Schools : It's Earth Day 2015 !

http://www.earthday.org/

Today, April 22 we celebrate Earth Day 2015. With my students we are in since 2006.

For 45 years, Earth Day has been bringing communities and organizations together to advocate for a healthier environment and a sustainable life. 

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Some information:

The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life to share their concerns about each citizen’s critical role in the environment. 

Their actions led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. 

Now over one billion people in 192 countries participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest civic observance in the world. 

Earth Day’s Global 2015 theme: "It’s Our Turn to Lead." 

This year's Earth Day is the 45th, since its inception in 1970, which was widely viewed as marking the beginning of the contemporary environmental movement. 

It is organised by the Earth Day Network, which aims to "inform and energize populations so they will act to secure a healthy future for themselves and their children".

Google Doodle Earth Day 2015

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google is celebrating Earth Day 2015 by creating a wonderful animated Doodle featuring a rotating Earth and creatures including an elephant and a komodo dragon.

Earth Day is a time to search for information on how to celebrate and protect our planet. And it’s a great time to find out something about ourself too.

Education: 

I've done in the past and continue to share some thoughts on teaching about Earth Day and environmental civics education in general and proposed different resources. 

Activities:

This year, start your lesson, by asking your students to take their mobile or tablet and go to Google homepage. Wow ! They will be surprised with this awesome animated doodle.

Tell your students to click on the Earth Day logo, or searching for “Earth Day quiz” and they will find one of the Internet’s favorite pastimes: a goofy quiz.

Let them take the time to answer a few questions and they too can determine, share, and learn more about which animal most closely represents each personality.

The quiz works on just about any up-to-date browsers on any mobile or desktop browsers, including the Android and iOS Google Apps. 

Google assure us it’s all 100% accurate and scientific ;-)

"We learned a lot about nature’s precious pals and interesting inhabitants in the process of making and taking this quiz and we hope you do, too!"

The Earth Day Doodle Crew

No doubt ! Google Earth Day doodle crew has done its bit to celebrate Earth Day 2015, the largest civic event in the world, with one of its trademark doodles.

It is not the first time Google has celebrated Earth Day with a doodle. You will find some they have done over the years on my blog or on the blogs for my students: Portuguese and French curricula.

But they have their own environmental blogs since 2007: Geração Verde (Green Generation) and Geração Polar (Polar explorers).

After the fun, students are ready to prepare some good actvities for a day, may be for a week. I know you have something prepared.

credits : UNESCO

Some thoughts:

Schools have an important role promoting environmental education as a civic value. So, teachers can teach and share environmental values in different moments of their lessons in cross-curricular.

Yes! Because Earth Day is not about a day! Earth Day is about every day! So, educators must include environmental values in different moments of their lessons, no matter the curriculum, and provide some thoughts and digital resources, educating young people for a sustainable future and inspiring them being a good example.

http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/

Students will evolve in creative green projects  that they will share with families and friends. They will become good young environmentalists. They are already. They are the new generation who really cares about Earth.

Organizing an Earth Day event or activity is one of the best ways to engage your school community to protect the planet. 

Once you figure out your plan, let Earth Day know and Earth Day network will help you spread the word. 

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The bigger the story we can tell on Earth Day 2015, the larger impact we will have.

Level: All levels.

Curriculum: Cross-curricular activities and projects.

Every teacher will adapt the actvities to the level they are teaching.

The Untouched - A Time-lapse Film from Shreenivasan Manievannan on Vimeo.

Resources:

Earth Day offers you a Toolkit providing resources to help you plan your own Earth Day event. 

If you need additional help or resources, don’t hesitate to send an email, info@earthday.net!

Special links to inspire your students:

Leadership Guide
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/271871/Leadership%20Toolkit%202015.pdf

Climate Education Week : A week of activities
http://www.earthday.org/climateeducationweek/

A Million Acts of Green
http://www.earthday.org/takeaction/

"The Untouched - A Time-lapse Film" 
http://www.earthday.org/blog/2015/04/21/untouched

Moving photos show Native American Children Defending the Earth 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/15/tailinh-agoyo-warrior-project_n_7066438.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000044

British photographer  turns parks, village and beaches into their own little worlds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038191/Photographer-transforms-British-parks-beaches-planets.html


“Children are so knowledgeable [about environmental issues],”(...) “They know what’s going on and they’re more aware and more affected than adults are.”

Tailinh Agoyo, photographer


So, Happy Earth Day to you today and everyday!

G-Souto

22.04.2015

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Wow, it's an honor just to be nominated!

I am both honored and humbled to have been nominated as one of the most fascinating blogs in 2011 at Teaching Blog category!! 

From the website:

The Fascination Awards are an annual collection of the web’s most inspirational and thought-provoking blogs.

To be nominated for the award, your blog must:

• Inspire your audience
• Encourage discussion through comment posting
• Contain genuinely fascinating content

Blogs are nominated by our editorial team and are voted on by our readers.

The invitation:

"An article you wrote in 2011 titled UNESCO: 1st computer game for young people on HIV and AIDS has earned your blog a nomination for a Fascination Award: 2011's Most Fascinating Teaching blog.

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The comments posted in response to your post prove that your content not only inspires your audience, but it also creates discussion around your posts, both of which are requirements for the nomination of a Fascination award."

About the Fascinating Awards:

"It’s no secret that there’s a ton of junk and noise on the web. The goal of the "Fascination Awards" is to make it easier to find truly great content by compiling the utmost intriguing content into a single place.

We seek out blogs that are truly fascinating; blogs that excite, motivate, and inspire their audience. The Fascination Awards serves to recognize these blogs, reward them, and honor them on the Online PhD Degree website."

It really doesn't matter that much who wins in Teaching Blog category. The real spirit of the "Fascinating Awards" is about honouring those who have served during this year by writing, blogging, and otherwise freely sharing their ideas and wisdom with their community through social media. I learn always very year from these people. My own professional and personal worlds would be poorer without my weekly posting, and my daily dose of news, views and commentaries throughout the Edublogsphere, even across the Twittersphere. 

One final thing - feel free to vote for me over there on the right side of my blog.

Voting starts today, January 21fst and goes to January 26th at 11:59 PM (EST).

 

Thank you so much to all the usual readers who daily read my posts. You come from all over the world. 

Thank you from the heart!

 

G-Souto

21.01.2012

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Blogues em Educação: experiência pedagógica web 2.0

 

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Participei como conferencista no 3º Encontro Nacional e 1º Galaico-Português de Weblogs que teve lugar na Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, 13-14 Outubro 2006.

Foi uma experiência interessante! A minha comunicação tinha por tema a aplicação de blogues no ensino em alargamento de aprendizagens e enriquecimento curricular.

O encontro "procurou juntar investigadores, utilizadores e interessados em weblogs em Portugal e na Galiza."

Na temática Aplicações Práticas de Blogues (ensino, organizações, investigação), apresentei um intervenção intitulada  O Blog no enriquecimento curricular- Blog dos Caloiros. 

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Blog dos Caloiros

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O artigo foi posteriormente publicado na Revista das Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação do CETAC.MEDIA e divulgado online em prisma.com

BlogdosCaloiros foi uma das primeiras experiências da introdução de recursos digitais educativos na aprendizagem de Língua Portuguesa.

Alguns pensamentos:

Os blogues são sítios web fáceis de criar e encorajam imenso a interacção autor/leitores.

Podem ser um espaço de ensino interactivo excelente que dá lugar a um diálogo pessoal e colectivo, num espaço de  fresca liberdade.

A diversidade de blogues ligados ao ensino é grande! Pode integrar os blogues dos professores, blogues dos alunos, blogues das disciplinas (Agauded & Baltazar, 2005) e os blogues das escolas.”

Os blogues fornecem um grande potencial como ferramenta no âmbito do ensino e aprendizagem, já que podem adaptar-se a qualquer área, nível educativo e metodologia.*

Utilizo os blogues, nas áreas curriculares de Língua Portuguesa; Francês LE;  e Cidadania (transcurricular).

Os resultados têm sido excelentes! Os alunos sentem-se atraídos pelas novas tecnologias e nada melhor do que pôr as tecnologias ao serviço da construção de conhecimento.

Os blogues de que sou autora, alguns em colaboração com um grupo de alunos, têm portanto carácter científico-pedagógico e cultural.

São o prolongamento do ensino presencial e dos media tradicionais, complementado por um projecto e-learning Kidzlearn Lugares & Aprendizagens (Janeiro 2002) de que sou também autora, numa perspectiva de alargamento de saberes e aquisição de novas competências.

É certo que alguns alunos ainda não têm acesso à Internet e outros preferem ficar 'pendurados' no Messenger, Myspace ou Tagen, e agora também no YouTube e Hi5.

Mas, os mais interessados, possuidores de uma rápida capacidade cognitiva e de um ritmo de aprendizagem assaz invulgar, visitam diariamente os  seus blogues para conhecer e participar de novos posts e desvendar novos conceitos.

Blogging
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Levantam dúvidas sobre actividades de reforço curricular ou deixam um comentário, sentindo-se conectados com a Professora em tempo real quase 24 horas.A qualquer hora e em qualquer lugar, levantamm questões interessantes, tiram dúvidas sobre alguma matéria leccionada na sala de aula, e solicitam apoio de carácter prático para qualquer actividade escolar.

Afinal, foram estes jovens alunos que me motivaram a criar espaços web com actividades em alargamento de competências,  e enriquecimento curricular num clima de aprendizagem interactiva.

Posso concluir, numa análise cuidada, que tem sido uma aprendizagem muito apelativa e gratificante, em espaço aberto, dinâmico, apoiado num diálogo informal e muito fresco nesta nova relação professora/alunos.

É sem dúvida a vontade, sempre presente, de cativar uma geração que vive imergida na web que me leva a criar espaços para a descoberta de uma aprendizagem interactiva e em constante mutação.

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This post in Portuguese language is about a pedagogical experience, presented in a scientific article at a Portuguese/ Spanish Conference "Web Blogs in Education" (Secondary education) at Universidade do Porto, October 2006, published online prisma.com, nr 3 .

BlogdosCaloiros (Portuguese mother language and second language, 2005) and BlogSkidz (French foreign language, 2005). 

These two pedagogical projects are one of the first experience introducing web 2.0 in school education, not only in Portugal.

Nota: Kidzlearn Lugares & Aprendizagens foi desactivado em Maio 2018

G-Souto

8.11.2006
actualizado Maio 2018

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Referências:

Andrade, António - Comunidades de Prática,  Uma Perspectiva Sistémica, IQF -Nov@Formação, Nr 5, Junho 2005

Tiscar, Laura, Blogs de alumnos, 08.06.2005