Chile: Kids need equality / Los niños precisan igualdad

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Chile: Kids need equality / Los niños precisan igualdad

Up & Coming filmed a report about the complex educational system of Chile for Euronews “Learning World”

Chile is the Latin American country closest to achieving the Millemium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the Millennium Government Network, with one third of the goals on schedule to to be met by 2015.

In the last decade, Chile has made significant progress in education, enrolling most children in primary schools. However, it still faces the issue of segregation, in a highly unequal society, where the rich study with the rich and the poor with the poor.

Even if Chile reaches a third of its MDGs, there is still a lot of work to be done, according to UNESCO. We interview the president of Educación 2020, Mario Waissbluth, who talks about an “educational apartheid”.

You can watch the report bellow or the complete programme Still too many children not getting an education at Euronew’s website.

Chile es el país latinoamericano más cercano a lograr los Objetivos del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas, según Millennium Government Network, con un tercio de los objetivos alcanzados para 2015.

En la última década, Chile ha hecho progresos significativos en la educación, inscribiendo la mayoría de los niños en las escuelas primarias. Sin embargo, aún enfrenta el problema de la segregación: los ricos estudiancon los ricos y los pobres con los pobres.

Aunque Chile alcanzara un tercio de sus objetivos, todavía hay mucho trabajo por hacer, según la UNESCO. Para este reportaje de Euronews, entrevistamos al Presidente de Educación 2020 y fuimos a filmar al Colegio Bélgica de La Granja, una comuna al Sur de Santiago de Chile.

Ahí, todos los alumnos provienen de familias pobres. Jean tiene 13 años y está apunto de terminar el ciclo de educación primaria. Ahora está pensando a qué escuela secundaria irá y no sabe si elegir un centro situado en los suburbios más desfavorecidos o ir a otro de un barrio rico, como hizo su prima.

La segregación en las escuelas sigue siendo patente, según el informe Pisa. Poco más del 20% de los estudiantes consigue integrarse socialmente en los centros escolares del país, mientras que el promedio de los países de la OCDE es del 50%.

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Chile: Education and sickness, in Euronews

News channel Euronews aired a report filmed by Up & Coming in their weekly show about Education “Learning World” last August.

We filmed a day of Jenny Salas, a hospital teacher for 9 years now. She works for a pioneering NGO called Fundación Carolina Labra Riquelme, which has helped educate 60.000 hospitalised children so far. She explained: “What we have to do is reconsider the work we do in the classroom, partly to compensate for them being here. We try to make the time we are with them, whatever it is, the best, and the most normal as possible for them.”

The NGO was set up in 1998 by Sylvia Riquelme, the mother of a woman who died in a car crash, but who had spent time in hospital as a child. During that time, her mother, the president of the Carolina Labra Riquelme Foundation, was solely responsible for her education. She remembers teaching one child with cerebral palsy: “One girl had amazing achievements. The only thing she wanted was to study, to be trained, she learned to read, to say a few words, and most importantly, got onto a training course, something that neither she nor her mother had ever dreamed of.”

We went to two of their schools in the country: Hospital del Pino and Clínica Indisa to film and appeared in local websites related to the proyect.

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Up & Coming went to film in Poland for Euronews

Support for women who are social entrepreneurs

Up & Coming made this interesting TV report in Poland last month for TV show “Learning World” of Euronews.

We see an international organization, Ashoka, that helps young entrepreneurs set up their own social business, and it is present in 85 countries. Sylwia Chutnik is one of the network’s so-called “fellows” in Poland. A novelist, tour guide and entrepreneur, she has set up the MaMa Foundation to help working mothers. Also, we interviewed Katarzyna Winkowska, a social entrepreneur to help teachers to develop their profession through new technologies.

La promoción de la mujer líder en Polonia

Up & Coming filmó este interesante reportaje en Polonia el mes pasado para el programa de TV “Learning World” de Euronews.

El vídeo muestra cómo varios proyectos sitúan a Polonia, único país de Europa que no ha caído en recesión durante la crisis, como uno de los núcleos fértiles en donde se cultiva el liderazgo individual para promover la excelencia social.

Ashoka es una red global de emprendedores sociales y Sylwia Chutnik, una de sus beneficiarios. Novelista, guía turística y emprendedora, ha creado la fundación MaMa que ayuda a madres trabajadoras. Además, entrevistamos a Katarzyna Winkowska, una emprendedora social que ayuda a profesores a desarrollar su profesión a través de las nuevas tecnologías.

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The serious side of playing games / Aprender jugando

Can our children learn while having fun playing video games?

In Scotland, the answer is yes. In 2006, “The Consolarium” , a learning method based on video games, was created there.

Up & Coming went last April 2013 to a primary school in Kirkcaldy, half an hour’s drive from Edinburgh.

Professor Jennifer Harvey was the first to use video games as a teaching method in St Marie’s RC Primary School. Since last January, six year-old students there learn while  playing. What are they doing today? We filmed them playing with Mossy Monsters, an online game for kids, where they may adopt a monster and look after it.

Watch this video which was aired in Learning World TV show of Euronews to find out more:

¿Pueden aprender nuestros hijos mientras se divierten con vídeojuegos?

En Escocia dicen que sí. En 2006, ahí se creó “The Consolarium”, un método de aprendizaje basado en los vídeojuegos. Escocia ha mantenido durante más de tres siglos un sistema educativo  propio al margen de Gran Bretaña, estado al que pertenece desde 1707.

Up & Coming fue en abril de 2013 a un colegio de primaria en Kirkcaldy, a una media hora de Edimburgo. La profesora Jennifer Harvey ha sido la primera en apostar por los vídeojuegos como método de enseñanza en  el colegio St Marie. Desde el pasado enero sus alumnos de seis años aprenden mientras juegan. ¿Qué están haciendo hoy? Les hemos grabando jugando a los Mossy Monsters, un juego online para niños, en el que los niños adoptan un monstruo y cuidan de él.

Averigüa más en este reportaje que emitió en el programa Learning World de Euronews en:

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Changing Roles: teacher in Spain, student in Plymouth / De vuelta a las aulas

Changing Roles: teacher in Spain, student in Plymouth

Up & Coming went to film in Plymouth, The United Kingdom, and in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain, a new TV report for programme “Learning World” of Euronews. In “Changing Roles: teacher in Spain, student in Plymouth”, we spend time with Ana María Pulido, a Spanish primary school teacher. We follow her from the school in Boadilla del Monte at which she teaches to the University of Marjon, in Plymouth. We watch how she improves her English with a local family and comes every day to a training course for Spanish teachers at the University. They learn how to teach their students in English.

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This report was broadcasted by Euronews last August 2012 and you can take a look here at what we filmed:

De vuelta a las aulas

Up & Coming rodó en Plymouth, Reino Unido, y Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, “De vuelta a las aulas”. En este reportaje seguimos a la profesora de primaria Ana María Pulido desde el colegio en el que da clase en Boadilla del Monte a la Universidad de Marjon, en Plymouth, Reino Unido. Además de mejorar su inglés con una familia local que la acoge, acude cada día a un curso de formación para profesores españoles. Aprenden a enseñar a sus estudiantes en inglés. Se emitió en el programa “Learning Word” de Euronews en agosto de 2012 y puedes ver lo que grabamos aquí:

 

 

Up & Coming shooting in Stockholm for Euronews

Last August 2010 Up & Coming went to film to Sweden for Euronews’ programme “Learning World”. The report we filmed appeared in April 2011 and featured the integration situation of schools in the Nordic country. In Sweden, approximately 25 % of the population was born abroad or at least one of their parents was born abroad. In Rinkeby neighborhood, northern Stockholm, this percentage goes up to almost 90%. Rinkeby School is an example of integration. Today, the students -from 70 different nationalities- participate at international academic competitions successfully.

See our video here: