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1ª econferencia etwinning IES Cabo de la Huerta (Alicante, Spain) El pasado miércoles 24/1/2018 tuvo lugar en nuestro instituto la primera econferencia dentro del proyecto etwinning, acción de Erasmus+, Schoolsnet for communication.

Nos pusimos en contacto con uno de los socios del proyecto, la Bertha Benz Schule de Sigmaringen (Alemania). Debatimos sobre la Criminal Age of Responsability (Edad de Responsabilidad Penal). Durante varias semanas estuvimos trabajando en la clase de inglés de 1º de Bachillerato un tema de tremenda actualidad, a partir del análisis crítico de unas secuencias de la película Every Secret Thing. Estudiamos la normativa de numerosos países de todo el mundo al respecto, debatimos en pequeños grupos y extrajimos en gran grupo conclusiones, que se expusieron en la econferencia como actividad final.

En ella pudieron demostrar habilidades comunicativas como la exposición de ideas, argumentos, rebatir, respeto por las ideas ajenas, presentación de información, así como la fluidez necesaria para dar pie al interlocutor a mantener la conversación. Todo ello en inglés.

Valoramos, asimismo, la disponibilidad de nuestros alumnos para ir más allá de su horario escolar. Si el nivel de inglés es alto, al finalizar la actividad el nivel de motivación, componente esencial del aprendizaje, sobrepasó nuestras expectativas.

Patricia-María Martínez Rico IES Cabo de la Huerta https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-maría-martínez-rico-293276b/ http://www.xtec.cat/~pmarti46/public/public.htm

German conference Participants Vicente Marín Raquel Quiles Carlos Sempere Alberto Barros Pablo Cucalón Aarón Martínez Carlos Peñas Jia Yoldi Paula Medina Presentation Hola! Como sabemos que habéis empezado a estudiar español, nos vamos a presentar en esta lengua.

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We have been discussing the topic of Criminal Age of Responsability because it was a suggested topic in our textbook and because in the news there’re more and more cases of crimes committed by young people.

Only last week, two very old people were killed at their home by two 14year-olds, and in Spain that is out of the CAR. But Is this fair??

What should be done?

Who should pay for that crime?

How? Those questions led us to a debate.

(Raquel) The highest Criminal Age of Responsability is in Peru where the minimum age of criminal responsibility is formally 18. If a person under 18 infringes the criminal law, he or she is considered to have committed “an infraction” and can be subjected to socio-educative measures, though these measures include deprivation of liberty.

(Sempere) In my opinion 18 years old is too high. At our age we are aware of what we do, then why wait to 18 years old to go to prison? If we are criminals at our age I can say for sure that we will continue being so. That is the reason why I think socio-educative measures are useless up to 14 years old more or less.

(Vicente) The lowest Criminal Age of Responsability is in Indonesia where you can be considered a criminal at 8. That means that you can go to prison when you are 8 years old.

(Alberto) In my opinion, the criminal age of responsability could be my age, 16 years old. I think that a person who is 16 years old could think what he/she is doing and he/she can think and stop. Better late than never.

Debate 1 conclusion (Pablo) The conclusion in our debate is that punishment depends on the circumstances. When we talk about circumstances we are talking about the location, the intention, the family situation, and other factors that can influence upon the crime. We think it's important because when the children are so young, maybe they don't know the consequences of their acts. Also we spoke about the different kinds of punishment, and the conclusion of this part is very clear, it is more important to teach children for living in society than punishing with grave sentence.

(Aarón) The criminal age of responsability, is a theme with much controversy because we need to study the circumstances to make a fair judgement.

I´m saying this, because the living conditions in a developed country are different from those in an undeveloped country.

For example, a child in Brasil has the need to steal something to get money to eat, buy clothes and those things. Here, in Spain, we don´t have that necessity and if for example, in an estrange case we have it, we have our state that support us with grants and economic helps. We also have public associations and campaigns against poverty.

So, to sum up, I want to say, most important thing in these cases is study the circumstances because the criminal age of responsability in each country should be different, depending the economic and politic situation of that country.

Debate 2 conclusion (Carlos Peñas) The conclusion of the debate of group number 2 is very clear. We think that children who are 8 or 10 are to young to face up the consequences of the crime that they’ve made. Instead of going to jail, they should enter to other kind of centers in order to insert them in the society

(because we think they deserve another opportunity in life as they are very young). We’ve also arrived to the conclusion that the CAR is lower when the level of development of the country is low, and higher when it’s high.

Debate 3 conclusion (Jia+Paula) Our conclusion of the debate number 3 is that we think that in Norway the criminal age of responsability is so early. Because a person is not totally aware at 15. We think that the perfect age is 18 years old, it is only three years more, but three years in a person who is growing up physically and mentally, with 15 years old you do not have your own ideas and your own personality so you can be influenced by others. But also, depend of the country, if is an underdeveloped country or place, in these countries you have to be an adult with 13-15 years old but in a developed country we think the perfect age is 18 years old.

Well, this is all on our part.