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Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia Tecnología
Design and Use of Educational Technology
III CO-2012
Video/Reflection
Professor Dylan Wiliam: His Experiment.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J25d9aC1GZA)
In this video (part 1 and part 2) professor Wiliam gives differents recommendations
to teach and have better result on students.
The theory and practice meet head on as education expert Professor Dylan Wiliam sets
up an experimental school classroom. For one term, he takes over a year 8 classes at a
secondary comprehensive to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the
quality of children's education. His first radical technique is to ban hands up when the
teacher asks a question and instead choose students at random. The idea is to get
everyone in the class to engage, not just the handful of students who usually
participate. The change though is met with resistance as both teachers and students
have to break habits of a lifetime.
Some of the higher ability students are not responding well to the new rule of "No
Hands Up" in class, and Wiliam is worried they are at risk of being left behind.
There is a classroom revolt when the teachers remove grades from work. The idea is to
make the students actually read the comments on their work in order to help them

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improve, but they are left confused and angry after becoming so used to the
traditional grading system.
By the end of term, however, even Wiliam is surprised by the impact the experiment
has had on the students' academic achievement because the results on students are
rewarding.
For us as teachers, we can take different experiments seen in the video and apply
them in our class; however, we have to take in consideration the necessities our
students have in order to use a tecnique with them. The general goal Mr. William
proposed is to increase the student’s engagement with education. Usually students do
not like participate in class for different reasons, so, using different strategies we as
teachers can motivate to students to participate actively and build a better learning
process.
It is important to make a review in our way of teaching and found what things we have
to change and what things we can improve on, changes are good if we are not doing
everything correctly. As we know it is very difficult to change student's way of learning
because they are used to use it in a traditional way or all the time it is same, for that
reason all the time we have the same results.
It is very challenging to change a way of learning and or way of teaching, however, the
principal objective in learning process it is learn and we have to choose the correct way
to do it.
Nowadays, we as teachers, we have different resources to teach and students need to
learn in different ways, so, we have to creative. In the video, the expert showed
different activities we can use in our classes and also with different purposes.
It is time to break the rule where everything it is by the use of the traditional way,
teachers have to be more active and more professional at time to teach, students have
different necessities and our work it is to try to find the correct way to answer those
necessities in order to have nice results and be good teachers. The change to do better
things it is not a decision, it is an attitude.