ESY Day 9: Welcome to your final post of the ESY 2012 program.
Nancy Lublin is CEO and Chief Person at DoSomething.org, where she harnesses the extraordinary energy of teens and focuses it on issues they care passionately about.
When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.
Answer these questions:
1. Based on the information you heard from Nancy Lublin, can texting actually save lives? Why or why not?
2. Would you vent to a complete stranger about your personal life over a text? Why or why not?
3. Is Nancy Lublin an activist? Why or why not?
To learn more about Nancy Lublin and her work, go to http://www.dosomething.org/.
How can I make the world a better place?
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Life lessons from animals
ESY Day 8: Animal Advocacy
Beverly and Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save big cats from human threats.
Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife for more than 25 years. As National Geographic Explorers in Residence, the couple influences public policy and perceptions.
Please answer the following questions:
1. Write 1 paragraph or more (at least 5 sentences) about something you learned from watching this TED talk.
Beverly and Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save big cats from human threats.
Documentary filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert have worked to conserve wildlife for more than 25 years. As National Geographic Explorers in Residence, the couple influences public policy and perceptions.
Please answer the following questions:
1. Write 1 paragraph or more (at least 5 sentences) about something you learned from watching this TED talk.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
How to set goals . . . for the world
ESY Day 6:
In 2000, the UN laid out 8 goals to make the world better by reducing poverty and disease, with a deadline of 2015. As that deadline approaches, Jamie Drummond of ONE.org runs down the surprising successes of the 8 Millennium Development Goals, and suggests a crowdsourced reboot for the next 15 years.
Jamie Drummond co-founded the advocacy organization ONE (http://www.one.org/), whose central themes are ending extreme poverty and fighting the AIDS pandemic.
After watching this TED talk, please answer the following questions:
1. What was accomplished because of the UN's 8 Millennium Development Goals since the year 2000?
2. What do some people think should have been in the original 8 goals?
3. Accordining to Jamie Drummond, what are the three essential steps to developing the new goals?
4. What 2 new goals should the UN add to the original 8 Millennium Development Goals? (2 paragraphs)
In 2000, the UN laid out 8 goals to make the world better by reducing poverty and disease, with a deadline of 2015. As that deadline approaches, Jamie Drummond of ONE.org runs down the surprising successes of the 8 Millennium Development Goals, and suggests a crowdsourced reboot for the next 15 years.
Jamie Drummond co-founded the advocacy organization ONE (http://www.one.org/), whose central themes are ending extreme poverty and fighting the AIDS pandemic.
After watching this TED talk, please answer the following questions:
1. What was accomplished because of the UN's 8 Millennium Development Goals since the year 2000?
2. What do some people think should have been in the original 8 goals?
3. Accordining to Jamie Drummond, what are the three essential steps to developing the new goals?
4. What 2 new goals should the UN add to the original 8 Millennium Development Goals? (2 paragraphs)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Can Images Change the World?
ESY: Day 5
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Today's homework is in two parts:
1. First, watch this TED talk:
Answer these questions:
1. Identify one thing you learned from this TED talk.
2. Do you believe images can change the world, why or why not?
3. Identify one image, photograph, painting or logo that has affected you in some way and why.
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2. Research your topic.
As you start to think about your final project, think about how you are going to present your cause.
1. Find a powerful image representing your cause, copy and paste the link.
2. Write one paragraph about why you think the picture you chose represents why people should fight for your cause.
Today's homework is in two parts:
1. First, watch this TED talk:
Answer these questions:
1. Identify one thing you learned from this TED talk.
2. Do you believe images can change the world, why or why not?
3. Identify one image, photograph, painting or logo that has affected you in some way and why.
2. Research your topic.
As you start to think about your final project, think about how you are going to present your cause.
1. Find a powerful image representing your cause, copy and paste the link.
2. Write one paragraph about why you think the picture you chose represents why people should fight for your cause.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Incomplete Reports
ESY Day 5
In preparation for your group projects, we want you to start thinking about where you are going to get your information from and what the data actually means.
Newspapers, television shows, magazines, journals and other media often include surveys and statistics in their reports. In these reports, you might get a little information about the statistics or a lot of information. Questions such as, "How many people did you survey?" get answered in some places and not in others.
Your job is to investigate what type of information is given in different surveys. Find examples where practically all the information is revealed, examples where so little information is given that you might question the survey's results, and situations in between.
Some places you can find such statistics include:
Washington Post Poll Archive
Associated Press Polls
CNN
Gallup Polls
Your assignment over the weekend is to:
1. Copy/Paste a link to the survey you're describing into the comment box.
2. Comment in detail (2 paragraphs) on at least one of the surveys that you find. Indicate what strengths and weakness of the survey are.
3. Think about your current project and answer this question: What information should an article present about a survey in order for the results to influence your opinion and strengthen the content of your project.
*Remember to identify who you are by including your full name in each post.*
*Full credit will only be given to those who write their names.*
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Does Food Matter?
ESY Day 3: Food Activism
Answer these questions in the comment box below:
1. Write one thing that you learned from this TED talk.
2. What did you think of what Jamie Oliver had to say? (at least 4 sentences)
3. Do you think that healthy food is a worthwhile cause? Would you fight for it?
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
K'naan
ESY Day 2: July 10, 2012
Your assignment:
1. Read the following mini-biography on rapper K'naan.
2. Watch his music video and read the lyrics to Wavin' Flag.
3. Answer these questions in the comment box below.
K'naan was born in Somalia. He spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. He spent the early years of his life listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia earlier.When he was 13, K'naan, his mother, and his three siblings, older brother, Liban, and Sagal left their homeland and joined relatives in New York City, where he stayed briefly before moving to Canada where his family settled in the Rexdale neighborhood of Toronto. There, K'naan began learning English, partly by listening to hip hop albums. Dispite not knowing English, K'naan taught himself hip-hop and rap dictation, copying the lyrucs and style phonetically. He then also began rapping. While growing up in Rexdale, K'naan lost many friends to murder, suicide, prison and deportation. Much of K'naan's music talks about the situation in his homeland of Somalia and calling for an end to violence and bloodshed.
K’naan has engaged in social activism. In 2011, he became a co-spokesman with Bono to raise awareness of the 2011 Eastern Africa drought. Also teaming up with close associate Sol Guy, K'naan performed various concerts for the cause.K’naan has also been active in promoting the Canadian Bill C-393 to help increase medical assistance to countries in Africa. He teamed up with James Orbinski, a Canadian humanitarian physician and co-founder of Dignitas International.
Taken from MTV
http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/k_naan/artist.jhtml#biographyEnd
Your assignment:
1. Read the following mini-biography on rapper K'naan.
2. Watch his music video and read the lyrics to Wavin' Flag.
3. Answer these questions in the comment box below.
1. Is K'naan an activist? Why?
2. How do you feel after listening to Wavin' Flag?
3. Knowing what you do about his childhood, why do you think he wrote this song?
Who is K'naan?
K'naan was born in Somalia. He spent his childhood in Mogadishu and lived there during the Somali Civil War, which began in 1991. He spent the early years of his life listening to the hip-hop records sent to him from America by his father, who had left Somalia earlier.When he was 13, K'naan, his mother, and his three siblings, older brother, Liban, and Sagal left their homeland and joined relatives in New York City, where he stayed briefly before moving to Canada where his family settled in the Rexdale neighborhood of Toronto. There, K'naan began learning English, partly by listening to hip hop albums. Dispite not knowing English, K'naan taught himself hip-hop and rap dictation, copying the lyrucs and style phonetically. He then also began rapping. While growing up in Rexdale, K'naan lost many friends to murder, suicide, prison and deportation. Much of K'naan's music talks about the situation in his homeland of Somalia and calling for an end to violence and bloodshed.
K’naan has engaged in social activism. In 2011, he became a co-spokesman with Bono to raise awareness of the 2011 Eastern Africa drought. Also teaming up with close associate Sol Guy, K'naan performed various concerts for the cause.K’naan has also been active in promoting the Canadian Bill C-393 to help increase medical assistance to countries in Africa. He teamed up with James Orbinski, a Canadian humanitarian physician and co-founder of Dignitas International.
Taken from MTV
http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/k_naan/artist.jhtml#biographyEnd
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