https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6 This Padlet represents my Learning Diary from the EuropeanSchoolNetAcademy MOOC "Space Awareness" en-us 2017-03-11 16:19:12 UTC 2024-11-18 19:36:25 UTC hello@padlet.com irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159442929 If you like the famous and mysterious site of Stonehenge, you should come and visit this little town in south Italy, where, only in 2002, people have found a megalithic structure which goes back to prehistory. No one still knows anything about it, but for sure it was built longer before the Greek arrived and colonized the shores of Calabria, giving life to the incredible civilization that was  Magna Graecia. Scientists think that it was built for astronomical and religious reasons (as for the quite similar monument sited in the south of England). It is the only archeological site with megalith discovered in Italy.
Come and visit this amazing site!!!!! ;)]]> 2017-03-11 16:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159442929 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159442956 Hello everybody!
My name is Irene and I'm Italian. I come from Calabria (south Italy), but right now I'm teaching English in a secondary school in Bergamo (which is in the north...).
I started this MOOC because I think that it connect all together some really interesting topics, which I want to list here: navigation, cultures and diversity, the universe, orientation and, last but not least, exploring discovering to open our minds. 
I hope I will be able to engage my students in studying this topic (and, specially, to find a way to link it with my English syllabus!).
Thank you!
Irene]]> 2017-03-11 16:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159442956 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443408 Test 1 Passed! Yeah]]> 2017-03-11 16:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443408 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443470 My first Badge]]> 2017-03-11 16:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443470 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443536 Badge 2]]> 2017-03-11 16:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443536 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443589 In this cloud I posted, together with my colleagues, three words that were meaningful for the topic: 
GEOGRAPHY
ORIENTEERING
WILDNESS]]> 2017-03-11 16:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443589 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443763 I chose this image to express my idea of navigation, because I think it tells how people, since ancient time, felt the need to move and explore new and unknown lands. I think that navigating is not only an unavoidable requirement for surviving, but also a feeling cast deeply inside the human soul. "Humans are not island", and that you can see through ages, since prehistory, in the urge to discover and explore new  places across the universe]]> 2017-03-11 16:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159443763 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444043 CURIOSITY
NO BORDERS
KNOWLEDGE]]> 2017-03-11 16:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444043 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444132 As everybody knows, Italy gave birth to many famous explorers, who literally changed to world, breaking the boundaries of the known lands and discovering new places, as Colombo and Vespucci did. But I wish to talk about Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller which may be not as famous as they are. He lived in the 14th century and he is famous mainly for his epic travels along China and other Asian countries. He wasn't to first one to reach China, but he wrote a long and detailed chronicle of his experience, telling all about the people he met and their cultures. His book was an inspiration for many travelers to come, included Colombo. Moreover, he influenced also the science of cartography. 
I like Marco Polo and his stories very much, because they represent the longing of the human being for discovering the unknown and breaking boundaries, without having fear of the diversity of the world]]> 2017-03-11 16:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444132 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444190 2017-03-11 16:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444190 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444321 I think that the Inquiry Based Learning is a teaching approach which focuses on the process more than the product. This is important because, as teachers, we have to help students to buil their own knowledge and to understand their cognitive and learning styles, more than fill them with new information which may or not will remembered in the future. This approach stands, in fact, on the constructive paradigm. The three ideas I would like to use in my classroom are: cooperative learning (because I think that it's incredible useful to construct the new knowledge all together within the peers), learning by doing (in the sense of making our students construct something), meaningful learning approach (which links the new knowledge with what the students already know).]]> 2017-03-11 16:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444321 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444428 2017-03-11 16:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/159444428 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160937658 Being able to tell the exact location is something that few of us can do without using the technological tools that modernity has provided us with. In order to accomplish this request, I would necessary have to use my smartphone or computer or tablet and, for example, I would send my location by using the app "Maps" and others like that. 
Technology helps us in our everyday activities and they represent a great deal... but, at the same time, we often forget why it's vital to keep on study geography or maths at school. I often hear comments made by my students which are mostly like "why do we need to study this subjects, these arguments!". I wish they could understand how we got to the knowledge we have today, how men from the past led us here, which path they took, which studies they followed and discoveries they made, in order to find out new things and evolve. The video about logarithms is really interesting in this sense, because it helps to understand why it has been and it is still important to study and use (without any technological devices) maths formulas.]]> 2017-03-18 15:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160937658 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160939258 According to me, what is interesting about these three videos, other than the subject of the lessons, is the different teaching/learning approaches that the three teachers used in their classrooms, which, I think,  can be synthesized as follows: learning by doing; cooperative learning; inquiry based learning. I think these are new types of methodology that should be applied in our classroom, because they are all students-centered, putting the learners at the centre of their process of knowledge acquisition. In my classroom (where I teach English language and culture), I'm trying to implement especially the cooperative learning, because my students show difficulties in cooperate one with the other. During my lessons, I always try to make them the real subject of the learning process, because I want them to be active and to think by themselves and built their own knowledge, even if it can be sometimes overwhelming! Another important think is to let them "construct something" - even if in a metaphorical way (because I really don't see how the "learning by doing" approach could be otherwise used in teaching English) - for example in formulating new sentences and speeches, making and rehearsing dialogues, translating or organizing role-play activities.]]> 2017-03-18 16:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160939258 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160941120 ;)]]> 2017-03-18 16:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160941120 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160941252 This module has been really interesting, for the different ideas proposed but also for the interviews taken about different (male/female) careers on projects about Space. It's challenging to see that it's really possibile, for our students, to find a career in space engineering if they want it and study for it! It's open to every bright mind! :)]]> 2017-03-18 16:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/160941252 irenesenatore https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/162569465 Talking about archeoastronomy: get students to know and think about how and why our ancestors used the sky to get oriented on earth.]]> 2017-03-25 15:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/irenesenatore/w7d0oosvydk6/wish/162569465