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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.
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 roleon 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.
April 22 marks the anniversary of the modern environmental movement in the 1970's start.
The first official Earth Day was held in 1970, and the meaning behind it has remained unchanged. The holiday is meant to give support and raise awareness for environmental protection initiatives from around the world.
credits: USATODAY News
Theme 2023:
"Invest in Our Planet."
Similar to last year, Earth Day 2023 focuses on the need to Invest in Our Planet. This can be done through many initiatives, such as planting trees, voting, participating in cleanups, ending plastic consumption, practicing climate literacy and consuming sustainable fashion.
Earth Day believes in the possibility of a sustainable future and they're working hard towards educating kids, community members, and policymakers on how to achieve just that.
"We believe in clean energy, healthy food, and sustainable land stewardship. We believe in keeping the soils beneath solar panels healthy and productive for generations to come. And we believe all of this is possible."
Earth Day
Let us join in creating a more sustainable future for us all by taking care of the only earth we have this Earth Day.
As depicted today’s Doodle (which is made from real leaves) there’s a spectrum of actions we can take in our day-to-day that can add up to make a real difference. This includes:
at home: opting to air dry laundry instead of using the dryer
how/what we consume: practicing a plant-based diet or opting for plant-based options when possible
how we get around: walking or riding a bike instead of driving, when possible
On April 22nd, Earth Day will arrive! Earth Day 2023 begins on April 22nd. This year, it falls on a Friday, making it perfect for fun Earth Day activities at school.
Try out a theme: Go outside! Put on some sunscreen, lace up your tennis shoes, it is time to work outside. If possible, work from the backyard, patio of your school, from a balcony, or anywhere if you have no school you might live that lets you enjoy some fresh air for Earth Day.
He Great Global Cleanup® is a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from neighborhoods, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks - reducing waste and plastic pollution, improving habitats, and preventing harm to wildlife and humans.
Join in the Urgent Fight for Climate Literacy: The time is now to create a generation of citizens, now students, ready for climate change. We need public understanding of how to stop climate change and environmental harm.
Take a quiz: How much do you know about Earth literacy?
#CartoonYouthChallenge is a press cartoons campaign launched by Cartooning for Peace inviting young people to produce cartoons on their vision of what the world will be like after the coronavirus sanitary crisis.
#CartoonYouthChallenge is also an opportunity to allow the cartoons of young cartoonists to reach an international audience. At the end of this campaign, Cartooning for Peace will publish the 10 best cartoons on its website.
What is a press cartoon?
A press cartoon is a drawing that conveys a strong message and a point of view. It often tries to shock the readers, sometimes with humour, in order to raise their awareness on current events.
When?
From the 1st of April to the 15th of May, to entertain during the lockdown, Cartooning for Peace invites young people to participate in the new #CartoonYouthChallenge, in partnership with Le Monde des Ados.
An innovative and creative way to imagine the world after COVID-19!
Who can participate?
#CartoonYouthChallenge applies to young people from 12 to 20 years old, from all over the world.
The cartoons can be in any language.
How to participate?
It’s easy, you just need to draw a press cartoon and post it on social network (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) with the following hashtags:
#CartoonYouthChallenge and #theworldaftercovid19.
You can add your age, nationality or place of residence to the post for more visibility. Above all, do not forget to sign your work!
If teachers want to include the theme War in Europe - Ukraine under siege - they have some interesting resources:Poetry by Lesya Ukrainka.
Hoping that teachers and students read me about #CartoonYouthChallenge to participate in this creative competition to talk and shares ideas about Press Freedom with humour and sympathy.
Don't forget to celebrate today, May 3, World Press Freedom Day. It's also a day of remembrance for those journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story.
Wherever you are I hope that you're having a safe time at school.
I'll be back posting the normal roundup next week.
Johannes Gutenberg, bornJohann Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg on the 14th century, Mainz in Germany, was a Germancraftsman and inventor who originated a method of printing from movable type. This revolutionary technology made the knowledge found in books both affordable and accessible to the common person for the first time in history.
An artist's visualization of Johannes Gutenberg in his workshop
"Johannes Gutenberg has influenced the development of humankind like no other. He was a visionary, skilled engineer, businessman and perfectionist. As the brilliant inventor of printing with moveable type, he triggered a media revolution which continues today.
Every book, every printed text, every digital message stems from his ideas."
Gutenberg was the son of a patrician of Mainz. What little information exists about him, other than that he had acquired skill in metalwork, comes from documents of financial transactions.
Exiled from Mainz in the course of a bitter struggle between the guilds of that city and the patricians, Gutenberg moved to Strassburg (now Strasbourg, France) probably between 1428 and 1430. Records put his presence there from 1434 to 1444. He engaged in such crafts as gem cutting, and he also taught a number of pupils.
Theodoor Galle after a drawing by Jan van der Straet, c. 1550
By the late 1430s, historians believe Gutenberg began to develop a more efficient text printing device in an attempt to pay off debts from a failed mirror business. The machine he invented (essentially a retrofitted winepress) replaced the hand-carved wooden letter and graphic blocks of traditional printers for easily-cast metal type, which were then dipped in proprietary ink to print entire pages at once.
Gutenberg’s next eureka moment came in 1450 with his invention’s first successful print: a Latin book on speech-making. From here, Gutenberg was off to the races as he innovated labor by hiring an assembly-line team to produce books quicker than ever! A testament to the power of human creativity, the Gutenberg press printed up to 3,600 pages on an average workday, fueling the first large-scale production of books in Europe.
By the 16th century, an estimated 200 million books were in print thanks to Gutenberg invention, which gave birth to a new era of mass communication and a new branch of media: the press.
Today, Gutenberg’s legacy lives on with Project Gutenberg, an online library with over 60,000 free books.
Education:
Project Gutenberg is a open access library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Students can choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.
They will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works. If they click on “Bookshelves” they can browse by genres.
Check out “Best Books Ever Listing” under “B.” Or search the catalog.
No fee or registration!
No special apps needed!
Other resources:
Invite your students in-person lessons or distance learning to watch the video Discover how Johannes Gutenberg's printing press increased the literacy and education of the public on Britannica by Prof. Hellmut E. Lehmann-Haupt, author of Gutenberg and the Master of the Playing Cards.
And now let's write about the posts of Mars. The world continues to be affected by pandemic restrictions. In so many countries schools are still closed. Millions of students don't have access to in-person lessons. In Portugal, in-person classes reopen next Monday, Secondary schools and Universities.
As my usual readers know, I write in English, French and Portuguese.
Here are the most popular posts of the last month:
There are measures to deal with coronavirus outbreaks in place across European countries and other continents.
Many involve the reintroduction of restrictions that had been eased after initial lockdowns. Other reopen little by little.
Here in Portugal, kindergarten and Primary schools reopened last 15 March.k-12 reopened last 5 April. High junior schools and universities will reopen next Monday, 19 April. Teachers continue to be vaccinated and students Covid-19 tests.
We were under a fifth national lockdown. Finally, students will have in-person lessons after three months remote learning.
Star Wars has released a heartstring-tugging new video montage celebrating the holiday with a subtle message in light of the coronavirus pandemicthat might just restore our faith in the galaxy.
Star Wars Day began as an unofficial fan meme, occurring annually on this date because of the convenient wordplay on the film’s tagline, “May the 4th be with you.” The holiday has since been officially adopted by the Star Wars organization.
The one-minute, 40-second video features sentimental snippets from various Star Wars productions going back to the 1977 original, and including spinoff cartoon Clone Wars. Halfway through the reel, a voiceover reads one line: “When you find people who need your help, you help them - no matter what.” Clone Wars
This day also marked the long-awaited finale to The Clone Wars (cartoon), which began in 2008 but was abruptly canceled in 2013 during Disney’s acquisition of Lucas film, leaving fans to wonder what had been in store for the final seasons.
In the riveting conclusion of the landmark Skywalker saga, new legends will be born-and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.
All the characters you have ever loved prepare to fight to the death against the Dark Side. But in spite of all the horror, this is Star Wars. And there is hope, always hope, and the power of the mysterious Force...
And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of March...
Hoping you're enjoying to teach online. Your students need you! It's fun to teach online. I love it! If you're already back to school, or will be back soon, stay safe! Hope and resilience! Be kind to those who need you. And patient with your students! It's a difficult time to you and to them. They would never thought to watch the horrendous news and images. And sometimes feeling apart from their family, a grandmother or a grandfather. Missing the school mates and friends, even from teachers and school.
"When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around."
