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Titolo Tre
Creative Journals in a bottle
What takes place in the minds and hearts of teenagers when at the age of 16/18 they are getting ready to become adults?
What are the challenges that they have to face in order to become an adult, that is being autonomous, self-confident, responsible, able to think outside the box and to learn by experience, kind, optimist and with no fear to admit when you are wrong?
How can educators, both parents and teachers, support them in their journey to adulthood?
In the following chapters you will be able to see a number of creative experiences proposed to teenage students in order to let them reflect on themselves and express some feelings they have inside and that they generally keep for themselves. At home, not many teenagers open up to their parents, telling them about their fears, their deep desires and some of their problems. When they are at school, it is even more unusual for them to have the right situation that allows them to share their inner feelings with others.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. The brain of a teenager
III. Creative Educational activities out of the normal school routine
1) Dance and Hyperlink History - Computer Technology unplugged
2) Public debate on the Child Labour during the
Industrial Revolution
3) WebQuests and Working in a team
4) Transgression in the XVII century and today
5) Visualization in a classroom on last hour of our life
6) Short fantastic stories based on Archaeology
7) Messages in a bottle to connect
8) One painting is worth one thousand short-stories
9) Hacking the Humanities - The creation of a
Collective Self
10) Robinson Crusoe and his Journal
IV. Excerpt from the Journals
A. You’ve got a friend
B. No hope
C. With a sense of Humour
D. Discovering the beauty of Nature
E. Fear - Hope
V. Conclusions
VII. Bibliography