Imagine what will make the headlines in 2050! This is the exercise offered to CM2 students from a school in Val de Reuil as part of the media awareness week. A foresight that allows all daring!
The CM2 class of the Pivollet school in Val de Reuil this morning took on the appearance of an open space or a newsroom. Each apprentice journalist has his own idea to imagine the front page of their press headline if they lived in 2050. Life would certainly have changed its face: we would feed on insects, the sea would have arrived at Val de Reuil, and cars would fly!
The school press and media week is in its 32nd edition. It was created to make students aware of the world of media, and to better understand the profession of journalist. A more important issue than social networks sometimes think of themselves as press organs and that each Internet user can imagine himself a journalist. However, it is a demanding profession which has its codes of good conduct and ethics, with rules and ethics to be respected.
School press week: children from Val de Reuil imagine what will create the buzz in 2050
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In this CM2 class, the students got into small groups to make their reflections fruitful. It is for them to imagine the composition of their front page, that is to say of the first page of the newspaper, supposed to attract the readers. “We our subject is the beach in Val-de-Reuil”, explains Paul-Anna, “There is no beach here, but because of global warming, maybe there will be a beach?”. Kayssan and his friends have chosen to put flying cars in the spotlight. “We chose flying cars,” he says, “because it’s the theme on which we had the most inspiration, and on which we had already reflected”.
A professional journalist supervises the students’ work, distributing advice and information.
My mission is to give them a look at the information. Young people aged 10, 11 are not necessarily used to leafing through the press and following the information. Through this fun workshop we get them to work on what a press title is, what a front page, why there is a title on it … we make them think about all that
For Jennifer Tévenin their teacher, this workshop is all the more useful as young people today do not read the paper press, they hardly even know it. “The press and especially the written press are relatively unknown to young people. They do not open this kind of newspaper. It was already not easy to explain to them what a medium was. It is always interesting to educate them on this subject”. And the exercise seems successful for the young Béritan. “I already knew a little about the media but there I had time to really discover with the teacher.” The morning was enough to compose several press headlines with catchy titles, and perhaps arouse some vocations.
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