INFONEWS n°38 du 23/05/99

   

Cette semaine, j'ai trouvé d'autres sites sur le thème de l'environnement,
et encore des sites sur le thème de la violence à l'école, des réflexions
et des réactions ( song, ribbon and pledge, quilt !) , des statistiques,
des documents bruts pour vous faire une idée de ce qui se passe en Amérique
du Nord (Canada included). Un article qui montre que ce cas extrème n'est
pas unique et que le problème est loin d'être résolu. Et parmi les éléments
positifs, un site 'Shine for teens' et un concours pour un clip vidéo
contre la violence à l'école: *** 'Shine MTV Speak your Peace Contest'. La
démarche est très pédagogique et tout à fait utilisable en classe. Si vous
faites produire des storyboards (scénarimages en français, mais c'est un
mot si laid!) à vos élèves, pensez à nous les faire partager!

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Violence in schools : faits, commentaires et réactions
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un dossier par Alain Nowak (message sur [e-teach])
Columbine (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
Commentary: Reflections on Columbine (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
Usenet newsgroup rec.crafts.textiles.quilting (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
Friend of Mine by Cohen brothers (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday,May 16)
Ribbon of Promise (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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Violence in schools : réactions positives et essais de solutions
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Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
Warning Signs (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
Bully B'ware (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
***Shine MTV Speak your Peace Contest
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Violence in schools :statistiques et sondages
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American Bar Association (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
Kids These Days '99: What Americans Really Think About the Next Generation -- Public Agenda Online (The Scout Report for Social Sciences --May 18, 1999)
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Violence in schools : ça peut recommencer.....
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Expelling student for web-site threats lands Pennsylvania district in court
(K12 School Tech. News Update Monday, May 17)
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Earth Day
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CLN Nutrition Lesson Plan Page (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
Earthday Detectives (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
Kid Info (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #28 Saturday, May 15)
CREATE A WORLD (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #28 Saturday, May 15)
The Watershed Game (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List for Friday, May 14th, 1999)
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Other useful sites
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un site pour les enseignants d'anglais conseillé par Jean-Claude Viel sur [e-teach]
Alan Shepard (The Classroom Flyer Friday May 14th, 1999)
Highway Safety (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List for Friday, May 14th, 1999)
The White House for Kids (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List for Friday, May 14th, 1999)

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Violence in schools : faits, commentaires et réactions
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un dossier par Alain Nowak (message sur [e-teach])
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Vous trouverez ici, hélas, un petit dossier sur les tragédies adolescentes
américaines de ces derniers jours, réalisé par un enseignant.
--> http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/violence/littleton.htm
[ voyez les 'classroom suggestions']

Columbine (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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For links to other web sites with Columbine related information, visit
--> http://204.98.1.2/columbine/info/links.html.
[ encore des liens, j'ai retenu pour les enseignants le texte de Jim Drush,
qui dénonce le matérialisme des parents et s'appuie sur la Bible :
civilisationellement intéressant!
--> http://www.mlode.com/~ra/ra8/whyatcolumbinehigh.htm   ]

Commentary: Reflections on Columbine (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators
Sunday, May 16)
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A former teacher's reflections on high school social settings.
--> http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/35wagner.h18
[ voir aussi l'article 'a methaphor for Parents, with reference to Animal's
farm...
--> http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-18/35lanier.h18   ]

Usenet newsgroup rec.crafts.textiles.quilting (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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A quilt is being made to comfort the mourners of the Columbine shooting tragedy.
--> http://world.std.com/~clkl/columbine.html
[pour les profs, une autre curiosité civilisationelle!]

Friend of Mine by Cohen brothers (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday,May 16)
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--> http://columbine.net/friend.html
Lyrics of the song. How to order their CD.

Ribbon of Promise (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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A non-profit organization to raise awareness of School violence.
--> http://www.ribbonofpromise.org/
[see the pledge:
--> http://www.ribbonofpromise.org/pledge.html   ]

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Violence in schools : réactions positives et essais de solutions
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Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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research-based practices designed to assist school communities
identify warning signs early and develop prevention, intervention and crisis
response plans.
OSEP(Office of Special Education Programs)
--> http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/earlywrn.html
[à télécharger, le guide sur lequel s'appuient beaucoup des autres sites]

Warning Signs (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
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This on-line brochure from the American Psychological Association
covers the following topics briefly: reasons for violence; recognizing
violence warning signs in others; what you can do; dealing with anger; are you
at risk; controlling your own risk for violent behaviour; and violence against self.
--> http://helping.apa.org/warningsigns/reasons.html
[pour lycée, une brochure bien faite]

Bully B'ware (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
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This B.C. organization offers online assistance to schools who are
attempting to raise students' awareness of the problems of bullying.
Resources include information about bullying (what it is, common
characteristics, what makes a bully, what schools can do, and more) as
well as news stories about bullies.
--> http://www.bullybeware.com/
[ site canadien. des infos utilisables dès la 4ème, pour amener les élèves
à réfléchir à leur attitude envers les autres: des définitions
--> http://www.bullybeware.com/story2.html
et des solutions
--> http://www.bullybeware.com/tips.html   ]

Shine MTV Speak your Peace Contest
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    un site positif, rédigé avec du vocabulaire simple, qui s'adresse
directement aux jeunes pour leur suggérer des façons d'être mieux dans leur
peau et de s'assumer. Peux s'utiliser dès la 4ème, avec des tests, des
réflexions en 5 ou 10 points, des suggestions de démarches mentales
positives, et surtout ce concours pour créer un clip contre la violence à
l'école. Seuls les US citizens peuvent y participer réellement, mais il me
semble avoir vu dans mon lycée des affiches pour un concours semblable en
France. La démarche proposée est très pédagogique, le sites est bien fait
et peut être utilisé tel quel en classe entière, ou imprimé et distribué.
la démarche pour le concours:
--> http://www.shinesite.org/mtvpsa/mtvpsa_instructions.htm
le site 'shine for teens'
--> http://www.shinesite.org/teens_mstr.htm

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Violence in schools :statistiques et sondages
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American Bar Association (NOTES> May Edunotes for Educators Sunday, May 16)
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Resources, links relating Littleton shooting
Federal Gun Control Legislative Issues, Facts about the American
Criminal Justice System, etc.
--> http://www.abanet.org/media/littleton.html
[ pour lycée, des statistiques à méditer]

Kids These Days '99: What Americans Really Think About the Next Generation -- Public Agenda Online (The Scout Report for Social Sciences --May 18, 1999)
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Public Agenda -- a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization
devoted to public opinion, policy analysis, and citizen education (see the
February 23, 1999 Scout Report for Social Sciences) -- has recently released a
report based on the findings of a national survey of American
attitudes toward children and teenagers. The 1999 report, a follow-up to
Public Agenda 's 1997 benchmark survey, concludes "that the public continues
to be disturbed by the lack of values such as honesty, civility, and
responsibility in America's youth." Key findings from the survey are
presented as graphs, tables, and charts in seven discrete sections
within the report: Negative Reactions, A Focus on Values and Respect, Putting
the Blame on Parents, Difficult Circumstances, Little Willingness to Write
off Kids, The Role of Government, and Positive Attitudes among Teens. Kids
These Days '99 is the second of five tracking surveys on America's
youth conducted by Public Agenda, with three more scheduled before 2002.
--> http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/kids/kids.htm
[des sondages intéressants...pour réfléchir sur les sondages!]

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Violence in schools : ça peut recommencer.....
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Expelling student for web-site threats lands Pennsylvania district in court
(K12 School Tech. News Update Monday, May 17)
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A Lehigh Valley, Penn., judge has agreed to consider a
lawsuit filed last year by the family of an eighth-grader
expelled from school for allegedly threatening a teacher
on his personal web site. The suit highlights the balancing
act schools must perform between protecting students' rights
to free speech and protecting their communities from bloodshed.

Justin Swidler, now 15, was expelled in August after
Bethlehem Area School District officials saw his web site,
in which he allegedly asked for donations to hire a hit
man to kill Nitschmann Middle School math teacher Kathleen
Fulmer. Swidler's family describes the site as an attempt
at satirical humor, not a terrorist threat.

The long-since-dismantled web site reportedly had a heading
saying "Why She Should Die" above a sentence reading, "Take a
look at the diagram and the reasons I give, then give me $20
to help pay a hit man."

"What he did was not good," said his father, Dr. Howard
Swidler, an emergency-room physician. "We don't condone that.
He was punished for what he did. But this was a home issue—not
a school issue."

The lawsuit filed by Swidler and his wife, Ilene, seeks
to have the expulsion overturned, reimbursement for private-
school tuition, and damages. A judge agreed to consider the
lawsuit May 4.

"It may have been a big joke to (the teen), but the teacher
felt that she was harmed by this threat," said Jeffrey T.
Tucker, a lawyer for the school district. "The intention is
irrelevant. It is the effect that is important."

Fulmer and her husband, Barry, are also suing the Swidlers,
claiming defamation because of Justin Swidler's remarks on the
web site about Fulmer's teaching ability.

Zero tolerance

The lawsuits come at a time when school districts are
particularly sensitive to threats of violence. In the wake
of the Littleton, Colo., school shootings, hundreds of copycat
threats at schools across the country have led many districts
to adopt "zero tolerance" policies toward threats—both on the
internet and in person.

In one of many recent examples, police in Oshkosh, Wis., have
recommended charging two teens with a misdemeanor computer
crime after they allegedly created an internet hit list of 17
students from Oshkosh West High School. And a 13-year-old Pomona,
Calif., boy was sentenced to probation and barred from most
computer use May 7 after admitting he set up an internet site
to threaten a classmate.

Bethlehem school officials maintain they acted properly last
year because the teen violated the district's code of conduct
by threatening and maligning Fulmer and principal A. Thomas
Kartsotis.

But Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli said
he didn't charge the teen with making terrorist threats because
Pennsylvania law requires proof that the defendant meant to
communicate the threat to the victim. He said the web site had
a message warning employees of the school district not to
enter it.

>>>READ MORE AT
--> http://www.eschoolnews.org/stories/story1.html
[ ça arrive aussi ailleurs...quelle est la bonne solution?]

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Earth Day
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CLN Nutrition Lesson Plan Page (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
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lesson plans for K-12 students which suggest various multi-disciplinary
food-related learning activities.
--> http://www.cln.org/subjects/nutrition_inst.html
[ en lycée, ce site peut s'utiliser après 'Shine for Teens' pour poursuivre
un travail sur l'image de soi et le respect de son corps. Une réflexion sur
ce que les élèves mangent, à faire en liaison avec un prof de bio:
--> http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.75.txt   ]

Earthday Detectives (CLN> CLN UPDATE for Monday, May 17, 1999)
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Designed as for a 1998 Internet project in which elementary schools
around the world exchanged information about water conservation, quality of
water and water usage, this site contains 15 lesson plans that can be
implemented independently of the project. (CLN Water Quality Theme Page:
--> http://www.cln.org/themes/water.html )
--> http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/paloma/misc/earthday/earthday.htm
[ plus facile que les sites présentés dans les numéros précédents,
utilisable en collège ]

Kid Info (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #28 Saturday, May 15)
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Kid Info is a graphically pleasing, well-organized and informative
student homework and teacher/parent reference resource. Kid Info is uniquely
different from other homework and research assistant sites because it
is organized according to the specific curriculum covered in elementary,
middle, and secondary schools throughout the United States. Kid Info
is also linked directly to its sister site, Teacher Tidbytes, which
offers educators links to the best educational web resources, student /
teacher tutorials and slide shows, and web-integrated lesson plans.
--> http://www.kidinfo.com/
[ dès la 4ème, vous pouvez faire utiliser ce site en ligne, pour construire
un dossier sur 'endangered animals'. Il contient une page de liens vers des
encyclopédies et des moteurs de recherche 'kid-safe'
-->  http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_An.html   ]

CREATE A WORLD (COOL> Cool Web Sightings - Issue #28 Saturday, May 15)
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Challenge to create future society circa 2018; the project is a year
old but the unit plan is still ready to go
--> http://www.zipcon.com/iteach/CREATE%20A%20WORLD%20PROJECT.html
[ intéressant. Une séquence pour refaire le monde, basée sur des listes de questions. Pour lycée]

The Watershed Game (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List for
Friday, May 14th, 1999)
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Not graduating yet? That's okay. Hereís a site that will remind you
that learning can be fun!
--> http://www1.umn.edu/bellmuse/mnideals/watershed/watershed.html
[ en téléchargeant QuicktimeVR, vous pourrez voir les rocheuses comme si
vous y étiez! Je vais utiliser le jeu 'national parks' qui fera un
excellent complément à la leçon d 'Instant lessons' que j'ai commencée la
semaine dernière 'Jordan's nature reserve finds room for all' que vous
pouvez trouver dans les archives (User name: guest Password: nv4588)
--> http://www.english-to-go.com/lib.htm   ]

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Other useful sites
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un site pour les enseignants d'anglais conseillé par Jean-Claude Viel sur
[e-teach]
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EDSITEment
--> http://edsitement.neh.gov
[ on y trouve des 'lesson plans' sur de nombreux sujets, qui ne sont pas
des cours clé en main mais des idées de démarche. J'ai surtout apprécié
'in my other life' , qui propose une séquence sur la découverte de la vie
et la culture dans d'autres pays. Peut s'utiliser dès la 4ème, à condition
de sélectionner des sites adaptés au niveau linguistique des élèves.
--> http://edsitement.neh.gov/guides/g1_b1.htm   ]

Alan Shepard (The Classroom Flyer Friday May 14th, 1999)
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The first American in space....CNN's obit. for Shepard
provides a pretty good bio, as well as interesting interviews
from this American hero himself, and comments with video
and audio from Senator John Glenn.
--> http://cnn.com/US/9807/22/obit.shepard.02/index.html
Also find interviews with Shepard at:
--> http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/1998b/alpage.htm

Highway Safety (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List for
Friday, May 14th, 1999)
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you can find some safety tips from the Department of Transportation.
--> http://www.homeworkcentral.com/wow/files.htp?fileid=62544&use=hc
[pour la 5ème, une page sur comment traverser une rue, à faire dans le
cadre de la protection routière:
--> http://www.ohs.fhwa.dot.gov/peds/every2.htm
et des éléments utiles aux autres, par exemple, tout sur les 'rumble
strips' pour les techniciens, et diverses 'safety publications']

The White House for Kids (WOW> [weekend] HomeworkCentral.com's W.O.W. List
for Friday, May 14th, 1999)
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Do you ever dream about what youíll be when you grow up? How about
President? Take a visit to the White House and see how it suits you.
--> http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/kidshome.html
[ un rappel pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore ce site : pour les
petits, vous trouverez des anecdotes sur les animaux des présidents, pour
les plus grands, la possibilité de d'écrire au Président, le tout avec un
langage très simple]

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