Tinkering Schools.

I do believe that it is an excellent idea we can encourage in schools. I realized that sometimes children are running around in the streets because they dont have another thing to do, or sometimes the haven`t found in what they are interested in. Also, commonly in public schools there are a lot of economical and social problems and children get negatively influenced by those factors. It would be awesome if Chilean school integrate these children in some kind of workshops with different contents that you have in your subjects. For example, having music or art workshops children could develop skills that they dont used to do in class.

If the school doesnt have the resources to make these specials workshops, it is also good make proyects in your own subjects. I think that children are always expecting to recieve something satisfactory when they do things. So, making proyects to earn money to buy what you need or just having new experiences to make friends could be a great stimulus to help those children who dont like studing or who prefer to be in the streets.


Finally I believe that these kinds of courses can help children to decide what they are going to do in the future, and also knowing what their skills are. Most of the students from public schools do not study at university because of the money or because they dont want to, so, learning some useful features can be a way of working, or, in the best of the cases, a way in which children could get interested in study in order to learn more.

I admit that I do liked this proyect, and I would like to do something similar in my work experience or in the future.

Have a nice weekend!

Byeee

Sounds!

Having read the article inmediately remembered that the other day I was in my ELAB and I helped a classmate who was inventing an activity related with sounds. Children had to make sounds and others had to act what they heard. It was great! because there were scary story of halloween.
What I would do is something related with creativity. In these moments I am teaching 6 to 9 years old children and they love paint and draw. I would like to have a cd with many sounds from Chilean holidays and others that we dont used to hear. Children would listen to them and they would draw what they imagined. For example, they could hear some ships, guns and ocean sounds, and they could draw the Iquique´s naval battle. Then, they would explain to the class where is each sound in their drawings. Finally, they would paint it like they want.
Also I could do something similar with older kids. I would like to have many weirds sounds which dont represent any known. They could close their eyes and hear them for some minutes, then they could write a brief tale, story or personal experienced that they imagined hearing the sounds. Maybe is not an activity related with Chile but I think it is more meaningful for them to write and imagine things which are related with their lives and their tastes. I think it could be a really good idea an they would learn a lot about describe sounds and interpretate them.

See you!

Batgirl!