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TransMission for the Global Goals

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TransMission for the Global Goals

With this project the students will reach a better understanding of the issues at stake, and answer the question: what can we citizens do? How can we have an impact in our community to make the world a better place?
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals are world-changing objectives that will require global cooperation in the years to come. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, and civil society. As citizens, i.e. members of a local and global community, students have a part to play to contribute to a sustainable future. With this project the students will reach a better understanding of the issues at stake, and answer the question: what can we citizens do? How can we have an impact in our community to make the world a better place? This project will lead students to work together in teams by exchanging ideas on the different challenges they will have to face up to 2030. They will create together a collaborative e-magazine, and radio channel that will enable them to share their ideas and opinions with the world and to already start having an impact on their communities. The collaborative process throughout the project will require students to work in teams, exchange points of view, negotiate, reach agreements, and make decisions together in a respectful and democratic way.

Objectives
Objectives

• Raise students’ awareness of the challenges of sustainable development in the world and encourage them to be informed citizens so as to be able to take action. • Develop media education and media literacy through the active creation of different types of media (magazine, radio). • Prepare students for education in high school and beyond by developing cross-curricular skills such as research, autonomy, teamwork, initiative, critical thinking, creativity, communication in a foreign language, etc.

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Introduction of partners
Introduction of partners

Introducing the Global Goals to the students.1. Students get into national groups and introduce their groups. They describe themselves with a short description and a logo/icon which symbolizes their group (individual presentations can be done in a freer way in TwinSpace profiles) – teachers’ input: a first insight into the importance of logos (this can be done using the Sustainable Development Goals logos): what are logos/icons for? What makes a good logo/icon? etc. (this is also preparation for step 2 project logo creation). Tool: https://learningapps.org/, https://padlet.com/, http://en.linoit.com/… Interaction between students through comments on the walls (they can start looking for like-minded groups in the partner classes so as to be ready to team up later on). 2. Teachers introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to the students. Students create quizzes for their partners to check their global understanding of the goals – in order to make sure they have a common ground and can collaborate efficiently later. Tools: https://learningapps.org/, https://kahoot.com/, https://quizlet.com/… Interaction between students through the quizzes & games. 3. Students think about how the global goals relate to their own environment: school, home, town, region, country… How are they relevant? They present their environment to their partners through the lens of the Global Goals for example, a local association that fights against poverty, climate challenges and actions in my city, etc – they share a few photos and short descriptions. Tool: poster tool (https://www.genial.ly/, http://edu.glogster.com/, https://piktochart.com/, https://www.canva.com/ …)

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Orientation
Orientation

“On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Over the next 15 years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.” http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/1. Project logo Students create a logo to give a visual identity / public image to their project on the web. They suggest ideas, discuss them, vote for the best one. The logo chosen by the majority is uploaded in the logo section on TwinSpace. Tool: Tricider. The art teacher can contribute here. 2. Global Goals icons and themes – developing the students’ understanding of the issues at stake Help them reach a deeper understanding of the goals. Students discuss the 17 UN goals and vote for the top priorities in their opinions. A discussion can be organised on a Tricider or each national group can take a photo of themselves with the icon of the goal they’ve chosen as top priority, and justify their choice on a Padlet wall or similar tool; partners can react in the comments. This contributes to team-building as like-minded students get together (the groups get together according to their choice of ONE goal they’d like to investigate more in depth. They form international teams – one team = a few national groups.). A TwinSpace forum can be opened for the team-building process. 3. Brainstorming in teams Each international team is given a discussion wall (https://padlet.com/ or http://en.linoit.com/ or Learning Apps pinboard). They put together all their ideas / examples / questions about the goal they’ve chosen and start identifying more specific topics they’d like to work on.

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Collaboration
Collaboration

COLLABORATION Students work in transnational teams to create ONE short article and ONE radio show (per team). All articles and shows are put together at the end to create one common multimedia magazine. Focus of the article: the sustainable development issues at stake at global level. Focus of the radio show: some local solutions, positive actions taken to reach the UN goals. Collaboration takes place on a TwinSpace page (one per team / per goal) and on collaborative documents (Google doc, Framapad, Etherpad…) 1. Students in teams use the result of their brainstorming activity to decide together: • Step 1: Which question(s) they’d like to answer in their article. • Step 2: Which angle(s) they’ll choose for their radio show. For example if they work on Goal 12, Responsible Consumption, they can decide to focus on the problems of food waste and labour conditions, and on some solutions such as fair trade and the sharing economy. 2. Students in teams write a short collaborative news article about how each problem affects our world at global level. They collect information on the topics, organize the information to write one coherent article, illustrate it, and publish it (publishing tools: Issuu or Madmagz). Some templates and guidance can be provided by teachers on how to write an article, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/creativewriting/commissionsrev2.shtml or http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/writing-your-article. Students are also made aware of the issues of copyright (quoting their sources, finding creative commons images). 3. Students in teams write a script for a collaborative radio programme dealing with the solutions found at local level. After choosing an angle, they organize a debate, or interview experts, associations, people affected, students and teachers in their schools or passers-by in their cities. They organize all the information collected in the different countries to have one coherent script. Some templates and guidance can be provided by teachers on how to write a script and record a radio show, for example http://www.24hdansuneredaction.com/en/radio-en/. Students are also made aware of the issues of copyright (finding creative commons sounds for jingles). Students then record their radio shows and edit them (sound editing tool: Audacity); they are published (audio publishing tools: Soundcloud, Audioboom, Spreaker, etc) and added to the multimedia magazine. The music teacher can be involved at this stage. 4. Whole class activity: creation of a magazine cover. Volunteer students create magazine covers and all students vote for their favourite one (discussion and voting tool: Tricider). The art teacher can be involved at this stage. COMMUNICATION Communication takes place all along the collaborative process. To collaborate successfully and achieve a common coherent production, students in teams need to exchange ideas, negotiate, agree and compromise, update and encourage one another. Communication can take place in a TwinSpace forum with one dedicated thread per team.

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Evaluation & Assessment
Evaluation & Assessment

Step 1: peer and self-assessment of the results in teamsProofreading activity: a draft version of the magazine is published. Students read it and think about any improvements that could be made. Students make a list in a forum for instance. • Peer and self-evaluation of the podcasts on a wall (Padlet, Lino…): students comment on their team-mates’ contributions to the team’s radio show and on their own contributions (what did we do well, what can be improved, what did we learn?) Step 2: peer-assessment of the results as a whole group (all students involved in the project)Voting activity: students read the whole multimedia magazine and vote for the best articles / best radio shows (tools: Google Survey, Surveymonkey). Various categories can be created (best written, best illustrated, best teamwork, most interesting, etc.). • Students are invited to show appreciation and congratulate the best teams for their work – positive peer-evaluation is encouraged. They write a congratulatory note to the teams who did the best work in their opinion (tools: a wall or a TwinSpace forum). Step 3: project evaluation • Students sum up the project in 3 key words (tool: Answergarden) – 1 noun (a thought, 1 adjective (a feeling), 1 verb (an action) and thus create a collaborative recap wordcloud. • Students write a short comment using these words (Tools: Padlet, Lino, Pinboard) • Teachers evaluate the project: what worked best / what can be improved / how to improve it (Padlet, http://en.linoit.com/, Pinboard)

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Follow up
Follow up

Documentation: The TwinSpace pages follow the various steps of the project. They are made public at the end. Dissemination: The e-magazine is published and shared on the schools’ websites and a few copies per school can be printed and displayed in the school library, the town hall, etc. The radio shows are broadcast and shared on the schools’ websites and QR codes displayed around the school to encourage fellow students to listen to the shows. A specific Twitter hashtag is created – the links to the results are shared.

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Additional information

  • Age from:
    14
  • Age to:
    18
  • Difficulty:
    Intermediate