Taking our Media Center into 21st century Learning.
My students need a television in the media center to help with presentation projects, interactive video conferences and to update to 21st century skills and technology.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity!" -MLK Jr. So true. We need to change that. How? A TV? Answer: yes, a TV that can show them a bigger world outside their small social strata that needs expanding. We can not tolerate what MLK pointed out.
We are a rural high school in a high poverty level area.
We are a diverse group of students that are 87% Black, 8% White and 5% other. We have gang issues, high poverty, 100 % free breakfast and lunch for our students. We strive to obtain the best education for them and that means reaching out for help with our needed resources. Our Media Center is out of date and technology moves faster than a speeding bullet. The students need to know how to navigate in this techno savvy world and to understand it. For them to do that they need to know, to use, and to implement these devices. We strive to teach values, morals, obligations and responsibilities as well as academic success. A lot of our students are still first generation college bound, or even High School graduation and we want even more to be on that tract. They fight every day to come to school and be fed and be safe. We deal with gang violence on a daily basis. These kids need our help and our understanding and our backbone.
My Project
We have no TV in the media center: We truly have a need for a TV for presentation of senior projects, to do many interactive video conferences or Skype, to broaden exposure to the world around them, as we strive hard to show them the bigger picture out there. The cultural impact and collaboration will be huge. This will allow them to obtain a global view of the world outside their doors. They will have to exercise and learn fundamental skills of public speaking, correct etiquette, as well as speak to many other types of students and adults through the use of programs that reach out beyond the doors of the high school. We can watch live streaming events that happen in real time from all over the planet. This will make it possible to put more than 20 people in front of a screen in the media center which is underused. A TV can be used for interdisciplinary studies as well.
With having to learn how to present in front of a group they will gain confidence and abilities that they can take with them after high school.
I remember the first time I had kids interact in an IVC TV with a school in Taiwan. They looked at the other students and asked if they were real. We have technology at our fingertips but we have no social skills at all. Use of social media has actually turned us inward not outward. Education is for improvement- a TV will achieve this, believe it or not!
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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