My thoughts about Education Humanities, Technology and Digital Culture. Interested on social media tools in educational contexts and
gamification in education.
"Therobotsare coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 years."
Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of Californian thinktank The Institute for the Future.
The world is changing, and that can be very scary thing. Technology thinking for itself is something people thought we made up for movies and sci-fi novels.
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And 2024 in particular, the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT is a dominant topic, not just in industry circles, but it frequently appeared in education headlines. Students and teachers are using them it a different way.
The innovation is in our life more than ever! Innovation and creativity are in education, music too! Perhaps the most innovative art crossing the centuries. From classical, to pop-rock, jazz, alternative or electronic. There are wonderful composers, musicians, innovative projects.
Now we have music using the latest technologies! The first music groups were Arcade Fire and Google maps, Gorillaz composing on iPad. So, we can say, dawn of the age of the Tech music!
However, "exposure to new technologies including trackers, robots and AI-based software at work is bad for people’s quality of life", according to a groundbreaking study from the Institute for the Future of Work.
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Looking back 2023 I've come up with a roundup of what's been the best posts of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto.
Below you’ll find the top posts of 1st semester 2023 containing different themes: science, art, French literature, music, children's literature, languages, women in science, environment, animation fims, traditions and other themes.
As my usual readers know my posts can be written in English, French and Portuguese (my mother language).
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, and eliminated the posts that seemed less relevant. The main reason? Sometimes some posts acquire too much visibility, not for their value but for the keywords that the search engines "like" indexing.
Here are the most popular posts 1st semester 2023:
On a fêté partout dan le monde le 80e Anniversaire Le Petit Prince ! Personnage iconique aux cheveux d’or mais aussi un phénomène de l’édition mondiale, Le Petit Prince est le livre le plus traduit au monde avec plus de 500 traductions officielles.
Écrit et illustré par Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince est publié pour la première fois en 1943 à New York, en anglais et en français, avant de sortir en 1946 en France, aux éditions Gallimard où il deviendra un best-seller vendu à plus de 14 millions d’exemplaires.
Le Petit Prince nous charme pourtant depuis trois quarts de siècle mais son actualité est plus brûlante que jamais.
Humanisme, écologie, souci d’autrui : autant de thèmes qui parcourent Le Petit Prince mais aussi toute l’œuvre et la vie d’un grand écrivain à (re)découvrir.
Le Petit Prince propose aux petits et aux grands une vraie leçon de vie: celle de la spontanéité des sentiments.
The Little Prince
celebrating 80 years
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
HarperCollinsPublishers
A wise and enchanting book that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed the world forever for its readers.
Le Petit Prince tâche d’enseigner une vision de la vie avec le cœur et non avec la tête. Les fleurs sont objectivement roses mais la vie peut l’être aussi du moment qu’on l’observe avec amour.
Et des valeurs: L'importance de l'amitié, de l’amour, des liens, de la tolérance, de la lutte contre l'individualisme et contre la peur de l'autre, ou encore l'importance de vivre et de consommer de manière raisonnée.
Hoping to have inspire you. as my readers and teachers in your lessons all over the last year.
May 2024 be year of hope for all of us, praying for the end of war in world, and all the tragedy and dead due these terrible wars.
May the humanity search for Peace.
Teachers and students fight for peace, development, and climate change. Earth is our home.
Teachers continue to teach with passion, inspiring your students to be better citizens in the future searching to live in peace and to be environmental defenders, preparing them to the new world and a new the future. Give them hope, joy, serenity.
“One of the reasons we’re out pushing so hard on these projects is it’s important for people to see how good things can be when they’re not written by a computer,”
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Spider-Man Across the Spider Verse,the Marvel sequel reps the best start ever for Sony Animationmaking it the best start for a summer tentpole YTD, beating Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3‘s
Producers as well as filmmakers attempted a whole new animation style that would one-up the previous Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (2018) which earned an Oscar for Best Animated.
This time, Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.
Miles Morales is a young teenager and a Brooklyn native. He's a bright kid who's been thrust into a new school and is having a hard time adjusting to this new environment. But he's having an even harder time adjusting to his entirely new and unexpected life as a Spider-Man. With the help of some surprising new friends, Miles learns to unlock the hero inside himself.
In this next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, after reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most.
The film was released in the United States on June 2, 2023. For the world, 22 June 2023. However, here in Portugal, the Marvel animation is already at the theaters.
Education: The Narrative
That's we are! The narrative text across a Marvel comics. Wow! Hereanother Marvel sagato teach and learn thenarrative. Please visit my publications about the narrative text.
Synopsis:
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
Students can easily follow the narrative, generic structure, characters, action, grammar, and vocabulary.
Go to the theater with your students if you are teachingcomics in theNarrativestudy.
I think it's a awesome introduction to my review of the most read posts of May. Right?
Summer is coming! Oh! So nice! The weather is warmer, the Spring brought the flowers, and green trees for everywhere. Birds are happy! And we are happy as well!
My usual readers know that blogging is my free contribution to inspire new and young teachers, sharing some resources and activities no matter the subject, when I have the time between work.
Hope you enjoyed my pedagogical proposals published last April. May be you included some of them in your lessons? I'm happy!
“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
Rachel Carson
Let me present you Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist who is celebrated on this day by Google. Famed marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Louise Carson on what would be her 107th birthday.
Google Doodle Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday
The doodle was originally more aspirational in concept, much like the figure it celebrates. Carson could be seen perched on a seacliff, staring toward the sea with a light animation of her scarf flowing in the wind.
Google Doodle Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday
Today, the 27 May, Googlededicates the Doodle to Rachel Louise Carson, an American marine biologist, writer and ecologist. Her book, Silent Spring was noted and credited with advancing the global movement on environment.
Google celebrates Carson's life, achievements and contributions to marine biology and ecology. The doodle shows Rachel Louise Carson in the field with a pair of binoculars around her neck and a notebook in her hand,surrounded by just the type of thriving ecosystem she warned the world - accurately, as it turned out - it risked losing. Animals include a seal, a turtle and crab, while birds depicted include a pelican, a tern and a heron.
The Google Doodle marks Rachel Louise Carson's 107th birthday. Her contributions to environmental studies were greatly appreciated by scholars and scientists.
She was a biologist for the federal government when she first noted the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides, especially DDT. Magazines, afraid of losing advertising, refused to publish her articles.
But her warning sparked a revolution in environmental policy and a new ecological consciousness.
Rachel Carson's most significant work was this campaign against the use of DDT (Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane), a common insecticide, in the United States of America. "She had questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without a sufficient understanding of their effects on ecology and human health." This led to the ban on agricultural use of DDT in America in 1972.
Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She studied English, before changing her major to Biology.
She wrote her first essay, 'The World of Waters' for a brochure at the US fisheries bureau, where she had started her career as an aquatic biologist.
The essay however, wasn't published as her supervisor had deemed it 'too good' for that purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, an American magazine, published a revised version of the essay in July 1937.
Her book, The Sea Around Us, National Book Award for Non Fiction (1952) and a Burroughs Medal in nature writing. It remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 86 weeksand it has been translated into 28 languages.
Rachel Carson pioneered a new storytelling aesthetic by making science a literary subject.
The Sea Around Us
rare edition 1952
Rachel Carson
"Nowhere is this chromatic cosmos richer than in the marine world, and no one has had more profound an impact on impressing its science and splendor upon the popular imagination than marine biologist and author Rachel Carson."
In 1953 the bookwas made into a documentary film (1953). But Carson was unhappy about the final version of the script by writer Irwin Allen. The documentary went on to win the Oscar for the 'Best Documentary' in 1953.
Oscar-winning documentary based on Rachel L. Carson's pioneering study of ocean life chronicled in her award-winning and best-selling 1951 book of the same name.
Rachel Louise Carson died on April 1964, in her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Carson was awarded the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom', the highest civilian honour in the United States of America. Her home in Pennsylvania was renamed as Rachel Carson Homestead and became a National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Rachel Carson at her summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA, Sept 4th, 1962
Invite your students to listen a little sample of theAudible audio edition here. Such a poetic prose! Beautiful!
Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for 31 consecutive weeks.
Rachel Carson in woods near her Maryland home in 1962,
the year in which Silent Spring was published.
Photograph: Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Her experience as Roger’s mother, her fondness for young people and her awareness of the need to preserve children’s love of nature resulted in Rachel Carson’s last work, The Sense of Wonder, published posthumously.
The Sense pf Wonder
A celebration of nature for parents (teachers) and children
The students are invited to make a research about Carson and discuss her importance to the new environment generation as they are a part.
It would be such an excitement to your students to discuss their own ideal about Ecology.
Curricula : Science ; History; Languages ; Arts.
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ”
