Thank you again, India!

Every time our team travels to India we learn a lot of things. The teacher training courses and workshops with children in Parikrma have already concluded, and the collaborative work between India, Colombia and Catalonia is in full swing (for example, there are more than 50 articles posted on the collaborative blog). 

During our weeks of work in South India we have also taken the opportunity to visit other educational projects, non-profit organizations and research groups (Shanti Bhavan, Ananya Trust, Project DEFY, Protovillage, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology). Bangalore is an exciting ecosystem where there are fantastic opportunities to learn about education, technology, creativity and development.

The images in this post summarize the activities we have been doing. They have been automatically generated (with Google Research's Storyboard app) from the videos we recorded during our stay.

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Creative, critical and collaborative learning activities from India

As the children's blog grows, and they begin researching this year's theme, a part of the Inventors4Change team has moved temporarily to India to conduct teacher training activities and workshops with children in the participating schools.

Teacher training is mainly focused on Scratch and collaborative digital storytelling. Workshops with children have also addressed these same topics, but also include low-cost robotics, computational tinkering, unplugged computer science and other activities.

The videoconferences between Catalonia, India and Colombia will start very soon, and then the children will carry out the online collaborative work to co-create digital stories on the theme "learning with and from old people".

As you can see, the project is going full steam ahead! :)

PS: photos by Jordifreix.

 

 

 

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First video presentations of this school year

The students of Petit Plançó School (Olot, Catalonia) were the first to share their video-presentations through the collaborative blog. More videos from Catalonia, Colombia and India will be coming soon.

After these first presentations and getting to know each other by exchanging messages, the children will begin to investigate this year's topic on their own: Learning from and with old people.

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Learning from and with old people

This is the fifth edition of the Inventors4change program. This school year the chosen topic that children will investigate is: "Learning from and with old people".

Children from 8 schools in 3 different countries (Catalonia, Colombia and India) will explore this topic, get to know each other, and carry out digital collaborative projects.

In the photo above these lines you can see the participating students of the El Petit Plançó School. And below, the participating students from Institut-Escola de Besalú and Parikrma Schools (Jayanagar and Nandini Layout). Soon we will also introduce you to the participating students from Colombia.

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Sharing examples of collaborative work

We are about to start a new school year in Inventors4Change, with participating schools from Spain, India and Colombia. We will tell you the news soon, but before that we want to share a couple of videos that show examples of collaborative digital stories designed and developed by children from Spain and India during the last academic year. The theme was Access to Education. The first story was led by children of Institut de Gurb, and the second by children of Escola Carme Auguet.

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