Generation GIT: Girls' Issues & Technology


The units of study in the Gen GIT course combine adolescent social development with the teaching of technology skills. The course currently contains the 5 units of study described below. As teachers and students in the Gen GIT community develop new units, these will become available to all subscribers.

Unit 1: Topics of Interest to young women:
The class brainstorms and compiles a list of topics of interest that relate to health, vocational, and social issues. Students create individual multi-media projects on their selected topics. Emphasis is placed on Internet research skills, original graphics and the use of digital cameras for the completion of this project. Class members present their projects to the class. In this way, everyone in the class acquires information on a variety of topics important to adolescent girls. This stimulates dynamic discussions both within the class and via online communication vehicles such as chat rooms, e-mail, and discussion groups.


Unit 2: Eating Disorders and Media Influence:
The problem of eating disorders and negative body image in adolescent girls is explored in this unit. This unit provides information about eating disorders and the influence of the media on adolescent girls. Students use technology to express their beliefs and understandings concerning the relationship between eating disorders and the media

Unit 3: Career Exploration:
Vocational interest tests, Internet research, money management skills, and multi-media presentations comprise the activities for this unit.

Unit 4: Women's Self Defense:
This unit combines web page development with the acquisition of self defense skills that include: confident body posture, assertiveness skills, verbal defense, how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, identifying the body's five vulnerable areas and basic ways to strike those vulnerable areas, weapons of opportunity and writing safety plans.

Unit 5: Dealing with grief and loss:
This unit introduces students to the spectrum of loss experiences that they might encounter in their lives. The continuum of loss ranges from minor everyday occurrences to major life changing events. Emphasis is placed on how to adjust to the grief that inevitably accompanies loss and how to support others in their grief. Students use technological artistic expression to communicate their understanding of these issues.

 


     
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