A Study Day: The Students and the Use of Social Media

The Ministry of Education organised, on the 23rd of November 2020, a study day at the International Language Center, LAC where students, teachers, and specialists in psychology, sociology, NGOs, Internet security experts gathered to discuss the hot issues of students and the use of social media. The students shared their experiences on how they use social media. The participant experts stressed the hazardous effects of excessive social media use. While the Internet safety experts focused on the dangers and how to responsibly protect oneself from potential abuse. Our students were represented by 2 of their peers during that event. They have also prepared a presentation about the wise use of the internet. The Study Day recap shared in the Ministry of Eduacation official page (The link) .

Safer Internet Day

The participation of our students in Safer Internet Day

eTwinning Annual Conference Ceremony

 

Each year a number of teacher have the priviledge to attend the prestigeous eTwinning annual conference. This year, Mrs Hayfa MAJDOUB from Bachir Nabheni School, was one of the awarded teachers in the age categories 12-15. We share here a video of the awaring ceremony, with her project collaborators.

Awareness about Global Issues is Nurtured at School

No matter how small of an impact our action had on the planet, we are proud of our accomplishment. The students are determined to have it followed by other actions in our school whether in eTwinning or other, we'll inspire other schools and people to act and make a difference for the enviornment and their communities in their turn.
The following video is about the campaign organized by the #eTwinpreneurs .

The following are also some more pictures from the campaign.

Poster creation for the Tree Planting Campaign

Preparation for the school event involves many students, each one with a different task. A commited second year student created a poster for the school event to happen on Friday, November 15. Another one volunteered to create an event on facebook to advertise for the event they organise. Many other students are doing on field visits to ask for the support of local authorities in Hammam-Lif to support their action. More details will be shared soon in a report about it.

Climate Action: A Tree Planting Campaign at School

Nabheni Secondary School eTwinprneurs, who are a group of students from different clubs at the school, are organizing an action to plant trees at the school garden. The campaign will take place on Friday, November 15th, 2019 starting from 13:00 pm. The participating volunteers are invited to bring a tree, a plant, or flower to plant in the school yard.

The aim behind this action is to make the school a pleasant studying environment by embellishing its garden. The main goal, however, is for students develop and run an action project or campaign related to climate protection as part of their actions to embed the Global Goals in their school projects and their community.

With joined efforts and more conciousness, we can improve the planet's situation, stop climate change and avoid our decay. Every small action matters.

"Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity."

Ban Ki-moon

We need you...your school needs you...the Earth needs you. We are waiting for you this Friday, will you answer the call? Feel free to join and share our event with your schoolmates.

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.