IDU Reflection - Exactly 520 words

In Spanish, we had been told to create a website that would help the grade 7's to learn about basic Spanish words. The MFL and IT department had decided to join forces and let us learn about interdisciplinary learning. Interdisciplinary learning is one of many ways to learn over the course of a curriculum. This is a method can help bring students to a new awareness of the meaningful connections that exist among the disciplines. Therefore, I had created a website entitled as Spanish, as combing 2 different subjects into one overall. I feel that personally creating an attractive website would inspire the grade 7’s because it had been created by people that are more familiar with their interests due to the fact that we are only 2 years old and we’ve recently experienced going through grade 7 and we would know more about the latest “trends” therefore it would more appropriate for people our age rather than other people. I enjoyed it because it doesn’t just help and learn 7^th graders but it also help us ourselves to learn how to conduct a website too therefore everyone is on the same page since we both get the benefits. I found it a bit challenging to overcome the deadline for the creation of the website itself, because I think personally my own creation of my website, could have been a lot better if I were to have more time and not get stressed out since we had several assessments due in that week. If I were to improve on my website, I would have used my time wisely and I could have used a more easy kind of template to make it 10 times easier for me and not to speed even more time on the design itself to make the process faster and to add more information to help the grade 7s develop their knowledge even further. The benefits in learning a interdisciplinary unit is that it develops our thinking critically skills, we could recognize bias, acknowledge and appreciate ethical concerns, and many more. Even though it may learn about critical thinking, it does not challenge learners in terms of critical thinking and does not let you search in detail and yet it also sets confusion as to what integration really means toward students. I benefited because it develops my collaborative skills and learning and our interdisciplinary unit also in my opinion seemed to be fun and enjoyable for us to create a website and provide it for the grade 7’s for them to learn about the basics skills for the Spanish language itself as I have learnt all about that in my previous years whilst I was in grade 7 so my knowledge helped me produce my website that I have created. After learning about this interdisciplinary unit I started to understand that I am more capable to link other subjects together to study due to the fact that I had created I technology designed website which is IT related but at the same time the website was everything to do with the Spanish language for grade 7.