computerdisc-l: FW: [WWWEDU] Call For Participation

["Marilyn Bowen" <mdb7@ra.msstate.edu>]

Also, pass this along to Career Discovery Teachers. This sounds like an
amazing project.

Marilyn D. Bowen, Ph.D.
Research and Curriculum Unit
Mississippi State University
 


-----Original Message-----
From: bdyck2 [mailto:bdyck@masters.ab.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:19 AM
To: wwwedu@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WWWEDU] Call For Participation


"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to 
breathe free... send these the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, I 
lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
     ~ Emma Lazarus (inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty)

The message of Lady Liberty still points us towards the poor, the 
tired and the homeless. We see them on the streets, cocooned in 
doorways, pushing overloaded shopping carts, standing on corners 
announcing their troubles on cardboard signs. Old, young, men, women.

- Who are they?

- Where did they come from?

- What circumstances put them on the street?

and most importantly:

- What keeps them there?

The Grade 7 students from Master's Academy in Calgary, Alberta, 
Canada invite middle school students to join "The Eleanor Rigby 
Project", a telecollaborative project that will introduce them to 
the real people behind the homeless façade. Participants will study 
the facts, examine the stereotyping placed on those who are homeless 
and be introduced to people who live on the streets.

And after all the facts and emotions have settled, they will be 
challenged to ask themselves why we all have a strange feeling of 
discomfort each time we see a homeless person and what we can do to 
help.

To participate in The Eleanor Rigby project, email Project 
Coordinator, Brenda Dyck at: bdyck@masters.ab.ca

Project web site (please turn your speakers on):

http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/homeless  

~ Brenda Dyck
Teacher/ Technology Integration Coach
Master's Academy and College
Calgary, Alberta, Canada



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