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DA#10 – Playing with Emotions

Can digital tools help children to express their emotions?

YES!

With the support of some digital applications (Paint), a digital camera, a smartphone, recycled materials and a lot of creativity, we can identify, show and share our emotions. At school with teachers and classmates and at home with their families, children visualize and listen to the story “The Monsters of Colors” and the respective song. Each child creates their favorite Color Monster. Using digital equipment, they design a situation that triggers one of the emotions mentioned in the story, in their favorite monster. They take a picture of family members mimicking their favorite Monster´s facial expression. They play the “Color Monster” games in the apps. Photographs of activities carried out are shared on Padlet.

An idea from

Educators team from AESA – Barreiro, Portugal

Time

7 sessions (20 minutes each)

Age

3-6 years

Objective

  1. Create opportunities for children to express their emotions through digital tools.
  2. Helping children to recognize and respect their emotions and the emotions of others using digital tools.
  3. Using digital tools to strengthen ties between school and families.
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#emotions #colors #photography#Padlet

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DA#9 – Gentle Pebbles

How can we make small children experience, in a direct and fun way, the impact of messages shared online?

While exploring the topic of minerals and their possible transformations, children reflect on how the messages we share online, both positive and negative, spread and have an impact on others. Children, educators and parents go on a pebble hunt, exploring natural environments such as rivers and small streams but also mountain paths, city parks, etc. The collected pebbles will be ‘transformed’ by the children’s creativity into tools for spreading positive messages in public spaces.

An idea from

Cabiria Manca, ECEC educator at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia Bosco Incantato”, Bellaria-Igea-Marina – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (30-40 min each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Reflect on the dissemination and impact of the messages we share online and offline.
  2. Fostering a sense of belonging to a wider community.
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#emotions #nature #art #mediaeducation

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DA#8 – A Tangle of Emotions

Can digital media help us ‘capture’ our emotions?

Children experience, learn to recognise and manage their anger with the help of images. After the introduction to the topic of emotions (here in particular anger) with the help of a picture book, children interview their parents and are interviewed on the subject of anger.  Both produce drawings after the interviews which are uploaded and shared in a common padlet. In a second round both children and parents use their faces to express their feelings. The photos of parents and childrens angry and calm faces are then combined together to create GIFs. The last step is dedicated to a physical and artistic expression of anger with a physical/ artistic activity where children in movement create a collective “tangle”.

An idea from

Stefania Mela – Batelli Roberta – Anelli Antonella – Menghini Silvia, Reali Angela , ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’Infanzia di Secchiano”, Secchiano – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria

Time

4 activities (2 hours total)

Age

3-4 years

Objective

  1. Foster children’s understanding of their own feelings and those of others.
  2. Learning to manage one’s emotions.
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#emotions #images #GIF #movement #QRCode

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DA#7 – An Emotional Letter

Can the common realisation of an advent calendar become an opportunity to strengthen family ties?

Waiting for Christmas has never been more fun! Each parent is invited to send and share with the educators a Christmas memory related to their childhood. All memories, both physical and digital,  will be organised into an advent calendar.  During the time of Advent, the children listen to a memory each day, discovering the children’s stories of their parents.

An idea from

Nadia Matassoni – Raffaella Batino – Nisi Olga Lucia, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Scuola dell’infanzia Arcobaleno”, Novafeltria – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

5 activities (30 min each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Building and strengthening emotional ties.
  2. Promoting listening skills, and verbal and graphical elaboration.
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#emotions #storytelling #QR Code #podcast #christmas

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DA#6 – Meet My Soft Toy

Can toys encourage children to talk about themselves?

Children’s favourite toys become a valuable opportunity to talk about themselves and discover new things about each other. At home children (with the help of the parents)  will take a picture of their favourite soft toy. At school, then, with the educators, children will tell what they like and why they chose that toy in various episodes of a podcast. Each photo will be then linked to a Qr code to create an “art” exhibition with the toys and their “stories”  in Kindergarten.

An idea from

Romina Copetti, Maria Teresa Sillitto, Sara Veljacà, Cristiana Paolini,  ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Non ti scordar di me – Grisulute – Avasinis”, Alesso di Trasaghis –  Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

4 activities (30 min. each)

Age

3 years

Objective

  1. Expressing emotions and feelings.
  2. Listening and dialogue skills.
  3. Psycho-physical well-being of the child.
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#emotions #language #podcast #QRcode #photography

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DA#5 – A Grown-up’s Game

How can we help children develop a critical sense of the images shared online?

In this digital atelier the children’s natural curiosity for photos and cameras is the starting point for an in-depth experience in the world of photography and communication through images. The child develops skills and abilities by making his or her first technological experiments; explores reality and learns to reflect on his or her experiences by describing them, representing and reorganising them using different criteria and methods.

An idea from

Cataldi Francesca – Geraci Caterina – Lisa Spazzoli, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Don Teofrasto Pasini”, Sala di Cesenatico – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

8 activities (approx. 40 min. each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Exploring photography and communication through images.
  2. Enhancing the child’s creative, imaginative and expressive abilities.
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#emotions #storytelling #photography #mediaeducation

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DA#4 – Faces & Places

Can a face become a landscape?

Yes!
With a tablet, a transparent sheet, a marker and a lot of creativity! At home with their parents and at school with their educators, children observe and photograph their territory, the surrounding nature and the faces of their grandparents. The photos taken become the starting point for the creation of two worlds that intersect and exchange: grandparents’ facial lines are transformed into landscapes that in the end are combined to create a large wall piece.

An idea from

Romina Copetti – Sillitto Maria Teresa – Veljacà Sara – Paolini Cristiana, ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Non ti scordar di me-Grisulute-Avasinis”, Alesso di Trasaghis – Italy. 

In co-design with Elena Iodice and Zaffiria

Time

5 activities (1 hour each)

Age

4-5 years

Objective

  1. Recognising and reproducing facial expressions.
  2. Exploring social and natural environment.
  3. Interpreting and reworking images and photographs.
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#nature #emotions #movement #art #mediaeducation

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DA#3 – Explore Emotions with 5-Picture-Method

Which emotions do you know and how can you catch them within a photo?

Children go on a photo safari and use the camera to explore their surroundings and their personal connection with it. By using a digital tool, children see their environment through different eyes, explore its meaning and change the perception. At home and in kindergarten children learn to review photos with categories and to identify and name personal viewpoints and emotions as well as to use a collaborative tool like an online bulletin board to share content and recap experiences with others. The children can also use the photo material to work together as a group, invent ideas and create a little story together.

An idea from

JFF – Institut für Medienpädagogik, tested with Familienzentrum Peter und Paul, Augsburg, Germany

Time

3 activities (30-40 minutes each)

Age

5-7 years

Objective

  1. Using the camera for taking pictures and exploring emotions and how they can be identified and captured through a camera.
  2. Identifying mechanisms and established view habits regarding emotional responses to photos in an active way.
  3. Learn to use photos to change perspective and create a little story. Acquire knowledge about storytelling and transitions from photo to film.
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#emotions #photography #images #art #digitalcamera

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DA#2 – Emotion Memory Game

Can you recognize and imitate simple emotions?

In a social environment, it’s important to be able to recognize emotions (yours and those of your peers) to communicate. This atelier helps children recognize emotions using a milestone of the digital culture: the smileys 😀

In the first part, children will discover emotions and mimic them. They play a memory game to associate smileys and faces.

In the second part, the children take pictures and use Learning Apps to create in school their own memory game with pictures taken at home with their family. This game will then be played at school with all the pupils so they get to know their classmates’ family members in a playful way.

Watch the video trailer here: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/f568YZTmHmLytmTgaRQydX

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France,

Tested with: La T, Marseilles, France ribu Meinado

Time

3 activities for a total of 2 hours.

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Learn to recognize emotions
  2. Understand your own emotions and feelings
  3. Mime & act
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#emotions #portrait #images #photography #theselfandtheothers

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DA#1 – The Mascot’s Trip

How can we convey a message using a photograph?

Building on the journey of a class mascot between school and home, this workshop explores an educational approach to photography. Specifically, it consists in preparing and documenting through photos the adventures of the mascot travelling from family to family. Through this approach, the children handle the photo media both in terms of production (shooting) and of reception (analysis, impact of the point of view, etc.) to sharpen their perspective.

An idea from

Kareen Krief, Belgrade municipal school – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

7 activities at school for a total of 5 hours and 4 activities at home

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Use a transitional object (mascot) to encourage speech and language within the group and to develop an emotional link between the classroom and the home
  2. Understand that the content of a photograph is the result of a specific intention of the photographer 
  3. Taking self-portraits and develop creative autonomy through the use of a camera
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#emotions #language #photography #selfie #mediaeducation