The academic year is almost over and so is our Global Scholars’ Project on building better and sustainable big cities for the future. In the link below, you can watch the video we have edited summarizing all the stages and work done during the process of designing and building up our vertical urban garden, the project we chose to do as our end-of- the-year Comunity Action Project.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we did while we were working on it! Best regards from the whole Bisbe’s Global Scholars’ Team: Aleix Aguilar, Madelenne Aguilar, Skarlette Asencio, Sonia Bautista, Luz Carela, Katia Coccilio, Daniel Conde, Emilia de los Santos, Mario del Río, Tomás Fernández, Andrea García, Alba Hernández, David Martín, Andrea Millán, Hamna Raza, Arnau Ribes, Kholoud Serroukh, Youcef Trabsa, Tania Toboso and Carlos Silva.
L’Institut Bisbe Berenguer participa al programa internacional Global Cities
L’Institut Bisbe Berenguer participa aquest curs al programa internacional Global Cities, que forma part de la iniciativa Global Scholars que fomenta la fundació nord-americana Bloomberg Philantropies. S’ha posat en marxa com a prova pilot a Catalunya i els alumnes de segon d’ESO del Bisbe Berenguer hi han participat tot preparant un jardí vertical mòbil.
La temàtica que s’ha abordat en aquesta edició del programa Global Cities té l’objectiu d’aconseguir fer les ciutats més sostenibles. Després d’un curs treballant temes de sostenibilitat, aquests alumnes de segon d’ESO de l’Institut Bisbe Berenguer han apostat per fer com a treball final un jardí vertical mòbil utilitzant garrafes d’aigua per fer els testos i un reg per degoteig.
Carlos Silva, coordinador del programa Global Scholar a l’Institut Bisbe Berenguer, explica que “són temes que busquen promoure Continua llegint →
El diari Ara ha publicat aquest dissabte, 21 de maig, al suplement d’educació de la seva edició impresa, un ampli reportatge sobre el primer any del projecte Global Scholars a Catalunya. Per l’elaboració de l’article, el diari ha contactat amb el nostre institut i s’ha interessat tant pel desenvolupament del projecte al llarg de l’any, com pel nostre projecte de fi de curs de construcció d’un hort urbà vertical al centre. A les imatges podeu llegir tot el reportatge i l’explicació del projecte en marxa del Bisbe Berenguer amb declaracions del professor responsable i fotografies dels alumnes participants.
Carlos Silva – Cap de Departament d’Anglès i responsable del projecte Global Scholars
As part of our Global Scholars project, the students from 2nd of ESO involved did a tour in our school to observe which features of the Bisbe Berenguer make it a sustainable building, and to suggest improvements or additions. We did the tour with one of the teachers of the Technology Department as a guide, and he explained to us the different sustainable traits of the building. During the tour we took notes, photographs and video recorded the things we saw during our visit. We went to different parts of the building to learn how it is powered, how waste is managed, how heating or cooling is conducted, and also learnt a lot of interesting things about the physical structure and facilities of the building.
We found out that our school is much greener than we thought and really sustainable compared to most schools in L’Hospitalet. To finish the tour we took a picture of the whole Global Scholars’ team on top of the roof of the school by the solar panels, a place we had never been to. It was a really interesting experience!
Last week our Global Scholar students took part in the first “Skype-a-thon!” organized by Global Scholars. The different schools in the international project were encouraged by the organizers to schedule as many video chats as they could during the week beginning on Monday, March 7th, to Friday, March 11th, with other classes from countries all over the world.
We took up the challenge and scheduled two Skype video chats, one with the Billabong High International School in Mumbai (India), and a second one with the Szkola Podstawowa nr 289 in Warsaw (Poland). It was a really exciting activity, and we enjoyed meeting students from these countries and sharing our Global Scholar experiences with them. We really had a good time and we are looking forward to repeating the experience.
As part of the deal, classes that conduct live chats during this week and post a video clip in the Global Scholar e-classroom by March 18th will receive prizes, so let’s keep fingers crossed and hope for the best!!
Dilluns 9 de novembre l’Institut va rebre la visita dels responsables del projecte Global Cities & Bloomberg Philanthropies per conèixer l’equip directiu, els professors i els alumnes que participen en el projecte Global Scholars i per assistir a una de les classes.
A continuació teniu l’enllaç a la nota de premsa de la fundació on s’explica la visita i es recullen les declaracions de Maialen Prieto, Cap d’Estudis i Carlos Silva, Cap de Departament de Llengües Estrangeres i responsable del projecte.
This year, our school participates for the first time in an international project called Global Scholars.
Global Scholars is an international online learning project that connects students in cities around the world and prepares them to become the next generation of global citizens. Engaging in activities both in the classroom and online, students ages 10-13 interact with their international peers, develop 21st century skills, and ultimately gain a broader perspective on the global world in which they live.
Each year, Global Scholars provides an original curriculum focused on a different topic of global concern, ranging from health and nutrition to environmental sustainability.This year, the project is called Building Better Cities and it deals on the challenges big citiesface, including climate change and growing populations, and how these impact our environment.
Global Scholars are students in cities around the world who communicate withtheir peers across continents and oceans, take an active interest in local and global issues, and work to improve their cities and the world. Being Global Scholars, our students gain global perspective as they share ideas and experiences through discussion forums and develop multimedia projects such as documentary videos and digital presentations. Students ultimately use their knowledge to improve their own communities and the world.
In the following video, the BisbeBerenguer’s 2nd of ESO students involved in the project explain what it means to them being a Global Scholar and what they would like to teach other Global Scholar from all over the world about L’Hospitalet and Barcelona.
