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Consumer Councilmember of the City Hall, Antonia Lopez, the activities of consumer education are underway in 12 schools in the town and villages.
Consumer Councilmember of the City Hall, Antonia Lopez, has reported that 2,500 students from twelve primary schools in the municipality participate in a series of workshops on "Consumer education", organized in collaboration with the Department of Consumer Community Autonomous.
Lopez explained that "the City Council offered to all schools in the municipality these workshops are being offered by the legal adviser of the council and will be held during the months of March, April and May of this year in schools who wished to participate in their realization. "
The workshops being offered are "Safe Toys" for students of 1 and 2 of Primary Education, "Learning through play" for students of 3 rd and 4 th Primary and "Social Networks and the protection of minors" for students 5 and 6, but also work with their parents if they request it.
The methodology of these workshops is the active participation of students to be the protagonists of their learning and their duration is one hour and a half, depending on time availability of each school.
The Councillor for Health and Consumer considered essential to develop these workshops because the high potential to contain fun and educational games and toys thus giving rise to them should be used to boost the capacities of smaller and to assume values as important as equality, solidarity, tolerance and respect for the environment.
It is also necessary to emphasize that these toys comply with current regulations with regard to their safety.
This is the main objective it has set the council with the delivery of the workshops 'toys safe' and 'Learning through play'. "
On the other hand, Antonia Lopez, has highlighted the importance for young people is the social networking phenomenon shows that the presence of such groups in our society is growing.
The notoriety that these tools have been made in the lives of young people is an essential element to consider in terms of educational use and its incorporation into the teaching and learning.
Many children make frequent use of new technologies to the point of incorporating them into their daily life, so that the main objective of the workshop "Social Networks and the protection of minors" is to enable students to follow guidelines for appropriate use and certain of these tools and their proper use as educational tools in the usual processes of teaching and learning.
The centers where they will teach these workshops are San Juan de Morata, Casa del Niño, La Campana, Torrecilla, Petra Gonzalez de La Paca, San José, Pérez de Hita, San Fernando, Campillo, Mother of God, St. Francis of Assisi and Sun City
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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