Ancestral School / Learning and Communication in the School


We plan to attract our kids to the school through a transversal methodology we have called “Community Reporters: Learning and Communication in the School”.
By bringing cameras, microphones, web media development and radio, we will build a linked with languages, history and social studies to learn according to our time.  
Thus, we’re going to develop an alternative education plan in public schools.


Context

We want our youth to participate in the School, but it seems that they are not attracted to it and desertion statistics grow everyday.  Special Needs Districts, those called Abbot, urge strategies not just in funding but also in the way we teach.  World and circumstances change every minute nowadays.  

Modern Pedagogy Methodologies identify that the classroom is becoming obsolete and traditional classes discourage students. 

Newark should also be seen as a growing district and in need of commitment and belonging.  Using Communications, students will explore not only the combination of technical procedures with curriculum courses, but also understand issues related to their environment and community.

With all that in mind, we designed and offer the following Educational Plan for Public Schools.


Step-by-Step Methodology


We will start with a prototype program that can be applied in one of our schools.  Regarding what Modern Pedagogy says, everyone learns in different way, thereby we will call High School Students interested in being part of the program. This is the deal: anyone in the program, and according to the facilitator, will receive scores that must be part of their final evaluation in history, languages, social studies and social service.

Let’s take two things in consideration.  First, What communications studies teach us is how to become a researcher and how to transmit that information.  Then, they will learn by their own means, with the right guidance.

Second, if we keep in mind Modern Pedagogy, we all learn, at any age, by playing. So, what we do with microphones, computers, cameras, is to bring avant-garde “toys” to our youth to learn while playing a role that may be their future.



January 16th, 2018
Written by Nestor Cristancho




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