Astro Space Week

During this week, we are exploring the Space at Aprendizes. There will be a talk about Carl Sagan, and we will explore stars, planets and galaxies. We'll talk about the Pale Blue Dot, focusing on astronomy and astrophysics. There's an exhibit about space exploration and the universe, including amazing views of the Earth and the ISS.

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Huggy Wuggy

We searched, and it looks like Huggy Wuggy is not yet available on YouTube Kids. We found some videos with drawings and kids talking about it in Roblox and Minecraft. Also, we didn’t find a Portuguese version of this video. Nevertheless, the video has scary images, and the lyrics talk about "hugging until the last breath”, which is a great reminder for us, parents, to talk to our children about a conscious use of the internet and video platforms which have all sorts of unregulated and unsupervised content.

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Layers of science: making soaps

Making soaps was one of our most recent experiments. Soap comes in many varieties and forms, and the uses for soaps are just as expansive as the scents we can use to produce them. Adding values of concern with the environmental impact and awareness about what we consume in our daily lives, the workshop brings tools for the natural production of cosmetics, such as soap, shampoo, and creams, with natural ingredients, without toxic or allergic additives.

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Attention, focus and freedom: are we stuck to our screens?

Michel Desmurget's book "La Fabrique du crétin digital. Les dangers des écrans pour nos enfants" could be alarming if we didn't already know what this book has to say: screens are our worst enemies. We do our best to ignore the danger, seduced by the light that makes us feel good, the gamification that entices us and the addictive architecture. Michel Desmurget writes about the current paradigm and the creation of imbeciles that results from this technological ubiquity. His book presents the advantages and disadvantages of using digital devices, leaving it up to the reader to decide what to do.

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Aprendizes ICT Podcast: people get hacked

Welcome to the first Aprendizes podcast, created by IGCSE1 students as part of their ICT class project to find more about the impact of technology in daily life. It all started with a video about Artificial Intelligence and evolved into a podcast series focusing on current technology topics and students concerns.

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