Christmas rundown of the most-read posts #2

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photo: Nils Jorgensen | Rex Features

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology

Students and teachers are taking a few days off to enjoy Christmas festive season with family and to recharge batteries near family and friends. 

While I am away I'm rerunning the most popular posts of the year. On this post I'm rerunning the most popular of the second semester. The selection is based on pageviews during 2012.

Bright holiday season is the most read of the 2nd semester 2012 and the last of the year. It's my message for Christmas and a touching tribute.

photo: Matt Cardy | Getty Images

http://wodumedia.com/

"To bring wonder hope and dreams"

Sandman, the Guardian of dreams

As an educator, I believe that children, teachers, parents and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School (USA) must keep their privacy.

I have no words, I was devastated, absolutely devastated, still am. I had no words.

Christmas season is children's big dream. What can I say?

Rise of the Guardians, a lovely and original tale, came to my mind. The beautiful  3D animated film would be a sweet tribute in the memories of children, teachers, friends and families.

Rise of the Guardians  also tells us to hold on to that child inside us as we go through life, and to believe in ourselves no matter what.

Rise of the Guardians

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/

"It is our job to watch over the children of the world and keep them safe. For as long as they believe in us, we will guard them with our lives." 

North | Rise of the Guardians

Le jour le plus court

http://download.creative.arte.tv/

ARTE, le jour le plus court, un défi en cours. A l'occasion du "Jour le plus court" initié par le CNC le 21 décembre 2012, Court-Circuit a proposé un nouveau concours de courts métrages ouvert à tout public.

Le jour le plus court de l'année est sur ARTE le jour des courts métrages. Cette année, le magazine Court-Circuit a organiseé un concours de courts métrages sur Internet.

Le court métrage devrait être réalisé sans paroles ou en langue française, achevé après le 1er janvier 2009 et sa durée n'excèderait pas 2 minutes. La bande annonce du concours est disponible ici

http://www.arte.tv/

Éducation:

Je suis sûre que vous avez fait place à la créativé de vos jeunes étudiants, agés de plus de 18 ans! À eux l'expérimentation: idéaliser, créer, devélopper, enregistrer, réaliser une vidéo, suivis de près par un professeur attentif, réceptif aux idées des étudiants. 

Pour améliorer la motivation des étudiants, le professeur enrichit le curriculum. L’enrichissement du curriculum consiste essentiellement à donner plus de responsabilités et d’autonomie, à confier des tâches plus complexes, à permettre à chacun de construire une expertise.

7Allumettes | Damien Collet (École)

http://www.arte.tv/

Et voilà le résultat ! 7 Allumettes (École) de Damien Collet a reçu le 1er Prix:

"A l'abri dans une grotte, qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire, lorsqu'on est les deux derniers survivants à la surface de la Terre et qu'il nous reste 7 allumettes…?"

À voir tout le palmarès ici! 

Les étudiants se sont investis profondément dans des projets dont ils ont été les créateurs. Et les professeurs leurs 'guides'.

Nous avons tous nos domaines de compétences dans lesquels nous excellons. Partageons-les afin qu'ensemble nous élargissions notre savoir par la collaboration et nouvelles connaissances que nos élèves nous apprennent souvent!

Cómo debería ser la Educación en el Sigo XXI? Un grupo de jóvenes responden a la pregunta a ritmo de rap, con música de 'El Langui' y 'Keru Dj'.

El Rap de la educación - una inspiración was a real inspiration for the last reluctant educators! No doubt!

Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of teaching, learning, creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. 

Great number of teachers embrace technology and social media. Others hide. Many ignore. So what does the average teacher do if they’re somewhere in the middle.

http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/

We can not miss out such a great opportunity to teach and learn (you heard the 'Rap students') with web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in  the classroom by teachers around the world. 

Every social network can play a pivotal role in education, and there are so many! You will finda very short list here. 

A good advice! You must be sure of your ideas and manipulation of the tools you choose to introduce in your lessons.

Make your own choices after evaluating students' profile and, of course, the level you teach.

Zoe makes a splash

http://ec.europa.eu/

It's Saturday morning and as usual Zoe is getting ready in the bathroom. 
She has combed her hair and is brushing her teeth. 
She doesn't see that the tap in the bath is running.

(...)

Environmental App for Education presents Zoe makes a splash! a new App developed by the Environment Directorate General of the European Commission.

The European Commission has launched this environmental app that can be downloaded to Apple and Android devices. 

screenshot app

https://lh5.ggpht.com/

This interactive storybook is for Teachers & Parents to use in the classroom or with your child (target group 7-11) to learn about the importance of water in our society, how to use it in moderation, the impact of polluted water on wildlife and habitats and the benefits we get from clean water.

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

Rachel Carson

UNESCO World OER Congress

http://wa2.www.unesco.org/

In partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and through the  support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO is organizing the 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress. UNESCO World OER Seminar and exhibition took place on June 22-24 2012 in Paris.

"UNESCO believes that universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue. Open Educational Resources (OER) provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education as well as facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building."

http://www.wsis-community.org/

The agenda was complete and full of wonderful key-speakers. Many of the speakers highlighted the ways in which OERs are being used to innovate and improve local communities.

Over 500 delegates including representatives of Government, educators, NGOs, and universities attended the Congress.

It was my honor to attend the UNESCO World OER Congress and participate at the Seminar. At the Exhibition, I presented an academic Poster based on a research about Open Educational Resources (OER) in Secondary Education.

Hugo | Martin Scorsese

http://en.wikipedia.org/

"Je ne pense pas au futur, il viendra bien assez vite".

Albert Einstein

De temps en temps, je partage des ressources en Français langue étrangère (FLE

Parlons Français LE: ressources en ligne publié en Novembre fut très lu.

Kidzlearn Lugares & Aprendizagens

http://www.porto.ucp.pt/

Kidzlearn Lugares & Aprendizagens FLE, une plateforme e-learning, des cours de Français LE à distance (collège et lycée).

Ce projet m'a pris trois ans de recherche en dehors de mon travail au lycée. J’ai sondé les goûts et l’imagination de mes élèves qui aimaient me 'provoquer' en me faisant découvrir de nouveaux concepts pour les cours de langues.

Convaincue (2000) que l’apprentissage d’une langue allait désormais dépasser la salle de classe et deviendrait toujours plus ubiquitaire, d’autre part que la méthodologie du FLE devrait s’adapter à la "ne-generation", et aux outils technologiques, j'ai voulu surprendre mes élèves et les motiver par des jeux de langue.

Le site va au-delà des formes traditionnelles de l’enseignement, en institution ou à distance. L’enseignement se personnalisait non seulement au niveau des contenus et des compétences, mais aussi des rythmes et des stratégies de chacun.

Quelques pensées:

"Innover" n’est pas le nouveau à tout prix.  C’est combiner, souvent chercher des alternatives quand on est confronté à un problème pendant un cours, quand on sent qu’il n’y a pas d’ajustement entre la motivation et les connaissances, entre ce que nous mettons à disposition de nos élèves et leurs résultats en ce qu’ils en font.

http://www.equnet.info/

The Equity in European Higher Education: State of the research, problems, ideas and perspectives Seminar took place for a full day at the University Foundation, in Brussels, on the 7th November 2012. 

It included special focuses on migration and lifelong learning in line with the second and third EQUNET reports. You can read the programme here.

The Seminar was organised by EquNet, MENON network, in the frame of the EquNetproject, with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission and in cooperation with ENAR - the European Network Against Racism - with the aim "to aggregate energies from the main European networks and organisations active both  in the higher education field  and  in equity-related activities, to discuss the importance of equity in EU higher education."

The workshop gathered 50 participants from European HE associations, universities, research actors, experts, NGOs, associations.

Final Seminar | Brussels

http://www.equnet.info/

Starting from the results of the EquNet research by Karin Doolan, University of Zagreb, "General view of research on equity in Higher Education". 

The seminar continued with similar exercises, "to refining the understanding of what would be needed in terms of EU and national policies. Second, it fostered the exchange of research findings, working practices and ideas among relevant stakeholders and communities, in particular facilitating contact between the academic and the civil society communities. Third, it represented a step towards the materialisation of the idea of an HE equity indicator, as a way to actually “measure” equity in European higher education."

The good efforts developed in secondary and primary education in the last decades were highlighted by different speakers. 

I really appreciated that. As an expert, and an innovative researcher in the field, I know well the efforts of creative teachers and educators that welcomed and raised the first post-millennial "digital native," learners, sharing innovative experiences defined by the 'technological culture' which they're familiar with, and guiding them into Higher Education. 

Professor Roberto Carneiro, the notable academic (MENON) was the rapporteur. He summarised  the discussions of the day by presenting some lessons learnt through the EquNet work Impressions and Illustrations and pointed out some inputs for a “refreshed” European agenda on equity in higher education.

I really hope that you will enjoy every moment of this 2012 rundown of the most read posts (2nd semester) and will discover some different pedagogical ideas to introduce in your lessons.

In a world in complete change, young people have a relevant voice to demonstrate their critical thinking and some ideas about a new intercultural dialogue, interconnectedness, capacity building, in order to innovate the society and build a different world  through important values.

Remember! "Your imagination can create a reality" as James Cameron said. School should be a place where our students learn the pleasure to learn.

Thank you to all of you that kindly read my blog and shared my thoughts in your lessons.

We are all teachers, and we are all students."

Marc Prensky

"A classroom should not be about a teacher talking, but about students doing"

Happy and Safe Festive Season!

 

G-Souto

29.12.2012

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Christmas rundown of the most-read posts #2 by G-Souto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Christmas rundown of the most popular posts #1

photo: Nils Jorgensen | Rex Features

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology

Students and teachers are taking a few days off to enjoy Christmas festive season with family and to recharge batteries near family and friends. 

While I am away I'm re-running the most popular posts of the year. On this post I'm re-running the most popular of the first semester. The selection is based on pageviews during 2012.

Wall-E (filme)

Disney/Pixar

Let's continue to inspire our students, this time for Earth Day 2012 by elevating the importance of Environmental issues around the world. School time is a wonderful moment to teach and share some of these civic values.

Wall-E a green resource for Earth day 2012 was the most read of first semester! Of course!  Wall-E by Pixar is a beautiful 'green' movie.

Now you are smiling! Yes, it's true! I wrote about Andrew Stanton and his TEDTalk on on of my posts because I was thinking about Wall-E as a green digital resource to display in the classroom. A touching digital storytelling about Earth that can be included as a cross-curricula project.
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Wall-E! Such a poetic film that won the 66th Awards Oscars, at the category Animated movies (2009).

"Wall-E was to find beauty", said Stanton during his talk on TED.

 

Education:

"Our planet, our home is being neglected. Climate change continues unabated. It seems there's a new ecological disaster happening almost daily." 

Schools have an important role promoting environmental education as a civic value. So, educators can teach and share environmental values in different moments of their lessons, providing some thoughts and digital resources, educating young people for a sustainable future and inspiring them being a good example.

The Earth won't wait! 

"Educating today’s youth about environmental sustainability has the power to capture the attenion of students, teachers, parents, the community, and beyond. 

Earth Day 2012’s education mission is simple: encourage as many K-12 schools as possible to paricipate in Earth Day aciviies that teach the importance of civic and environmental responsibility."

Know Green, Go Green

"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us."

 Henrik Tikkanen 

Trust 2011

http://www.trustmovie2011.com/

Trust: a film about safety on Internet was the right post to encourage parents and educators to involve on online safety of young people at Make your Safer Internet Day. The 2012 theme was centred on "Connecting generations and educating each other". SID 2012 encouraged users young and old to "discover the digital world together... safely"!

"With all of the potential that the online world and new technology offers, young people now have access to huge opportunities. They use technology to express themselves, explore, and be creative; it has changed the way they communicate."

Annie and her mother | Trust

http://www.trustmovie2011.com/

Indeed! Internet changed the way we express and the way teens communicate with friends and no friends. And that is the other side of the Internet. So, I would like to share with you a special but difficult film about teens safety online.

When I watched the film, I spent some time lost in my thoughts. I couldn't believe! Back to school, I discussed the film with some teachers (men and women). Later, I discussed it with parents and their children, my students (up-to 14-15). 

"The Internet is positive for children – not just for online education, but as a place to socialise, play and create. But whether they're doing it for school work or play, they must be able to do it safely, to forge positive relationships and cope with online risks."

Neelie Krois

Vice-President of the European Commission

Responsible for the Digital Agenda

Poster: Juan Gedovius

http://www.ibby.org/

International Children's Book Day! Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire the love of reading and to call attention to children's books.

Each year, a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to write a message to children of the world and a well-known illustrator to design a poster.  

Mexico was the sponsor country 2012! The theme was "Once upon a time, there was a story that the whole world told", Juan Gedovius was the poster designer, Francisco Hinojosa wrote the message that can be read here (Spanish).

Hans Christian Andersen tales

http://purl.pt

2012 is also Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the most prestigious in international children’s literature, given biennially by the "International Board on Books for Young People" to a living author and illustrator whose complete works are judged to have made lasting contributions to children's literature.

Pluma de gato, 2011
http://www.teresaandruetto.com.ar/

Un  libro que  corta el corazón!”

Marina Colasanti

The Hans Christian Andersen Award Jury of the "International Board on Books for Young People" (IBBY) announced that María Teresa Andruetto from Argentina was the winner of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Author Award, and Peter Sís from the Czech Republic was the winner of the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award.

Education:

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Isaac D'Israeli

I write often about books and the importance of reading in school (several of my posts are about reading books (digital or paper) in elementary and secondary education. 

I am a huge fan of reading in school. As educators, we have an ubiquitous responsability to encourage the love of reading in our students by exploring this wonderful and magical resource (digital or paper) in our lessons (in and out curricula).

International Children's Book Day is a fantastic motivation to tell and experiment with our students how reading can be a gift by stimulating the imagination and "offering creative solutions to obstacles that we will find along the way."

The love love for books and reading are 'exquis' moments in Languages curricula, in the classroom or out school on blended learning.

All researchs show that owning books plays a key role in encouraging reading and we need to do all we can to make that happen. 

"No sé si basta la escuela, pero la escuela es lo que tenemos, lo único que tenemos todos los ciudadanos. (...) Sería mejor, claro, tener, además de la escuela, libros en todos los hogares, padres lectores estimulando a sus hijos en todas partes, hombres y mujeres y niños sin carencia económica alguna, pero sabemos que no es esa nuestra realidad, aunque debemos trabajar para que algún día lo sea. Eso en lo que a la lectura respecta."

Maria Teresa Andruetto 

http://www.ilo.org/

"The children concerned in child labour should be at school being educated, and acquiring skills that prepare them for decent work as adults."

By entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of this critical education and training that can help to lift them, their families and communities out of a cycle of poverty."

Human Rights and Social Justice? Let's end child's labour! I already wrote about Child Poverty in Developed Countries. Watching David, I realized how important it was to draw attention to situations like students living below poverty line in our schools or countries.

World Day Against Child Labour. After all, the theme is the same. So, I never give to write about Human Rights and most of all, the right of all children to be protected from poverty and from child labour. Child labout is a tremendous violation of fundamental human rights and children rights.

http://www.wftucentral.org/

Hundreds of millions of young people, girls and boys throughout the world, are engaged in work that deprives them of "adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedom", violating their rights. 

All schools and other educational institutions make a special effort to inform children of their rights according to the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Numerous tools and initiatives exist to inspire and motivate students of all ages, from primary school right through to university, on the subject of child labour.

"There is no room for complacency when 215 million children are still labouring to survive and more than half of these are exposed to the worst forms of child labour, including slavery and involvement in armed conflict. We cannot allow the eradication of child labour to slip down the development agenda — all countries should be striving to achieve this target, individually and collectively"

Juan Somavia, ILO Director-General

Le Bavardage Parlons-en enfin

Fayard | Janvier 2012

http://www.amazon.fr/

"J’enseigne la philosophie en lycée depuis bientôt vingt ans et, au fil des années, je me suis rendu compte que, dans les classes, le problème le plus répandu et le plus délicat à négocier était le bavardage. (...)

Florence Ehnuel, professeure

Alors! Bavardage! Parlons-en? Comme professeure de Langues confrontée quotidiennement au brouhaha dans mes classes, je fais de ce mal une marque positive, un bavardage 'autorisé'.

Moi, je vois souvent le bavardage comme un élément positif, Il peut contenir une certaine pédagogie active, en particulier de la mienne, à savoir un bavardage pleinement 'autorisé', un temps d’expression verbal surtout d’entrée de cours ou petite 'pause' pendant le cours.

Il n'est pas à proscrire, et il est conseillé si c'est le reflèxe de l'interêt des étudiants au sujet qu'on présente en cours. 

Rappelons-nous que la classe est un "lieu de vie et d’échanges".Et que la pédagogie diférenciée est une réalité dans nos jours. 

Je mesure la complexité du sujet, en classe (collège et lycée), mais tentons (conseil d’ancien) une approche raisonnée et mesurée de ce phénomène, en exploitant mieux les richesses potentielles très révélatrices de la société médiatique que nous vivons et peut-être en minimisant un peu plus les aspects négatifs,

Enfin il serait bon aussi de redécouvrir (quelques secondes) la puissance régénératrice du silence en groupe. Ça s'apprend aussi.

Cave of the Heart | Heidi Stoeckley Nogoy

Martha Graham Dance Company

Photo: John Dean

http://media.oregonlive.com/

"Through time, through the ages, what endures is mostly art. Art seems to be everything humankind leaves to its heirs – whether through buildings or books or paintings or music. Or movement, or dance. In that sense, I think of dance as the 

most current, the most up-to-date history lesson, as it is in a constant relationship with its most recent past and can only happen in the present."

Siri Larbi Cherkaoui, message 

International Dance Day & Education is the last of these six posts. Since 1982, by the initiative of the International Theatre Institute (ITI), Dance is celebrated throughout the world every year on April 29th. 

Les objectifs de la Journée Internationale de la Danse et du message sont de réunir le monde de la danse, rendre hommage à la danse, célébrer son universalité et, franchissant toutes les barrières politiques, culturelles et ethniques, rassembler l’humanité toute entière en amitié et paix autour de la danse, langage univers. 

http://www.danceworks.net

Education:

"Je crois que la danse est l’une des formes d’expression les plus honnêtes, que nous devons chérir : car lorsque les gens dansent, que ce soit dans un ballet, une 

battle hip hop, un spectacle expérimental de danse contemporaine ou simplement dans une discothèque, ils se lâchent, et rarement alors les mensonges peuvent se déployer, les masques se porter. Les gens se reflètent les uns les autres constamment mais quand ils dansent, ce qu’ils reflètent sans doute le plus est ce moment d’honnêteté."

Siri Larbi Cherkaoui, message 

Dance is a fun and fresh integrative part in the school curricula as Music is. Dance is also a good therapy for young people in the school. Dance movement therapy and the power of dance are used to inspire, uplift and heal.

Dance give students the concentration, discipline, and the pleasure to express themselves with creativity.

I really hope that you will enjoy every moment of this 2012 rundown of the most popular posts (1st semester) and will discover some different pedagogical ideas to introduce in your lessons.

Remember! "Your imagination can create a reality" as James Cameron said. School should be a place where our students learn the pleasure to learn and to be imaginative.

Thank you to all of you that kindly read my blog and share my thoughts on Education in your lessons.

"A classroom should not be about a teacher talking, but about students doing"

Happy and Safe Festive Season!

G-Souto

27.12.2012

copyright © 2012G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com

Christmas rundown of the most-read posts #1 by G-Souto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.