Anniversary in the Schools: Commemorating 9/11 20 Years Later. Fake News Exhibition. No, it isn't fake news: Covid permitting, there will be an exhibition on Fake News running from 27 May 2021 to January 2022 at the Fondation EDF in Paris.
Designed for school groups as well as the general public, it will be a great opportunity to have your pupils develop their critical-thinking skills. The exhibition is subtitled "Art, fiction, lies", and many of the exhibits are artworks by artists trying to encourage observers to think about the news they consume, and the way they consume it. A first step can be to consider with pupils the term “fake news”, which has become so widespread that it covers a whole range of material.
As American researcher Claire Wardle entitled a 2017 article: “Fake News. A Prince Passes. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April, after more than 70 years of marriage to Queen Elizabeth II.
The longest serving consort of a British monarch was just a few months short of his 100th birthday. Philip Mountbatten was, like the Queen, a great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria and another famous royal consort, Prince Albert. He was born a Prince of Greece and Denmark, though far down the line of succession, but his family had to flee Greece when he was a baby, after a coup d'état. Philip found refuge from a difficult childhood with is mother's family, the Mountbattens, in England. Oléoduc Keystone XL : Joe Biden enterre définitivement le projet controversé.
Femmes disparues et assassinées : Ottawa publie un plan d'action « évolutif » In the news Hatier l’AMC au lycée.
The First Native American U.S. Interior Secretary. New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland has become the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior, which manages federal lands and natural resources, and includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Since 1824, the BIA has been in charge of federal services to the 574 federally recognised Native tribes and 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. Although there have been Native American directors of the BIA, it’s the first time that a Native American has joined the presidential Cabinet. Deb Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe in New Mexico. She is far from being part of the political establishment.
Climate action in language education. Ireland. Scotland & independence. Police and Racial injustice US. NSF - National Science Foundation. Giving Back to Nature Challenge. Bite Back Food Campaign. Bite Back 2030 is a campaign led by British young people aiming to redesign what they call the "food system" to put young people's health first.
This resource features an eye-opening social experiment the campaign carried out to show volunteers just how much they were influenced by advertising when it came to making food choices. We’re all bombarded with commercials and ads throughout the day - whether it be on screens, social media or in the street — but some ads may have a greater influence on us than we even realise… That’s where the clever strategy of big companies lies!
How to make you badly want something you didn’t even know you wanted?
David Copperfield: Dickens for the 21st Century. The Personal History of David Copperfield is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel.
But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing. Iannucci is known for political satire in the series In the Loop, The Thick of It and Veep.