Hack yor window with Scratch - Family creative learning

Now that, because of the confinement due to the COVID19, we look at the world from the window, in Inventors4Change we propose a family creative learning activity with Scratch, that can be done during the confinements.

Just take a picture of a window at home, and using Scratch, turn it into a computer game, or into an animated story, an art project, etc. The possibilities are endless, you just have to imagine.

Visit this website for tips and instructions, and if you participate don't forget to put your project in this Scratch studio.

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The GlobalChangemakers initiative starts again

From this October 2019 to March 2020, GlobalChangemakers is connecting again schools in several countries, promoting education for global citizenship, connected learning, and creative computing. 

During this school year, the theme that the children will investigate is “Climate Action”, related to UN Sustainable Development Goal 13. 

The participants in this edition are 20 classes of primary and secondary schools, from 5 countries, making a total of about 600 students.

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Inventors4Change - InventEUrs - GlobalChangemakers

For the last two years, thanks to a grant from the European Commission, the Inventors4Change team together with other European partners implemented the InventEUrs project, which has been replicating the Inventors4Change ideas, first in a network of European schools (Spain, Italy, Romania and UK) and then opening the initiative to the whole world thanks to the new GlobalChangemakers digital platform, one of the main results of InventEUrs.

From now on, GlobalChangemakers will be the platform that Inventors4Change will use for connections between teachers.

Here you can see a gallery with the children's final projects of this 2019 edition, in which more than 1000 children from 7 different countries have participated.

And here below is the Call for Teachers that we used to get schools to join the initiative.

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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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