Improving our Schoolyard

 

Our Daily Life

 

Your Europe, Your Say 2022

Eight concrete proposals were handed to the European Commission's Vice-President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová by secondary school students from all over Europe. The students were taking part in the virtual youth event Your Europe, Your Say! (YEYS2022) under the title: The truth about lies. Youth challenging disinformation. The event was hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on 31 March and 1 April 2022. Our school has been the Spanish representative.

1.      ICEBREAKER

What’s the typical dish in your country? Food was the chosen topic to begin the day while meeting students and teachers from all over Europe.

Opening Session

This session was moderated by Cillian Lohan, EESC Vice-President and there were different speeches regarding fake news and media literacy.

·         Opening speech by Christa Schweng, EESC President

Ruurd Oosterwoud, founder of DROG

·         Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck, journalist and founder of Lie Detectors

After the opening session, students and teachers split up in two different groups.

 

1.      Day 1

-          Students: Under Pressure Game

Students played a game which was divided into levels. In the game you were the one who created the disinformation. You had an account where you uploaded posts and depending on how good you were fooling people you gained more followers or not. There were six levels and each level dealt with an aspect of disinformation. For example, there was a level of trolling and a level of polarisation. We finally talked about the results of the game and agreed that what makes people believe information that is not real is emotions and making an impact in people's heart.

 

-          Teachers:

a)      House of European History

The session began asking teachers their own definition of fake.

Later on, Lauren Bragard, explained different interactive activities that the House offers to students. There are many learning possibilities and they also offer the possibility of online visits.

a)      Council of the European Union

Brief introduction of the organisation and presentation of the civil education package.

Day 2

-          Students: Workshop in breakout groups

Throughout the second day, all YEYS participants were organised into groups and subgroups with whom we worked together, thinking, and working as the fake news makers. As a result, we came up with a fake news campaign. By working in the place of the fakers, we learned what details make the difference between fake news and real news. After several hours of work, we presented to the rest of the classmates. 

-          Teachers

o   Welcome by Biliana Sirakova, EU Youth Coordinator within the European Commission, who presented the Youth Goals.

o   European Commission:

§  Presentation of the Learning Corner

Presentation Spot and fight disinformation

o   European Committee of the Regions: presentation of the “Back to School” activities.

o   European Parliament Ambassador School programme (EPAS)

1.      Closing session

Presentation of the proposals to the EU Commissioner by the students

Keynote speaker: Ms Vera Jourova, European Commission Vice-President and European Commissioner for Values & Transparency

Our Memories

 

Rules: Living Together

The Pandemic as an Opportunity

 

Some Stories about the Pandemic

 1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

My city of the Future

 CITY 1

My city will be called Efficiencity. All in this city will be efficient. The houses will produce their own electricity with renewable energy. They will gather the rain water, so there won’t be unnecessary waste of water. The house will change the power of the light depending on the light outside. Of course, you can change it too by a screen control.

In Efficiencity there will be a quality healthcare system. It will continue being free. There will be a quality and efficient public transport. The buses will be electric, as all the cars in the city. Also, it will have free and secure Wi-Fi around the city.

You will be able to do a lot of activities here. It will have a free gym for everyone so doing exercise will not be a problem. Efficiencity will have a lot of cinemas to enjoy the movies. There will have many bars to take “tapas”, a typical Spanish food.

The city will have a lot of facilities like a museum with virtual animals, like a zoo, but in 3D. There will be another museum explaining the past of the city and the country to remember where the traditions came from. It will have a park to chill, sleep and charge your mobile phone too.

The jobs will be the same. There will be human teachers, doctors, shop assistants and street sweeper, but the robots will do the most of the cleaning.

That’s the vision I have about the cities in the future.

Aitana T. L.

3rA

CITY 2

My city will be called Green Banana City, since in that city the banana predominates.From my point of view, cities of the future will be the best that we will have in the future, they will be the best innovation in the world. People will be able to live very calm, it will be perfect.

There will be many flying cars that will be very useful; electric transport, fast subways, teleportation cabins, but there will be no motorcycles, since there are many accidents. On the contrary, there will be fast bicycles with their bike lane and all their characteristics.

It will have a shopping center with many shops and recreational centers, a soccer stadium called Green Banana Stadium, a basketball stadium, a Zoo, a banana museum, a banana factory and many more places.

I think that robots will be very useful. They will be the best for the safety of children, the best biggest maid you can have, they will be the best workers, drivers, cashiers, etc.

I think people will be very calm, they will have a lot of free time to rest, the most common job will be to be a robot mechanic. Fun activities will be prepared for all ages. It will be a perfect city.

Joan P.

3rd ESO B

CITY 3

My city of the future will be like nowadays, but with some renewed things. Starting with houses, the buildings will be very high like skyscrapers. They will also be with modern colors, for example white, silver..with glass, but a very strong and resistant one. And finally very luxurious. For services I imagine transports like now, but they will be more efficient and intelligent. I think that they will be more ecological, that they won’t pollute so much. And finally I imagine that cars will float, but not fly. 

Related to jobs I think that in the future, things won’t change a lot, especially improvements of technology and new objects that help people to work. 

People of the future, I think that in their free time they will be able to visit the city with some glass balls like a hamster's game, but with chairs and a voice that will explain things about the city. Also people will go to centers of virtual reality games, like videogames of current affairs, but much more modern and fun than now, with 4D, among other things. 

About the facilities there will be things the same as now, like zoos, cinemas, but in the future, I imagine a place like the space, to have an opportunity to see how the space is. Also places with obstacles to fly with a backpack. And a center in a sea or ocean, to swim for a long time, with objects that help to breathe underwater, to feel as a mermaid, for example. 

This will be my future city.

Inés G.

3rd ESO B

CITY 4

I imagine the city like this. It will be a big city, and there will be many changes. As the buildings will be modernized and renovated. In each  building there will be a solar panel because I think that we will have stopped the pollution, so, there will be a law about this, there won't be any more non-renewable energy, only solar energy. It’s the same with transports, there will be used renewable energy, no more fuels. And one of the new things is that there will be many robots to help us in cleaning services, in houses, at work… Everyone will have a robot to help you, maybe with a human form, but if you like, it will be with an animal form. 

There will be a part of the city with an expensive nature, I mean, no buildings or facilities, nothing, only trees, shrubs, lakes, plants… And if you would like to go you can’t throw away trash. There will be a clean zone. Also there will be some funny places, for example there will be places to play video games, with cars to make races, going to the street to play with flying skates…

The facilities of the city will change, as I said before, there will be modern buildings, all in colour white, with slides for transport apart from the street and cars… And in the center of the city, there will be a big square with sources, benchess, arts…

Ainhoa G.

3rd ESO B

CITY 5

The name that I have decided to give to my city of the Future is Futureland city. This will be a big and beautiful city.

In this city people will have many options to move around it. Most people will have personal transport. This transport will be automatic cars, electric motorcycle, and some people will have a private plane that will also be automatic. This last transport it will be only for people with lot of money. In addition, in the city you will have to use the public transport. This will be a train without driver, buses with cinema and taxis driven by robots.

The Futureland city will consist of smart houses with robots to serve you and wardrobes that dress you.

The houses will be perfect to live in because they will make you feel in paradise.

In this nice city, few people will work but the most people will work creating applications for robots, advertisement of digitals screens in the city or creating smart machines.

People in their free time will be able to do anything but most will go to the zoo where you will be able to talk to the animals. People also will travel and play in a technological world that Charlie Pace create. 

The city will have many facilities. Some of them will be a smart coffee shop, screens in the city where you will be able to see advertising, smart shopping centers and automatics stores. Obviously, the city will have stores where the people will work but many stores will be intelligent or automatic.

Daniela P.

3rd ESO B

 

Photo-novel

 1. 

Eloi M. and Mario R. 4th ESO A

2. 

Paula P. and Sara V. (4th ESO A)

3. 

Joel C., Eric L. and Adrià S. (4th ESO B)

4. 

Oriol M, Xuan Hao Y, Liwen Z (4th ESO A)

 5. 

Xavi C. and Dani S (4th ESO A)

6. 

David S and Denís G. (4th ESO B)

7. 

David M. and Dídac S (4th ESO B)

8. 

Tania G and Nerea S. 4th ESO A

9. 

Jordi M, Arnau P, Pau S 4th ESO A

10. 

Martina C, Daniela H (4th ESO B)

11. 

Carla L, Guiomar P 4th ESO B

12. 

Marta L, Laura P, Kristin P 4th ESO B