What is to be a good teacher? by Cesar Bona

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"TEDxBarcelona brings us this great video on "The new challenges of education" with César Bona. Educating the new generations is an obligation of all this work and children are to be the protagonists of their own learning.

All subjects are important but other topics must be incorporated into the school curriculum to teach: VALUES ​​such as respect, tolerance and emphasize emotional intelligence. And it is that as Caesar reminded us, the human factor (essential for personal development ) is much more relevant than standardized evaluation by numerical grades.



Do not forget that children are curious beings by nature, we must acquire the habit of listening to them and let them express and start talking one on one. Only in this way we learn together from each other. Caesar already warned us: "A person stops learning not because he gets older, but because ceases to be curious" Stay Curious!

Cesar Bona was the only Spanish finalist among the 50 best teachers in the world for the Nobel Prize in Education.



Caesar has written plays to teach reading to children. He has received national and international awards for fostering creativity, innovation and sustainability in education and believes in teaching beyond books and teaching guides. An education that empowers and inspires through the emotions and experiences."



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Welcome to Mr. Usero's class

Why gamification and digital learning in education?

Gamification of Learning

There are many reasons to use games and digital learning in schools. Our students are living in the Society of Information and Knowledge and they are ready to interact with them. They are already born with digital skills since we can see one-or-two-year-old children using smartphones and tablets, they can use their fingers to zoom images and slide pictures,...

In the following presentation Digital Gamification Benefits Presentation (Spanish) you can see all the benefits of Gamification and Digital Learning in Education.

“You create these communities around the game that do an incredible amount of intellectual work, and when they’re done with the work, they will leave the game and go to another game that’s more challenging. Can you imagine if we had that kind of environment in classrooms?” 

Constance Steinkuehler Squire Associate Professor in digital media at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Webminar about Gamification and Education

(free translation)

In this webinar Gamification in education: from technique to methodology, Imma Marín Santiago, tells us how to apply gamification to the education and learning sector. 

In the educational context, gamification can assume the design of tasks and activities using the principles of gameplay. It is about taking advantage of the natural predisposition towards the game to improve the motivation towards learning, the acquisition of knowledge, the transmission of values, the development of competences, etc. 

Games overtake the "chain of failure" by allowing, as part of their design, multiple opportunities to carry out a task to their domain. KARL M. KAPP (Kapp, 2012) 

The gamification approach of some work proposals has been done for a long time as a way of reinforcing concrete learning contents. However, gamification is a new perspective. And if it were feasible to lead all the potential of time and experience of the students in the game towards learning? What if, moreover, we transcend the design of tasks and activities (technique) to put the game at the center of the teaching-learning process (methodology / strategy)? 

In this webinar we will learn to learn the principles of gamification and playing techniques to the education sector, achieving a greater predisposition towards learning by the students.