Decreasing the Digital
Divide
By: Jenny. Bengi. Willy.
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Interactive ActivityFour audience members will come upYou will form two groups of twoOne person in each group is going to
receive a dictionary, lined paper and pencil
The other person in that group is going to receive a laptop with dictionary.com on and a word document
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Your Job: copy down every
definition and part of speech of your specific
word**Copying and pasting is acceptable on computer (:
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It’s a race to see who finishes first. The people with
the laptops or the people with the
dictionaries?4
Group #1
Look up: yawsyaws
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Group #2
Look up: zwiebackzwieback
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Who finished
first?7
Discuss: What does this have to
do with digital divide?
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Digital Divide in Shanghai
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Part One
Background
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Why is this issue a
global one?11
What’s the main
problem?12
How’s this issue
affecting the world? 1
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Now we’re going to
show you a video 1
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What’s being done to stop, prevent, and fix this issue?
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Part Two
Case Study
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Interactive Activity
Discuss the graphs with your table group.
What do they tell you about digital divide?
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Why did we choose this
topic?24
Now we’re going to show you another video
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What organization is working
on this issue?
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One Laptop Per Child:
http://www.laptop.org
/en/
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What exactly are they doing to combat this
issue?28
What do we like about
this organization?2
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Here are two final videos about two
other organizations and what they are doing to
help
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Part Three
Action Plan
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Our goal is to raise awareness, and possibly
fundraise to try to overcome the digital
divide. We know that as 8th graders, raising
money may be a little hard but we’ll try
anyways.32
What is the purpose?
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Why should people know
about this issue?
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Short-Term Plan
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Long-Term Plan
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What information
does our wiki
contain?37
Our wiki: http://global-issues09.wikispaces.com/Hum1+Group4
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Things you can do to get involved in this issue
are…39
How is our action plan
going so far? 4
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Part Four
Conclusion
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Why is the digital divide
important? 42
Why should you care?
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Why should you work towards
solving it?44
We Can. 4
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Part Five
Works Cited
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Thank You For Listening (:
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