* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download INNIVATIVE RESEARCH CONCERNING PRODUCTS AND …
Climate change adaptation wikipedia , lookup
German Climate Action Plan 2050 wikipedia , lookup
Economics of global warming wikipedia , lookup
Climate change and agriculture wikipedia , lookup
Climate governance wikipedia , lookup
Climate change in Tuvalu wikipedia , lookup
Solar radiation management wikipedia , lookup
Attribution of recent climate change wikipedia , lookup
Citizens' Climate Lobby wikipedia , lookup
Media coverage of global warming wikipedia , lookup
Low-carbon economy wikipedia , lookup
Scientific opinion on climate change wikipedia , lookup
Climate change in the United States wikipedia , lookup
Effects of global warming on Australia wikipedia , lookup
Effects of global warming on humans wikipedia , lookup
Public opinion on global warming wikipedia , lookup
Mitigation of global warming in Australia wikipedia , lookup
Climate change, industry and society wikipedia , lookup
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme wikipedia , lookup
Surveys of scientists' views on climate change wikipedia , lookup
Politics of global warming wikipedia , lookup
Climate change and poverty wikipedia , lookup
DEVELOPING A NEW PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH TO TEACH TOPICS RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE Adriana Alexandru1, Eleonora Tudora1, Ovidiu Bica1 and Rayner Mayer2 1National Institute for Research and Development 2University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 1. Institute for Education, University of Reading, UK; 2. Ecoserveis, Barcelona, Spain; 3. Commune di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; 4. National Institute for R&D in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania; 5. Hespul, Lyon, France; 6. Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, Szentendre, Hungary. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 6 principal partners from 6 Member States who will organise and resource the network activities; 36 schools willing to trial initially the network resources to enhance their science teaching and to form partnerships with schools in other countries to share ideas and experiences; 20 associate partners who will support the network activities and help disseminate the network outputs. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The world has to stabilise global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2015 in order to prevent irreversible changes in climate. Pressure on resources, changes in climate, the inability of species to migrate changes will lead to regional conflicts and further environmental degradation. This will require a shift from a carbon based to a carbon free society. Within the UNESCO decade for promoting Education for Sustainable Development initiative (ESD) which forms part of the Kiev agreement, limiting climate change is a priority topic. Science has to lead the way to more sustainable use of energy which can be explored and discussed in lessons thus making science very relevant to every day life. Identifying appropriate solutions to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the home by up to 80% is very challenging. Substituting renewable energy sources for fossil fuels and will lead to new job opportunities and careers requiring appropriate local solutions. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Tackling climate change represents a huge challenge. By 2050 global emissions need to be less than half of what they are today if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Even with action to reduce emissions, some warming is inevitable and we will need to adapt to things like more frequent heat waves and floods. So tackling climate change needs a dual approach: Actions to mitigate – to reduced greenhouse gas emissions; Actions to adapt – to improve the way we cope with climate change. The challenge of climate change requires not only an understanding of how our actions influence the world’s climate, but also an understanding that our actions can make a difference to addressing the problem. Solutions will involve local actions such as using less energy and switching to renewable and lower carbon energy sources. Actions at the local level can also help us adapt – such as green planting to improve shade, increasing biodiversity and more sustainable use of water. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Develop EU wide network of schools. This EU project has a strong focus on building links between UK schools and partner schools across Europe. We aim to develop a thriving and sustainable network with an emphasis on sharing experiences, diversity and culture. Enhance teaching and learning. The project aims to provide access to a wide range of teaching resources, to support and provide training for teachers, to make science learning interesting, to develop new teaching approaches and embed climate change in the curriculum. Encourage positive action. Collective and individual action to tackle climate change is a key element of the project. Schools can act as a catalyst for action, to encourage whole community involvement, to engender lifelong learning and develop life skills. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Preparatory work has been undertaken which has developed and trailled multi lingual resources for students and their families which are ready for replication and diffusion through a network. The global aim of the network will be to: expand the resources, develop teacher training methods including distance learning, involve schools and link these across country borders. The network will support teachers in providing science lessons which will encourage sustainable solutions to energy use in their homes. By promoting the interchange of ideas, observations and reflections, the network will help develop a European consensus on building a carbon-free energy society . CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Schools face the challenge of including within their lesson plans education for sustainable development of which limiting climate change is a priority topic; so there is a need for - compiling suitable resources for teaching such multi-disciplinary topics; developing a teaching and learning process which will make such scientific topics more interesting to students and relevant to their lifestyle; creating an understanding about the ever increasing need to use energy more sustainably to preserve life on earth.. The principal partners will be able to help such schools as they have developed suitable multi-lingual resources for teachers as well as students [www.eais.info and www.kyotoinhome.info] which link cause and affect and suggest actions which enable energy to be used more efficiently and introduce non polluting sources of energy. The associated partners will be able to assist in developing such resources and learning methods either through their specialised interests or through their activities to promote more sustainable use of energy. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA collating and reviewing existing teaching resources to ensure consistency with new understanding of causes and impacts; assessing existing teaching methodologies in learning of multi-disciplinary science based topics, improving the pedagogy and assessing the impact in network schools; monitoring the teaching and learning process of limiting climate change and diffusing new knowledge through sharing with partner schools and other members of the network proving that cognition leads to effect; CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA involving each participating class and school to undertake one action a year to limit climate change; assessing the impact of that action by metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of actions; organizing an annual network event during which the resources, methodologies, pedagogies and actions are reviewed and improved for the following year (Barcelona – 2011, Reading – 2012, Budapest-2013); making publicity and communication for enabling network members to communicate effectively with their partner schools and other network members on a regular basis; to share information, observations, approaches to learning and successful actions; to publicise network activities by working with other networks and taking part in workshops and conferences; to develop and populate a multi-lingual website (www.changingwithclimate.info) with information for both members and prospective members. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The global aim is to raise awareness by informing and educating teachers, students and their families so that they can do something in their homes to save energy and help their country and the EU to reach its Kyoto targets. The existing resources and trials are extended to cover the possible introduction of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources concepts into energy efficient homes. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Resources and lesson plans The resources are primarily in the form of activities which comprise: background information to introduce the topic, • worksheets for students, • notes for teachers. • Because of the nature of the observations and discussions, these activities are best undertaken in small groups, where students can exchange information and arrive at some conclusions. The principal role of the teacher is to introduce the topic and facilitate and summarise the conclusions of the various groups. School Activities Many activities have been developed and are being trialled to illustrate subject topics. These activities can comprise one or more parts of a lesson and lesson plans can be used to link to specific themes or topics in various disciplines. What classes joining the network should do is to link relevant climate change topics in various subjects so that students understand the causes and impacts as well as the need for action. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Romanian partner organized a training course for schools (September 2011). The five schools that has been involved in the first year of the project were invited, each of them involving 2 teachers. Considering the recruitment of schools from Romania, 4 schools sent their profile in order to be uploaded to the website. At the School day, the debate focused around the following themes: held lessons on topics of global warming and climate change, future planned activities, views and presentation of posters made by students. Climate change poster presented during the School day CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The Open University of Cataluña was the venue for the 1st annual meeting of our Changing with the Climate network. France, Italy, Romania, Hungary, United Kingdom and Spain were each represented by their network partner and teachers from two schools who had signed up as network members. The opening event was a guided visit of the new Science Museum which has a very extensive set of working exhibits to illustrate scientic concepts which form the basis of our current technological society. The opening lecture was given by Jordi Pigem who described how our energy usage had evolved since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Eleven teachers from five countries then described some of their activities they had undertaken with their students to understand and to initiate actions to limit climate change. The audio visual evidence presented by the teachers illustrated that the students had accepted the need for change; they had enjoyed the challenge of deciding what actions were needed and how they would inform and influence other students and their families. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Participants at the first Annaual Event in Barcelona 11 Romanian schools associated with the network was described by teachers from Bucharest and Targoviste (Dambovita County). The teachers pointed out that the main objectives of the schools involved: • introducing climate change as a main topic during their lessons concerning sustainable development • adopting an inter- disciplinary approach • using interactive methods and techniques in order to raise interest in climate change issues among students. • implementing a “Code of Manners” in the network schools during the following years, which should include behavioural changes such as: a rational use of energy, a School Energy Saving Plan, unplugging devices (TVs, faxes, computers, etc) at the end of school programme, turning off the lights whenever they aren’t needed, finding school partners over Europe in order to exchange ideas, opinions and create common activities and encouraging community involvement and develop life skills. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA A workshop was held at Voievodul Mircea High School, Targoviste, Dambovita County, on June 14, 2012, which highlighted the experiences of various regional high schools and colleges in protecting the environment and was reflected in network member’s actions. Students and teachers from the following schools participated: "I.H. Rădulescu“ Targoviste, "Aurel Rainu" Fieni, "Petru Cercel“ Târgovişte, "Bălaşa Doamna" Art High School Târgovişte and "Voievodul Mircea" Târgovişte. The workshop sessions were coordinated by Adriana Alexandru from the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest and Nicolae Olariu from Valahia University of Targoviste. Students and teachers presented the results accomplished in environment protection or climate change effects limitations campaigns and promoted the World Water Day and World Environment Day in their schools. Every participant highlighted the positive experience acquired during his participation in this educational network. Teachers of the two best presentations were invited to participate in the second annual meeting of the network in Reading. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The main event was a one day workshop on teacher training education in which various pedagogical aspects were discussed and developed. Teachers from all six countries in the Network joined with other teacher educators in October 2012 at Reading University's Institute of Education. We shared our news and activities through posters provoking much discussion and learning about each other's cultures. A full day training event combined practical work on climate science knowledge, with pedagogical activities such as a game and how to interpret graphs. There have been positive evaluations of this event which was subsequently used in a cross border workshop held in Toulouse with French teachers. However the poster session provided a good overview of what was being done in member schools and the twinning session resulted in new links being created between schools. Face to face contact is always more useful in initiating partnerships than contact at a distance. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA ” APPLICATION TO JOIN NETWORK AS A MEMBER Our school/class is interested in joining the network which will link other schools/classes throughout Europe in a common effort to limit impacts of and adapt to the changing climate. We realise that positive action is required and we are willing to: 1. 2. 3. undertake a small number of lessons each year (say 5) which link the causes, impacts and options for limiting climate change; undertake one individual action and one collective action annually to limit climate change; share our observations and actions with a partner school/class in another country. The network will initially link schools in the countries in which the partners are active that is UK, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Romania. If your school has links with schools/classes in other European countries then you should invite them to join the network. The network is collating suitable resources and is developing methods of supporting teachers and classes in using these resources and linking to topics within the national curriculum. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA APPLICATION TO JOIN NETWORK AS A ASSOCIATE MEMBER All the available evidence suggests that only a few years remain in which to stabilise the concentration of greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere to prevent irreversible changes in climate. To mitigate and adapt to changes in the climate is a huge task which should start in schools and be incorporated into the lifelong learning process. The network is collating suitable resources and is developing methods of supporting teachers and classes in using these resources and linking to topics within the national curriculum. The role of the Associate Member in each country is to help schools/classes understand likely impacts and assist where possible with local actions to reduce their carbon footprint. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA Details of: which classes; how many pupils. topics covered with relation to climate change. Collecting the data about each school in order to be uploaded to the web site. 16 Romanian schools are now part of CwC network Each school is required to link with a partner school in another country, to share activities, and you should let us know if this has been done. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA There are already some resources: KYOTO IN HOME HANDBOOK (www.kyotoinhome.info); GREEN PACK (www.greenpack.org); TREAM – EAIS APPLICATION (www.eais.info). We have collected any others resources: EYEMANAGER GUIDE; http://www.changingwithclimate.info/index.php/ro/resurseeducationale/external-resources/104 CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The education of the young generation in climate change, energy saving, rational use of energy and renewable energy sources is a key factor for creating responsible future energy consumers. Through developing suitable resources it will be possible to help people to understand and appreciate the environment and their role with respect to sustainable development, to determine them to change their patterns of consumption and investment in order to become sustainable citizens. Sustainable Energy is not only an environmental necessity; it makes economic and social sense. Students and their families are willing to change the way in which they view their use of energy provided that they have sufficient knowledge and understanding of why such changes are necessary. The work must be carried forward until all students in all schools throughout the EU become involved in limiting climate change through reducing environmental emissions from their homes. CYNERGY – 1st FOCUS April 25 2013 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA The 9-th edition of INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING November 22-23 2011, TARGOVISTE, ROMANIA