Constantly Learning : Material Design

Hello everyone! Today I want to share an experience that we had at the teacher training college. We presented a poster about our experiences in teaching with material design in communicative activities. In order to do this we read two authors; Howard J. and Major J., both of them say that we have to take into account some things to do it. For example: our material has to be in contex. Also, it has to be adapted to the individual needs of the students. It has to show your creativity and you have to add something that makes it personal. In my case I worked with the daily routines, so my idea was to make a poster with my own routines. I can say that it was a great idea, because the Ss. Felt very curious about the topic and they felt comfortable telling their owns routines. So this was a nice communicative activity. Another example was from my mate Luciana Riquelme, she did a video with audio and sentences about her family and their feelings that was called “how is my family feeling today?” in both cases we create something personal and nice to work with the Ss. In addition, we worked with adaptation of material design. In this case we use flashcards and cartoons that were already done, in our classrooms and realities. In my opinion, we can do great things with little, this takes time and money, but I can say that it is worthwhile and creates meaningful knowledge.