It is a wish of Jean-Michel Blanquer: to develop web radios in colleges. The Minister of National Education wants students to strengthen their critical thinking, educate themselves in the media and arm themselves against social networks. Calls for tenders will be launched, according to the minister, to help all the colleges to create their web radio. Some have already started. This is the case in Rosny-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) at the Langevin Wallon college. Since last year already, a radio workshop is set up. This year, six 4th and 3rd year dropouts took part in the adventure. Result: an hour of broadcast presented live this Thursday in front of their comrades in the courtyard of the college.
For Lhaj Azzouzi, the college’s deputy principal, this kind of workshop is extremely beneficial for students, especially those who have trouble keeping up in class: “It allows them to work on writing. It allows them to work on communication with each other, respect for each other and rediscover the taste for learning. They enjoyed time together, hours and hours when they were told to spend ten minutes doing their homework it was unbearable.”jokes the deputy principal who points to another positive aspect: being in a small group: _”_They are given special attention in a class of 27 students, it’s more complicated. There, they have three speakers for them which is completely different. Most of the time, these students are looking for special attention to help them with their difficulties.
But Lhaj Azzouzi does not claim victory too quickly: “We will still have to continue working on learning and on the relationship to discipline, but on the emotional part, it will already trigger something.” Accompanied by the principal of the college, Odile Cogoluegnes, both wish to continue in this innovative and beneficial dynamic for the students. Two other workshops have also been created this year in the establishment: a “feelings” workshop which is based on a board game for 6th and 5th graders to manage their emotions and an escape game.