In your opinion, what are the top 3 global issues and why?
List 3 small things that you could do to help improve these problems.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Week 16 - Genocide - Due May 30
Play the game Darfur is Dying: http://www.darfurisdying.com/
Write 3 sentences about what you learned from playing this game. Comment on a peer's posting
Write 3 sentences about what you learned from playing this game. Comment on a peer's posting
Week 15: Child Labor - Due May 22
Eliminate Child Labor
Visit this site: http://borntobefree.worldvision.org.nz/EliminateChildLabour.aspx?menu=6
Look at the world of child labor in a game simulation in which you are a social worker.
Comment on your experience after the simulation.
Visit this site: http://borntobefree.worldvision.org.nz/EliminateChildLabour.aspx?menu=6
Look at the world of child labor in a game simulation in which you are a social worker.
Comment on your experience after the simulation.
Week 14: Create a Nation - Due May 15
Visit the following website and create a nation. Track it for the week and post at least 3 comments.
http://www.nationstates.net/page=welcome
http://www.nationstates.net/page=welcome
Week 13: Budget Hero - Due May 8
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/
After playing the federal budget game on the website above, please post your thoughts about how government money is allocated. Comment on one peer's posting.
After playing the federal budget game on the website above, please post your thoughts about how government money is allocated. Comment on one peer's posting.
Week 12 Life as a Refugee - Due May 1
Play Against All Odds and post your thoughts about what it is like to be a refugee:
http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
http://www.playagainstallodds.com/
Monday, April 4, 2011
Week 11: Human Trafficking
Using Internet research, and valid sources, find out 3 unique facts about the current situation of human trafficking.
Comment on another student's posting.
Post the website where you found the information.
Comment on another student's posting.
Post the website where you found the information.
Week 10: Sweatshops
3 Definitions of sweatshops
A sweatshop is a working environment with conditions that are considered by many people of industrialized nations to be difficult or dangerous ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshops
sweatshop - factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
sweatshop - a factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweatshop
Illegal conditions can include child labor, sub-minimum wages, and near slave-like treatment of human beings.
Using Internet research, find out at least 3 companies that use sweatshop produced goods.
A sweatshop is a working environment with conditions that are considered by many people of industrialized nations to be difficult or dangerous ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshops
sweatshop - factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
sweatshop - a factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweatshop
Illegal conditions can include child labor, sub-minimum wages, and near slave-like treatment of human beings.
Using Internet research, find out at least 3 companies that use sweatshop produced goods.
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