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Infonews est en avance cette semaine, parce que je crains que les
acticles
sur l'actualité ne soient plus en ligne à la fin de la semaine. L'actualité
est triste, encore de la violence à l'école. Voyez aussi l'avis de ceux qui
accusent les jeux vidéo et internet... Puis, pour rêver un peu, des sites
sur la poésie.
Bonne lecture
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SOMMAIRE
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Violence in schools
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TIME......... The Littleton Massacre (pathfinder.com Tue, 27 Apr )
Internet figures in Littleton school killings (ESN> K12 School Tech. News
Update April 26)
MEDIA AND VIOLENCE (NewsScan DAILY, 26 April)
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Poetry
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Rhyme Time: Poetry Plans and Projects (Education World Newsletter April 26)
Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet (Education World
Newsletter April 26)
WordCentral (FLYER> The Learning Company's Classroom Flyer, Apr-27-99)
Ecouter un poème en le lisant
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Ellis Island
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The History Channel (FLYER> The Learning Company's Classroom Flyer,
Apr-27-99)
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Violence in schools
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TIME......... The Littleton Massacre (pathfinder.com Tue, 27 Apr )
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Two young men stage a fire storm at their suburban high school, plunging
the country into stunned despair. But even amid questions about the origin
of the mad spree, America learns poignant lessons from the children who
survived.[un long article]
--> http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23541,00.html
Internet figures in Littleton school killings (ESN> K12 School Tech. News
Update April 26)
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In the aftermath of the tragedy at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo., that claimed the lives of
15 people, educators were reminded of the internet's
power to communicate messages of both a sinister and
redemptive nature.
A host of web sites have sprung up to help students
learn from the tragedy and to help school leaders make
their schools safer. At the same time, reports that one
of the alleged gunmen, Eric Harris, might have left clues
on a personal web site that foreshadowed the attack left
educators wondering what, if anything, schools can do to
watch the web for warning signs.
As a medium where people--and especially tech-savvy
teens--can reveal their darkest thoughts with a feeling of
anonymity to anyone in the world with a web browser, the
internet quickly has been associated with the terrible
events in Colorado.
Certainly the dark side of the internet was on display
in Harris' site, which America Online officials have
pulled from the web and saved to a new address for the
FBI to investigate. According to reports, the site was
filled with apocalyptic imagery, detailed instructions
for making pipe bombs, and song lyrics such as "What
I don't like I waste."
One Columbine student, Brooks Brown, told Denver's KUSA-TV
that Harris had even posted Brown's name last year on a web
page titled "10 People I Hate and Want to Kill." Brown's
family claims it tried to warn police, but to no avail.
School officials, meanwhile, said they knew nothing of
the web site.
According to noted cyberspace attorney Parry Aftab,
there's a fine line between protecting anonymity and
free speech on the web and protecting lives.
"On the internet, people act out their fantasies--and
99 percent of the time they're not really serious," she
said. "It's so hard to tell whether someone is just
fantasizing, or whether [he or she] may really act out
their violent thoughts."
Yet Aftab, who also is executive director of the internet
watchdog group CyberAngels, said kids who are troubled often
reach out for help--and more and more frequently, this
happens through the internet. "If we listen, maybe we can
intervene in time," she said.
Two days after the shootings, CyberAngels launched a place
for kids to report web sites or chat room discussions that
threaten violence or suicide. The "Kids in Danger Reportline,"
located on the CyberAngels web site, lets students send a
confidential eMail message to Aftab, who has promised to
report credible threats to applicable law enforcement
authorities and school administrators.
Aftab said she wanted to make the internet--so often
unfairly blamed as the cause of problems--the source
for a solution.
"I was bothered by the fact that the one group that knows
better than anyone else whether someone is a danger to
themselves or others--fellow classmates--has nowhere
to go," she said. The "Reportline" also lets students
report threats made offline, she said.
Warning signs
Other help sites were launched following the tragedy as
well. The day after the shootings, the American Psychological
Association (APA) and MTV Networks started a joint youth
anti-violence campaign designed to prevent future tragedies.
Called "Warning Signs," the campaign's web site helps
teens identify the warning signs of violent behavior and
tells them how to get help if they recognize these signs
in themselves or their peers.
"Violence is a learned behavior, and like any learned
behavior, it can be changed," says Russ Newman, executive
director of professional practice for the APA. "In order
to do that, though, it's important to recognize the
warning signs of violence and to get help before violence
occurs."
>>>READ MORE AT
--> http://www.eschoolnews.org/stories/story1.html
MEDIA AND VIOLENCE (NewsScan DAILY, 26 April)
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Technology columnist Denise Caruso says that "hundreds of studies in
recent decades have revealed a direct correlation between exposure to media
violence -- now including video games -- and increased aggression,"
not because people can't distinguish between reality and fantasy but
because ultraviolent media "systematically employ the psychological techniques
of desensitization, conditioning and vicarious learning." Caruso cites
media critic Joel Federman (http://www.mediascope.org/vidbib.htm), who
compares the producers of violent media and the tobacco industry: "Same as
the
tobacco industry, the evidence is there. These effects do exist, and
everyone from the American Psychological Association to the Surgeon
General has acknowledged them. But since not every kid experiences the
extreme effects, people can continue to deny them." Federman rejects
censorship as a solution, but says that "it really comes down to the people
creating
these games. That's where the responsibility lies." (New York Times 26 Apr
99)
--> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/26digi.html
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Poetry
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Rhyme Time: Poetry Plans and Projects (Education World Newsletter April 26)
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know
that is poetry," said Emily Dickinson. Many students wouldn't disagree!
Even the best teachers and students can be perplexed by poetry, but it
doesn't
have to be a painful experience. The Web is a rich source of verse and
activities that make use of poetry. Bring poetry into your classroom
through monitor and modem with the help of these activities!
--> http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson113.shtml
[ ce site m'a permis de découvrir WhyPoetryWhat, un site avec un superbe
dictionnaire...pour ceux qui amiment jouer avec les mots]
--> http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samwhypoetrmi.html
Volumes of Verse: Poetry Resources on the Internet (Education World
Newsletter April 26)
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You have probably heard the Web compared to a virtual library. In the
case of poetry, that statement couldn't be more true. Poets from William
Blake to Walt Whitman now have virtual homes in cyberspace. The Internet
offers a rich repertoire of verse -- if you know where to look! You and your
students could be the beneficiaries of this fertile resource.
[des activités pour tous niveaux]
--> http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr135.shtml
WordCentral (FLYER> The Learning Company's Classroom Flyer, Apr-27-99)
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This website offers a Student Dictionary, a Daily Buzzword, plus games
like Build-Your-Own-Dictionary, Science Lab, and Computer Lab.
[tous niveaux]
--> http://www.wordcentral.com/
à partir de ce site j'ai découvert qu'avril était 'national poetry month' (
en 96) des liens sur la page:
--> http://www.poets.org/npm/npmfrmst.htm
Ecouter un poème en le lisant
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[textes de poèmes lus par l'auteur (si ça marche..) , divers niveaux]
--> http://www.poets.org/
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Ellis Island
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The History Channel (FLYER> The Learning Company's Classroom Flyer,
Apr-27-99)
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The Classroom section of the History Channel website offers study
guides, a classroom calendar, ideas from other teachers, and several
exhibits.
--> http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/index.html
[un site très riche, j'y ai découvert entre autre 'Ellis Island exhibit'
,
avec des interviews à enregistrer :
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
un site qui peut compléter l'intéressant travail pédagogique de Patrice
Marimpouy sur le site de l'académie de Rouen:
-->http://www.ac-rouen.fr/pedagogie/equipes/langues/anglais/gpressource/america
ndream/ellis.htm
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