Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere
Thanks for the support. Below are some resources that I gathered and use from time to time in my work along with the Lucas Foundation Resources at glef.org. This is a reach to Africa... http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren Take a look. We have two years to build community. I have been there four times. We are linking the African child in the US , Canada and other places with the African child in Africa some of the childen will present at the Sigenthi Film Festival.. SITHENGI will have a children's track next year in November. We will do digital stories, and workshops. We are also gathering children of all kinds to do Kinetic City. There is money available from the Beaumont Foundation for hardware. There are after school resources that are really good. Shirley Malcolm of AAAS and others have worked on this project and it is really good. and it is free... but there are materials you might like to have to do hands on. Description Kinetic City: Mission to Vearth is a web-based science program for children in grades three through five. Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and funded by the National Science Foundation on the strength of its outstanding evaluations, the program turns standards-based science content into a game that kids can play either in class or after school. Kinetic City is a fun, web-based after school science club for kids ages 8 through 11. It combines exciting online animations and activities with boxes of hands-on science experiments. Children earn Kinetic City Power Points and collect stickers as they complete missions and learn standards-based science content. Here's how it works: The Kinetic City Super Crew (Keisha, Curtis, Megan and Max) needs the help of Earth kids to save their planet Vearth, from the science-distorting computer virus Deep Delete. Each of Deep Delete's 60 hideous strains attacks a different area of science with disastrous consequences. After each attack, teams of Earth kids fight back by viewing a short online animation describing the situation on Vearth; performing a series of activities to re-learn the lost science; and going on a mission to Vearth during which they answer science questions and gobble up Deep Delete viruses. Their scores appear on their own Kinetic City Club web page. Kinetic City is produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with a grant from the National Science Foundation. AAAS writes the Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which forms the basis of most state science standards. Visit the Kinetic City web site: http://www.kineticcity.com Bonnie Bracey bbracey at aol com http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/digitaldivideclass http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey Edreform.net ( my portal educational technology applications) applications.edreform.net Technology Applications for Learning The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology applications for learning. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
RE: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere
Bonnie thanks for the plug. I have been in contact with many programs here in the district and just like those that are being displaced programs are shutting there doors because the lack of the abilitiy to fund their services. It is an even greater challenge in the schools with so many budget cuts. Those that are still working some are struggling to stay open to address the issues. I agree with Bonnie that there is a political climate that makes the work challenging. Peace and Blessings Shireen Mitchell ~~~ Executive Officer - Digital Sisters, Inc. CFC# 5630 DC One Fund #9504 Main Office 202.722.Ytec [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digital-sistas.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DDN] Washington,DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere
-- Dear Marian and others: Please become acquainted with Anita Brown - who by the way, is very happy to meet new people interested in IT , especially people of color. http://www.girlgeeks.org/innergeek/inspiringwomen/abrown.shtml Check out a short interview with her at the above site. She is an activist who got involved in spreading the word about technology after she became a grandmother and she has done so much for people in the Washington DC area who have been left behind or underserved or just getting introduced to the world of technology. She is a true DD pioneer! There is a page at her blackgeeks.net site that lists all kinds of activites and businesses owned by people of color around the DC area. Hope this helps. REgards, Susan Susan Crane-Sundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUCB Marian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. Carvin wrote: ... the producers of the show contacted her after I put out a call on DDN and WWWEDU for DC-area community bloggers. ... Is there a digital divide perspective on the growing displacement of Black Americans from some major U.S. cities such as Washington, DC? I am a native of Washington, DC and I would appreciate suggestions on finding places here in the District which offer training in alternative media skills. Regarding the digital divide I'd also like to find other people in the DC/VA/Maryland area who are equally concerned about the drastic displacement of Washington, DC's Black majority population from their places of residence and from their city. Though it's nature and history are almost never honestly portrayed, Washington, DC is a southern U.S. city. It is located well south of the Mason-Dixon Line which divides Maryland from southern Pennsylvania north of Baltimore, Maryland. During enslavement the Mason-Dixon Line divided Blacks who (finally) had become free in the U.S. North (which also had slavery early on) from those in the slaveholding South. Washington, DC - including the U.S. Capitol building - was built on urban, enslaved Black labor. Washington's famous Georgetown neighborhood once was Black, as was Foggy Bottom and the rest of Southwest DC. The city still has a majority Black American population but they are rapidly being more and more marginalised both spatially and economically. Black Washington is made up of an economic range of citizens and families from middle-middle, lower middle/working, and low- and fixed-income classes, to upper-middle class and a very, very few who may be wealthy, although almost none are so from inherited wealth. Marian Douglas Marian's Blog http://marian.typepad.com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere
i know Anita Brown very well. I think she too did not get her due. There were some wonderful things that they let her do, but when it came to the big funding and the support it was from other sources, not the networks in DC that I am talking about. She was fortunate enough to be funded by Mario Morino, who is also a friend of mine. He made suggestions to the schools and groups but I must say as kind and as persistent as he was in trying to help me, there is nothing llike a school system to pretend to be a brick wall. So no school was built and he worked with community. .I was very close with Anita, as being around and in the family grouping for a while .And I am ont of the Black Geeks as she called us. We went to a conference, she with me and she asked me , where are the community folks, these are all educators. We worked some areas the same and some different. There is Digital Sistas ( we did a forum on Capitol Hill) Shireen Mitchell. In learning environments where computers and other technology can be found those that are actively engaged in the learning experience are boys (80 to 90%). In the Adult Learning environments those that are actively engaged and have a high participation rate are women (80 to 90%). Many are puzzled about such a ratio and difference in participation. Digital Sisters has discovered that girls are opting out of math, science and technology around the fourth grade. They are opting out of advance courses if they are given the option. Once they reach adulthood they are opting back in to get better paying jobs and to advance their education. They are catching up on the ten to fifteen years that the boys now as men have an advantage over them. However, these women now have families, full time jobs and many other distractions that make the learning experience challenging. Many of these women are single parents. I am talking academic computing , schools , ctcnets and that sort of thing. GW had the funding for CTCnets and I tried to be involved but we just had meetings. When Larry Irving invited us, I did use to attend the CTCnet meetings but they often confliected with the ISTE meetings. As someone told me on the list only 3 percent of people are all that interested in the schools so, that may be my problem. I apologize for taking the time to talk about it. Shireen Mitchell of Digital Sistas has good work, and so do the people at Edgewood Terrace EdgeNet A Community-driven Intranet at Edgewood Terrace, Washington DC Jessica Venegas Community Preservation and Development Corporation EdgeNet at Edgewood Terrace (www.EdgeNet.org) is a partnership between Community Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC) and the Edgewood community to develop a formal community-driven and community-based residential network and website that brings in-home advanced information technology, capability, power and communication. This network is proving to be a powerful tool for transforming a population that initially was economically, socially, and politically powerless into a more educated, confident, vibrant, cohesive, self-reliant, and active community. With the implementation of the proposed residential network and an attached community empowerment program, residents are more technologically savvy and have the access, training, and support they need to be successful in life and join the economic mainstream. Broadband access is the backbone of other CPDC efforts to help the community gain greater control over the decisions that affect their lives. CPDCs Career and Skill Enhancement programs have graduated over 1000 students who wished to acquire or upgrade the skills they needed to succeed in the IT field. In addition, CPDCs Youth Development programs have infused technology into their experiential, standards-driven youth programs that operate in nine Capitol-area communities and reach over 400 children each year. ( TOPS Funded) Those interested in supporting TOPS please go to the site and see more examples of what works. I was addressing your question in the terms in which you spoke of the network. Andy and others have always been supportive. George Lucas, Bob Metcalfe, the professors at MIT,The Benton Foundation as well. You asked about the brothers I reflect. Bonnie Bracey http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/digitaldivideclass http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey Edreform.net ( my portal educational technology applications) applications.edreform.net Technology Applications for Learning The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology applications for learning. bbracey at aol com ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
Re: [DDN] Washington, DC - DD Urban ethnic displacement in Washington elsewhere
Marian, I have been working in the DC area for some time, and fairly successfully in some areas, but if you look at what you wrote in the blog on Tavist Smiley and all, I worked for Bill Clinton, Al Gore and with Ron Brown. Not one of the brothers in technology in DC accepted me, or my platform, education, and the varous projects . My support came from other people and breaking the barrier of the brothers was never accomplished. I am an educator and I was able to bridge that divide , though again, the powers that be that run education never reached out to me. I believe Keith Fulton is the only person in the whole DC establishment , who when he was at the Urban League made some gestures. I have worked in the Delaware Valley CTCnet. DC groups except for Digital Sistas , have not been so welcoming. i live in DC. The alliance for public technology has been welcoming as well. I know I have worked more internatioinally than ever in DC. Its the network. I know lots of people on both sides of the fence who do not know much about technology, but they are .. experts. Bonnie Bracey http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/digitaldivideclass http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey Edreform.net ( my portal educational technology applications) applications.edreform.net Technology Applications for Learning The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology applications for learning. ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
