As of now I have a bunch of ideas for my project. I want to begin my project with students who mainly need motivation and purpose. My main goal is to show students they can do things if they set their mind to it and it can impact others in positive ways. I know I want students to plant gardens in and outside of schools, be able to grow produce that can provide themselves and their families with food with the hopes of selling some to bring in a source of income. I want to implement technology in the project for data. I want students to record their data, advice, and concerns with their peers through the technology.
At this point the app kind of sounds like a glorified blog, so that is where I am a little stuck. I want students to be able to record data and I would like to be able to see everything they are doing. I think I want everyone to see everyone else's work, but not be able to manipulate anything other than their own. I also know I would need support from other teachers. If the technology and plans go according to plan I would be able to share this at county meetings. Now so much is shared through social media outlets I would hope that that could be a way other teachers could hear about, then utilize the technology.
I would love something like this to be implemented in schools everywhere. I believe my concept stemmed from thinking about where I am currently placed, a lower income area. But I believe students of all backgrounds could learn from it. The lesson would directly relate to life science and physical science (with energy changes), but it goes deeper than that. I want students to be able to learn about the place they call home, Earth. Hopefully they can gain a deeper appreciation for it and want to put efforts in to keeping it up.
I also like this idea for a deeper reason. I have seen so many of my friends recently want to go "Organic" or "Gluten-Free" or other fads advertised and glorified around us. Going organic or gluten free can be great things! But why do we need them and why do our bodies feel better when we do them? Based off the research I have found and the people I have talked to, we feel better with these more natural foods because we were built to eat them. We were not developed to eat corn as the main source of food, we were not made to digest wax on our fruits or anything else. I hope this lesson accompanied with the technology could be used to educate students about the growing need to look into the history of the food you are eating.
So, immediately my students would benefit from all of this, but hopefully this information can reach the masses. Something needs to change in the food industry and students are a great demographic to start with. They are the ones living on their computers and iPhones, Twitter and Facebook, so they are great to get the word out. They also love giving their opinions. Now I am not talking about a massive takedown of the FDA or anything crazy like that! I think we should continue to eat meat, and a lot of it. But, our meat should not be eating corn, which is actually worse for the environment than grass fed stock, but that is a different story.
You can see I have a lot of ideas at the moment so I hope to get them a bit more concise this week.
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