Empowering students has long been a personal passion of mine. Just like the name of my blog, it's all about setting stones.
In April, I mused in A Reflection ~ Setting the Stones to Force Kids to Be Free about setting up a Facebook Group that would serve as ISB MS's student information / student government hub. "Forcing kids to be free", while providing stone circles of support (some seen, some unseen). . . .
As part of the efforts to get the SOAR Center Group up and going (without having to take too many backwards steps on the way forward), an Acceptable Use Policy has been drafted.
An important part of the process was using kids were used in the drafting . . . and they will be instrumental in its evolution.
As importantly is setting the cyber-stones so that the kids can actively work to create and maintain an atmosphere on-line that will be reflected in our halls.
It's got to be real.
A new study was presented this past week at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Boston that showed today's university students show less empathy than a generation ago. Three articles . . . from MSNBC . . . from the Telegraph in the UK . . . . and US News and World Report
My gut tells me part of the reason is the virtual world many of today's young people inhabit.
That's why we stone setters need to help the kids stay real.
Through their Facebook Group page, we stone setters can help them experience and practice the kind of reality we all say we value.
After all, it takes a community. It IS our job, man.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment