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Guidelines to manage diversity and gender balance in the classroom through Space

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Guidelines to manage diversity and gender balance in the classroom through Space

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Gender stereotypes are defined between 5 and 7 years of age.
A beautiful way to help gender balance! (see the video)

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Inspiring The Future - Redraw The Balance

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"I think that space science can help breaking barriers, the idea of viewing Earth from a different point of view itself helps seeing everything from a different perspective, seeing how our point of view is just our point of view. This is a big lesson of tolerance itself. Things that are big here are irrelevant outside in the space. So here arises that there is room for everybody, and everybody can give his/her own contribution in terms of skills, new ideas, interpretation."  (Daniela... I couldn't say better)

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Module 4 - How to manage diversity and gender balance in the classroom.

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Module 4 - How to manage diversity and gender balance in the classroom.

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Very interesting issues. The activity "What is privilege?" is somehow enlightening (although not suitable for the age of my students). Some barriers in learning are effective and very clear to me (disabilities, ethnic issues) but I don't pay a great attention to the socio-economic background of my students: I simply see individuals, whatever is the social enviroment they come from. But viewing the video I' realized that, yes, having less than 50 books in your house could be a disadvantage (and having more could be a privilege)...

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Here a presentation on Story Maps by  Joseph Kerski
https://sway.com/1wqIVygyotLQ0ax1

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The most interesting tool introduced in Module 3 is 'Story Maps, s a tool that lets you combine maps with text, images and multimedia content.

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Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.

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Repository of ITC tools for teaching with Space and Astronomy

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Repository of ITC tools for teaching with Space and Astronomy

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r4D9qbIp3JVMnhCHpcyaFzhrlAcqhi1luHkn89edKLg/edit#gid=407416357
booklet on Citizen Science activities
https://issuu.com/unawe/docs/citizen_science_booklet/1?e=2518028%2F34581362

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Ispirare una nuova generazione di esploratori dello spazio

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Cerberus Game | Crowdsourcing, E-learning and Outreach

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The Cerberus Game platform: E-learning, Crowdsourcing, Outreach, and Serious game initiative

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Space and Astronomy  Citizen Science Projects

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Space and Astronomy  Citizen Science Projects

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This year our 8th grade students are going to research about Mars. So interesting tools and projects could be those:

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Many years ago I took part in SETI@home -- Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and it was exciting!!

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Citizen Science is the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research.
Citizen Science projects are about many different topics.
Taking part in  a ITC based Citizen Science project allow students
- to be involved in a real scientific research (at different levels)
-  to become part of a large international comunity
- to use ITC tools in interesting ways.

Always think about how the students will be involved in the project you choose!

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The most interesting is Padlet.
I must take a look at  Kahoot.

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Module 3 - Use of ICT Tools in the Science Classroom

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Module 3 - Use of ICT Tools in the Science Classroom

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Become familiar with the concept of Citizen Science and explore existing resources ... this is an exiciting goal!

How to use technology in the classroom.
First of all:
1) Technology is simply a tool to aid learning and education.
2) Technology is not to be taught as a separate subject.
Then
3) Interactive witheboard not necessarily improves a  student centered learning; it is useful, but it leads to more and more teacher talking time! It is not enough (alas, it's true...).
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4) Allow students to do a lot of research on facts using the Internet: they will learn research skills of great value.
5) Improve critical thinking: evaluating  the accuracy of online content is very important in the 21st century eduction.
6) Teach responsibility and ethics in online behavior.
7) Technology is very powerful in promoting and developing collaboration among students (and teachers)
8) Use technology for designing creativity: students can create different types of digital content (written, audiovisual, music, etc.).

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How to Use Technology in Education 💻🎓 (21st century education)

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Steps for teachers for successful Inquiry in the class

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Steps for teachers for successful Inquiry in the class

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1) get to know your students (students' interests and learning styles)
2) create a safe learning enviroment (promote work group, award students by displaying their work, support different learning styles)
3) Introduce rules (and reinforce them throughout the classes)
4) start with mini-inquiries

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MOOC1-Module2: Keys for successful inquiry in the science classroom

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Traditional learning vs Inquiry based learning

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Traditional learning vs Inquiry based learning

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Module 2 - Working with Inquiry in the Science Classroom

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Module 2 - Working with Inquiry in the Science Classroom

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I'm a Language and Literature teacher, not a Science teacher. Nevertheless, I think that - whatever subject you teach - it is better to actively involve students in  the learning process.  This is also a key idea in "Nuove Indicazioni per il curricolo - 2012" (Italian National Guidelines for the Curriculum).
In my school, the traditional teaching style, based almost exclusevily on teachers' lectures, is still very common, and many collegaues are diffident about a different approache.
I'm trying to improve my teaching practice, and probably some characteristics of the Inquiry Based Education are already part of my teaching style. This is the result of  my initial self-reflection activity : "Towards a student-centered approach. Your teaching style is towards a student-centered approach. Your classes include both lecturing and discussion. During activities, students have several degrees of freedom and you try to cover both content and the development of students’ skills."

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students activities

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“Space Scoop” is a very rich and captivating web resource, it’s a pity that it isn’t translated in Italian! Probably I will use some of these wonderful photographs, like this (Reull Vallis - Mars), suitable for students to observe, discuss and make ipotheses.

Space Scoop URL http://www.spacescoop.org/en/

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I agree with the sentence “space sciences embody a unique combination of science, technology and culture and serve as vehicle for capturing the imagination of young people.” Last year we proposed to our 8th grade students a multi-disciplinary project about space, and it has been a very positive, motivating and engaging experience. I noticed that our pupils’ interest for this topic was authentic and I think  that their wonder and curiosity won’t be only temporary.

I also know that Space is linked to everyday life in multiple ways and that, at school, is rather easy to find links between this mainly scientific topic and  other subjects. As a teacher of Italian Language and Literature I can submit to students Science Fiction stories and novels, poems inspired by starry skies, mythology; students can improve their language skills reading, writing and talking about these topics. As a History teacher I can introduce the history of ideas about the nature of the universe, or I can examine with student the history of Space exploration, realizing also timelines.

According to me, the most interesting idea of this module,  is the idea of ‘global citizenship’ : approaching these themes students could understand how our planet is a fragile and to be protected“ pale blue dot”; how, looking Earth from Space, there are no frontiers; we all belong to the same mankind and must cooperate. That could be an antidote to intolerance.

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The school I teach at is small. It's in a mountain village, in a rather depopulated area of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines; the nearest town is about 80 km far.
This year the pupils are few (only 26). There are two classes; one is a mixed-level class (‘pluriclasse’) where 6th and 7th grade students are together.
I can meet my collegues only once or twice a week, as they work also in other schools. They often come and go and only the Maths and English teachers and I are permanent members of the staff.

In our school there are three classrooms, all with an interactive whiteboard; we have at our disposal some laptops, some personal computers and two tablets; there is also a good Internet connectivity. That helps us to go beyond our geographical isolation.

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Hi, everybody! My name is Cristina. I live in Italy, in a small mountain village in the Northen Appenines. I teach Italian Language, History and Geography at a lower Secondary School. My students are 11 - 14 years old.

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"Teaching with Space and Astronomy in your Classroom"

September, 5 - October, 16 2016