Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students participated in the School Day, organized by the Observatoire B2V des Mémoires. This day, marked by the sharing of knowledge and knowledge between the youngest and the adults, allowed several hundred children to better understand memories in a friendly atmosphere with an exceptional Memory Championship.
“It is an opening of the school to elsewhere and this type of event shows the transversality of the subjects. In addition, knowledge of memory is essential because in lessons, we often call on collective and family memory, ”explains a teacher from Lycée Malherbe in Caen. He adds that “it is also enriching to meet renowned experts who make themselves available to the students with a fun and educational method”.
The Observatoire B2V des Mémoires allowed these students to better understand the importance of memory in their daily life and its functioning.
Fun and educational workshops: Children curious and delighted to learn
Thanks to Xplore your Brain, the young people tested an MRI (life-size model) which allowed them to see what is happening inside their brain. Thanks to sensors and a small test, the experts were able to explain to them the areas that activate when a task is carried out.
In the workshop Sniffy The Virtual Lab Rat, the youngsters taught a rat a certain number of instructions. The objective of the software is to understand how the rat learns and understands these instructions and reproduces them.
This software is used in studies because it provides faster results when it would take several months to come to some conclusions with a real rat.
Accessible and captivating conferences
Bernard STIEGLER, philosopher and member of the Observatoire B2V des Mémoires explained to the pupils that “memory is essentially constituted by its ‘externalization’, that is to say at the same time by its expression, its artificial reproduction and its intergenerational transmission”. He adds that “this exteriorization would only be beneficial if it makes possible a re-interiorization through new knowledge, allowing to think for oneself”.
Pr. JAFFARD, neuropsychologist and member of the Observatoire B2V des Mémoires taught students that “some animals can solve problems, make tools, play games, have a certain sense of fairness and altruism… and that they are even capable of deception. “
The latest data suggests that animals “think” and that some animals have a sort of “cognitive toolbox” made up of four main instruments: the ability to anticipate and cause causal reasoning, imagination and flexibility.
A Memory Championship: the children had to work their brains!
Questions of history-geography, sport, general culture and current affairs; songs with holes, mimes, smells to recognize and observation tests.
Each team was made up of two 3rd year students and an adult. The objective was to promote intergenerational sharing between young people and seniors as the theme “a grandparent, a parent, my teacher and me”.
The big winners won a check for € 1,000 for the college, awarded by Pierre Blachon Deputy CEO of the B2V Group. Each student left victorious with a board game.
The Friday September 19 Program: Arts and Memory – Music, Dance and Theater
The play performed by patients with Alzheimer’s disease, whose objective is to improve the memory capacities of the participants by learning strategies using artistic expressions and emotions. (The piece was awarded by France Alzheimer).
To download :
the press kit
the program
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