Service Through IT
Time
N/A
Difficulty
Advanced
Prerequisites
Open Culture
Departments
Human Technologies
Authors
Ross Parker
Groupings
Individual
Pairs
Threes
Pairs
Threes
Minimum Year Group
None
Blurb
In this unit you are asked to put your IT learning to good use, but finding a problem, and solving it to help someone in need.
License
This work is shared under the following license: Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
Outline
| The Pitch Why should I bother learning this?
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| Resources What is needed to run this unit?
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Interdisciplinary Links Do not try and force this. What areas of other subjects might this reflect and/discuss language. For IB, links with ToK.
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| Teacher Reflection What was successful? What needs changing? Alternative Assessments and Lesson Ideas? What other Differentiation Ideas/Plans could be used?
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| Credits Any CC attribution, thanks, credit, etc. |
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You Are Powerful
The Pitch
- Our world is full of problems. Hong Kong is full of poverty, pollution and opportunity.
- Yet, you are lucky, educated, safe and possess some very powerful ICT skills.
- Use your IT skills to become part of the solution to some of our problems, to help others rather than yourself.
Identifying A Need
Who? Where? What?
- Hong Kong is full of unmet needs: people who require the basic elements of life in a modern city.
- These needs could be:
- Economic (money, earning power)
- Material (food, shelter)
- Environmental (pollution, access to nature)
- Educational (knowledge, skills)
- Social (friends, family, support)
- Technological (inability to access opportunities online)
- Some of these needs are impossible for individuals to solve, but others can be tackled.
- Spend some time researching, and try to find a need that:
- Is local to Hong Kong
- You feel can be solved
- Can be attacked using IT skills you possess or can learn
- Discuss your selected need with your teacher, before proceeding further.
Learning More
Research
- Now that you have selected an issue, you will need to learn more about it:
- Read online
- Talk to people you know (they might know more than you)
- Contact others working on the problem (e.g. local NGOs, the government)
- Think about the problem from various angles.
Taking Action
Plan & Execute
- As you learn more, start devising a plan for how you can help address your identified need.
- Flesh out your plan, adding detail, and consulting your teacher.
- Once your plan is firmed up, execute your plan to start taking action.
- This may take some time! Give yourself the space and time to really make a change.
- It may be unclear when you have "finished", so you can always ask your teacher.
Reflection
Evidence
- Once you feel you are "finished" with your work (you may or may not have succeeded, you may or may not decide to continue in your own time), find a way to reflect on what you have done.
- Share that evidence via this unit, as evidence of what you have achieved.
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