MEDEA Awards : And the winners...

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The  2013 edition of MEDEA Awards ended last Thursday, December 12 with the Awarding Ceremony at the Media & Learning Conference, in the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training Headquarters in Brussels.

Movies and music top this year’s MEDEA Awards.

http://www.media-and-learning.eu/

As you know since 2009 I am a member of the Jury MEDEA Awards. This year the jury made up of 118 education and media experts from 28 countries had 342 entries from 37 countries.

It's important to share this interesting award. The aim of the MEDEA Awards is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (video, audio, animation and graphics) in Education.

The awards also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. 

A presentation of the nine finalists has already been given early in November.

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Set up to coincide with the European Year of Citizens 2013, the prize was dedicated to entries or productions that clearly used (multi)media to raise awareness and promote "EU citizenship and EU citizen’s rights". 

All educational media productions, no matter in what format, be it website, video, game or interactive presentation, that illustrated, document or promoted the topic of the European Year.

http://medea-awards.com/

This year the competition attracted 342 entries from 37 countries. Those entering could choose between submitting their entry as a production made by a professional company or semi-professional production unit or as one made by teachers, students, learners, parents, professors, individual or organisational representatives in primary education, secondary education, higher education, adult education, vocational education and/or training. 

This means that there was two main awards, one for each category and each winner received a MEDEA Statuette. 

There has also been two additional prizes awarded. The first of these was the Special Prize for European Collaboration in the creation of Educational Media 2013, for which 83 submissions were made. 

The second special prize was for the Educational Media Promoting EU Citizenship. There were 92 submissions in this category. 

The finalists were chosen by a jury made up of 118 education and media experts from 28 countries who evaluated the MEDEA entries in October. 

The 9 finalists for the 2013 Annual MEDEA Awards were announced November 12, 2013.  Showreel below in alphabetical order: 

• A scuola di genere by Scuola secondaria di I grado - Fucini centrale - Pisa (Italy)

• Dans les murs de la Casbah... by Université Rennes 2 (France)

• Deutsch lernen mit Musik - Das Bandtagebuch mit EINSHOCH6 by Deutsche Welle Abteilung Sprachkurse (Germany)

• El Viaje Inesperado. Radioteatro como soporte formativo para personas con discapacidad intelectual by Escuela de Radio TEA FM (Spain)

• Film English by Uab Idiomes (Spain)

• Physique à main levée by Université Lille1 (France)

• Practice Your Music by Practice Your Music Corporation (Spain)

• The young Musicians of CuxAire by Amandus-Abendroth-Gymnasium (Germany)

• WahaTv by Athénée Léonie de Waha (Belgium).

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In addition the Organising Committee also announced 14 entries that are Highly Commended. These are: 

Anatomie 3D Lyon 1 by Université Lyon 1 (France), Cero en conducta by Cero en conducta (Spain), Chocolat 3b Podcast by Ufficio scolastico di Como (Italy), Dit is Nicolaas Rockox by Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Belgium), Doña Ferpecta by Agora Portals International School (Spain), Fracking explained – opportunity or danger by Philipp Dettmer Information Design (Germany), Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), Mental Health: The Basics by VEA (Australia), Planet Maths by Folens Publishers (Ireland), Proyecto Happy by Universidad de Lleida (Spain) The Anti-Social Network by Eastlands Primary School (UK), The Day the Mesozoic Died by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), U4Energy-U4Europe by Liceul Teoretic Emil Racovita (Romania), and Wikiduca by Wikiduca (Spain).

Dans les murs de Casbah

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For the second year running a French university has taken the top professional award at the MEDEA Awards: Dans les de la Casbah submitted by Université Rennes 2 is the winner of the MEDEA Professional Production Award. 

Film English

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The overall prize for the MEDEA User-Generated Award went to Film English by UAB Idiomes, Spain. 

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Finally, talking about Music, the 8th finalist for the 2013 annual MEDEA Awards was The Young Musicians of CuxAire by Titus Salt School and Amandus-Abendroth-Gymnasium School:

Four troubled teenagers, with little musical talent, from Saltaire in England and Cuxhaven, in north Germany, enter a magical world triggered by images of the German folktale 'The Musicians of Bremen'. The journey they take, through the vibrant and unusual world of CuxAire, changes them both personally and physically.

Funded by the British Council and Pädagogischer Austauschdienst as part of a Comenius School Project

Europe’s most important media in education award were presented at the Media and Learning Conference in Brussels on the 12th December, 2013.

Soon, all the finalists as well as those who are highly commended will be added to the MEDEA Awards’ media gallery of showcases highlighting excellence in the use of media to support teaching and learning. 

Invited as a member of the jury to attend the conference, I did not join the presentation and the Awarding Ceremony.

G-Souto (member of the Jury)

17.12.2013

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September round down of the most-read posts

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Show your pride for the PINK and participate at events!

Sorry about the delay. As I mentioned, sometimes I'm traveling, or have important work to do, or must write about a specific day or event. Back my regularly scheduled program today! September roundown of the most-read posts.

Let me introduce an important subject: Seeing pink? October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

I will right a little post on Going Pink in School Education.

And now, let's doing! This is the round-own of teaching and learning School series of September. These are some posts sharing events or resources, tips, and tools for you. Ty something different or an idea that you adapt for your classroom.

I added six posts, on different subjects last month. Here my list of the 4 most-read of the month - presented in most reading order. This time, all the posts are written on English.

And I am glad to see that the most-read post of September is Education for Peace: International Day of Peace. If you are my regular reader you know I am pledging for Civics as a serious subject that must be intrduced among the curriculum or disciplines in School Education.

Credits: UNESCO

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"On this International Day of Peace, let us pledge to teach our children the value of tolerance and mutual respect.  Let us invest in the schools and teachers that will build a fair and inclusive world that embraces diversity.  Let us fight for peace and defend it with all our might."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon 

International Day of Peace is celebrated on 21 September every year. This year, 2013 is devoted to peace education.

Credits: UN

http://www.un.org/

UNESCO campaigns for quality education for all going further than the basics of reading and writing. 

Education must encompass the teaching of human rights, living together and respect for others. 

Peace education is one of its key components. Every child in the world should know their rights, and learn their own history and that of other peoples, so as to be able to understand the equal dignity of cultures and draw lessons from the crimes and violence of the past.

The key to tolerant citizenship in a globalized world requires a widespread effort to train teachers and design suitable school curricula. 

MEDEA Awards 2013

http://www.media-and-learning.eu/

The 6th edition of MEDEA Awards 2013 is now judging all the entries ob this edition. 

MEDEA Awards 2013 announced its call of entries some months ago. And the deadline to send send projects as participants was end on September 30, 2013.

As you know I am participating at MEDEA Awards since 2009. So I am glad to promote such an interesting project that encourages innovation and good practices in the use of media in Education.

The aim of the MEDEA Awards is "to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics and animation) in education." 

The awards also recognize and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources.

Innovation and good practices are possible better with the new technologies always giving us fantastic resources. 

The 'screen-generation' is used to be online all the time. So, innovative educators understood the meaning of changing academic practices and go to digital. Mobile devices really pushed up for pedagogical applications.

All finalists will be notified in the beginning of December and will be invited to take part in the awards ceremony taking place during the Media & Learning Conference 2013, December 12-13, Brussels, where the final winners will be announced.

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"How can we bring attention of policy makers to the significant potential of games? This  issue will be addressed by the GREAT Lisbon Conference on Games & TEL."

Claudio Dondi

The Great Lx International Conference on Games and TEL took place in Lisbon, Portugal last 15-16 September 2013 at ISCTE-IUL.

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Interesting opportunity to participate, listen and share the last concepts about the current paradigms and evolution of Games in Education (GBL) Training (SG) and Technology Enchanced Learninig (TEL)

Great Lx Conference

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For one long day, speakers, researchers, practitioners, producers, skate holders and participants shared  interesting ideas and experiences.

I joined key speakers and round tables at the Great Auditorium. I am an independent researcher on TEL and I was very curious to hear about the new ideas.

TEL, Games (GBL & SG), and MOOCs were on my best interests.

Claudio Dondi

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I was very interested on key note speaker Claudio Dondi analysis about the role of ICT in learning moving the change on E&T and bringing a great challenge for the shift on paradigm in Europe. 

I know Claudio Dondi from different international conferences. The last one, in Brussels, at the European Forum on Learning Futures and Innovation, where I had a presentation at VISIR workshop on the 19th March, 2013 with Giordano Koch and Jan Pawlowski.

Claudio Dondi is one of best European researcher and expert and his thoughts are always very important.

Claudio Dondi made a splendid evaluation with remarkable key notes and items that I have the chance to hear. You can access to his communication here

It is very important to understand the new challenges until 2020. As the final rapporteur pointed:

• We have to work harder on the issues above. 

• MOOCs are not inclusive. 

• Less focus on thecnology and more in people.

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And my last post for today is Léon Foucault: a Doodle in Physics Curriculum. No, it was not about Nicolau Copernicus ! The interactive Google doodle of September 18th was about the celebration of the 194th anniversary of the French physicist Léon Foucault. Tje doodle is based on the Foucault pendulum - an innovative device Foucault created to demonstrate the effect of the earth’s rotation.

Credits: UCDavis

http://physics.ucdavis.edu/

Education:

“His teachers described him as lazy, he did not submit work on time, so that his mother had to employ tutors to educate him at home."

As we know, sometimes, the best students in school are not the 'genius' ! Einstein, and a good number of great scientists, musicians or poets demonstrate that.

From time to time we discover 'little genius' among our students! They are not the brightest in the classroom, but we feel that they have something special ! And we do everything to help them to understand their natural skills so they could develop later and find their own way.

They are disconnected from the curriculum, distracted, sometimes with a difficult behaviour or too shy. And we encourage them as 'special' students who need a different kind of help in school.

Well, the Google doodle will be a good interactive digital resource to introduce in your curriculum, if you a are teaching Physics.

The doodle allows students to manipulate the swinging bob according to where on earth they happen to be.

Level: Secondary Education

Final thoughts:

Teachers, of course, always make the difference!

Today’s 21st Century world is totally different from the world of previous generations, and from the world in which I, and most of today’s teachers/educators, grew up.  

Why, then, can’t we learn to "break free" from the past and change or adapt old patterns/behaviors to match students' needs today, and enhance teaching and learning in today's world?

"Do not confine your students to your own learning for they were born in another time."

G-Souto

13.10.2013
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