No to Discrimination eTwinning Project

 

The Science and Maths third grade students took part in an interdisciplinary , bilingual eTwinning project dealing with fighting different forms of discriminations . There was a quality exchange between all the students from Bachir Nabheni High school and their peers from other schools in France, Romania and Italy. The project is both in French and English. 

"Non à la discrimination" No to Discrimination  project aims to be interdisciplinary, unifying and effective.

Through the activities, we want to bring the students to:

• become aware of the seriousness of discrimination,
• become familiar with collective projects and strengthen their sense of belonging to a large heterogeneous community by developing the notions of diversity and solidarity through several ideas: games, screenings, group actions, etc.
• become future good, respectful citizens who act actively to fight against unfair practices and communicate human values ​​such as mutual aid, the rejection of prejudices and inequalities.
• have a sense of commitment to solidarity actions.
• be sensitive to the duty of memory by studying the history of characters who fought discrimination in their time through personal or collective actions.
• learn to unmask discriminatory practices.
• use as many  ICT tools as possible provided by the eTwinning platform or elsewhere.

The different activities of the project were rich and culminated in the creation of a card game to help inform learners and people who play it in general about the fight against discrimination of many people nowadays and history. 

Bravo to our students and to their peers from the other partner schools. Below is our card game have fun discovering it!

Jeu de cartes Non à la Discrimination

Looking Ahead to the Future: Grandma Stories in 2080

    We definitely still cherish our childhood memories of our grandparents telling stories. Most of us would not remember most of those stories. And I'm afraid that one day we lose that cultural heritage. Because it is important for the future generations to be rooted in their own culture and open to other nations, Grandma Stories in 2080 is a collaborative writing project that starts from the partner countries cultural heritage of tales grandparents or parents would tell their grandchildren/children. Furthermore, stories are powerful tools for education and to create change. Through storytelling, students reflect on serious issues such as environment, quality education, gender equality, peace, and justice while developing their language skills and creativity! The students taking part in the project co-write Grandma Stories to her grandchildren. As for the themes evoked in the stories, they are inspired from the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

 

    Grandma Stories in 2080 is an eTwinning collaborative story writing project. That includes 3 schools from Tunisia and  other schools from European countries. 

   

    As mentioned above this is a collaborative project that promotes cultural understanding through digital storytelling. The students from the different countries in the project collect stories narrated by their grandmathers in their native language and share them online in the form of podcasts and subtitled videos. The following padlet is a collection of the Tunisian stories translated to English by the Tunisian students.  

    Through listening to the diffrent stories, the students notice the structure of a narrative in order to write one. They also notice that there are similarities in fairy tales in different countries with more or less some change. The years of 2080's will be a time when the students taking part in the project would be grandparents. In this project, they write their own stories, the stories they would tell to their grandchildren, inspired from the #SDGs. What is particularly worth noting is that the project goes beyond merely sensitizing the students about global issues to  urging them to take action  to tackle real world problems and write a better version story of their future.

You can find here the final products of the project with a description of the collaborative process.

Collaborate Online via Voicethread

         

    Voicethread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos, and to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or videos, or video comments. The following is a speaking activity. Students leave their answers in comments. Student A asks his/her classmate about his/best friend by leaving a comment. Student B describes his/her friend in a comment. And, they swap roles.

MOOCS For Learners of English

   
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Lesson 9 : Who was the Man?

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Now, assess your ability to choose effective verbs, adverbs and illustrations to increase the impact of a horror story and make it scarier. Explain the reasoning behind some of your choices.

Super stories: verbs and adverbs: assessment - (TLF L8469 v2.0.0)