Connecting worlds is an online educational proposal which combines classroom activities with networking among students from 6 to 17 years old. The participants belong to different cultural, economic and social realities and attend school centres from all over the world.
Students interact and work through an online multilingual platform whose contents are available in 8 languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Galician, Catalan and Basque). The work is carried out in a cooperative manner in working teams of the same age range.
Each year tackles a specific issue related to Education for a Global Citizenship such as labour standards, climate change or poverty and there is a different educational proposal for each age group.
Author: OXFAM INTERMON
Year: 2015
Languages: Spanish
Typology of education resource : Class activity
GCE Issues: GCE issues
Author: OXFAM INTERMON
Specific sub-thematic area(s): employment rights, climate change, poverty, inequality, gender,
Key word(s):
Tags:
construction of identy , equal rights , relationships , roles , stereotypes
School subject(s)/field(s) of studies in which the educational resource can be used: Knowledge of the environment
Activity’ objectives:
Foster intercultural dialogue among girls and boys belonging to different social and geographic environments.
Facilitate an efficient space for cooperative working through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which enables mutual knowledge, sharing diverse realities and discovering common problems, based on the motto "think globally, act locally".
Using reflections on the close environment and knowledge of the reality of the remaining participants as a starting point become aware of the causes behind the fact that most of the world's population is not able to satisfy their basic needs, and the causes for the lack of opportunities. Jointly elaborate a commitment-proposal to change this reality.
Pupils’ learning competences (CGE) addressed: dignity, rights and responsibilities, injustice, Human Rights, gender equality, diversity and the multiple identities an
Methodology: Cooperative-learning, Debate (activity or competition or else)
Age range: 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-14
Link to website: http://www.kaidara.org/