May in Review & World Oceans Day : Resources

World Oceans Day

credits: UNESCO

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/

World Oceans Day, celebrated each year on June 8 for over 25 years, is part of a wider effort to raise awareness and inform the public of these issues. 

Linked to human well being and to our very survival on Earth, the conservation and sustainable use of our ocean is more than ever a vital necessity.

The ocean is as generous as it is in danger: its limited resources are increasingly threatened by the harmful effects of overexploitation, pollution, acidification and more generally climate change. So many alarming elements require the attention of the scientific community and governments, as well as ours, citizens.

@WorldOceansDay

• Actions Focus for World Oceans Day 2018:

Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean.

Will we stop using single use plastic bags, bottles and straws to help our ocean?

Plastic trash is a serious problem for our ocean, and especially all the animals that call it home, but together we can be part of the solution.

Plastic Pollution Resources #WorldOceansDay on June 8!

https://www.worldoceansday.org/

Education:

From Paris to Hong Kong, and Quito to Malé, on June 8, 2018, students around the world are celebrating World Oceans Day by taking part in #ZeroPlasticLunch CNN

Resources:

Plastic Pollution Resources: The guides, videos, infographics and reports featured on this page are intended to inform and enable schools in their efforts to advance actions that prevent plastic pollution and encourage solutions for a healthy ocean.

After this important call to WOD 2018, time to my review of the most read posts of May 2018.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Go to a Museum ! It's International Museum Day! 

Schools : Here we go again : Harry Potter game ? Your choice!

Schools : Wow ! Georges Méliès in VR : a dream! 

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

Étudiants ! Concours d'Écriture : "L’aérien pour Relier la Jeunesse"

Games in school : SG 'School of Empathy' : Bullying

My usual readers know that I am engaged on Ecology since the first moment I created this blog where I write about different educational thematic. And Environment is one of the most important. The last posts World Environment Day! #BeatPlasticPollution!; Earth Day: Be the change! End Plastic Pollution.

Blogging is my free contribution to inspire new  and young teachers, with resources, activities no matter the subject in Education.

Hope you enjoyed my pedagogical proposals published in May and you included some of them into your lessons.

Summer is here! That's a nice time to think about sun and beach! 

I hope that you will have a great weekend! 

G-Souto 

08.06.2018

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Schools : World Environment Day ! #BeatPlasticPollution !

credits: InsideCreativeHouse/Adobe Stock

https://www.un.org/

"On World Environment Day, the message is simple: reject single-use plastic. Refuse what you can’t re-use. Together, we can chart a path to a cleaner, greener world." 

Secretary-General, António Guterres

Today is World Environment Day! It's a day to raise global awareness and to encourage people to take positive environmental action. 

On June 5, 1974, the world first celebrated World Environment Day. The date was chosen by the United Nations to honor the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, a landmark summit in conservation and environmental awareness.

The UN calls World Environment Day “the biggest day for positive environmental action.” 

It's a day for public outreach as well as personal responsibility - an “opportunity to care for the Earth and become agents of change.”

Beat Plastic Pollution

credits: UNEP

https://www.un.org/

https://www.unenvironment.org/

Every year World Environment Day is hosted by a different country, where the official celebrations take place. 2018 was in India. 2023 is in Côte d'Ivoire. 

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World Environment Day

Solution to Plastic Pollution

https://www.unep.org/

• Theme 2018 & 2023: 

"Beat Plastic Pollution." & "Solution to Plastic Pollution"

Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. 

The theme for 2018 & 2023, Beat Plastic Pollution, is a call to action for all of us to come together to combat one of the great environmental challenges of our time.

credits: EU

https://south.euneighbours.eu/

Beat Plastic Pollution

UN infographics

https://worldenvironmentday.global/

The theme invites us all to consider how we can make changes in our everyday lives to reduce the heavy burden of plastic pollution on our natural places, our wildlife – and our own health. 

While plastic has many valuable uses, we have become over-reliant on single-use or disposable plastic – with severe environmental consequences.

Education:

World Environment Day (WED) is also a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.

Here we are writing about Civics and Environmental education at schools. So important to help our students became engaged citizens.

Yes! Because World Environmental Day is not about a day! WED is about every day! 

credits: FreePik

Schools have an important role. Educators must teach environmental values in different moments of their lessons, providing some thoughts and digital educational resources, educating young people for a sustainable future and inspiring them being a good example. 

Of course you can't forget to invite your students to use their devices (iPad, smartphone, tablet) for developing interactive activities.

Students will evolve in creative green projects that they will share with colleagues, families, friends and pen-pals. They will become good young environmentalists.

Beat Plastic Pollution

https://www.unenvironment.org/

• The Global Game to Beat Plastic Pollution!

Do you remember playing tag as a kid? So do we.

This universal concept will be given an innovative twist for this year’s World Environment Day: We’re launching a global game of #BeatPlasticPollution Tag to showcase positive behavior change around how we consume plastic.

Here’s how to join the game. It takes just 30 seconds:

• Choose which type of single-use plastic you’re ready to give up

• Take a selfie (photo or video) showing yourself with the reusable alternative that you’re ready to embrace

• Share your selfie on social media and “tag” three friends, businesses or high-profile people to challenge them to do the same within 24 hours. Be sure to use the #BeatPlasticPollution hashtag & mention @UNEnvironment

That’s it! You are amazing for helping to launch the global movement to #BeatPlasticPollution!

Resources:

Teachers and students will find resources on the official website World Environment Day:

The guide is designed to help schools develop their promotional materials for World Environment Day.

Everything you need to support World Environment Day with your school. Show your commitment to #BeatPlasticPollution this World Environment Day.

Level: All levels (adapt to the level everyone is teaching).

Curricula: Cross-curricular: Languages, Sciences; Arts (Design, Photograph, Multimedia).

Devices: iPad, smartphone, tablet.

G-Souto

05.06.2018

update 05.06.2023

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Revenons au Prix Non au harcèlement : les Lauréats !

Le projet «Le harcèlement est une prison 2017» réalisé 

par les élèves du Lycée Guez de Balzac de l’académie de Poitiers
https://www.education.gouv.fr/

Revenons au Prix Non au Harcèlement (Janvier 2018).  Ayant comme objectif donner la parole aux jeunes des écoles, collèges, lycées et structures péri et extrascolaires pour qu’ils s'expriment collectivement sur le harcèlement et cyber harcèlement.

Avec plus de 30 600 élèves impliqués cette année, contre 19 000 en 2016, le prix Non au harcèlement a montré que l'ensemble de la communauté éducative s'est mobilisé pour lutter contre cette forme de violence. 

Près de 1 200 professeurs, CPE, assistants d'éducation, infirmiers (...) ont accompagné les élèves. 

Pour cette seule année, ce sont plus de 650 clips vidéos qui ont été produits dans le cadre de ce prix. Wow! Bravo!

La cérémonie officielle de remise des prix nationaux a eu lieu le 16 mai 2018.

Voilà mon choix parmi tous les lauréats. Mais, Bravo à tous! Je savais que ce projet aurait un grand succès. 

Les étudiants répondent toujours avec enthousiasme aux projets que leur touchent.

• Prix « Non au harcèlement » 2018 – catégorie meilleure affiche cycle 3

Affiche 2018

"Ne hurle pas avec la meute" 

Catégorie Meilleure Affiche Cycle 3

https://www.nonauharcelement.education.gouv.fr/ressources/

Le projet Ne hurle pas avec la meute est réalisé par les élèves de l’école Jean de La Fontaine de l’académie de Créteil.

Extrait du projet: "La mise en scène que nous avons choisie découle des harceleurs qui agissent toujours en bande, en meute, comme des loups. Le harcelé est isolé et faible comme le Petit Chaperon rouge dans le conte de Perrault. Une enfant tend la main à l’enfant harcelé. Nous voulons faire taire le précepte selon lequel l’homme serait un loup pour l’homme. Nous avons placé en arrière-plan les symboles républicains pour rappeler les exigences de l’école républicaine".

• Lauréats du Lycée:

Affiche L'oeil du témoin

Lycée français de Madrid, académie de Toulouse 

https://www.education.gouv.fr/

L’affiche a été réalisée par trois élèves de Terminale avec le soutien de la CPE, l’infirmière et deux AED (assistants d’éducation). 

Extrait du projet : "La réalisation de l’affiche pour le prix "Non au harcèlement !" s’inscrit comme le point culminant d’une investigation et d’une réflexion sur le harcèlement. La source artistique de notre projet se base sur le concept "d’œil témoin" volonté de rendre visible, ce qui souvent n’est pas dicible"

• Prix « Non au harcèlement » 2018 – catégorie meilleure vidéo cycle 3

Le projet Tous témoins, tous concernés est réalisé par les élèves du collège François Rabelais de l’académie de Nancy Metz.

• Mention Coup de coeur des professionnels de la communication

Le projet Cassandre est réalisé par les élèves des collèges Jean Rostand et Jean Jaurès et les jeunes adhérents de l’accueil de loisirs, centre de loisirs AGORA EVS de l'académie de Rouen.

Extrait du projet : "Ce film a été conçu comme un outil de prévention pouvant être réutilisé dans les établissements scolaires, les associations, les centres de loisirs et toutes autres structures, afin de susciter le débat sur la thématique du harcèlement. Nous avons eu de nombreux échanges avec les jeunes et les animateurs afin que le film permette d'ouvrir la discussion. 

La fin du film a été construite dans ce sens afin de laisser libre court à l’interprétation de chacun(e). Qu'est-il arrivé à la jeune fille? Qu'est-ce qui aurait pu être fait pour éviter une telle situation? Ou démarre la responsabilité des uns et des autres dans le cyber harcèlement ? Les pistes de réflexion sont multiples".

Cérémonie officielle de Remise des Prix Nationaux

https://www.flickr.com/photos/educationfrance/

Les productions des élèves valorisées au niveau national:

Afin que les travaux des élèves servent véritablement à la lutte contre le harcèlement, les productions des 11 lauréats nationaux seront publiées surle site Non au harcèlement et sa page Facebook, le portail éduscol, education.gouv.fr et sur les sites partenaires. Ces productions pourront aussi être mises en avant sur les sites académiques.

Remise des prix

https://www.tes.com/

Quelques pensées:

Le harcèlement et le cyber-bullying fonctionnent sur un triangle harceleur-victime-témoins. Ce phénomène a donc inévitablement un impact global sur le climat scolaire de l'établissement et les capacités d'apprentissage de l'ensemble des élèves.

Absentéisme, décrochage scolaire, violences, verbales, physiques ou psychiques en sont les manifestations quotidiennes. Loin de se cantonner à une relation victime/bourreau.

Face au cyber-harcèlement, les témoins peuvent changer les choses, mais encore faut-il qu'ils osent intervenir. 

Les études se noient dans ce terrible fléau! Les jeunes étudiants refusent de venir à l'école. S'ils viennent, ils se cachent, ils évitent de joindre les copains -souvent les bourreaux - en récréation. 

Ils se sentent malades, vomissent, ont mal à l'estomac, se plaignent de maux de tête soudains.

crédits: "Internet pas net" / dessin animé

La relation professeur/élève se fait aussi par le partage des problèmes qui portent préjudice sur le bon développement des ados. Le partage de leurs secrets et craintes fait partie de la réalité scolaire! Nous devons être très attentifs à des comportements spécifiques comme ceux que je viens de citer.

Souvent, il faut aussi dialoguer avec la famille, pour mieux connaître les étudiants, leur comportement à la maison, le dialogue-famille.

Selon une chercheuse, il faudrait commencer par apprendre aux jeunes à "se connaître", afin de les aider à "comprendre ce qui les empêche d'agir".

G-Souto

01.06.2018

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Games in school : SG 'School of Empathy' : Bullying

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy

https://itcl.es/

School of Empathy is a game created to encourage positive behavioural change facing bullying situations.

Problems at school with bullying? Time to go to School of Empathy! 

This serious game developed by ITCL-Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla y León gathers different situations recreating moments in which game players/students can experience actions of harassment in the school environment. 

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy

https://itcl.es/

The game School of Empathy addresses the following aspects:

• Improved adequate assertive and empathic behaviour in potential bullying contexts.
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• Observed decreasing on hostile or by-standing behaviour.
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• Increased acceptance of differences and non-hostility towards colleagues

• Increased awareness of the impact of one actions over others and cooperative behaviour.

• Incorporation of reproval of anti-social behaviour at individual and group-level. 

The game presents three modes in which the student can play: 

• victim 

• bully 

• observer 

In the development of the game there are different situations to solve that make it easier for the student to put on the role of all the figures. 

The player/ student, through dialogues and different dynamics in the form of mini games, "interprets" the different characters that can be immersed in a situation of these characteristics. 

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy

https://itcl.es/

Goal:

The ultimate goal is that young people who try this game really know what happens when situations of Bullying occur, learn to detect them and help solve them.

Levels:

It will address 12-14 years old pupils and analyse the potential risks and challenges of the two themes, and specifically how confidence in behaviour changes through serious games.

• Spanish language here

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy
https://itcl.es/

Education:

Serious games have become a popular tool for knowledge transfer, behavioural, perceptual or cognitive change.

I included games in school lessons since 2005 in different contexts. Playing video games socially with classmates can boost a child’s soft skills, those 21st-century competencies that students should possess to be able to solve problems, compete and innovate in today’s interconnected world.

Soft skills include collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication.

The results of the Serious Games are aimed at improving the student's behavior in this specific topic : Bullying and safe Internet use in the case of "Go Online") and the user's appreciation of the behavior problematic.

Not only Serious games. Some other video games can be used in the classroom to help children develop an awareness of both their own and their peers’ emotions.

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy

https://itcl.es/

This Serious Game analyses the potential risks and challenges of the two themes, and specifically how confidence in behaviour changes through serious games. 

The results of the Serious Games are aimed at improving the user's behavior in the specific topic (Bullying in the case of School of Empathy and safe Internet use in the case of Cyber Bullying and the user's appreciation of the behavior problematic.

My usual readers know I write about Bullying and cyber Bullying in education since the beginning of my blog. The risks are enormous at school and on the Internet, often coming from classmates.

Bullying/ Harcèlement

My first project SOS Bullying au Collège (published June 2008) but developed in school in 2004, in French foreign language curriculum, and and published in France on educational website FLNet in 2005 (the site is no longer available). 

Students developed fantastic activities. Read the experience in French

Concours Non au Harcèlement

https://www.tes.com/

The project Concours Non au Harcèment (January 2018) in France had a huge success . Thousands of students and schools sent their videos or posters. Read here (French language).

There is another video game & app Daisy Chain (December 2015). The app is the sequel to the #1 Book App, Dandelion. 

Daisy Chain has been designed to help children guide the hero, Buttercup Bree, through pages of challenges and overcome the angry bullies. 

screenshot Serious Game School of Empathy

https://itcl.es/

The game School of Empathy has been made available for the 10 schools in the eConfidence pilot tests, in the experimental stage for the pupils participating. 

Following the completion of the pilot tests and upcoming project research results, more information on the game will be made available on the eConfidence website.

Note: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732420. 

G-Souto

28.05.2018
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