Monday, June 24, 2024

March in Review & World Day Against Child Labour !

 




World Day Against Child Labour


World Day Against Child Labour is observed annually on June 12. Its purpose is to energize the growing global effort to eliminate child labour.

This year's World Day will focus on celebrating the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999, No. 182). 

Although significant strides have been taken in reducing child labour over time, recent years have seen global trends reverse, underscoring the pressing need to unite efforts in expediting actions to eradicate child labour in all its manifestations.

With the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7, the international community made a commitment to the elimination of child labour in all its forms by 2025


  • Theme 2024

Let's act on our commitments: End Child Labour !


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While much progress has been made in reducing child labour over the years, recent years have seen global trends reverse, and, now more than ever it is important to join forces to accelerate action towards ending child labour in all its forms. 

The Africa and the Asia and the Pacific regions together account for almost nine out of every ten children in child labour worldwide. 


Education: 


Children should grow up in environments that promote their health and development. They should not be compelled to engage in manual labour for survival, as this exposes them to physical and emotional harm. Unfortunately, child labour and abuse remain widespread in many impoverished nations.

Teachers have a crucial role on the alert of poverty or child labour and abuse among their students.

Numerous resources can be included into school curricula to inform, inspire and motivate students of all ages, from primary school to high-school, to get involved on a subject so terrible: child labour and child abuse.


Resources:





As part of the Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM) Program implemented by the ILO to combat child labour, students from British Culture College who are conducting awareness-raising activities composed a song and recorded it in the studio.


 Activities:

You will find an interesting number of Activities on my publication in 2018 to develop with your students inviting them to support the worldwide movement against child labour.


Other resources:

Campaign material on the website ILO


Time to share with you the rundown of the most read posts in March.


Here are the most popular posts of March 2024 :

Let's talk about World Theatre Day ! Art is Peace ! Resources & Activities


Education : Best of 2023 : Semester #1


Well, I will be back posting some ideas and educational resources very soon.


G-Souto 

24.06.2024
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

January & February in Review & EURO 2024 : Resources & Activities

 





UEFA EURO 2024
opening ceremony 
credit: REUTERS


The UEFA European Championship is one of the world's biggest sporting events, although the competition's genesis was more difficult than might be expected.

Championships for national associations had already begun in other continents by the time the idea of a European competition for national teams began to reach fruition in the 1950s



Last 14 June 2024, the celebration of 70 years of European football! UEFA was founded on that day in 1954! Bravo !


Germany is hosting EURO 2024 having been chosen to stage the 17th edition of UEFA European Championship at a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Nyon on 2018.

This is the first time Germany has staged the UEFA European Championship since nreunification






UEFA EURO 2024
opening ceremony 






Albärt, EURO 2024 mascot

At the time that UEFA was born, in 1954, the impetus for a European Championship was coming from the distinguished French sports newspaper L'Equipe, which proposed a competition with home-and-away matches to be played in midweek in the evening.





Hosts Germany is welcoming 23 other contenders to the UEFA EURO 2024 finals


Activities for teachers & students:


Many students are writing about the enthusiasm on football EURO 2024 and the teams of their countries since EURO 2024 began.

Well, as extra and funny hobby, between tests and exams, teachers can do some funny learning activities about Europe and a popular sport as football.

Young people might enjoy learning about the countries taking part in EURO 2024, particularly Germany watching the video UEFA TV and the 10 German host cities, which are hosting the tournaments. 

Invite students to find each of the 21 countries' flag and then locate the competing nations on a map of Europe

Which teams will have to travel furthest from home to play in the competition?




Cristiano Ronaldo is the EURO finals' top scorer
credits: Paulo Novais
via Google Images Archive

The great inspirational playersCristiano Ronaldo is the EURO finals' top scorer! Wow! 

Exploring Who are the competition's top scorers, and oldest and youngest performers? Find out here.

And what about a 'Code of Conduct'? If kids and teens were invited to give the national squad a list of rules to follow, what would it be?


Ok. So it's time to end the EURO 2024 and begin the rundown of the most read posts in January& February.


Here are the most popular posts of January & February 2024 :

Teachers and students are finishing 2023-2024 school year in most part of European countries. 

Time of exams ! Students who are ending high-school studies prepare to enter in the university.

High schools and universities continue the high schools year. Exams time!

Well, I will back posting some ideas and educational resources very soon.


G-Souto 


18.06.2024
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Saturday, June 1, 2024

Schools : Animation films into curricula ! Annie Awards 2024


 


Spider-man Across the Spider-verse

animation

directors : Joaquim Santos

https://www.imdb.com/

Spider-man Across the Spider-verse was the great winner as Best Feature of the 51st Annual Annie Awardsby the International Society of Animated Cinema. 

The Annie Awards, animation’s highest honor, is an American award for accomplishments in animation.


 



And the Annie Award for Best Feature goes to... Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse!
Sony Pictures

 

The Annie Awards are the Oscars of animation, long and short. And the winner in Best Animated Feature was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at the Annie Awards 2024!

Congratulations to the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Editorial Team for winning.

I loved the film and I wrote about it on "May in Review & Marvel saga animation : Spider-Man Verse ! Resources."

https://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2023/06/marvel-saga-animation-spider-man-across.html






This Award reinforced its nomination in the category Animated Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars. Sony's superhero production received the 7 awards for which it was nominated, including "Best Animated Film" and "Best Director". 

Directed by the Portuguese Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson. Unfortunately, the Oscar nominees' list did not mention the Portuguese director's name. Lapse?! Really ?!


 


The Boy and the Heron

Hayao Miyazaki, 2023

https://www.imdb.com/


Followed by The Boy and the Heron with 2 awards directed by the great Japanese "master of the animation" Hayao Miyazaki though it had 7 nomimations aAnnie Awards




Hayo Miyazaki
Oscar winner The Boy and Heron
credit: Studio Ghibli France


Later The Boy and the Heron was the winner of the Oscar 2024 as Best Animated Feature. Congratulations to Hayao Miyazaki who presented his last animation produced as always by the  Studio GhibliMiyazaki one of Japan's greatest animation wirters and directors.


Having become synonymous with animated poetry, Miyazaki returns with a captivating story where nature and human relationships intertwine.




Nimona

Nick Bruno &  Troy Quane, 2023

https://www.imdb.com/


"When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn't commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona - a mischievous teen who happens to be a shapeshifting creature he's sworn to destroy."

And finally, Nimona, direction Nick Bruno e Troy Quane by Netflix, (official website) which had 9 nominations at Annie Awards






"The adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in New York City during the 1980s."

Robot Dreams de Pablo Berger, the Spanish and French animation without dialogue about a friendship between a dog and robot in the 80s in New York from 5 nominations won just one but as the Best Feature Independent at Annie Awards.

Winning Ernest & CĂ©lestine A Trip Gibberitia, Four Souls of CoyoteThe Inventor, and White Plastic Sky. 


 






The winner in the category Animated Short Film at the Oscars 2024 was The WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko and at the Annie Awards as Best Short Subject. Same category that the Portuguese production Ice Merchants won last year.

Categories BestTV, Blue Eye Samurai / Netflix won the Best TV/Media Mature in the seven categories at the Annie Awards


Finally, there was three awards to Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney+) and two to Star Wars: Visions (Disney+).





Annie Awards 2024
via Animation Magazine

Education:


Animated movies are excellent educational digital resources to motivate and inspire your students and bring new life into your curriculum!

  • Teachers can envision so many ways to use these movies in the classroom to teach:

Literacy, grammar, morals, music, civics, sciences, drawing and other.

  • And reinforcing skills as :

Reading, writing, drawing, composing, reinforcing 

  • Or introducing skills of inference and critical thinking as well creativity.


CurriculaMother Language; Foreign Languages; Arts; Music, Civics, Science, Technology and Multimedia.

Target: Kindergarten; Primary education; Secondary education ; Vocational education.

Teachers will decide carefully which animated film for which students and level they are teaching. Must prepare very well your lessons including animated films and think on the activities they can present to the students.





Annie Awards 2024
via Google Images Archive



Activities:

  • Choose different animated films from the Annie Awards to study in the curricula they are teaching. Pay attention to the age or level of the students.
  • Reviewing the Narrative;
  • Comparing children's literature or teen's literature adaptation to animated films if there is one or two based books;
  • Inviting the older students to critical thinking or to discuss critically or to give their opinion, expressing their feeling or preference of the animation they are exploring; 
  • Critical writing presenting their opinions always adapted to the level or age;
  • Why not a cross-curricular project ? Ask  some of your colleagues of different curricula to present some ideas and discuss them with the students.


Hoping you don't miss to include some of these animated films into your school curriculum to explore the pedagogical richness of awesome and so creative digital resources.


G-Souto

01.04.2024

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