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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