Reading Hans C. Andersen Literature Prize winners

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Every two years IBBY presents the Hans Christian Andersen Award to a living author whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.

The Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author of children's books. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is the Patron of the Andersen Awards.

The last winner was Maria Teresa Andruetto from Argentina (2012).

The nominations are made by the National Sections of IBBY and the recipients are selected by a distinguished international jury of children's literature specialists. Next winner will be announced next March, 24, 2014.

Between the nominnees, there is a Portuguese author, António Torrado, well know by his books for teens.

http://andersen-award.com/

But there is another 'Hans Christian Andersen Award'. The Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. 

"The purpose is to celebrate Andersen's influence on writers throughout the world by selecting award winners, whose writings can be linked to Andersen's name and authorship through genre similarities or storyteller-artistic qualities." The prize was established by Hans Christian Andersen's Literature Committee. In 2010, the prize was given to the British author J.K. Rowling who has created the world famous Harry Potter fairytales and she got in that occasion a plakette with her name put up in Hans Christian Andersen Museum’s Hall of Fame at Odense.

In 2012, the winner was the famous Chilean writer Isabel Allende. The jury decided to celebrate her distinctive brand of “magical realism,” as well as her ability to “bewitch” her readers.

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This time, the  British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of  "Midnight's Children," has been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize for 2014 some weeks ago.

The award ceremony will take place on August 17, 2014 along with Hans Christian Andersen Festivals in Odense.

The foundation says the purpose of the award to Sir Salman Rushdie' is "an incomparable author who through a blend of global realism love of the narrative art of the fairytale depicts the signifiance of journeys and cultural meetings for our time" 

Given since 2010 and backdated to include the 2007 award given to Paulo Coelho that inspired the HCAL's formation.

Rowling and Rushdie have both received honors from the Queen of England - an OBE and Knighthood respectively - while Rushdie and Allende have both been admitted to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

Education:

The book | e-book:

Encouraging reading in school will improve literacy skills for all students. A key part of this commitment is promoting the importance of reading for pleasure. 

Teachers and school librarians must support children to enjoy reading, and enable them to read a wide range of good quality literature.

Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children is a teeming fable of postcolonial India, told in magical-realist fashion by a telepathic hero born at the stroke of midnight on the day the country became independent.

The novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. 

http://bollyspice.com/

Rushdie is an Indian British novelist and essayist who write fiction set on India and subcontinent. His works are considered as a combination of East and West. 

The film:

Movies in classroom

The performance or display of a movie by teachers in a course of face-to-face teaching activities in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction like learning environment can be one of the most interesting educational resources for k-12 and junior high school. 

It's a rich interactive approach of exploring Literature for children and youth. Students enjoy it a lot.

Movies based on children and youth Literature books are an attractive and enjoyable digital resource to motivate students reading in the school. 

Some thoughts:

Reading a book/e-book and after, in a comparative process of learning, display the movie in the classroom, or using tablets for every student, even go to the movies with students are interesting points of vue that educators can't throw way.

Midnight’s Children was adapted in collaboration with the book’s author Salman Rushdie. The film follows the narrative of Rushdie’s book which charts the birth of a newly divided Indian subcontinent through the eyes of a young boy named Saleem Sinai, who is born at the stroke of midnight on Indian independence.

Reading about different cultures and comparing youth traditional principles and values is a wonderful civic learning. Tolerance and respect.

Curricula: Languages; Geography, History, Arts, Civics.

Level: middle and secondary education.

Tools and social media: tablets, ipads, smartphones; Facebook, Twitter, Google + (school accounts).


G-Souto

30.06.2013
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Human Rights Day & New Generations

Human Rights

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"Giving voice to the voiceless means providing them with formal and genuine means of making themselves heard (...) this is what UNESCO works to achieve."

Irina Bokova,

UNESCO Director-General

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10 December 1948. It expresses the values and fundamental freedoms that lie at the heart of a united humanity. 

"The Declaration is one of the most humanistic and inspiring texts ever written – it is also a call to action, for people and governments to join forces to raise awareness about and enforce human rights and to ensure that they are exercised in full."

At a time of uncertainty and change, we are duty-bound to observe the principles of human dignity and fundamental freedoms – there can be no justification for breaching them.

The Human Rights Day gives us an opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to these values and our resolve to put them into practice across the world for all to enjoy.

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Education:

Education should encompass values such as peace, non-discrimination, equality, justice, non-violence, tolerance and respect for human dignity. 

Quality education based on a human rights approach means that rights are implemented throughout the whole education system and in all learning environments.

All schools and other educational institutions make a special effort to inform children of their rights according to the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Teachers have a crucial role on the alert of poverty or child labour cases among their students.

In our days, teachers help students draw attention to situations like students living below poverty line in their own schools, or countries.

As educators, we can hold events at the school as at St Kentigern's school, to  draw the attention of the media in our city and start nationwide campaigns fighting the injustice of poverty among our students. 

We live in developed countries. And our children live hard times. Incredible. How can students be successful in school curricula if some of them come to school without taking a good meal? Unbelievole? No, this is the truth.

Let us draw inspiration from some good actions to strengthen respect for human rights of children and young people.

http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/

This holds the key to more inclusive and stronger societies, to live in peace and to strengh our work to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Children should be able to learn about children rights and access information on their rights. 

The Council of Europe has therefore produced child-friendly material which is available in different languages. It's free online on the website of the Council of Europe Programme Building a Europe for and with children.


Teachers are encouraged to use and disseminate this material. 

www.google.com/

"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others."

Elie Wiesel

Credits : Unicef

http://wa2.www.unesco.org/

Activities :

• Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UDHR has been translated into at least 398 languages and dialects;

• Organize lecture series, film series, book discussions, workshops, seminars, debates among students, parents, on human rights;

• Go out school with your students to help other young people and old people within  your community;

• Ask your students (Secondary education) to write out a specific article from the United Nations Declaration;

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Finally, the social transformation that is needed to achieve a peaceful society can only be achieved through the active contribution of everyone, regardless of where we live, or our social and cultural background.

The new reality needs new children rights in developed countries! So, let's develop our best effort to humanize the school by helping our students to live better in our cities.

G-Souto

10.12.2012
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References:

Credits: video UNESCO

Building a Europe for and with children
http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/

Human Rights Day | UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-days/human-rights-day/

The Hard Times Generation: Children's rights

http://europeangreens.eu/

"Rampant poverty, which has festered for far too long, is linked to social unrest and threats to peace and security. On this International Day, let us make an investment in our common future by helping to lift people out of poverty so that they, in turn, can help to transform our world."

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

"Of the 925 million people suffering from chronic hunger, 98 percent live in the developing world. Unlike famines that receive emergency-aid, chronic hunger is a silent, invisible, day-after-day condition."

17 October has been International Day for the Eradication of Poverty since 1993, initiated by the United Nations.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first ever International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to give it its full, official name.

http://www.unmultimedia.org/

The 2012 commemoration will focus on the theme "Ending the Violence of Extreme Poverty: Promoting Empowerment and Building Peace".

"Too many people live in fear of losing their jobs and not being able to feed their families"

Ban Ki-moon,  the United Nations Secretary-General

"Of the 925 million people suffering from chronic hunger, 98 percent live in the developing world. Unlike famines that receive emergency-aid, chronic hunger is a silent, invisible, day-after-day condition."

On this day, the Intergroup Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Fourth World Committee, organise an event in the European Parliament in Brussels. 

http://overcomingpoverty.org/

"When you get up in the morning and don’t know where to go, with nothing to feed your children, that is violence. When you have to fight others to defend the little you own, that is violence.”

A mother from Haiti

Unfortunally, this is no longer a mother's voice of an underdeveloped country. We know that poverty and hunger are disseminated too in developed countries. I wrote about it on my post Child Poverty in Develped Countries.

"Extreme poverty destroys the lives and spirit of people; it kills more children, young persons, and adults than any war. Every day, people living in extreme poverty are challenged and threatened by lack of food, shelter and access to essential services. They endure hazardous working conditions and live in precarious, degraded, and insecure living environments."

Austerity measures widen gap between rich and poor. That is a fact. Every day, in our city we cross homeless people, we know someone that lost his or her job, even the home family.

"As debates rage on austerity measures and social spending cuts, a new report reveals the extent of child poverty and child deprivation in the world’s advanced economies.

Some 13 million children in the European Union (plus Norway and Iceland) lack basic items necessary for their development.

Meanwhile, 30 million children - across 35 countries with developed economies - live in poverty."

UNICEF (Brussels, 29 May 2012)

And chidren across the United Sates, or Canada, and other developed countries on the world.

Credits : James Foley, cartoonist

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Education:

Introducing these facts into our curriculum:

• 925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined.

• 98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries.

• Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.

This time I would share with you the heartbreaking video 60 Minutes on CBS News - Scott Pelley reports from Florida, where school buses now stop at motels for children who've lost their homes (2011). 

I have not the courage to introduce it on this post because there are too many kids involved. But you can watch it here

http://www.cbsnews.com/

How can we build a just and peaceful society to the "hard time generation"? 

For some children, socializing and learning are being cruelly complicated by homelessness. And we have this reality in our classroom among some our students!

Today I have no pedagogical ideas. I only want to share with you all these humanitarian messages: 

Child Poverty at a Time of Crisis (UNICEF) 

Pupils speak out about UK child poverty 

Hard Times Generation: homeless kids (Florida children - USA).

Only by listening to children living in extreme poverty, can we learn from their courage, experience and knowledge on how to achieve a peaceful world for all. 

Ultimately, the social transformation that is needed to achieve a peaceful society can only be achieved through the active contribution of everyone, regardless of where we live, or our social and cultural background.

The 2012 Commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) is focused on the theme "Ending the violence of Extreme Poverty: Promoting empowerment and building peace". 

It is my hope that this theme will launch a continuing dialogue among people everywhere about this issue.

G-Souto

17.10.2012

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References:

Credits: Scott Pelley | 60 Minutes CBS News

International Day for Eradication of Poverty
http://www.un.org/en/events/povertyday/

The Hunger Project

Overcoming Extreme Povety

United Nations Radio
http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/english/2011/10/austerity-measures-widen-gap-between-rich-and-poor/

Les Aventures de Tintin dans la salle de classe : film & jeux

Les Aventures de Tintin Le Secret de la Licorne
Steven Spielberg
http://www.imdb.com/

Mille milliards de mille sabords ! Bruxelles a vécu au rythme de son reporter préféré, Tintin, pour l’avant-première mondiale du film tant attendu de Steven Spielberg : Tintin : le secret de la licorne. 

Tintin, Les aventures de la licorne
avant-première, Bruxelles
crédits: Stéphanie Linsingh
https://www.flickr.com/

"About 10.000 people turned up, many dressed as the Belgian comic journalist and carrying stuffed versions of his sidekik Snowy the dog for the film premiere of Steven Spielberg's  computer animated 3D adaption of the Belgian comic book hero in Brussels."

Si tu es fan du reporter Tintin et ses amis, le film est arrivé! Ayant comme réalisateur Steven Spielberg, Les Aventures de Tintin: le secret de la licorne 3D est arrivé dans les salles, après l'avant-première à Bruxelles, le pays d'origine de la célèbre BD.

Steven Spielberg

Tintin, Les aventures de la licorne

avant-première, Bruxelles, 2011

crédits: Julien Warnand

https://www.rts.ch/info/culture/

"Nous sommes fiers d'avoir ramené Tintin à Bruxelles ", a alors déclaré le réalisateur américain avant d’ajouter : "Hergé était un grand artiste, illustrateur et écrivain (...) Il était comme un cinéaste sans caméra (…). Je pense qu’(il) aurait beaucoup aimé le film. Honnêtement ".

On l'attendait avec impatience. Pas vous? Il est stupéfiant!  "Tintin : le secret de la Licorne" sera sans conteste l’un des grands succès de l’année.

The Adventures of Tintin

Steven Spielberg, 2011
http://www.imdb.com/

Et oui! Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne est sur la liste des 18 concurrents pour l'Oscar du meilleur film d'animation. 

Le film a aussi de bonnes chances d'être inclus dans la liste du "meilleur film". À voir la liste ici

The Adventures of Tintin

Steven Spielberg,2011

http://www.imdb.com/

Synopsis du film : 

Tintin, notre intrépide reporter, son fidèle compagnon Milou et son inséparable ami le Capitaine Haddock partent à la recherche d’un trésor enfoui avec l’épave d’un bateau “la Licorne”, commandé autrefois par un ancêtre du Capitaine Haddock.

Le film Les Aventures de Tintin: le secret de la licorne est déjà sorti en version jeu ayant la participation de Spielberg. 

Les Aventures de Tintin Le Secret de la Licorne

version jeu

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Le fantastique projet de film sur la bande dessinée franco-belge de Hergé, de son vrai nom Georges Rémy, est mené de front par un Steven Spielberg très enthousiaste et curieux du processus de création des jeux vidéos.

screenshot Les Aventures de Tintin Le Secret de la Licorne

version jeu
http://www.jeuxvideo.com/

Le jeu:

Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne sur Xbox 360 est un jeu d'aventure. C'est l'adaptation du film plus que de la BD éponyme d'Hergé. Le joueur passe sous la houppette du célèbre journaliste pour revivre la toute première aventure de l'illustre franchise.

screenshot Les Aventures de Tintin Le Secret de la Licorne

version jeu

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/

Pédagogie:

Je suis pour l'utilisation du jeu vidéo dans l'enseignement. Donc je peux penser que c'est à cœur de faire du jeu Les Aventures de Tintin : le secret de la licorne, la meilleure adaptation possible selon le niveau d'apprentissage de vos élèves.

Le jeu vidéo peut être un outil pédagogique efficace à disposition des enseignants. Et les élèves ont la sensation de prendre réellement part au processus éducatif qui était auparavant éloigné de leur réalité quotidienne.

Développé en étroite collaboration avec les équipes de production du film, le jeu vidéo offre une immersion authentique dans l'univers de Tintin et de ses personnages emblématiques !

Éditeur : Ubisoft - sorti le 20 octobre 2011. 


Supports : Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 et PC.

Note: Jeu déconseillé aux élèves moins de 12 ans.

screenshot: Les Aventures de Tintin: le Secret de la Licorne

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/

En 2013, iTunes a aussi publié l'appli Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne, le jeu officiel du film disponible sur iPhone et iPad ! Une merveilleuse aventure attend ceux qui sont à la recherche du Secret de la Licorne !

Echapper aux gardes, combattre en duel au sabre, piloter un avion, résoudre les casse-tête, monter à dos de chameau et se laisser porter par cet univers fascinant. C'est ce que l'appli propose à vos élèves.

Prix: 0,99€

Langues: Français, autres.

Éducation:

Disciplines: Langues (Français LM, LE, Anglais LE); Sciences; Arts; Technologies (lycée, vocationnel)

Niveau: Tous les niveaux à partir de 6 ans (à consulter la norme PEGI)

Activités:

Si vous être enseignant, voilà quelques activités:

• Aller au cinéma voir le film avec votre classe. À ne pas rater cette merveilleuse expérience en 3D!

À lire l'interview exclusive de Chris Guise ici

• Suivre Tintin sur Facebook ou Twitter pour savoir toujours les dernières.

Musée Hergé (Belgique)

http://www.museeherge.com/#

Visitez le musée:

• Faire une visite d'études au Musée Hergé, si votre collège ou lycée n' est pas loin de Louvain-la-Neuve. Bien sûr, il faut habiter en Belgique!

Une visite qui doit être préparée en avance, en téléchargeant la brochure le plan du musée. 

Les aventures de Tintin: Le Secret de la Licorne

Hergé

http://multimedia.fnac.com

• Lire la BD Les Aventures de Tintin: le secret de la licorne dans les cours de langues, lecture suivie d' activités pédagogiques que vous proposerez à votre classe selon le niveau d'apprentissage.

• Laisser les élèves visiter et exploiter (en tutorat) le site interactif du Musée Hergé en utilisant leurs smartphones ou ipads (si vous avez des élèves chanceux) ou alors les ordinateurs du collège qui seront à la disposition des élèves à la médiathèque ou salle informatique.

Musée Hergé (Belgique)

http://www.museeherge.com/#

La galerie photos du site leur permettra de faire une visite virtuelle au Musée. A exploiter selon le curriculum et le niveau d'apprentissage.

Si vous êtes professeur de Sciences et/ou Technologies, veuillez télécharger le dossier pédagogique "Objectif Lune" un programme austronaute d'un jour (Europe Space Center) où "les élèves sont invités à se glisser dans la peau de Tintin lors de son aventure sur la Lune".

• Visiter le site officiel américain du film The Adventures of Tintin. Regarder la bande annonce disponible et toutes les nouvelles à propos de ce merveileux film. A exploiter de suite.

Utilisation du jeu vidéo:

Si vous vous sentez à l'aise, ne perdez pas l'opportunité d'introduire le jeu vidéo (version pc) dans vos cours.

L’apprentissage dans les langues a des résultats encourageants. Les élèves voient aussi leurs facultés de concentration et d’attention fortement améliorées, de même que pour leurs compétences de rétention d’information, de compréhension, et de partage dans le cadre de travaux de groupe.

À lires quelques conclusions sur mon post Game story au Grand Palais.

https://www.lesechos.fr/

À visiter aussi mon blog étudiants BlogSkidz (français langue étrangère): Steven Spielberg : Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne, le film et le jeu. Et On visite Hergé au Grand Palais? Lycéens et étudiants d'Arts (2016).

"In The Adventures of Tintin – The Secret of the Unicorn, Spielberg, who directed Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. and Jaws, aims to bridge the gap between Herge's comics and the big screen by employing a technique similar to that deployed in James Cameron's record-breaking Avatar.

Spielberg employed the technical mastery of Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, who is currently filming The Hobbit, as producer for Tintin."

The Telegraph| Culture

Moi, je suis déjá allée voir le film au cinéma, au moment de la sortie en salles. C'est époustouflant! Vos élèves seront émerveillés par ce film d'animation.

Sans doute! Je continue addict de Steven Spielberg! Il est d'une créativité extraordinaire!

The Adventures of Tintin in 3D

Steven Spielberg

http://www.imdb.com/

Some thoughts:

The good aim of this post? The importance of movies and games in school education. 
No matter the resources we can choose on formal learning and informal learning, the important is the pedagogical result.

Displaying a movie or a video game in the classroom, and/or going to the movies with a class allows to profit the incredible adventure of 3D after or before reading books or comics. The exploration will be enriched.

Don't underestimate the power of magic of reading in the classroom with your students appealing to all the captivating resources you can display, films, games and other.

G-Souto

28.11.2011

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Ressources pour enseignants:

Fondation Hergé

http://www.tintin.com/

Musée Hergé

http://www.museeherge.com/#

Gina Souto, Animated movies: debating in elementary grade

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2011/07/animated-movies-debating-in-elementary.html

Gina Souto, Reading Harry Potter: what now

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2011/07/reading-harry-potter-what-now.html

Hergé a son musée

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/arts-visuels/200906/03/01-862460-herge-a-son-musee.php

Gina Souto, Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton in the classroom

http://gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com/2010

BlogSkidz/ Gina Souto (blog étudiants) 

Steven Spielberg : Les Aventures de Tintin : Le Secret de la Licorne, le film et le jeu.

BlogSkidz/ Gina Souto (blog étudiants) 

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