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Networked Learning: Developing political thinking in relation to environmental issues.The Aleph School in Buenos Aires, and the Reut School in Israel will work jointly on the project of a game where children between the ages of 5 to 7, will use artistic expression, different notions and mathematic methods, and natural and political sciences. The main goal of the game will be the organization of collective action for the efficient, equitable and sustainable management of human and natural resources.
We consider that the psychological reasons of evolution, the socio-political context and the institutional context as well, justify the choice of the children’s age range.
The basic learning purpose is referred to natural resources, how best to use them and the result of the technological use of said resources on the one hand and, on the other, the construction of a political order, of main political systems and their advantages and disadvantages.
Work will proceed in five stages: meeting of the groups and learning to know each other so as to feel comfortable together; a journey into the past by means of a CD Rom and the later production, by each of the groups, of a film; teleconferences between the groups to review and criticize each other’s film; exploration of both countries in the present in relation with the environment, and then perform observations and work on direct experiences. at the end, they will build Imaginopolis, the orbital city where both groups will inhabit and so must be given the best possible physical, legal and political systems.
The children from both schools will design a page Web, for Imaginopolis.
Aleph Kindergarten and Primary School (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Judith FaifmanReut School (Israel)
Dina Artman, Mira Irving