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I was planning to write about Roosevelt High School on Thursday, but the day took some unexpected turns. Note: I’m not going to recap Thursday or Friday, but I am still in Michigan.
Career Day is an annual event at Roosevelt and gives kids a chance to learn about what grownups do, or, what we’re supposed to be doing. Its a chance to connect a title (e.g. dentist, loan officer, circus clown) with an actual person, their experience, and personality. Roosevelt is a public high school, located on Chi-town’s NW side, and sits in a really diverse neighborhood. 2/3s of the kids spoke English as a second language.
I had 2 groups–each lasting about 45 minutes–to speak to about website management/design. Honestly, I was really nervous as the day approached and damn near terrified as I arrived onsite. Its weird: I can talk for hours about nothing (anyone catch the show “Teachers”?), but thinking I may impact a kids future is pretty daunting. Sure,there were teachers present in case I dropped the ball, but who wants to be saved by the Librarian?
I hadn’t had a real plan for Career Day. My best guess was that I’d talk about my average day, stress that I’d gone to college, that I worked hard, and that you can do anything you put your mind to. This seemed like a solid plan, but once we got in front of the computers things changed. I spent the session talking about open source, blogging, and the ease with which anyone can put up a website these days.
Most kids are familiar with the web, but few really know how it works. MySpace, Google, Friendster, AIM are everyday things for these kids, so they know what the web can do; but never consider where the underlying code and apps come from. We took a peek at SourceForge, walked through some basic problem-solving with Yahoo Pattern Library , took a peak at PhotoNow’s site to give some examples of how anyone can put a site together (I know my limits), and talked about how important it was that you be willing to focus and plan in order to produce something. We even took a look at herebox though I wish I’d checked first because there was some inappropriate language for youngsters (according to CPS) on there.
Through the course of the day, I was really impressed with how much they knew. No one was PC-illiterate, or anti-tech, and they listened and asked questions. One kid was ejected from the class, but the vast majority of kids were chill and (pretty) attentive.
One thing that surprised me was that the girls seemed to know more than the guys about the web. There were some guys that had built sites and probably knew more code than me, but the baseline web-knowledge among the girls was much higher. I give credit for this to IM, Friendster, and other community sites. High School girls still want to talk to their friends and these sites give them more options for doing so. Being able to logon and catchup with your girls is a really powerful incentive to be tech-savvy. Maybe the future will see more girls going into and staying in technology, especially as user-driven becomes the norm for sites.
The guys definitely suffered from the desire to be “cool”. Some insisted on ignoring my instructions, while others decided they’d rather be writing email. I can’t hold it against them: I was probably the same at their age. But there were a few guys that were building sites and definitely kept focused.
Overall, I’d say Career Day was a great experience. It was a type of reality-check about how technology permeates our society. While the school had a computer lab, and most of the kids were comfortable with a PC, there was a sizable minority that had obviously not spent too much time with a computer. I wonder how different things would be if I went out to the ‘burbs.
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I may be doing a couple of short courses for H.S. students this summer. I’ll keep you informed. I did talk about censorship in China a bit, but mostly I focused on the opportunity they had to share their views throught the internet.
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