For this update I choose to write about the Global Goals for
Sustainable Development as a resource for innovative learning. They were
defined by World Leader members of the UN adopted Agenda 2030 in 2015 and they are consisted of seventeen goals for a better
world by 2030.
On the internet there are videos, icons, pictures, texts in many
different languages and these goals can be connected to projects and learning
sequences. A teacher can choose one of these goals and develop literacy using
the various available resources and even create more such as videos, short
texts, illustrations, and the like.
I believe a teacher could start with the situated practice or experiencing
in order to activate learners’schemata, and then plan activities to cover the
other areas. As the Global Goals and their targets relate directly to real
life, it is possible to think of campaigns or the creation of texts for
meaningful purposes for the Transformed Practice part.
I have developed a project aiming at raising my learners'
awareness to the importance of adopting animals instead of buying them and,
learners wrote short texts about cats for adoption. These texts were published
on the Facebook page of the shelter and it was shared with families and the
whole School community.
To sum up, the Global Goals have presented us with numerous
resources and it can be an innovative learning resource as lesson plans
can be developed with different kinds of media, learning can be reflexive and
contextualized. Moreover, we can actually change the world and help our
learners become critical citizens, reflect on the world around them and use this
knowledge to help build a better place.
Reference:
https://www.facebook.com/banhodegatos/photos/ms.c.eJw9zdsNwEAIA8GOImzCq~;~;GohzyfY6wlsS0BQddMNSTx2CHV5nJWOM6aK9ny7l2uf59Tsh9~_tSeWOtO7l7~;6KcXKW8~;1Get~_QGGhyav.bps.a.619804885204391/619805291871017/?type=3&theater accessed on
July 27th, 2019
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