Showing posts with label science-fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science-fiction. Show all posts

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Education : Best of 2023 : semester 2






credit: Image generated by AI from a text prompt (Michael S. Helfenbein)
via YaleNews


Well, as you know artificial intelligence was the topic of 2024 and lot of students began to use it before schools. Teachers needed to think how schools would to adapt and prepare students for a future filled with all kinds of capable A.I. tools 

My usual readers remember that I introduced the theme on my publication Education: Best of 2023 : semester Education: Best of 2023 : semester 1.





illustration Nata Metlukh
https://www.nytimes.com/


ChatGPT, the buzzy chatbot developed by OpenAI is capable of writing essays, solving science and math problems and producing working computer code. Impossible to bam it from schools 

But there are legitimate questions about the ethics of A.I.-generated writing, and concerns about whether the answers ChatGPT gives are accurate. (Often, they’re not.) 

And teachers feel that they have enough to worry about, without adding A.I.-generated homework to the mix.

However they understood that ChatGPT in the classroom, with the right approach, it could be an effective teaching tool.







credit: Image courtesy of MidJourney
via Paul Cancelliari/ LinkeIn


Well, if you haven't take a decision why not read The Pros and Cons of Chat GPT for Students (May 2024) ? Or 3 ChatGPT Prompts for Extending Learning with Successful Students (August 2023). They could be very useful to you.


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 2nd semester 2023 containing different themes: science, human rights, French literature, children's literature, languages, science-fiction, environment, elimination of violence against women and girls, 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 2nd semester 2023:


Le Top des billets 2e semestre 2023:


Green education : International Youth Day ! Green Skills for Youth !

Teacher's Day ! The teachers we need for the education we want !

Science : Wow ! The magic Leonids meteor shower ! Let's prepare for a fall meteor shower !

Education for Peace ! International Day of Peace : #ActionsForPeace Global Goals



Escolas : Sophia Mello Breyner Andresen, ' uma vida de poeta ' ! Recursos


Schools ! Let's join the Junior World Food Day : #WaterIsLife ! Resources & Activities

Science Fiction : Back To The Future : Yes !! Let's go back 38 years !









World Teacher's Day 2023
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/


My special choice of the #2nd semester 2023 ? Teacher's Day ! The teachers we need for the education we want ! 


"The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage". 


World Teachers’ Day theme 


The 2023 celebrations aimed to put the importance of stopping the decline in the number of teachers and would star to increase that number.







Through various activities, all the countries would advocate for a dignified and valued teaching profession, analysing their challenges, and showcase inspiring practices to attract, retain and motivate teachers and educators.

Without teachers, there is not education. Being a teacher provides a unique opportunity to make a transformative impact on the lives of students, and contribute to shaping sustainable futures. 

In different European countries. these last two years, there was a big lack of teachers.

Hoping to have inspire you, as my readers and teachers in your lessons all over the last year.

May 2024 be year of Peace for all the countries, Praying for the end of wars in the world, and all the big tragedy and dead  people and so many children due these terrible wars.

May the humanity continue to search for Peace.

Teachers and students fight for peace, development, and climate change. Countries need tranquility. Earth need help.

Teachers continue to teach with passion, inspiring your students to be better citizens in the future searching for humanity, to live in peace. Earth need young environmental defenders. 

Teachers continue preparing the new generations to this new world and a a different new future. Give them hope, joy, serenity. 

Your mission from the heart!


G-Souto

30.05.2024
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Friday, July 7, 2023

June in Review & Back To The Future : Yes !! Let's go back 38 years !





Back to the Future
Robert Zemekis, 1998
https://www.imdb.com/


It's been 38 years since Back to the Future was released in movie theaters on July 3, 1985, and now its devoted fanbase is sharing their favorite memories. Back to The Future changed the time travel movie genre forever. The best time travel movies of all time.




Back to the Future
Robert Zemekis, 1998
https://www.imdb.com/

Starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, the time-traveling duo wowed audiences in Back to the Future, eventually spawning two more movies to end the trilogy and  and became one of the best movie series of all time. 




Back to the Future
Robert Zemekis, 1998
https://www.imdb.com/

It's the type of movie that's hard to resist whenever you see it running on basic cable, which has helped keep its appeal all these years later. So it's only fitting that the 38th anniversary of Back to the Future's release fans give the film the appreciation it deserves.





Back to the Future
Robert Zemekis, 1998
https://www.imdb.com/


Directed by Robert Zemekis and written by him and his producing partner Bob Gale, Back To The Future tells the story of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), an average teenager from Hill Valley, California.

In those adolescent dreams he also finds a mentor in an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd). The doctor’s latest creation is a time machine installed in a DeLorean automobile. And Marty accidentally travels in a time-traveling to November 4, 1955. The date Doc conceived of time travel, having the revelation of the flux capacitor. 

Seven years ago. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reprise their iconic characters from "Back To The Future" for a very special appearance on a show...






Education : Science-fiction


As I wrote before, science-fiction gives the students the power of magic through science and literature

A narration let us know something. It tells us what happened. It tell us a story. Our students love hear or watch stories. And they love wonder and imagination. 

It provides the necessary information to understand the educational benefits of digital resources and fictional worlds learning how to use them as educational and motivational resources.

Tempted by returning 38 years Back to the Future?

Just in time to celebrate the 38th Anniversary of one of the most beloved movie trilogies of all time.





Back to Future 30th Anniversary Edition (renewed)
Telltale Games

Game:

Back to the Future: The Game, a Telltale Games Classic, was available* to download, or buy on-disc on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 for the very first time to celebrate the 30th anniversary! 

The game was discontinued on 2018. However. it's available for play station 4, play station 3, and Nintendo Wii on Amazon (renewed).


Here are the most read posts of June:


Marvel saga animation & the narrative : Spider-Man Across The Spider-Man Verse ! Resources

Jour des Pères (France & Quebec) ! Traditions & resources 


Summer is here ! Wow, so good ! Sunny days and beach time! There was a beautiful super moon known also as Buck moon rised last 3 July. Perhaps you enjoyed to watch the moon, visible for three days. 





The Buck moon
via Farmer's Almanac


My usual readers, young teachers and students from every where are on holiday. Not all! I write few publications on this time of the year. 


Hope you enjoyed these pedagogical proposals published in June. May be you will include some of them into your lessons, next school back-time? I will be happy!


Hoping you  have a great time ! 

G-Souto 

07.07.2023
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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Education : Best of 2022 : Semester #2

 




credits: Computer drawing


Looking back 2022 I've come up with a roundup of what's been the best posts of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto, semester #2. 

2023 is the European Year of Skills. The European Year of Skills will give a fresh impetus to lifelong learning, empowering people and companies to contribute to the green and digital transitions, supporting innovation and competitiveness.



European year of Skills 2023
https://year-of-skills.europa.eu/index_en

So, if you are working with young people aged around 12 to 15:

Are you interested in strengthening the vocational orientation and life skills of young people? 

Join Skills for Life Conference - Early orientation and life skills for all, on 22 March 2023 - 

The event will be held in English. All project results and outputs are also available in : German, Dutch, Italian and Romanian, and thus directly applicable in the context of teaching and youth work in different countries.

An interactive panel will discuss early orientation and life skills in Europe. 

You will learn how to use all of the materials and tools and how to adapt them for your own purposes in the classroom or in youth work. 

You will also have the opportunity to speak with colleagues and learn from the experiences of experts.

I'm sure all the teachers will participate to promote a mindset of reskilling and upskilling, heling their students to get the right skills for quality jobs

Looking back the roundup 2022 I've come up with what's been the best posts of #semester2 of my blog The Digital Teacher G-Souto. The selection is based on page views but also based on pedagogical relevance of the most-read posts.

As you know I write in English, Portuguese and French.

Here are the Best of 2022 semester #2




























Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro
credits: Netflix

Pinocchio's adventures are not always funny. Indeed, they are sometimes sinister. 






Please let your students watch the video above. They would better understand why and how Guillermo del Toro magically imagined and directed his beautiful Pinocchio animation stop-motion.

For the first time after years of adaptions, Guillermo del Toro told us the real story written by Carlo Collodi. So as I wrote before, teachers must pay attention to little kids. 

 “Animation is not a genre for kids, it’s a medium.”

The film is not similar to the traditional Disney story. It's different. It's the real story! Some scenes can shock kids. Guillermo del Toro’s eye for scene design coupled with his attention to detail that makes stop-motion filmmaking so palpably engaging and visually appealing, someone wrote.



credits: Guillermo del Toro website

https://www.guillermodeltorospinocchiomovie.com/


Holiday season is near. Easter is next 9 April. Spring time will help kids and families who will enjoy the traditional host of Easter egg hunts outdoor across the world.

Hoping to have inspired you someway in your lessons all over the last year. Blog resumes as normal next week.


G-Souto

16.03.2023
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