SelfDesign High Announces Gateways Program & 2 New Courses!
New! Gateways is a pilot initiative of SelfDesign to invite young people aged 13 and 14 to move more deeply in to their own personal ‘selfdesigning’ while learning together with others who share their interests and passions. We feel this approach will support learners as they move towards more independence in their learning, something that they can fully pursue as they turn 15 and move into SelfDesign High.
In the Gateways program, learners will create both an individual learning plan for the year and will work with a group of other learners to identify activities and projects to do together. A Gateways LC and/or Mentor(s) will provide team support for the group, for both individual learner’s plans and group project plans. The group learning will influence and support the individual learning plan.
Visit selfdesignhigh.org for further details and FAQ’s on Gateways!
New COURSES!
Creative Youth Entrepreneurship 11
You may have heard that SelfDesign High has developed, in partnership with Nelson based Centre for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CIEL), a unique Creative Youth Entrepreneurship course being offered at the grade 11 level. As the world rapidly changes, creative-entrepreneurial skills serving business and social goals are increasingly recognized as vital and even essential to individual success and contributing to the well-being of our communities. This course is focused on equipping youth with the tools to better understand and experience business and social-oriented entrepreneurism. So learners, let your mind wander… what business would you start doing the very thing you love?
Media Savvy 11
The faces of media are manifold and complex. What began as a very fundamental, human need to communicate for survival has evolved into a multifaceted and powerful image-saturated world of social media, billboards, marketing strategies and new technologies which, some say, determine our needs. It’s a world packed with communications competing for our attention.
All of this begs some important questions: How and when are new medias empowering, and for whom and at what cost? How do we decode and navigate this cluttered world so that the variety of technology can be harnessed in ways to positively effect the unfolding human story? At such an epoch of media-frenzy and acceleration, it is important to take time to reflect on the influences these media have on our understanding of who we are, what our relationship to each other is (family to global) and how we communicate what. Understanding the values and agenda behind the use of and rapid changes in technology and what is being aggressively promoted to youth is vital and empowering.
The goal of Media Savvy is for youth to develop the critical tools and confidence to deepen this understanding and so enable initiatives and proactive responses to a media-dense world seeking their buy-in. Equally important as unpacking how we are influenced media, learners will actually develop their skills and create their own media. So join us for a hands-on, creative and dynamic course!
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