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Learning to Learn: Urban Youth, Technology Literacy and Youth Development

Father Jeff

Hopeworks N’ Camden
www.hopeworks.org

A youth development ORG.
Training program not a school. Don’t call the teens students. Don’t want to get into the pedagogy of the teacher has the knowledge and the teacher doesn’t.

Traditional Literacy Program too. Lots of the training programs are run like a business.

“Youth Meeting the Future”

Skills Training Subjects
Training web design and geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Computer Hardware construction
Video Editing
Business skills

Youth 14-23

60% drop out rate
20% adult employment rate
5600 per capita income

Churches – Catholic and Lutheran churches
Juvenile System – some youth are in jail attend training on the HopeWorks site
Youth Recruitment – positive word of mouth from the youth

Up to 15 college credits, help teens get in college and find jobs

Partnerships

Fee For services

+Congregations
+Community Partners
+ Rotary Club
+ Businesses

“The point of HW is to engage learning. Learning to Learn.”

Rolling Curriculum!
Self Paced

No open lab. Most web surfing is not allowed. The computers are there for work training.

Day Training Pay
Trainees are paid per completion of exams and attaining point scores. Not just for showing up.

E-Mentoring via Email.

Federal Program to help allow students to get into college WITHOUT a high school diploma or a GED.

The folks at HW haven’t had much luck with GED programs. Seems that students work to get their GED then just stop their education.

In teen programs what percentage of students who get their GED go on to college?
What percentage of students who get their GED go on to get a college degree?

“It’s important to not to tell youth what do to. But to tell youth how it is.”

“I’m learning how to be professional.” –Trainee

GIS program is really cool. The teens are collection information in their city and turning it into readable maps.
Examples:
The number of street lights in the city of Camden.
Survey the status of housing.

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CTCnet Friday

1:30 – 3:30

Media Literacy for Healthy and Just Communities

Analyzing Ads

Asking Questions

Who paid for the ad?
Who are they trying to reach with the ad?
What cultural references are being made?

Advertisers are only telling us one side of the story.
What aren’t they telling us?

TV commercials designed to get kids to nag Mom and Dad to buy stuff.

Targeting young children early (0-5 years) can form very strong brand loyalty.

The Warm and Fuzzy Technique – ex. Polar Bear Coke Ad

One of the techniques in Media Literacy education is “Don’t dictate behavior” (don’t tell what people to do)

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
WSIS
The World Summit on the information Society

Andy Carvin
Policy – The UN, NGOs, and other groups working for a civil society are debating how to bridge the digital divide.

Mark Surman
Networking – It’s important that CTC groups and grassroots NPOs communicate with policy makers developing plans to bridge the Global Digital Divide.

www.wsis-cs.org

Q: (audience) What affect do multinational corporations have on the world summit?

A: (Andy Carvin): “Not as much as you think.” They rather go straight to “the horses mouth”. Big debate on how Civil Society should collaborate with the private sector.

Q (audience): Why isn’t the CTCnet involved directly in the WTO?
A: (john Zoltner) It’s easier to work with WISIS at this point. Trying to get funding to go to WSIS is difficult. Micro$oft funded CTCnet’s participation in WSIS last year.

Q: What are the characteristics of a local elected official that might attend a WSIS event?

A: (me)
+ Personal involvement in tech, not a techie really, a blogger perhaps
+ Interest in the effects of tech on local communities in need
+ Open to putting the digital divide in their political platform

MI: I want to educate and motivate local politicians towards working on bridging the digital divide.

MI = My Impressions

9am –10am
Open Plenary: Connections for Youth

Cleveland Buddies – Locals to help people get around and to do stuff.

There are students working during the conference as event reporters.

Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, PH. D. CTO of City of Cleveland
Cleveland native, accomplished, very impressive education, one of the first African American women leaders in IT.

MI: All conferences must start with someone having issues getting PowerPoint to run.

Cleveland Landscape
+ “Cleveland is rated #1 in Poverty “

“Not something we’re proud about.”

MI: I see now why CTC choose Cleveland as an event city. There seems to be such incredible need to provide tech training for people to help overcome poverty. Despite the hardship there are opportunities. VISTAs can do so much good here.

MI: I noticed yesterday that many of the streets were torn up due to construction. Ms. Mayberry-Stewart says they are laying fiber to build a network. Awesome!

The Mayor Jane L. Campbell Mayor of Cleveland has proclaimed June 16, 2005 Digital Literacy Day in Cleveland, OH in partnership with CTCnet.

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Salome Chasnoff, Beyond Media
Chicago, IL

Media for social justice. Teens creating multimedia.

Girls Action Media Program

Making Public Schools safe for Queer youth, the effect of music videos on youth, media made by youth with disabilities…

MI: Beautiful video about Disability Pride and a parade for building community. Sharing the hopes and dreams of teens with disabilities. Wonderful!

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Greg McCoy
Sunflower Freedom Project
Sunflowerfreedom.org

“Empowering the youth to become the future”

Quotes from teens: (who spoke at event)

One teen led the audience in chanting Sankofa!
Sankofa means “We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today.”

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