to know which kind of leadership can be more beneficial for one moment and also because we can use this styles when we are the facilitators of the group.

On the one hand, the worst part of this activity was agreeing which kind of leadership we wanted, but finally we concluded that Alicia was going to pe a participative leader. On the other hand, the best part of the task was creating the Fakebook acount and the pamphlets and also the day of the "elections". It was really funny to see how the other groups defended their candidate and tried to buy our votes with candies.

We have learned that with this style the workplace has a family atmosphere and that it helps all the members of the group to contribute in the outcomes with the support from the upper management.

In the few weeks that remain, we have to conserve the organization, since this week we have done everyting on time; and the spirit that we have as a team.

I think that we have improved a lot since we started this subject and I'm very proud of this group.

See you next week bloggers!

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CURATOR (WEEK 10)

Hi guys! I am Isabel Ramírez de Arellano Sevilla and I am the curator of this week. In this link you will be able to see our mind map of tools and references not only from this task but also from the others:

https://bubbl.us/?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88ZY1s&r=1144261193


Here below, you are going to find the references we have used to do this leadership task:

Gyasi, Kwame. 2015. Participative leadership practice in junior high schools and actions to improve the practice: a case study of Sekyere south district, Ghana
Master's Thesis in Education. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Education 

Hoyle, John R. "Leadership Styles." Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2006. 595-98. SAGE Reference Online. Web. 30 Jan. 2012

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Journalist week 10

Hi bloggers! I am Alicia Gomis, the Chalkies’ journalist and I’m going to tell you all about this week in SOYER.

We started on Monday watching the video of the TVshows in which all of us  participated trying to perform different fiction cases about the connections in school. We did The Leona’s Diary and this time Marina de Vicente and me were actresses while the others Chalkies were camera girls, directors or set designers.

The video was really amazing, well done class!

After watching the video Linda explained to us the next task. It was about the different types of leaderships and our work was to choose one of these types and make a speech to convince our classmates to be the best headmistress for a school. It wasn’t necessary to meet at home because on Monday all the Chalkies worked hard in order to finish the work as fast as possible.

Here we were looking for information with our computers

                          

On wednesday we lived a kind of political elections. All the groups presented their candidates and they did their best in order to be selected.

You can see here some of the candidates and their teams giving their  characteristics as leader and trying to convince to us.

                               

                                      

        

 Chalkies would have given their vote to Pablo, there is no doubt about that!                                               

                                     

                               

                          They did a good job… but our star did it excellent!!

                 

                                 VOTE FOR ALICIA DE PRADO!!

Alicia was The Chalkies’ candidate and I’m sure that with her wise words she got a lot of followers.

All the groups did an excellent campaign in order to achieve their goals

            

In this task we have also visited other blogs in order to compare information about the different types of leaderships, here you have one of them: 

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/5-different-types-leadership-styles-17584.html

And that's all, as you know the course is ending and this is almost the last task of the year! We have had an amazing experiencia and we have enjoyed a lot eventhough we have also worked very hard, It’s like a mix of feelings.

Are you also enjoying our work?

 See you next week! J

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STAR WEEK 10

Hello guys, it's Alicia de Prado!! How is it going? The end is coming!!
Well, I have been honored this week with the important mission of being the face of The Chalkies as if it was a political campaign. I had to be a headmistress and I had to give a speech about how was my school ruled and which my methods were.

When I first realized I was going to be the star (once again), i felt nervous (once again). However, when I knew what the topic was about, I started being excited because it was a task that appeared interesting for me.

Work began! We got organized to make my campaign and prepared the speech I was going to defend. We decided to follow a "participative leadership" because we all agree in that point of view at the time of working in a school. I started to learn by heart my speech, but then I realized that it wasn't something I had to do like that. I mean, I had to have the structure clear, and knew about I was going to say, but I decided to do it more like a politician would do it: with passion!.

Wednesday came, and I started to get reeeeally nervous. Our mates did beautiful campaigns, and ours were good too but a bit more less attractive. My mates started doing their speeches, and they were all awesome. My turn came, and I just told to myself: "Come on Alicia, It's just like a game, have fun and do the best you can". And so I did! I am quite happy of how it was, I spoke fluently and I think that I made myself clear. My Chalkies were proud of me, and they gave me a huge applause and congratulated me.

You can see here the fakebook we made, in case you want to vote for me in the next elections ;) !!
http://www.classtools.net/FB/1737-ZBPMMm

Another task done!! It's the final countdown Chalkies, we can! xx

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ANALYST WEEK 9

Hii! I am Marina De Vicente and this week I am Analyst.

The task of this week was very similar to the task of  last week, the only difference is that we have changed the roles, those who were writers are now actors and backwards.

As you know, last week we worked all the class together, I should say that work together is difficult because you have to put in common many ideas or personal opinions. From my point of view is not the same work with a group of 5 or 6 people than a group of 50 like this week, since as more people more difficult to carry out the task.

This is our 9th task and at this moment for all of us work together was something typical but I think that it is not the same to work with my group, where I know how each of the members works ,than working with all my class. However I like the experience, I am very happy with the result of the task, doing the task I  have had fun and I feel better with all my classmates, sometimes in class I stay all the time with the same people and I dont be interested in met or know different students, so this task give me one of the best opportunities that is know my different clasmates.

Everyday that passes I am more aware about everything that we are learning, because we learn not only contents in a different way but also new methodologies (TPACK), new tools for our future classes ( Web 2.0 tools) and working in group, that is what we have to do in a future, because as future teacher we are not going to be alone, we are going to have the help many other future teachers, our future classmates,

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 9

Hello! I'm Alicia Gomis the translator of week 9. As you know the role of the translator is to try to summarize what we have learned during the week in 5 terms. But these weeks are going to be different, we are working on complexity at the time that we spend a good time filming scenes of a news program.Therefore the vocabulary learned during this week has been different:

Theater director:
The theater director is responsible for supervise all the scenes and he/she has to be sure that everything goes as he has planned. He or she must be in charge of the actors and actresses and direct their scenes.  (In class we have some theater directors, success depends on them)

Chroma:
It is a technique which is used in order to make special effects. This week that technique has allowed my mates to add some background effects to our news channel. It is amazing, you only have to start recording in front of a green back and then edit the video.

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CURATOR WEEK 9

Hey! I'm Marina García and this time, as curator, I have collected everything that we have used to complete our task.
In this activity, we haven't use so many resources, just three, since the stories have been created by us, and not obtained from the Internet.The tools used in this task are:



1.An article were complexity in relationships is explained:

Connections & Relationships Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital age. London: Routledge. Chapter 4.
https://aulavirtual.um.es/access/content/group/1134_G_2015_N_N/Bilingual%20Group/Complexity%20chapters/Teaching%20and%20Learning%20in%20the%20Digital%20Age%20-%20Cap4.pdf



2. The video editor that our mates have used:

Adobe premiere pro- http://www.adobe.com/es/products/premiere.html


3. Tutorials to use cromas in a correct way:

Santos L., (2015) Como se trabaja con un croma y para qué sirve. Adictos al trabajo. https://www.adictosaltrabajo.com/tutoriales/tutorialcroma/



IF YOU  PREFER, YOU CAN CHECK OUR ONLINE MIND MAP WHERE EVERY TASK'S REFERENCES ARE KEPT IN THE FOLLOWING LINK:
https://bubbl.us/mindmap?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88Z...

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FIVE STORIES RELATED TO FIVE TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS AT SCHOOLS.

TEACHER-STUDENT CONNECTION

According to this part of the chapter called ‘’Teacher-Student connection’’, both of them learn from each other, being in this case the teacher the greatest influence on student achievement; what they do and how they do it, matters.
Imagine this situation: The teacher is always telling their students that they are ‘’stupid guys’’, ‘’burros’’ ‘’they don’t know how to do anything’’… This words and how they are said will affect to the students in their life and also in their school achievement due to the fact that everything a teacher says, it is important for their students. This situation occurs in many schools and is develop by many teachers and it determines a successful achievement or not in school for students.

 CONNECTION WITHIN THE LEARNING CONTEXT

As the text says, learning is influenced by the cultural context in which it occurs, and that context is nfluenced by the teacher and the students who participate actively in class and also the relationships between them.
So, this connexions can be shown in that example:
A group of students of 15 years have a very good relationship with their maths’ teacher and because of that they have the necessary motivation in the subject and the majority of them get good marks. But this learning enviroment change when this techer has to leave the school for a year. The students changed their attitude and their motivation was reduced because of the new teacher, they didn’t have the same confidence as with the previous one because he wasn’t as friendly as the other.

CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CONTENT
Let’s imagine ourselves as teachers. We are math teachers, and we are going to teach our students how to divide. This new knowledge which students are going to acquire, is only possible with a previous knowledge, which in this case would be knowing how to sum and subtract. When our students know how to sum and how to subtract, they make connections between this two concepts to finally get another one, divide.

CONNECTION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Students can have learning connections beyond the classroom developing learning links with the community or experts. We have developed a case in which students will collaborate to develop a response to a challenge set by an external agency. In this case, we have a scientific  challenge, students will have to create a volcano under the guidance of one or  more tutors  and a scientist . They can do that in the scientist´s place of work.
It affects day-to-day teacher situation because they have to find  innovative ways of teaching a content beyond the classroom , in this case consulting an expert.

CONNECTION WITH PEERS

According to the text: “ Connections with peers” Imagine a boy, a little boy, who doesn't get on with his friends or class mates. Especially for the teenager the friends are more important than their parents, in a classroom situation a students is more likelly to seek assistance from a neighbouring students tha the teacher or their family. This is why the relationship with his friends can damage his academic performance. This little boy was an excelent student, he was always the first in all the tasks, but because of all the problems with their classmates, he changed, he changed his mind, he changes his idea of school…

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COMPLEXITY NEWS

Here you can see the great job that we have done together, the whole class! Hope you like it because it is worth seeing it !

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FACILITATOR WEEK 9

Hi everyone! This week I have been the facilitator not only of my group but also of the others with the rest of facilitators. It has been a difficult week due to the fact that we had to do a big big task. We had to create a twenty minutes video together, all the class. However, with the help of the other facilitators and the rest of the class we have done a great work. We knew how to coordinate the groups, we divided the people among groups and we started working really hard to get the final result that it will be shown on Monday. We are looking forward to it! We hope that everyone appreciates the results and that our teacher likes the video !

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STAR WEEK 9

Hi bloggers! This week the star of the Chalkies has been me, Elena González.

Unlike other weeks, I didn't mind being the star since I didn't have to present any task or explain anything in front of the whole class, as we usually do.

This week I was part of a group leaded by my partner Isabel Ramirez de Arellano and my job was to look for a place to record a strory for the Diary of Leona, for that, I had the help of my classmate Eduardo Gálvez.
 On Monday we looked for some sofas, a class with a green wall and for some backgrounds for the chroma.
On Thursday we recorded everything, we prepared the decoration. I also was part of the public of the Diary of Leona and helped also with the camera.
I really liked this task due to the fact that it has been complitelly different from the ones that we have been doing until now.

I hope we could do more tasks like this one and have the opportunity to experience what is to be an actor/actress, camera or decorator.

I hope you like our video! See you next week!

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TRANSLATOR WEEK 9

Hello! I am Soledad Soriano and I am the translator of “The Chalkies” in this task.

This week we have recorded different reality shows or situations about fiction cases related to different topics. I am going to define these topics which are the different relationships or connections we can find in the complex school:

-Teacher-student connection:  Teachers  have a big influence on students achievement. It is their responsibility to be sure that their students are learning. The connection between them is an important component in the teaching and learning process.For this reason, teachers need to be able to establish and maintain an effective learning environment where students feel comfortable.

- Connection with peers:Learning can occur between the students. Due to the fact that knowledge is developed through relationships. What it is very important in our digital age.Moreover,  the social aspect between students have a big impact in their learning process. It can affect in a positive or negative way.

-Connections within the learning context : Learning is influenced by the cultural context in which it occurs, and that context is influenced by the teacher and the students who participate actively in class and also the relationships between them.

-Connections beyond the classroom: Students can have learning connections beyond the physical classroom.This learning connections can occur by Internet, by a local resource ,by an expert or specialist or by an external agency. This could be a technological, scientific, artistic or creative challenge.

-Connections within learning: This connection expose that a new knowledge which students are going to acquire, is only possible with a previous knowledge. But we also count with external factors , groupal factor. Depending on each situation a student may have, they´re gonna have a base knowledge influenced by agents such as peer or family.

Attribution:
Image: 'grupo de cibercorresponsales'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25321693@N00/6235970926
Found on flickrcc.net

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JOURNALIST WEEK 9

Hello everyone! It's Alicia de Prado here, my role as journalist caught me again!

How interesting and funny are being these two weeks, don't you think? This week we have been working with the news stuff, as last week. This time, I didn't have to play such an attractive and sexy role as the country man I played las week. This time, I was behind the scenes with a camara in my hands. The rest of the Chalkies were also with new roles and new different situations.

On Monday, we were all told the roles we had to play, and our group started to do the script of each scene of the news, and left everything on point for next day. In our case, we had to do a soap opera, "Leona's diary", in which we were going to present a situation of bullyng. Each of us had a role, and we started to ensure what we were going to need for the day of recording the show.

Wednesday came! So did came the funniest moment. We were all very excited, and we were collaborating and cooperating with each other. I recorded some videos about the bullied case while part of my Chalkie's mates were helping with the scenary and helping as an extras. How difficult has been to record one scene in the first moment! We had to repeat, and repeat, and repeat... but finally we got the perfect secuence!.

It is a shame this has been the last week doing this activity. It has not only been interesting and amusing, we have learnt a lot about collaborative work and the use of technologis to get an awesome tv show.

All of us, the Chalkies, have been very motivated about this task, and we have worked and helpt in everything we have been asked for. In general, everyone of the class have loved the tasks and have given their best.

May is almost here, what we will have to do for our final task? We are looking forward to seeing what has Linda prepared for us... keep in touch with us to know!!

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FACILITATOR WEEK 8

Hello bloggers! It's Marina García. This week I've been working as facilitator again, but this time was a bit different. Pay attention; this time I've been a kind of chief from a newspaper, and  I had also to direct a news programme section. Maybe you're a bit confused... but I'm sure that the journalist chalkie has explained it perfectly!

In this eighth activity, I belong to the chief's group, that was formed by the previous stars. I am so pleased to have worked with other mates who don't belong to the Chalkies' group. It's been a great experience, especially because we all have compenetrated ourselves and we have worked together as better as we could. Therefore, in my view, we've done a perfect job! I am sure you'll enjoy  and learn a lot from our video.

I will explain my current job briefly:

On Monday I chose some actors in order to do my piece of new and I gave them the script that my helpers and I created last week.
My selection was:

1. Eduardo Gálvez  as a reporter (due to his funny and easy way of connecting with people).
2. Elena Gónzalez as an interviewed (because of her excellent English).
3. Alicia de Prado as an interviewed (due to her nice interpretation, since he pretended to be a man)
4. Marina de Vicente as camara (because of her exprience with photography)

They really made a good job, congratulations guys!

I can't forget to tell you about my helper Ester, who was with me in every moment, and who helped me to decide the best recording option. Thank you Ester!

On wednesday it was time to record. Everyone brought the materials, and everything was developed as I wanted (just after a few shots).

In conclusion, I 've really enjoyed this experience of a whole group activity. Look forward to more innovations!


PS: THE NEWS PROGRAMME WILL BE AVAILABLE ON MONDAY, YOU MUST WATCH IT!

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The Chalkies' newspaper

 EXTRA, EXTRA!

 COMPLEXITY OF

 SCHOOL IS HERE!

 Today, we have different kind of news about complexity of school. They have been collected by our amazing researching group, "The Chalkies". School is a place which suffer from changes constantly, and where new challanges are happening everyday. All of those changes are bounded to different reasons, as you will see in the link below.

See our newspaper here!! https://goo.gl/eOO96V

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CURATOR WEEK 8

Hello! I am Soledad Soriano and I am curator this week.
We have not a lot of references because we have recorded a video about the news of complexity in school that we looked for last week.I put here the references about an article about  the topics related to school complexity. Moreover, I put a new that has been included in the  news programme of the class.Finally, the tool that we have used to edit and create the video.

REFERENCES:

The Complexity of Schools Starkey, L. (2012). Teaching and learning in the digital

age. London: Routledge

San Martin,O (2015, Apr,8)EDUCACIÓN. El efecto de las nuevas tecnologías en el aprendizaje

La educación virtual.El mundo.Retrieved from:

http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/04/08/55241a72268e3e8f268b456d.html

Tool: Adobe premier pro

The link of our mind map with the new references:

https://bubbl.us/mindmap?h=31eafe/63e580/32QwUHp88Z...

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