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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Education : Brilliant app, math and science : Learn think !







“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

Brilliant app is for anyone who has an interest in mathematics and science. The app replaces lecture videos with hands-on, interactive lessons. It’s a better (and more fun) way to learn.

Dive into advanced, creative problem solving and improve domain knowledge and critical thinking skills. Learn how different domains, like number theory and computer science, are interconnected. Discover how core math and science concepts apply to modern topics.

Brilliant's entertaining and educational course library is great for beginners, and also includes intermediate and advanced topics for teachers and lifelong learners. 

Creators:

Brilliant is made with the loving efforts of lifelong learners from MIT, Caltech, Duke, the University of Chicago, and more.

"We’re passionately working on delivering the very best math and science education on earth. Your age, country, and gender don't determine what you are capable of learning. You do."




https://brilliant.org/


Principles:

Brilliant creates a culture of learning around inquiry, curiosity, and openness to failure. All of our courses are written with these principles of learning in mind.

Effective learning math & science:

  • Excites

The greatest challenges to education are disinterest and apathy.

  • Cultivate curiosity

Questions and storytelling that cultivate natural curiosity are better than the threat of a test.

  • Is active

Effective learning is active, not passive. Watching a video is not enough.

  • Is applicable

Use it or lose it: it is essential to apply what you're learning as you learn it.

Learn more here



screenshot: Brilliant app (tablet)


screenshot: Brilliant app (smartphone)

https://play.google.com/store/


. Learn to think


Whether you want to hone your quantitative skills, improve your knowledge of science and technology, be a smarter parent for your inquisitive kid, or simply stay sharp, Brilliant helps you grow as a curious and ambitious person.


2. Become a better problem solver


Brilliant's approach to learning is active, not passive. Through active problem solving, Brilliant helps you build your quantitative intuition. Learn frameworks for thinking and solving challenging problems, instead of memorizing formulas.


3. Enjoy new challenges every week ... and now every day


With free, curated weekly problems, you can gain timeless knowledge and flex applied problem solving skills in bite-sized sessions. Stay fresh and discuss your favorite solutions with an engaged community of lifelong learners.





screenshots Apps
via Google Play & iOS

Master concepts by solving fun, challenging problems. Brilliant app helps students learn real math and science through conceptual quizzes that are both entertaining and educational.

With free Problems of the Week, students can solve and discuss fascinating problems with members around the world. If you enjoy these problems, then it’s time to subscribe. Once you do, you’ll have access to courses with hundreds of guided exercises on everything from logical reasoning to artificial neural networks.




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via Google Images


Method:

In school, students are often trained to apply formulas to rote problems. But this traditional approach prevents deeper understanding of concepts, reduces independent critical thinking, and cultivates few useful skills.


The capacity to think critically separates the great from the good. We can grow this capacity by trying — and often failing — to solve diverse, concrete problems.

  1. Start with simple questions and stories that build your foundation and intuition.
  2. Ramp up to solving problems that seemed beyond your ability.
  3. Study different ways of solving the problems that are out of your grasp.




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For ages 10 t0 110

Get started as a beginner with the fundamentals, or dive right into intermediate and advanced courses for professionals. Brilliant has courses for ambitious students and people of all ages.

Master essential skills

Build confidence with hands-on learning. You'll get to see concepts visually, interact with key ideas, and solve challenging problems that get you to really think.

Stress less, learn better

Enjoy fun storytelling, guided problem solving, and making lots of mistakes while playing. On Brilliant, your natural curiosity will drive you, not the threat of a test.




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via Google Images

Education:

Brilliant app is an educational platform, designed to help make learning fun and accessible. Designed around focused lessons and relatable situations, Brilliant allows students to explore complex science, technology, and math topics in ways that make learning exciting.

With the Brilliant app, there’s no punishment for getting the answer wrong. Instead, a wrong answer is an opportunity to learn.

Whether students guess the correct answer, or are 100% wrong, they can see student-submitted explanations of how the correct answer can be found. Other students can then vote on the explanations, ensuring that the best and most understandable are provided.


  • Brilliant app is free
To unlock the full experience, you need to sign up for a subscription plan. That’s $24.99 for the monthly plan and $119.99 for the annual plan.

  • Available: 

 iOS App Store

  Play Store

Language: English





screenshot iOS Apple Store

Expanding on their learning platform, Brilliant recently introduced their Daily Problems feature. These give students an opportunity to flex their mental muscles and learn new things every day.

The Daily Problems come in a variety of subjects, from algebra, chemistry and computer science.





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Each Daily Problem provides an “insight” lesson that gives enough detail to get you on the right path, and the questions are typically presented with a multiple choice answer.

Each topic is divided into various levels with 1 being the most fundamental. The problems offer a path of learning that encourages critical thinking.




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via Google Images

Remember:

Some of questions are easy to solve, while some take hours. Students don't have to worry about getting an answer wrong. They can always check

Brilliant is a great way to learn and have fun. Its approachable, and allows you to learn a little (or a lot) whenever you want.

Some of the questions are easy to solve, while some take hours. You don’t have to worry about getting an answer wrong. You can always check answers from user submissions to figure out the solutions to such problems. And you can vote on explanations that impressed you.

Get new ideas :

Facebook : Brilliant Math

Facebook : Brilliant Science


Brilliant is a great way to learn and have fun. Its approachable, and allows students to learn a little (or a lot) whenever they want.


G-Souto

20.04.2021

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Monday, May 7, 2018

Schools : Europe Day & European Year for Cultural Heritage : resources






Europe Day 2018

To celebrate Europe Day, the European institutions in Brussels open their doors to the public for the annual Open Day on 5 May 2018 in Brussels, the 5 and 9 May in Luxembourg and the 10 June in Strasbourg (France).
The Open Day is a unique opportunity for everyone from the young to the not-so-young to discover how the European institutions work, what their priorities are and how they affect the lives of Europeans.



Throughout the day, visitors can step inside the institutions’ buildings to take part in special activities such as public debates and enjoy guided tours of the buildings, all in a festive atmosphere.


Founders
"Marking the anniversary of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, EU Delegations around the work celebrate in May peace and unity in Europe, with a rich variety of activities and events."




  • Historical facts:

At a speech in Paris in 1950, Robert Schuman, then French foreign minister, set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, which would make war between Europe's nations unthinkable.
His vision was to create a European institution that would pool and manage coal and steel production. A treaty creating such a body was signed just under a year later. Schuman's proposal is considered to be the beginning of what is now the European Union.
The video above is a brief history of the EU from the end of World War Two to the present. 
This has been recorded for use in classrooms when learning about the EU and should be used in conjunction with other resources.



Europe Day 2018


  • Activities:

The activities and events will be held throughout the whole month of May. This year's focus is on be European Year for Cultural Heritage.
Throughout 2018, Europeans will celebrate the diverse cultural heritage across Europe - at EU, national, regional and local level. 
The aim of the European Year of Cultural Heritage is to encourage more people to discover and engage with Europe.s cultural heritage, and to reinforce a sense 
The year will see a series of initiatives and events across Europe to enable people to become closer to and more involved with their cultural heritage.
So, don't forget to read the last News on the official website every day.



  • Suggestions:
Think of how to ensure the European dimension is present: with students in your area originating from other European countries, or with guests invited to come from other European schools. 

If there is a nearby university, involves the Erasmus students;

Team up with other schools in other countries;

Think activities that provide a good balance: fun, serious, remembrance, future. This can include: food, culture, (simulation) games, pros & cons debates, educational activities, language lessons, history exhibitions, proposals for the future.

Ensure there is something for all ages!

Download the suggestions in all EU languages here


Resources:

Teachers will find some resources to celebrate Europe Day in schools. And more, for example:



2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage

  • Why Cultural Heritage?

Cultural heritage has a universal value for us as individuals, communities and societies. It is important to preserve and pass on to future generations. 
We may think of heritage as being ‘from the past’ or static, but it actually evolves though our engagement with it. 
What is more, our heritage has a big role to play in building the future of Europe. 
That is one reason why EU want to reach out to young people in particular during the European Year.




  • The slogan ?
"Our heritage: where the past meets the future".


#EuropeForCulture

Cultural Heritage comes in many shapes and forms:

  • tangible – for example buildings, monuments, artefacts, clothing, artwork, books, machines, historic towns, archaeological sites.
  • intangible – practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills - and the associated instruments, objects and cultural spaces - that people value. This includes language and oral traditions, performing arts, social practices and traditional craftsmanship.
  • natural – landscapes, flora and fauna.
  • digital – resources that were created in digital form (for example digital art or animation) or that have been digitalised as a way to preserve them (including text, images, video, records).


Education:

Of course European teachers will include Europe Day and European Year for Cultural Heritage into the school curriculum. 

Curriculum : Cross-curricular : Languages & Literature; History; Geography; Arts other.

Level : All levels. 

Every teacher will adapt the activities to the level they are teaching. Teachers will find some Resources on the official website.





Download the resources including the visual identity, factsheets and different toolkits. 

At the disposal of anyone who would like to promote the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, all materials are provided royalty free for 2018. 

Don't forget to read our Terms & Conditions before downloading the materials.


G-Souto

07.05.2018
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Monday, June 26, 2017

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





Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling
illustrator: Thomas Taylor (UK edition)
one of the earliest UK editions

Today, 26th June marks 20 years since the famous Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK. 26th June 2017 will be a day to remember for Harry Potter fans old and new.


From an idea born on a train journey to its creation in a small cafe in Edinburgh, but inspired at a Portuguese bookstoreHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone started is a global phenomenon. 

It has sold over 450 million copies worldwide in 79 languages, inspired a major movie franchise, a spellbinding theatre production and captivated readers of all ages for twenty years.


Harry Potter (Pottermore) will be marking this magical moment with an amazing celebration, including new publications, contests, travels, exhibition.

But how much do your former students remember about it? Let's see!


Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Gryffindor edition to celebrate the 20th Anniversary 
of the first publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and J. K. Rowling's debut novel, first published in 1997 by Bloomsbury.

There were only 500 hardback copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone printed in the first run in 1997, of which 300 went to libraries.



Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(USA edition, 1998)
J.K. Rowling

It was published in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998. 

The plot follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage as he makes close friends and a few enemies in his first year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.



Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling
Philosopher’s Stone was a book of many firsts. The first time Harry discovered magic, the first time he tried an Every Flavour Bean, the first time he rode a broom, the first time Snape threw him some shade.



Ron, Harry & Hermione
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, film 2001
Rowling’s decision was to have her characters grow up at the same rate as her readers. 
Each book was set in one school year, and grew longer, darker and more adult in theme. The Chambers of Secrets in 1998, The Prisioner of Azkaban (1999)


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Cover art of the original UK edition
J.K. Rowling
illustrators: Giles Greenfield (UK) / Mary GrandPrè (US)
By the time we reached book four, Goblet of Fire, 2000, readers were seeing do-gooding Hermione’s Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare formed in response to the bond slavery of these sock-loving poppets. In the person of the hack journalist Rita Skeeter, Rowling sent up the tabloid press. The ministry of magic sent up Whitehall bureaucracy.



Harry Potter saga
http://theyellowsparrow.com/
The seven-book series about the adventures of the boy wizard has gone on to sell more than 400m copies around the world, and has been the subject of PhDs and academic conferences at the Durham University.




J.K. Rowling
Though Rowling has concluded the series, she hasn’t left the characters alone. As well as the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the 18,000 words of additional content on the original Pottermore website, Rowling produced real-life versions of in-universe books: Quidditch Through the AgesFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The holy grail of Potter apocrypha for book dealers is the 800‑word prequel she wrote on a postcard in 2008.
Well, after 20 years since its publication, do students/readers remember all of the book’s iconic little details?

The video above presents the 20 most memorable moments from the Harry Potter series - as chosen by fans.



Education: 

  • The value of reading Harry Potter saga


The importance of JK Rowling as a writer was recognized when last year with the Danish award, the "Hans Christian Andersen literature prize". 

Her work was of that rare order that seems to transcend authorship," and praising Andersen's "indestructible, eternal characters."

In the 90's, Harry Potter were the first books that contained a suitable number of pages and a good story to captivate young people really absorved into a book.

Diversity in children and adolescents' books had long been a complex issue. Since there, despite good  efforts and some big strides forward in the years before, children's books remained disappointingly short of enough culturally diverse stories.

So this is about some very well-known books. It makes a change to the sort of books educators normally read in their lessons.

JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels were on the the top 100 books of all time and of the last decade.  
  • Activities:

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

The British Library has unveiled artwork for Harry Potter: A History of Magic, and new companion books will be launched from Bloomsbury and Pottermore all about the exhibition.



Harry Potter: A History of Magic
https://www.pottermore.com/news/

The artwork features Jim Kay’s illustration of a phoenix, as well as other nods to the world of magic and myth.
Have you ever wanted to delve into Divination, ponder the peculiarities of Potions and discover enchanting creatures? Now students can, old and new.
The British Library unveil rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from the British Library’s collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories. Marvel at original drafts and drawings by J.K. Rowling and illustrator Jim Kay, both on display for the first time. 
"See the gargantuan 16th–century Ripley Scroll that explains how to create a Philosopher’s Stone. Gaze at Sirius in the night sky as imagined by medieval astronomers. Encounter hand-coloured pictures of dragons, unicorns and a phoenix rising from the flames."
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with this extraordinary new addition to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

* Teachers !
If you want to bring your class along for free, sessions for Primary and Secondary school groups are now available to book.
 -  
Opening times and visitor information
  • Other Activities : Teachers and students
Every day there something new on the website Pottermore



The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Universal Orlando Resort
https://blog.universalorlando.com/
  • Students/fans:
Pottermore has teamed up with Tesco to send students on a trip to Universal Orlando Resort to experience The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. From magical spells to magical creatures, from dark villains to daring heroes, it’s all at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Enter here!
The competition opened on Monday 19th June and closes on Monday 3rd July 2017. To enter, simply fill out the form and answer the question here


Schools Competition
  • Teachers and school librarians:
Pottermore has launched magical schools competition with Bookspace to give one lucky primary school the opportunity to win a library makeover in the Hogwarts house colours for their school. 
Find out how you can enter here.
To be in with a chance of winning the prizes, Pottermore wants your students to invent their own magical library
Competition closes 14th July 2017. Competition open to UK and ROI schools only. Download the full terms and conditions here.

Students can create personalised Harry Potter Hogwarts House Gift Cards with National Book Tokens. Whether you (or the special bookworm in your life) are a brave Gryffindor, wise Ravenclaw, proud Slytherin or loyal Hufflepuff, create a completely unique and magical gift for any occasion - personalise your own here.

Browse through our Potted history of Harry Potter timeline for key moments and fun facts from the last 20 years.


Harry Potter 20th anniversary
Download Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Party Pack complete with magical activities and ideas themed around the Houses of Hogwarts here.
  • Resources:
Quizzes:
After 20 years since its publication, do you remember all of the book’s iconic little details? Take this quiz to find out:

https://www.pottermore.com/features/

It’s exactly two decades since the first of JK Rowling’s books was published. Try Harry Potter quiz: 20 years, 20 questions: 

The Guardian/ Harry Potter quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/books/
A exhausting Wizarding Test to see how much you have learned since then.
Music : Theme by John Williams






My thoughts:


So this is about a very well-known books. It makes a change to the sort of books educators normally was reading in their lessons.

Harry Potter final books contain some gothic elements, such as an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, some unexplicable events, supernatural creatures and occu
rrences such as prophecies and visions. Young people love it!

"Potter heptalogy, the 'archetypal' modern gothic novel, with an orphan who fulfills a prophecy and gradually develops his magic powers comes from two things: the Cornish landscapes, which are very similar to those around Hogwarts. Secondly and bove all, three larger-than-life characters cannot have a place in a conventional realistic novel."



"It's got to be like this. It's got to be me!"

Harry Potter


G-Souto

01.02.2017
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