In collaboration with the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Global Kids launched Newz Crew, which combined Global Kids' unique, interactive approach to public policy education, youth leadership and online learning with NewsHour's media content to stimulate rich online dialogues involving youth in the United States and around the world. The official launch on March 1, 2004, was preceded in February 2004 by a beta group that was implemented with 60 students from around the country who discussed such issues as the situation in Iraq, the Democratic primary, and education reform.
Students from Canarsie High School in Brooklyn in Global Kids' Power of Citizenry Leadership Program were integral in creating Newz Crew. Approximately 15 students met in weekly after-school leadership training workshops and activities to hone leadership and digital literacy skills and to help shape the Newz Crew project. They also helped to manage the Newz Crew site. The Newz Crew site featured a 'Teacher's Lounge" that provided educators with curricular materials related to current events and enabled them to involve their classes in the site's dialogues. Articles and lesson plans, written and produced by NewsHour and Global Kids, were made available to educators and youth twice per month.
Global Kids' Online Leadership Program has filled the positions opened in the summer of 2007.
Thank you to everyone helping to spread the word, such as Moo Money, 3pointD, NMC, Second Life Times and the blog Future-Making Serious Games.
Napier University has released a report on e-participation practices, based on case studies. This report entitled "Existing E-Participation Practices with Relevance to WEB.DEP" prepared for the WEB.DEP Consortium.
Every year, GK's Newz Crew afterschool program visits its partners at the Newshour with Jim Lehrer in an annual DC trip. This year, one of the teens, Anthony, was so inspired by the trip that he decided he wanted to blog about it here on the GK blog. Enjoy!
On Monday 10, 2007 my GK trainers, my fellow monitors and I took a trip to Washington D.C. Our main goal was to visit the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, who help us run NewzCrew.org, and to interview one of their senior correspondents, Ray Suarez.
Global Kids' work online was featured in this Cable in the Classroom article regarding "sites to excite leadership potential in and beyond the classroom.".
Digital Leadership for the Real World
Through after-school programs and web resources—from youth-led dialogues to virtual worlds—Global Kids’ online leadership director Barry Joseph works to create experiential models with global issues to help develop youth leadership. Here, he gives tips for finding, using, and expanding on digital media for youth-engagement lessons.What skills are you trying to encourage?
We want youth to be able to learn that education isn’t something that other people give to them, but is something they get to be in charge of. It’s not a burden, but it’s actually something that opens opportunities in their life and can be fun.What should educators look for in Internet resources for lessons in leadership?
Look for something that truly engages young people—something [they] would want to do if you weren’t there making them do it. At the same time, make sure the thing that is engaging them is truly educational. That means looking at things that are explicitly developed for education and making sure they’re something that a young person would truly be engaged around, and at the same time, considering things that were not created explicitly for educational purposes and seeing how they can be used to teach.How can educators promote these skills in their everyday lessons?
Give youth opportunities to create things, to work in groups... Create an environment that understands, for example, that with traditional education, if you ask somebody for help while you’re taking a test, that’s called cheating, but in the workplace— or playing a massively multiplayer game— collaboration is the name of the game. Talk about who took on leadership skills, who did not, and what that process was like.
Download the document here.
On April 5th, 2007, thirty Global Kids leaders from five different Online Leadership Programs met each other for the first time at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens for the OLP Symposium. The teens toured the museum, presented the work from their programs, and participated in a panel for a Q&A.
Continue reading "[dmya/p4k/sl/nc/vvp] The First OLP Symposium" »
Continue reading "[NC] Newz Crew Featured Discussion: On Cell Phone Use in Schools" »
Continue reading "[NC] Newz Crew Featured Discussion: On Technology in the Classroom" »
We were delighted recently to be featured on the podcast MediaSnackers, a wonderful series that focuses on innovative new media producers for a free-form ten minutes or so interview. They describe themselves as "a site/weblog/project/call to action for people interested in how young people consume and create media across the globe." This is a lovely piece that allowed us not just to give an overview of our programs but explore some of the larger implications of our work.
Listen to it here.
Continue reading "[NC] Newz Crew Featured Discussion: MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan." »
TO REVEAL STUDENT PERSPECTIVES
ON THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS, FIVE YEARS LATER
On Monday, August 28, 2006, the Online NewsHour, the Web site of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Global Kids, a New York City-based educational organization that educates youth about international issues, will launch "Five Years After - A September 11 Youth Circle" at http://www.newzcrew.org.
Based on the popularity of and respect for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Newz Crew, a partnership of the Online NewsHour and Global Kids, "Five Years After" is expected to be the premier discussion forum about September 11 for high school students.
The forum will allow high school students to constructively discuss how the attacks of September 11 have affected their lives, their communities and their perspectives on world affairs using background information from the archives of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Students can participate in the September 11 discussions until Monday, September 25, 2006. Adults can view the discussions without registering.
A press release with more information is attached. For more information, please contact Rob Flynn, 703-998-2174, or Anne Bell, 703-998-2175.
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is seen five nights a week on more than 315 PBS stations across the country. The program is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, in association with WETA, Washington, DC and Thirteen/WNET in New York. Funding for The NewsHour is provided by the Archer Daniels Midland Co.; CIT; Pacific Life; BP and The Atlantic Philanthropies, with additional funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers.
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