Showing posts with label "seven global skills". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "seven global skills". Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2014

How can we create a project that involves INITIATIVE, COLLABORATION, and the other five survial skills that Tony Wagner promotes? Start a computer refurbishing project

Here's a website that deserves more attention


I"m reproducing the About Us page:

About Us
In an environment with numerous large computer refurbishing firms charging money to people in need for their refurbished computers, eGreen4Need was founded in 2012 to alleviate the costs of information access and education and provide refurbished computers to schools in need for free.

Who Are We

eGreen4Need (eG4N) is a nonprofit computer refurbishing organization sponsored by Whitney High School in Cerritos, California.  eG4N is certified as a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher.  As a small but growing organization of student volunteers, eG4N provides free refurbished computers with the latest software to other students and schools in need with limited to no access to technology.  Our services help both the environment and recipient communities by lowering the amount of electronic waste pollution and providing computer technology to those who need it most.

Our Mission

eGreen4Need understands that computers are a vital part of modern society.  Computers not only provide ease of communication; computers play an very important role in education due to the vast amounts of useful information available on the Internet.  For these reasons, eG4N believes that everybody should have access to a computer, and that means that those who have difficulty in affording one should be able to have one for free.  Therefore, we are committed to providing free computers for those who need it most, and we have found a simple way to do that - one which benefits both the environment and our clients.  By refurbishing computers that would otherwise be disposed and donating them to those in need, we aim to better the world with a resourceful approach.

CLICK HERE to read their standard contract

After reading that mission statement, I want to create a similar project at my high school.   Who wants to get started with me?

I recommend that students contact the current head of EG4N  eGreen4Need leader, Proud Heng, who might share with you some good ideas. whseg4n@gmail.com    WHS = Whitney High School

Saturday, March 22, 2014

"Do you have the Skill and Will" Tony Wagner talks about two ingredients in the School of the Future...

Listen in Minute 2
Listen to what Tony Wagner says in this presentation about Skill and Will


The world cares about what you can do with what you know.

Do you have the Skill and the Will?

Knowledge is necessary but it is not sufficient...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uda4gxtCgA

Oh, and this video is just so cool.  Can you see the "salt fall"?  (it's like a waterfall of liquid salt) in Antarctica

Friday, November 29, 2013

For Davi, Leo and Luiza... What is your "net" impact? What videos should we view? What places do you want to visit on the Internet? What seven skills can we learn during the next year that will help us in the future?

This is a letter to three students
Davi, Luiza and Leo

I asked some of my students "What places are worth looking at?"

One of my students shouted, "Oh, you must see this video about Rio de Janeiro!"

So that's the first video to show you....

It's just one minute and it is SOOOO pretty.

Then other students told me about other videos.   You can see these videos by clicking below at these links....
Click here to see the video

so, did you click on the video yet?

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Here is another version...    <<< this video is shorter
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(I don't like the music)

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Click here to see the volcano video


My favorite science fiction film   BladeRunner





ANALYSIS   <<< wonderful discussion
What does it mean to be human?


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Meeting of the waters, Rio Negro, Amazon


Meeting of the waters



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Kyoto Fan

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The video is called Rio de 
Janeiro, Brazil in HD
Amazing Places in the World
Great Wall

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Roxana suggested this video...

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short clip

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Click here to see the video  Singapore
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a video by a Brazilian tourist
another video (here)


Los Roques 
a video by a Brazilian tour company

Click here to see Paris


Click here to see the video  Napoli in 4K Youmedia

another clip:  Time Lapse Royalty Free

Click here to see the video  OPEN TOUR BUS
sidetrip... cool collection of video clips about Brazil
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How to use Digital Portfolios

How to use Google DRIVE
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Another video

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Can you recommend some videos for
other students to look at?  Write at least two
sentences to explain WHY the video is
"SO GOOD" and send the link and your

Luiza and Leo think that videos about dominoes (falling, tumbling, hitting each other) are hilarious.  Here is one of their favorite videos:   

Dan Pink wants you to see this cartoon




MAKE A FREE WEBSITE



Click here to Make a Free Website

Ask students "Show me a video on YouTube that inspires you"

Here are some of the places that my students told me about...



Here are some of the skills we might need
(says Tony Wagner)

500 Videos that inspire us
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Here is an example of a digital portfolio...



Make a digital portfolio    

Build a digital Library of videos and ebooks that inspire you.
Let's conclude with a pair of videos.



VIDEO ONE:  from Miami to Taiwan.


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VIDEO TWO:  From Taiwan to Miami