Playing in the world
“We can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” -Plato The play has a central role in the process of child development. With the recreational activities, the child learns more about himself and others, to explore the world around them, to recognize and share social rules to […]
Teaching consciousness to children
“Living in the world without being aware of its meaning is like wandering in a vast library without even touching a book” -Dan Brown Today life is a continuous race. We are so busy, stressed and tired that we can not always stop for a moment and take full consciousness of our actions. We often find […]
Reading To Grow Up
“I wish everyone would read, not to become writers or poets, but because no one can be enslaved” Gianni Rodari Read! Read! Read! How many times have I heard this little phrase as a kid? The school library, the books to read during the summer holidays, and the favorite books to share with classmates. Parents […]
Educate for diversity
Before talking about diversity, we need to underline the idea of individuality because life is a set of identities with which we deal as individuals first of all. Our lives are the contacts between different personalities. We often identify the others as the group of individuals with similar characteristics, erasing the concept of different people as individual identities. Subsequently, […]
Our Origins: The Importance Of Rediscovering Our Roots
In a globalized world, it is increasingly difficult to maintain a sense of identity and community, and it is even more complicated to pass it down to new generations who are experiencing a time of intense globalization. Maintaining a tie with our origins and identifying ourselves in a community is very important.
Tips to teach kids global awareness
In an increasingly interconnected world, it is more and more necessary to communicate openness to different cultures. Being aware globally means, in fact, to be very flexible creating a set of values that lead to the understanding of different cultures. Within the 21st-century skills framework, this aspect is essential to teach children to see the […]
Civic awareness and literacy for kids
In this previous article we talked about the importance for kids of the 21st century skills framework for the acquisition of skills related to creativity, collaboration, problem solving and innovation. In detail, one of the objectives of the framework, among others, is to teach values and transmit signals for greater civic awareness, allowing the future inhabitants […]
Mash&Co and the 21st Century Skills
Technology has already changed the transmission of information and the way we communicate. School education adapts to this change teaching to students using the 21st century framework for the acquisition of skills related to creativity, collaboration, problem solving and innovation.
