Blog Post #12

I'm very passionate about teaching and I think the technologies we use are wonderful. I find myself thinking about the children who don't have access to technology, how do they learn? For this blog post assignment we are asked to create an assignment that we think Dr. Strange should have assigned. I found this organization called, Building Tomorrow.

Their Mission: We engage students in service-learning, fundraising, awareness and design activities to generate support for the construction of primary-level academies in sub-Saharan Africa. We are currently building in Uganda where our partner communities match the students’ support by donating land for each academy and volunteering approximately 20,000 hours of self-labor to construct it. What a great organization to contribute to, this got my brain really turning. We need to help bring both technology and schools to other students around the world, for they can also build a better feature. Building Tomorrow doesn't give hand-outs. They partner with communities in Uganda and make an investment in them. Ultimately, they provide them with the tools they need to help themselves and then take a backseat.

When we become teacher's I really hope that we all remember this organization. We need to raise awareness to our students about what other children around the world don't have.
A ten-room academy for 325 kids (complete with seven classrooms, an office, a library, toilets, & a soccer field) costs approximately $60,000. Exactly how you raise it, and how quickly you raise it is up to you. How amazing would it be for us teachers to build a school for others who want to learn?

What I would really like to do is help contribute to build a school. On their website they have where you can buy a brick, 1 brick is only $1. If each student in all EDM310 sold 5 bricks which would be $5 than we would be donating $560 that's only one semester not including other teachers and if people sold more. How amazing would it be if the College of Education raised enough money to build a school for the students in Uganda.

My instructions for you is to find an organization that gives back to education and describe how others can help. We focus so much on our needs and forget about helping others, and how someone else will do it. We all need to step up and contribute to giving others the ability to learn. Sometimes people need resources to help, lets find organization or even create one to give back. Inspiring and helping others is what I love to do, and that's why I choose to become a teacher.

This is a video to inspire you.