Finnish Lessons 2.0

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, sunnuntai 26. syyskuu 2021, 19.53

Hi,

I gave up on reading the book about gamification in education and started reading another one, entitled Finnish Lessons 2.0. This book was recommended by Johanna for further understanding about the Finnish Education System, and I need to understand how they were able to change the country by education (yes, I believe this is very possible, but I have always heard that this is a romantic freiriana vision).

So, I am still reading, but it caught my attention of the severe critics that the author does to the Anglo-saxons educational systems, such as the American and British ones. Theses systems are based on  hard competition, exhausting tests, charters and rankings, privatizations, and firing teachers for bad results. All these are the opposite of the Finnish system, as far as I know, but his words made me realize of how close we are to those systems and how far we are from Finland's.

We have to pay attention to the current projects to our education and work to make it a better one to everyone.

Ikilinkki

The Finnish museums

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, keskiviikko 8. syyskuu 2021, 20.47

Hi, guys!

I'm back to talk about the relation among Finns and museums! I've been here for over a month by now and I have already visited 5 museums (in average, one per week). One of them was during a class, as I already told in a post.

So, why am I talking about it again? Well, last weekend I went to Helsinki and was really impressed by the amount of museums. There were some in the Suonmelina Island, and lots of them in the city. But it's not just it! I went to Helsinki City Museum and the entry there  is always free 😄

I had a delightful tour throught the time machine section, the sauna exhibition, the city history floor, the interactive pieces and panels... After that, decided to see the Children's Town that is inside the museum and I was fascinated! This is a part of the museum for the kids where they can interact with the pieces, play, take pictures on the panels and learn about the history! It's a museum for kids! Then I occurred me that as it happens with the libraries the museums are introduced in the kids' lives at a very young age, and, yes, there were lots of families with young kids there!

Here are some of the pictures I took there.


Children's Town - personal archive

A school from 1930s 
Children's Town - personal archive

We have a lot to learn here!

(Texto em português logo abaixo)

Oi, pessoal!

Estou de volta para falar da relação entre finlandeses e museus! Já estou aqui há mais de um mês e já visitei 5 museus (em média, um por semana). Um deles foi durante uma aula, como já contei em um post.

Então, por que estou falando sobre isso de novo? Bem, no fim de semana passado fui a Helsinque e fiquei realmente impressionado com a quantidade de museus. Havia alguns na Ilha Suonmelina, muitos na cidade. Mas não é só isso! Fui ao Museu da Cidade de Helsinque e a entrada lá é sempre gratuita 😄

Fiz um passeio delicioso pela seção da máquina do tempo, a exposição da sauna, o andar de história da cidade, as peças e painéis interativos ... Depois disso, decidimos ver a Cidade das Crianças que fica dentro do museu e fiquei fascinado! É uma parte do museu para as crianças onde podem interagir com as peças, brincar, tirar fotos nos painéis e aprender sobre a história! É um museu para crianças! Então, me ocorreu que da mesma forma que acontece com as bibliotecas, os museus são introduzidos na vida das crianças desde muito cedo e, sim, havia muitas famílias com crianças pequenas lá!

Nós temos muito o que aprender aqui!

(as fotos no texto em inglês são do Children's Town).

Ikilinkki 1 comment (viimeksi kommentoinut Maria Helena Ferrari, maanantai 13. syyskuu 2021, 15.02)

The Finnish public libraries

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, maanantai 6. syyskuu 2021, 20.39

Hi, guys!

Last Friday we had class in the Metso Library, one of the fourteen public libraries in Tampere (there are 2 more that are bus libraries).

Well, I had been there before in a company of some friends and one of them is a Brazilian librarian. I was very impressed by the building architecture, the reading areas, the collection, including board games and movies, the kids area, the music section... and, the most impressive thing was the amount of people - kids and adults - who were there. I wasn't alone in this feeling, my librarian friend was very amazed too.


Metso Library

During the class, however, I was surprised again! The Metso librarians who received us with coffee and pulla, explained how the Finnish libraries are thought as a place of knowledge for everyone and maintained with public money (in avarage 60 euros from each citizen taxes go to the libraries).

The libraries are the place where Finns usually go to spend time. For example, Dany told us on her post that lots of kids were at Metso on a Saturday! 😀 Another one, is that we came earlier our class in Metso and could see a line forming in the front door waiting for the opening. The libraries are so comfortable and cozy that seems they are always crowded. 

The Metso's librarians showed us some of the activies that they do there, like: book talk, interviews, concerts, dog reading (kids can read books for dogs 😍), and the most interesting to me: teddy bear night! In this one, the kids let their teddy bears in the evening and come back the next morning to listen to the adventures their furry friends went and see the photos! 😉


Metso Library

The library users can also book the music cabins to record music or podcast (there are instruments and computer in the cabins), use the regulars ou 3D printers, and sew in the sewing machines. These things are free and there are tutors to help you with the machines (in case of the sewing machine and 3D printer you have to pay for the inputs). Very nice, isn't it?


Oodi Library building (personal photo).

After the class I went to Helsinki and visited the
Oodi Library on Saturday. I had the same feeling: gourgeous building architecture, comfortable spaces, lots of people there, lab maker... and there was an exhibition of the Solar System in VR called Space Walk (made by Aalto University researchers)!


Oodi Library - top floor (personal photo).

Acordding to the site finland.fi  40% of the population is assiduos library user! Maybe the public libraries have something to do with it!

Ikilinkki

The Vapriikki visit

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, maanantai 6. syyskuu 2021, 20.38

Hello!

We've been having some interesting locals for our classes <3. One of them was the Vapriiki Museum some days ago.

Entrada do Museu Vapriiki em Tampere (Finlândia). Construção antiga com tijolos a vista.

Having class out of the university/school is very attractive itself, but this one on the museum was special because we could experience the tour the 7th graders can have here in Tampere through the Taidekaari Program.

This program aims to enable the students of Tampere City to have art education. It arranges workshops and exihbition of music, drama, painting, and other kinds of art expression to the students. On our class in Vapriiki we saw and exhbition about media and we made some exercises, like: to create a clickbait and to discuss about the beauty market advertising. After, the Taidekaari staff explained us the program and showed some other examples.

I believe I was so focused on the museum experience and couldn't, by that time, think about some activity we could do with our students in Brazil. We are often so concerned about fake news and ask ourselves what can we do to fight them off. An exercise like showing the students a clickbait ou a headline of an antique newspaper and ask them to create something to catch the readers' attention; showing them an advertising and let them discuss about the media impact on their own concepts of beauty; or promote reflection about how news can be partial, are things we can do even without a museum in our cities, right?

After all those reflections, we had a great lunch at the museum and were able to come back later to see the other exhibitions were on (the knight and the games) 😄.


Link to Art Arc Cultural Education Program (Taidekaari): https://www.tampere.fi/taidekaari.html

Ps.: Do you know that Angry Birds are Finnish?

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Olá!

Temos tido aulas em bem locais interessantes <3. Um deles foi o Museu Vapriiki há alguns dias atrás.

Ter aulas fora da universidade / escola é muito atraente por si só, mas essa no museu foi especial porque pudemos vivenciar o passeio que os alunos da 7ª série podem fazer aqui em Tampere através do Programa Taidekaari.

Este programa visa oportunizar os alunos da cidade de Tampere a ter educação artística. Ele organiza para os alunos workshops e apresentações de música, teatro, pintura e outros tipos de expressão artística. Em nossa aula de Vapriiki vimos e expusemos sobre mídia e fizemos alguns exercícios, como: criar um clickbait e discutir sobre a propaganda do mercado de beleza. Depois, a equipe do Taidekaari nos explicou o programa e mostrou alguns outros exemplos.

Acho que estava tão focada na experiência museológica e não conseguia, naquela época, pensar em alguma atividade que poderíamos fazer com nossos alunos no Brasil. Muitas vezes ficamos muito preocupados com notícias falsas e nos perguntamos o que podemos fazer para combatê-las. Um exercício como mostrar aos alunos um clickbait ou a manchete de um jornal antigo e pedir que criem algo para chamar a atenção do leitor; mostrar a eles um anúncio e deixá-los discutir sobre o impacto da mídia em seus próprios conceitos de beleza; ou promover reflexões sobre como a mídia pode ser parcial, são coisas que podemos fazer mesmo sem um museu em nossas cidades, certo?

Depois de todas essas reflexões, almoçamos no museu e pudemos voltar mais tarde para ver as outras exposições que estavam rolando (o cavaleiro e os jogos) 😄

Link para Art Arc Cultural Education Program (Taidekaari): https://www.tampere.fi/taidekaari.html

Ps.: Você sabia que Angry Birds é finlandês?

Ikilinkki 1 comment (viimeksi kommentoinut Elina Harju, maanantai 6. syyskuu 2021, 11.26)

The student ranking

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, tiistai 31. elokuu 2021, 20.35

Hi, guys!

As I was reading the book (Finnish Education in Practice - What, why and how) I remembered a conversation of some years ago. My co-worker was, proudly, telling us that in her kids' school there was a ranking made every year for each grade after a test. The students were separated into class A, B, C and so on, accordingly to their position in the ranking. Her kids, as you can imagine, were on the top of their grade ranking.

My former boss listened that and, patiently, explained to her that this kind of thing is harmful. As an example, she told us a story that happened between her two kids that are just one year apart on age. Their school used to give medals to the highest grades (simulating gold, silver and bronze). So, his son got a golden medal, but her daughter, who was in the same class, didn't. This started a crisis in the family. The boy was so proud of himself and the girl was thinking she was stupid.

I don't believe that the proud mother understood what the wise one was explaining, but I did. What if I were the one without the medal? Or on the end of the ranking? How would I feel?

This caught my attention because the book said that there's no grades ranking in Finland and the teachers aren't concerned about knowing 'who is the best'.

Why do we do rankings? Who does this help? Just another question I have no answer.

(Texto em português logo abaixo)

Oi, pessoal!

Enquanto lia o livro (Finnish Education in Practice - O quê, porquê e como), lembrei-me de uma conversa de alguns anos atrás. Minha colega de trabalho estava, orgulhosamente, nos contando que na escola de seus filhos havia uma classificação feita todos os anos para cada série após um teste. Os alunos foram separados em turmas A, B, C e assim sucessivamente, de acordo com a sua posição na classificação. Os filhos dela, como vocês podem imaginar, estavam no topo da classificação.

Minha ex-chefe ouviu isso e, pacientemente, explicou a ela que esse tipo de coisa é prejudicial. Como exemplo, ela nos contou uma história que aconteceu entre seus dois filhos que têm apenas um ano de diferença de idade. A escola deles costumava dar medalhas para as notas mais altas (simulando ouro, prata e bronze). Então, o filho dele ganhou a medalha de ouro, mas a filha dela, que estava na mesma classe, não. Isso deu início a uma crise na família. O menino estava tão orgulhoso de si mesmo e a menina estava pensando que ela era estúpida.

Não creio que a mãe orgulhosa tenha entendido o que a sábia estava explicando, mas eu entendi. E se eu fosse a sem medalha? Ou no final do ranking? Como eu me sentiria?

Isso chamou minha atenção porque o livro dizia que não há classificação de notas na Finlândia e os professores não estão preocupados em saber 'quem é o melhor'.

Por que fazemos classificações? Quem isso ajuda? Só mais uma pergunta para a qual não tenho resposta.

Ikilinkki 2 comments (viimeksi kommentoinut Daniela Silva Toda, tiistai 31. elokuu 2021, 20.40)

Week 32 - The cornerstones of Finnish Education

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Muokannut Daniela Silva Toda, tiistai 31. elokuu 2021, 08.08

Hi, everyone!

I am very late in publishing my posts here, and since I have been writing my impressions on my notebook, I am going to sum them up, in a way to avoid boring you.

So, as I've been saying every time as possible, I'm very amazed by the trust being one of the cornerstones of the Finnish Education System. There's a part in the book 'Finnish Education in Practice - What, Why and How' that says "This idea of shared goals and partnership sustains the very existence of trust. Common aims are best pursued with mutual trust and respect".

After the first classes and some reading, I kept asking myself: 'why does this impress me so much? Shouldn't it be the same in our system? Don't we share the same goals? Aren't we from the same institution? Trust the teachers, the students, the principals, the schools, the curriculum, the system. Why would it be different?'. Well, I don't have all the aswers, but I believe that the Brazilian society is not built over trust and it reflects on everything, so it's understandable that our work is inspected all the time. If we don't trust each other, we should oversee everything through the whole time, right? But, should we?

How do we change this? How can we trust each other as a cornerstone for a better educational system? If you have any clue, please, let me know.

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Olá, pessoal!

Estou muito atrasada para publicar meus posts aqui, e como venho escrevendo minhas impressões em meu caderno, vou resumi-las, de forma a não aborrecê-los.

Como tenho dito sempre que possível, estou muito surpresa com a confiança sendo um dos pilares do Sistema de Educação Finlandês. Há uma parte no livro 'Educação finlandesa na prática - o quê, por que e como' que diz "Esta ideia de metas compartilhadas e parceria sustenta a própria existência de confiança. Os objetivos comuns são mais bem buscados com confiança e respeito mútuos".

Depois das primeiras aulas e de algumas leituras, fiquei me perguntando: 'por que isso me impressiona tanto? Não deveria ser o mesmo em nosso sistema? Não compartilhamos os mesmos objetivos? Não somos da mesma instituição? Confie nos professores, alunos, diretores, escolas, currículo, sistema. Por que seria diferente? '. Bem, não tenho todas as respostas, mas acredito que a sociedade brasileira não foi construída sobre a confiança e isso se reflete em tudo, então é compreensível que nosso trabalho seja fiscalizado o tempo todo. Se não confiamos uns nos outros, devemos supervisionar tudo o tempo todo, certo? Mas devemos mesmo?

Como podemos mudar isso? Como podemos confiar uns nos outros como pedra angular para um sistema educacional melhor? Se você tiver alguma pista, por favor, me avise.

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