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The second workshop in the Megaphone at School project was held at all five hubs last week, attended by increasingly enthusiastic pupils.

Their activities focused on thinking about the school of the future: how would they like their school to be? What would be studied? And how? Would the rules for getting along together be different? Divided into groups, the pupils discussed this issue and produced videos, using different types of narrative language, letting their imaginations run free.

After this trip to future, they returned to the present, offering their thoughts on the application test for the questionnaire they will use in their schools, discovering what worked and what didn’t, what was difficult, and suggested questions.

T-shirts and bags were handed out, with the researcher kits. After the next workshop, these young researchers will officially set out into the field, stirring up their schools and making everyone think about the challenges faced by secondary education in Brazil.

Until then they will keep in contact through the Megaphone at School community on the Orkut relationship site, exchanging information, doubts and criticisms of their experiences as researchers, providing input for an online field journal. The interface with these schoolchildren is Media-Education specialist Ilana Eleá, a doctoral student at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro.

The megafonenaescola.blogspot.com also offers information on the progress of the workshops.

		Conceptualised by the Instituto Desiderata, the Megaphone at School project is a participative consultation that trains schoolchildren to interview their classmates and teachers in order to discover how schools view the challenges faced by secondary education (6th ? 9th grades) in Brazil. Check out the survey here, step by step.