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This blog will help you with your "Education for All" IB Project that we are going to work on in ATL class.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
ILLITERACY:
1. What is illiteracy?
2. If someone is illiterate, what problems might they face in their life?
3. How can violence be related to illiteracy?
2. If someone is illiterate, what problems might they face in their life?
3. How can violence be related to illiteracy?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Week of March 28th....In The Export Processing Zone!
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More than 25 million people in developing countries work in export processing zones, where goods are mass-produced, wages are usually low and human rights are not always respected.
Part #1:
1. What is an Export Processing Zone
2. What is a sweatshop
Part #2: "Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti"
In the late 1990’s, the CEO of Disney was making $9 783 per hour. A Haitian worker making Disney products made 28 cents an hour. How long would it take one worker, working a 40 hour week to make what the CEO earned in one hour?
Part #3:
Pretend you are a leader of a company who has factories in Canada, The United States and Spain. The following chart lists the average salaries and number of employees you have working for you:
Country: | Ave. Salary: | Number of Workers: | Total Cost: |
Canada | $11.42 | 800 | |
United States | $10.56 | 1450 | |
Spain | $12.45 | 760 |
Imagine you fired ALL of your staff, closed the factories and opened a factory in an export processing zone, paying the same number of workers 40 cents an hour. How much would you spend on the new labour? How much would you save?
Part #4: Please post your answer to at least one of these questions:
1. Do Export Processing Zones exist in your country?
2. What is the impact of this policy on the people living there?
3. How do you feel about this issue?
4. What questions do you now have about EPZ's?
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Warm Fuzzies!
1. Why did the children give out warm fuzzies in a carefree and reckless manner?
2. What did the children know that their parents didn't know?
3. What could warm fuzzies represent in the world?
2. What did the children know that their parents didn't know?
3. What could warm fuzzies represent in the world?
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Week of March 7th, 2011
International Women's Day is on March 8th.
The official theme of this day is: “Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology.”
We have learned that Education is a basic right that can change a country and lift people out of a life of poverty. In your country do both genders have equal access to education? How do you know? What are some reasons that girls either do or do not have equal access to education in your country?
Check out:
http://www.un.org/en/events/women/iwd/2011/index.shtml
http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=38&pattern=education%20for%20all
http://plancanada.ca/page.aspx?pid=2272
The official theme of this day is: “Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology.”
We have learned that Education is a basic right that can change a country and lift people out of a life of poverty. In your country do both genders have equal access to education? How do you know? What are some reasons that girls either do or do not have equal access to education in your country?
Check out:
http://www.un.org/en/events/women/iwd/2011/index.shtml
http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/index.php?id_page=38&pattern=education%20for%20all
http://plancanada.ca/page.aspx?pid=2272
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