Journalist post

Hello, I am Marina. I was the journalist and I going to explain the second activity of this subject that take place last week at the university. It is called the Treasure Hunt activity which consist in look for information about Map Projections (Robinson, Mercator and Azimuthal) and explain the relationship between this activity and the slogan of it:  “Media are not neutral”.

On Monday 16th we distributed the roles of the group.

We all first met the 18^th of February after lessons we have lunch in the canteen and then we went to Luis Vives library to share our findings and knowledge about this activity as you can see in the pictures.

Firstly, we have learned that everything we introduce on classroom has an impact in our learning students and its impact depends on the kind of media that this is, the intention of the designers, the owners of the media, the way we introduce those, and so on. Therefore, we MUST be aware about WHAT media we introduce in the class, WHY we do it and HOW we are going to do it.

 Secondly, we found information about Robinson, Mercator and Azimuthal Map Projections and we compared those three, in other to choose the best one. So, we picked two countries around the world: Germany and India comparing their features in each projection. Finaly, we have chosen the Robinson’s because is the most accurate and the best which represent both countries certainly as they are and its sizes and shapes are better respected than in the ohers.

 

According with the Treasure Hunt, we have chosen a treasure hunt related to the house and its stuff. We think that these games are not only useful to learn new themes of the subjects, but also about the things that we have near us, like in this case, the house. Therefore, this indoor treasure hunt initiate our children in a challenge about the house. 

-Answering the Big Question:According to TV, we can observe that every channel has a specific ideology. For example, is not the same to watch a debate in ‘La Sexta’ than watch it in ‘Intereconomía.’ As well as media is not neutral, the cartographic projections are not neutral either   “The Great Day”: Monday 23th of frebruary, the star Clara did an exposition about these activities. She explained to the whole class our work with two more Stars of other class groups altogether.

To conclude, I would like to advise you some blogs, one from our class and another one from the outside, from the worldwide. 

-Platypusoyer becuause I see they have done a great job, and also a great effort to carry out these activities from School Organization. I like so much the work they did and I enjoyed so much their exposition  http://platypusoyer.blogspot.com.es/ Hope you like it to!

-http://scientiablog.com/ I advice you this page because the science is amazing and it is part of our life. We mustn't forget where we belong. hope you like it!