Quick Start
Pre-video Discussion points: Time: 10 min
21st Century skills used: LIS-CT, LIS-CI, CS-CL
- How would you describe community?
- Who is part of your community?
- What would you do if you found yourself living in a community where nobody looked like you or spoke your language? What would you do if people were afraid of you?
- What comes to your mind when you think about the term “Kurdish Freedom Fighter”?
- What do you think it would feel like to have to leave your extended family half a world away to give your wife and children a chance to live?
- Who is a refugee?
- What do you know about South Dakota? What do you know about Kurdistan? Is your state similar to South Dakota or Kurdistan? Do you have refugees in your community?
Video Link: Please scroll down to view the video here, or check out the link below.
http://www.50in52journey.com/states/SouthDakota5.asp Time: 9:27 min
Post-video Discussion points: Time: 20 min +
21st Century skills: LIS-CT, LIS-CI, CS-HL
- What do you think about Qadir?
- How was Qadir treated when he arrived in South Dakota? Why do you think that is?
- How do you think Qadir took what he experienced and made it a positive? Do you think he had other choices?
- How do you think Qadir is making a difference?
- Do you think you would have come up with the same project as Qadir?
- What would you have done differently?
- What problems do you feel Qadir is solving?
- Would you consider their actions Kind actions? Why/Why not?
- What is Qadir's community, who is in it?
Action: Time: 40 min
21st Century Skills: CS-CL, LIS-CT, LIS-CI
- Define as a group what your community is and who is in it
- Explore things that could be improved in your community.
- Tip, this is accomplished best as a brainstorming session. One suggested method: Give each student a post-it-note pad and a pen. Depending on attention span provide 1-5 minutes for the students to write one idea on each sheet, not fleshed out, just concept. Encourage student to write as many ideas as come into their head. At 5 minutes, or when they stop writing, collect all of the notes and begin grouping them by sticking them on the wall. Create a separate line for each similar idea/category/theme. Have the group determine which line has the most suggestions and choose that as the area your group will explore to provide a solution.
- After agreement has been reached discuss an activity/program/project the students can create to work on that problem.
- Develop groups to tackle the different sections that need to be researched, designed, developed. Be sure to utilize all possible new media tools in the project design as appropriate.
Create Kindness based community action: 40 min
21st Century Skills: LCS, LIS-CT, LIS-CI, IMT-ML, IMT-T
- Breakout into groups to do the groundwork for the class chosen activity.
ACTIVITY: Time determined by class
Post-activity: Time: 60 min
21st Century Skills: LCS, IMT
- Be sure to capture a video or photographs of the students in action and have the students develop a blog entry utilizing video and photos to report their results and how the project made them feel. Submit to RAK!
Life lessons explored:
- Overcoming obstacles
- Diverse communities
- Overcoming prejudice
- Personal drive
- Personal passion
- Connection to community
Community lessons explored:
- Determining a need
- Building from the ground up
- Finding support
- Building a team
- Service to others
Kindness lessons explored:
- Care for another
- Seeing past prejudice
- Doing over and above the expected for another
- Living with awareness of all in your community
21st Century Skills Explored:
Life and Career Skills (LCS)
- Initiative and Self Direction - Manage goals and time
- Social and Cross-Cultural skills - work effectively in diverse teams, work w/people in a range of social and cultural backgrounds
- Productivity and Accountability, manage projects, produce results
- Leadership and Responsibility - guide and lead others, be responsible to others
Learning and Innovation Skills (LIS)
- Critical thinking (LIS - CT)
- Systems thinking - analyze how each part interacts to create the outcome
- Make judgments through analysis, interpretation, reflection
- problem solving
- Creativity and Innovation (LIS - CI)
- use a wide range of ideas
- create new ideas
- be open and responsive to new ideas
- understand the real world limits of adopting new ideas
Information, Media and Technology Skills (IMT)
- Media Literacy (IMT - ML)
- Create media products using appropriate tools and effectively communicate to a diverse audience
- Technology (IMT - T)
- Use technology as a tool to research, organize, communicate
Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes (CS)
- Civic literacy (CS - CL)
- Civic engagement as defined "Individual and collective action designed to identify and address issues of public concern." "Civic engagement", American Psychological Association. Retrieved 11/26/07
- Global Awareness (CS-GA)
- Using 21st century skills to understand and address global issues
- Learning from and working collaboratively with individuals representing diverse cultures, religions and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual respect and open dialogue in personal, work and community contexts
- Understanding other nations and cultures, including the use of non-English languages
Suggested Materials:
- Video projection
- Internet
- Basic video editing software
- flip cameras or other basic video camera
- Additional materials as required by students for their impact/kindness project
Time:
Video watching: 10 min
Discussion time: 40 min
Group break-out: 60 min
Community/Kindness project: Time determined by group and action chosen
Report creation: 60 min
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www.randomactsofkindness.org
Guiding principles of 21st Century Skills from Partnership for 21st Century Skills: www.p21.org
Videos courtesy of 50 in 52 Journey (c) 2009
