1) An 8th grade student asked their teacher what the difference was between "manejar" and "conducir" in Spanish, which sparked a class discussion and inquiry.
2) The students discovered that "manejar" refers to just operating a vehicle while "conducir" means following traffic rules.
3) To raise awareness, the students organized workshops for parents and other students to explain the new laws around driving education and their impact in reducing accidents.
2. 8 Grade, student thats participate
Global context: orientations in space and time
What is the meaning of “where” and “when”? Students will explore personal histories; homes and journeys; turning points
in humankind; discoveries; the relationships between, and the interconnectedness of, individuals and civilizations, from
personal, local and global perspectives.
Ing. Juan Carlos Padilla Ahumada
Docente coordinador del proyecto
3. IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
In spanish there are two terms “Manejar” and
“Conducir”, the first one refers to people who only
know how to handle the car and the second term
refers to people who know and apply traffic rules. This
is a project that shows young people the difference
between these two terms, and how they impact the
mortality rate in Cali, Colombia. This project's
objective is to create consciousness among users by
presenting profiles, functions and agreements in order
to develop an optimum driving process.
4. Your ideas
At the beginning of one of my classes in
December, one of my eighth graders boys of
approximately 15 years old approached me and
said "Teacher I know how to drive “manejar” my
family's car", to which I replied: "Well now you
must learn how to conducir, that is more
important".
he was surprised and asked is not it the same?
This question served as a trigger for the class to
start reflecting on the meaning we give to these
two words, as a teacher I took the advantage to
inquire about these terms that make the difference
in mortality rates and traffic fines.
Concept: Inquire and reflective
5. Result of the inquiry
As a result of the investigation they not only found
the difference, but also saw the impact of an
awareness campaign to learn to drive. In the last
two years due to these campaigns the mortality rate
in the city of Cali has lower; 2016 closed with 7,280
fatal cases and 45,230 injured and 2017 closed with
5,803 fatal cases. The rates are represented as
follows: 95% is from human error, 3% from vehicle
errors and 2% from road errors. Because of this, the
traffic secretary issued law 0003245 where driving
academies are in charge of the teaching process.
6. FORMULATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
• Do parents distinguish between the mere
abbility to drive a vehicle and being
knowledgeable about the rules and
procedures that driving arround requires?
• Do parents know about the new decree
that rules driving lessons?
• Re teenagers conscious of the importance
the new laws have?
Concept: Inquire and reflective
7. SOURCES OF
PROBLEMTo search for the possible causes of the problem, the
students carried out an online poll aimed at their parents
and other students. They detected the following causes:
*No knowledge of decree # 0003245.
*The traffic secretary hasn’t done an informative
campaign at schools and with parents. .
*Many parents think that they don’t need to pay for the
proper driving education of their children and that they
can save that money and teach the kids themselves, just
as they were taught in the past.
8. SERIES OF ACTIVITIES
• Sensitizing community campaigns.
• Research polls about the normativity and
about the difference between just driving and
knowing the rules.
• Conferences about the most common
mistakes made when driving and ways of solving
them.
• Evaluation of the conferences and
suggestions for the future.
• Sending other schools an invitation to
participate on the three previous steps
mentioned above.
9. ACTIVITIES 1.
To carry out an engaging activity with the community where parents and students are invited.
• To provoke a provocation to the
community, groups of parents and
students of grade 9, 10 and 11
were sent email.
Concept: Comunication
Skills: Media communication
14. Visit the Driving Academy
ASISTEN SAS to request a driving instructor
Concept: Comunication
Once students realized that an expert in the topic was
needed for this awareness campaign, they required
support from ASISTEN (Asociación de instructores
técnicos y normativos) to send a specialized instructor to
train parents and students.
ASISTEN supported the idea and they sent Mr. Hector
Fabio Barona to make a day conference for parents and
students of the school to explain the new changes and
implications of law 0003245.
15. Invite parents and students
• Students designed adverts sent by email to
invite parents and students from 9th and
11th grade to the event on the 19th of May in
the different classrooms and auditoriums of
the school.
16. Workshop aimed at parents
Learn to drive in a driving academy implies more knowledge in
mechanics, legal issues, traffic signs, first aids and traffic laws.
This important information is not taught by a friend or a family
member as they all concentrate in the operative part and not in
the theory.
Through this session parents and students understood better various aspects such as:
Parents and students realized that they did not know a lot of information, even
those who took the course in a driving academy missed important data as with
the new law academies have included new modules with more detailed
information. Parents requested a new session with a more detailed workshop
that included new laws and first aids, this request was taken to ASISTEN to
schedule more trainings.
17. • Many of the parents that have their driving license updated showed a deep interest to be part of the
workshops to motivate their children to be more responsible when driving. They also requested an
extra session for parents to increase awareness of the danger of asking their children to drive a car
without a driving license.
19. Evaluation of Impact
All participants of this project are aware that this is only a start
point for future parents and children meeting projects, these
activities open a door to raise consciousness among teenagers
and their families.
This proposal was also taken to the administration office of the
school so it can be part of the “Proyecto vial” that leads the
school. As a group we are all very happy for this achievement
and the input to lower the mortality rate in our city, we would
have loved to have the time to developed the rest of activities
proposed after the conference but we hope to do it next year
in CAS (Creativity, Action and Service) or any other community
project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew8T1fMrnx4&t=12s
20. Thanks again to Renault
for giving us the
opportunity to
accomplish this
meaningful initiative.
Ing. Juan Carlos Padilla Ahumada
Docente coordinador del proyecto
