It was a snowing cold (not too cold) day in Prague, with
snow everywhere,the perfect post card picture for a white christmas. 20 Youth
Workers from 6 European countries where
in the beautiful city of Prague to attend an Erasmus+ Seminar, titled “With
Media Literacy towards Cultural Awareness and Tolerance”, a seminar designed to
help Youth Workers to strategically use media as a tool for addressing social
concerns.
Day 1 of the seminar started with a general introduction to
the whole seminar , which was prompletly followed by ice breakers to build
group cohesion, one such ice breaker was the use of names games to aid
repitition, association and retention of
the names of each group members.
Once the group was warmed up and the energy and our brain
activity was high, the project aims and objectives where expalined, giving us a
good picture of the journey that we were about to take. After, we were invited
to say what our expectations are of the seminar as well as the contributioned
that we see ourselves making, thus to enahancing the collective learning
experience.
The afternoon kicked off with a card game (DIXIT )
which had
a duel purpose, the first was more of a pyschological profiling activity (very
interesting and revealing); 2ndly, it was a play into team dynamics, bringing
people that had just met a few hours before, giving them random methaphoric
cards and then asking them to work as a team and create a story in 20 mins, was
really great!
which had
a duel purpose, the first was more of a pyschological profiling activity (very
interesting and revealing); 2ndly, it was a play into team dynamics, bringing
people that had just met a few hours before, giving them random methaphoric
cards and then asking them to work as a team and create a story in 20 mins, was
really great!
The last activity of the day was geared around discovering
for ourselves how we learn, more specifically how we learn best. The two activities used, joggling and origami
where fit for purpose, because we were having fun, yet, as was evident in the
reflection at the end of the activity, we had chosen the activity to do, as
well as the mode of instruction on how to do what we had to do based on our
self assessed learning styles.
The key activity of the day was the Reflection time after
each session, as it allowed us to bring to our concious mind all the
subconcious descsions and thought proccess that we had been apply throughtout
the various activities.
During one of the reflection session, we were asked to think
of the most important thing that we have learnt; this I thought to be a very
good question because it provoked a deep level of thought; I and the person
that I was pair with to discuss this question, concluded that, it was the fact
that we had learnt how we learn.
Day 1 concluded with a reflective/projective goal setting to
lead us into Day 2 and beyond.
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