Please don't forget what you did! It was formidable! Your active local project is part of a global issue!
You undertook as a group, and as individuals, research visits to local lakes, rivers and canals. You assessed the scale of the problem as you could see it.
You conducted lake-side questionnaires for members of the public to see whether other people thought that plastics in water was an issue.
You created a facebook page, worked on logos and other promotional routes such as friendship discussions.
You organised your local communities to create litter pick teams, patrolling by water margins.
You interviewed by questionnaire the Canals Trust environment officer for information on their policies towards creating a plastics-free canal network.
You interviewed, face-to-face, an officer at Milton Keynes Parks Trust, who was responsible for dealing with environmental issues connected with waterways.
You sought out the latest publicly-available research from departments, such as from Exeter and Plymouth Universities. https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/microplastics-in-the-ocean and http://www.adventurescience.org/microplastics.html
You listened to environmental science programs on BBC Radio 4.
You have followed leads given to you by Tutor Dorothy, such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32384763
You interviewed the local Tesco store to find out about a source of plastic - they hand out thousands of bags every week just in one store alone.
You decided to use the local Scrapstore facility to buy fabric, from which you made dozens of shopping bags.
You organised with Tesco a day when you could hand out cloth bags for free at the entrance way.
You handed out over 50 bags with tags which conveyed information about your project, with instructions on how to make a simple cloth bag to replace your plastic one!
You created a press release/information sheet about your work to publicise the hazards of plastics in water.
Plastic pollution is a global issue. It is a hazard not only for our marine life but for people. Millions of people around the world do not have access to fresh water. Water reservoirs, even in remote areas such as Yemeni villages, are visibly contaminated with plastic bags, plastic containers, plastic objects, which will never fully degrade. By acting locally, we can all do something about a global problem.
I am hugely proud of you all! It takes team work, organisation, strength
of purpose, and the sacrifice of personal egos to pull together and
achieve something. I think you did that. You are under the pressures of
having to think about how your project can be represented in an exam, and you did all this in
under one year. Well done! I know how hard you've all worked.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Global Citizenship cross-over - Global Goals
What 'global goals' should the world have?
(Whose global idea is this anyway?)
Watch people in selected posts explain what they think...
Go to http://globaldimension.org.uk/news/item/16826
Listen for the points that they make. Which points do you agree with? Which points do you disagree with?
Sometimes I find it is difficult to disagree, even though I want to! It may be the speaker makes a point using language that I sympathise with, even though I don't like their conclusion.
It may be because the speaker is held in high social esteem, or is particularly persuasive, and it doesn't seem decent to undermine them. (I'm English, so I should have a complex apology strategy ready.)
It may be because somehow you fear their ideal will be picked up and used by people whose agenda you don't like the look of... but disagreeing is difficult.
For example! I expect others would like to bring shame upon my head for this one ... but I disagree with the goals of Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year old Nobel Laureate Peace Prize winner, shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education. (I cannot argue with that, huh?) She said at her award ceremony: "I will continue this fight until I see every child in school".
But the UK is not Pakistan, Nigeria, India, or elsewhere. The UK has long held many philosophies of education, and Malala's goal, if realised, would see our nuanced philosophical traditions wiped out for a simplistic totalitarian solution. Maybe she's confusing the two words that so often are used interchangeably ... school and education. In the UK these different words have helped define very different worlds.
(Whose global idea is this anyway?)
Watch people in selected posts explain what they think...
Go to http://globaldimension.org.uk/news/item/16826
Listen for the points that they make. Which points do you agree with? Which points do you disagree with?
Sometimes I find it is difficult to disagree, even though I want to! It may be the speaker makes a point using language that I sympathise with, even though I don't like their conclusion.
It may be because the speaker is held in high social esteem, or is particularly persuasive, and it doesn't seem decent to undermine them. (I'm English, so I should have a complex apology strategy ready.)
It may be because somehow you fear their ideal will be picked up and used by people whose agenda you don't like the look of... but disagreeing is difficult.
For example! I expect others would like to bring shame upon my head for this one ... but I disagree with the goals of Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year old Nobel Laureate Peace Prize winner, shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education. (I cannot argue with that, huh?) She said at her award ceremony: "I will continue this fight until I see every child in school".
But the UK is not Pakistan, Nigeria, India, or elsewhere. The UK has long held many philosophies of education, and Malala's goal, if realised, would see our nuanced philosophical traditions wiped out for a simplistic totalitarian solution. Maybe she's confusing the two words that so often are used interchangeably ... school and education. In the UK these different words have helped define very different worlds.
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