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gamification in education.
Looking back at 2014 I've come up with a my roundup of what's been most-read on the G-Souto's Blog.
Below you’ll see the top posts along the first semester 2014 containing edtech, historical, linguistic, scientific, artistic, and social themes or resources I have relied for teaching and learning.
The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most read posts.
I kept the order of the most viewed, but eliminated the posts that seemed less relevant. The main reason is that sometimes certain posts acquire too much visibility, not for their value but for the keywords that the search engines "like" indexing.
Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 1er semestre 2014. Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à me suivre au quotidien.
Je vous remercie, chers enseignants, chers lecteurs, de votre
intérêt et m’efforce d’être toujours au plus proche des événements concernant
des idées pédagogiques pour vous offrir les dernières actualités en éducation et numérique. Bien sûr le numérique est essentiel. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes des possibilités que les générations précédentes ne pouvaient pas avoir au même âge." Mais aussi aux grandes thématiques historiques, linguistiques, culturelles et sociales, des ressources en ligne, et de nombreuses observations personnelles sur la pédagogie de façon à faciliter à tous les élèves des chances égales de réussite.
Here are the 1st semester's most popular posts of 2014 :
I hope there's something that looks of interest to you. If it does, check it out. If you’re inspired use one of the icons to share it with others. And why noit to leave a comment?
May the coming year be a successful one for all those educators who love teach and see children as creative individuals. Preparing learners for the future should therefore be a prime function of all schools.
Wow! Another great woman breaking gender barrier? Remember Amelia Earhartor Jane Goodall? Dian Fosseywas an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985.
Yes, great women who broke gender barrier following their dreams on dangerous careers. Women who deserve our respect!
Google is celebrating the 82nd birthday of the American zoologist Dian Fossey. The doodlefeatures a group of gorillas, with one touching Dian Fossey’s hair while she takes notes.
Here I am writing about a new Google Doodle! A pedagogical digital resource that we can't miss to include into our school lessons
Teachers can include it, just to surprise students with something different as a motivation to know more about a special woman they saw on Google homepage - you know students are the Google Gen - but don't have a clue. Or may be yes, they have. Who knows? We always have the smartest kids in our classroom, right?
So Google is celebrating the 82nd birthday of the American zoologist Dian Fossey. The doodlefeatures a group of gorillas, with one touching Dian Fossey’s hair while she takes notes.
Another great woman breaking gender barrier! Yes, great women that broke gender barrier following their dreams on dangerous careers.
Teachers, do you know the film Gorillas in the Mist. The Story of Dian Fossey(1988)starring Sigourney Weaver as the naturalistDian Fossey. A biopic of Dian Fossey, the scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
It tells the true-life story of her work in RwandaMountain Gorillas. The movie was nominated for five Academy Awards.
Based on the bookGorillas in the Mist (1983) by Dian Fossey and the Hayes article. The book covers Fossey's scientific career in great detail. The extraordinary efforts of the primatologist Dian Fossey to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain where gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating endangered species. As only she could.
Some biographic information:
Dian Fossey an American zoologist studied gorillas living in the mountain forests of Rwanda, Africa, in great depth over a period of almost 20 years.
Her extensive research greatly enriched the scientific community’s understanding of mountain gorillas.
Among the most legendary scientists of our time, Dian Fossey went to Africa at the urging of famed anthropologist Louis Leakey and began her groundbreaking studies of gorilla behavior. She faced and overcame many obstacles and ultimately gave her life to gorilla protection. She was murdered in 1985 in Rwanda. Her body was found in her cabin on the morning of Dec. 27, 1985.
Dian Fossey
credits: Europe1.fr
According to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, dedicated to the conservation and protection of gorillas, Dian Fossey's early interest in animals and her childhood dream of becoming a veterinarian.
After studying the subject at San Jose State College, she changed her major to occupational therapy. However, her love for animals never faltered, and she was at the same time becoming increasingly interested in Africa.
Revealed in 1970 by National Geographic cover, which shows Fosseytouching the hand of a wild gorilla, she obtained her Ph D. in Zoology from the University of Cambridge in 1974, aged 42.
By 1966, she had won funding from the National Geographic Society and the Wilkie Brothers’ Foundation to begin a research project in the Congo. She had to move the study to Rwanda due the political situation.
Fossey is considered as a reference in the defense of animal rights, and was one of the first Americans to settle in Africa, adapting to the lifestyle and local traditions.
Fossey died in 1985 when she was killed in her cabin in Karisoke. Theories about Dian Fossey’s murder are varied but have never been fully resolved. The Digit Fund, which she created to finance her anti-poaching patrols (1978), was renamed the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International following her death.
Thirty years later, Dian Fossey was laid to rest in the graveyard behind her cabin at Karisoke, among her gorilla friends and next to her beloved Digit.
Just three years after her death, her life story was made into the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist starring Sigourney Weaver.
Education: “When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate on the preservation of the future.” Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist
As my usual readers, teachers and parents, know, I plead for Environmental education in every school curriculum. My goal? Helping students to appreciate and understand the science of ecology, and subsequently gain the capacity to apply it to their lives becoming a new generation of environmentalists.
Linking school success with individual student growth controls for factors outside the classroom that may affect an individual student’s ability to learn. I write about it since the beginning of this blog.
However, Dian Fossey is more than an ecologist. She was woman researcher (there are not many in the field) who gave her life to save gorillas. She can be a good reference for girls at school. Later, in college, young women can become scientists and researchers in the fields of Ecology and Zoology and other fields in science. This effort will translate into a citizenry that is more motivated, competent and confident to protect and improve the quality of the environment and wild animals.
Dian Fossey
credits: The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
My post celebrates Dian Fossey. Iexpect to help improve the understanding and appreciation of science, ecology and zoology in education.
As teachers, we can create a customized program that focuses on activities and research to enhance students enthusiasm and understanding for ecology and zoology.
The centerpiece is motivating students for the resources studies: documents, maps, newspaper articles, oral histories or photographs, videos, films, from which students are asked to gather, examine, analyze information, discuss and synthesize insights. Other resources:
Video Dian Fossey& Bob Campbell (photographer)
Useful links:
Making Friends with Mountain Gorillas| National Geographic: In remote African highlands, a daring American woman studies some of man's closest nonhuman relatives in their aged-old environment.
"One of the most amazing humans ever to have lived: Dian Fossey. I was incredibly honored to create a Google Doodle for her."
Mike Button
Fossey criticized touristic programs, often paid by international conservation organizations, because those programs interfere with both research and tranquility wild animals.
I can't agree more! The last news on a safari at the Kruger National Park, South Africa, where an elephant was killed.
