Recently, 26 eighth grade students visited New York for the biggest middle school Model United Nations conference. Students prepared for the conference by collaborating on position papers using Google Docs. These position papers represented extensive research into their assigned country's views on different problems the global community faces today. Students were motivated to engage deeply with the culture and society of their country to learn how Jordan or Botswana would recommend solutions to problems from clean water to equal access to education. During the conference students were not allowed to use computers or technology for additional research, and instead needed to rely on their position papers, knowledge, and face-to-face communication to persuade other representatives to support their resolutions. Outside of the conference, this trip provided students experiences from a wide range of transportation, architectural and communication technologies during subway and ferry rides and visits to the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square and Rockefeller Plaza.
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markman
4/13/2015 10:51:12 am
Great addition to the tech report JK!! Even though during the conference the students were not allowed to use technology, it certainly was an important, crucial tool that allowed them to prepare for the MUN simulation. Without the technology access that our students have on a daily basis in our classrooms, it would have been very difficult, or quite frankly, impossible, for them to have been as prepared as they were.
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