Showing posts with label girls in STEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label girls in STEM. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

Education : Best of 2017 : Semester #2




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Looking back 2017 I've come up with a roundup of what's been the best of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. 

As I do during this week every year, I am taking some time off to relax with family and prepare for the new year. 

 I will be featuring the most popular blog posts of the year. This was some of the most popular posts semester 2.

Below you’ll read the top posts along the second semester 2017 containing different themes: education & technology, languages, arts, science, history, environment, literature, e-safety, sports, dance, children's rights among other.

The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most popular posts.

I kept the order of the most viewed, but eliminated the posts that seemed less relevant. The main reason is that sometimes certain posts acquire too much visibility, not for their value but for the keywords that the search engines "like" indexing.




Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 2ème semestre 2017. Vous continuez à me suivre et ça me fait plaisir. Je vous em en remercie.

Chers lecteurs, chers enseignants, voilà des ressources et idées pédagogiques que vous avez pu partager avec vos élèves. Le numérique continue à avoir sa place dans vos cours et très bien. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes et à leurs professeurs des possibilités qu'il faut en profiter pour que vos leçons suivent de près les tendances actuelles.
Des ressources aux grandes thématiques: histoire, lanques, science, culture et arts. Des ressources en ligne, et des adaptations personnelles à l'enseignement de façon à permetter à tous les élèves la chances de réussite dans leur parcours scolaire.


Here are the 2nd semester's most popular posts of 2017 :

Le Top des posts du 2ème semestre 2017:
























Google Doodle 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop
via Variety
https://www.google.com/doodles/

‘Yes, yes y’all! And it WON’T stop!’

My crush of the #1st semester? Let's Play a Hip Hop interactive music game ! 


Google regularly replaces its logo on its search engine with special Doodles, a kind of celebrations anniversaries. But this Friday's Doodle is something truly diverting.

The doodle offers a serving of Hip Hop history - with an emphasis on its founding pioneers narrated by Hip Hop icon Fab 5 Freddy, former host of “Yo! MTV Raps.”

Hip hop does not just refer to the music. It's a subculture and art movement that was developed by African Americans and Puerto Ricans during the 70s.

Music Game:

What's particularly fun about Friday's Doodle is that: the video is followed by an interactive deejaying game, where you get two turntables, a cross-fader and a selection of records to mix together. You can even scratch the records using your mouse cursor or, on mobile, your finger.



Hoping to have inspired you in your lessons all over the year.
May 2018 be a successful year for all those teachers who teach with passion! Guiding our students for the future should be a function from the heart of all us

G-Souto

30.12.2017
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Education : Best of 2017 : Semester #1





credits: unknow

Looking back 2017 I've come up with a roundup of what's been the best of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. 

As I do during this week every year, I am taking some time off to relax with family and prepare for the new year. 

 I will be featuring the most popular blog posts of the year. This was some of the most popular posts semester 1.

 Below you’ll read the top posts along the first semester 2017 containing different themes: education & technology, languages, arts, science, history, environment, literature, e-safety, sports, dance, children's rights among other.

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, but eliminated the posts that seemed less relevant. The main reason is that sometimes certain posts acquire too much visibility, not for their value but for the keywords that the search engines "like" indexing.

Je suis ravie de partager avec vous le Top des posts les plus lus du 1er semestre 2017. Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à me suivre au jour e jour. Je me rends compte que les étudiants aussi me visitent.

Je vous remercie, chers enseignants, chers lecteurs, de votre intérêt et m’efforce d’être toujours au plus proche des événements concernant des idées pédagogiques pour vous présenter les dernières ressources pédagogiques, numérique ou pas. Le numérique prend de plus en plus la place. Les technologies donnent aux jeunes et à leurs professeurs des possibilités qu'il faut profiter en les introduisant dans les cours.
Des ressources aux grandes thématiques: histoire, lanques, science, culture et arts. Des ressources en ligne, et des adaptations personnelles à l'enseignement de façon à permetter à tous les élèves la chances de réussite dans leur parcours scolaire.


Here are the 1st semester's most popular posts of 2017 :

Le Top des posts du 1er semestre 2017:






Education & gender : Talking about International Women's Day

 Books : The 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone : resources

 Education : Earth Day 2017 : Environmental & Climate Literacy

World Book & Copyright Day : Blind & visually impaired

Visual Music in education : Let your students give a try on visual music : Oskar Fischinger

 Education for Peace : Intl day for Development and Peace

History : World War II : 73rd Anniversary of D-Day in Normandie

 Education : Mother's Day, history & books
Ma vie de Courgette
My crush of the #1st semester? Ma Vie de Courgette. Ovationné à Cannes, Annecy ou Angoulême, parmi beaucoup d'autres, Ma vie de Courgette, film d'animation, dépeint avec poésie le quotidien des enfants en orphelinat.

 Le film est une adaptation du roman de l'écrivain français Gilles Paris paru en 2001 (Plon) et intitulé Autobiographie d'une courgette (Poche, 2003).  

Le livre raconte le chemin vers la résilience d'un petit garçon qui perd sa mère, de sa nouvelle vie au foyer pour enfants à sa première histoire d'amour. So touching!
Hoping to have inspired you in your lessons all over the year.

May 2018 be a successful year for all those teachers who teach with passion! Guiding our students for the future should be a function from the heart of all us

G-Souto

29.12.2017
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Friday, October 6, 2017

Schools : Code Week EU, new challenges : Let's go again !






Europe Code Week 2017
http://dlearn.eu/code-week-2017/

Europe Code Week is taking place this year between 7 and 22 October, although "every week is Code Week". It's an open source initiative, aiming to connect initiatives that encourage young and adult European citizens to learn more about the art and science of computer programming.

Millions of children, adults, parents, teachers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers will again come together at events, in classrooms and libraries across Europe and beyond to learn to create with code.




Europe Code Week 2017
http://codeweek.eu/

EU Code Week is a grass-roots movement that celebrates creating with code. The idea is to make programming more visible, to show young, adults and elderly how you bring ideas to life with code, to demystify these skills and bring motivated people together to learn. The initiative was launched in 2013 by the Young Advisors for the Digital Agenda Europe.


5th Birthday Code Week
http://blog.codeweek.eu/

Europe Code Week was born in 2013 by some young people who advised the European Commission on digital policies. They wanted more people "to learn how to create with code as well as get different networks together to make it easier for interested people to find a place where they could learn programming, work with hardware and find out how computers work." 
Those grass-roots movement turns five years in 2017 and it has grown exponentially.
EU Code Week is run by volunteers. One, or several, Code Week Ambassadors coordinate the initiative in their countries, but everyone can organise their own code event and add it to the codeweek.eu map.


Europe Code Week 2017
http://blog.codeweek.eu/

In 2016, nearly a million people in more than 50 countries around the world took part in EU Code Week. If your country is involved, and has organised events, put it on the map or volunteer as a Code Week ambassador.


Education:

Learning to code helps students to make sense of how things work, explore ideas and make things, for both work and play. 
What’s more it helps students to unleash their creativity and work collaboratively with wonderful young people both near them and all over the world.
From playing about with animations to designing computer apps and games, teaching coding in schools lends itself to plenty of fun learning activities.
The inclusion of coding into the new computing curriculum has been one of the main changes that the Department of Education in different European countries claimed would "ensure every child leaves school prepared for life in modern society."
Students at the school have apparently responded positively to the new curriculum in those countries and are already seeing the practical use of learning these new skills.




The European Astro Pi Chalenge:

Announcing the 2017-18 European Astro Pi challenge in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA).

It's open to students from all 22 ESA member countries, including associate members Canada and Slovenia.

Astro Pi is an annual science and coding competition where code written by young people is run on the International Space Station!


Mission Zero
https://astro-pi.org/missions/zero/


In Mission Zero, students aged up to 14 write a simple Python program that will display a message on the International Space Station for 30 seconds.

Students will contribute to the daily routine of the International Space Station by displaying their own personal message and the ambient air temperature on the Astro Pi. 
No special hardware is needed to take part in Mission Zero, and your code is guaranteed to run in space for 30 seconds!

Some information:
In Mission Space Lab, teams aged up to 19 have to demonstrate their motivation to compete by planning an experiment to run in space.
Registration:
Teams have until 29 October 2017 to register and submit their idea on the Astro Pi website.
The selected teams will be notified that they have been accepted by 7 November 2017 and will receive an ESA-branded Astro Pi kit at their school, and the chance for their experiment to run on the International Space Station.


Teachers: this classroom activity can be completed in an afternoon. 

Organise your students into teams of up to four, and let us guide them through writing a short Python program to show a personal message and the air temperature on the Astro Pi. 

No extra hardware is needed. Everything is done in a web browser. 

Teachers register online with the Trinket Sense HAT emulator and receive a classroom code to give to their teams. This saves time by greatly reducing the need for data entry. 

There’s no limit to the number of teams a school or club can enter. It’s entirely dependent on the teacher’s capacity to support teams.

Read the official guidelines document for Mission Zero.
Resources:





  • A special film: Hidden Figures
Three women -  Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan & Mary Jackson - pioneers on computer science helped plan the mission that saw an American astronaut orbit the Earth for the first time, has been honored on Hidden Figures, a film based on true story by Theodore Melfi (2016), nominated for 3 Oscars.

 The true story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. Segregated from their white counterparts, these colored computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.




Hidden Figures
Theodore Melfi, 2016
http://www.imdb.com/

The maths involved in the orbital mission was highly complex, and the computers of the day were prone to technical hiccups.
So as astronaut John Glenn was going through the preflight checklist – upon which his life depended – he insisted that Ms Johnson double check the calculations.

Hidden Figures
Theodore Melfi, 2016
http://www.imdb.com/

“If she says they’re good,” Ms Johnson remembered Mr Glenn saying, “then I’m ready to go.”

Hidden Figures
Theodore Melfi, 2016
http://www.imdb.com/

 Aim:

 Motivation to girls nd young women to code and continue their studies on STEM. Teachers must encourage girls to pursue studies on STEM.


Teachers can display the film in the classroom to motivate young girls to code. Boys will understand the role of young girls in STEM. Later they will support them at secondary education and college.

There is a gender lack studying high technologies and STEM.

Don't misse the opportunity to include Hidden Figures into school curriculum.

Other Activities: 

Teachers will find by reading my post Code Week EU, let's go again ! #codeEU




Other Resources:

Anyone – schools, teachers, libraries, code clubs, businesses, public authorities – can organise a #CodeEU event and add it to the codeweek.eu map. 

To make organising and running coding events easier, the CodeWeek website has prepared different toolkits and selected some of the best lesson plans, guides and other resources. Look here
Media:

Code Week EU is on Twitter as @CodeWeekEU, on Facebook. Use the #codeEU hashtag.

Invite your students to have fun building things by coding. Are they ready to share their passion? Young students are so creative. Let's them explore all the funny coding games with their imagination.

G-Souto

06.10.2017
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