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“Education is the key to development”

13 Tuesday Oct 2015

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If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it?
You would change the way it educates its children.

Two perspectives on a really fundamental issue with ‘development’.

In today’s double, we will watch ‘Schooling the World‘

Further ideas and readings can be found at
http://tok-ais.wikispaces.com/Schooling+the+World

Ladakh, and the Moravian Mission School, are in northern India

Map - Moravian Mission School Ladakh

HOMEWORK

Finish Q1-3 from yesterday.

100 word response to the film ‘Schooling the World’
– what did you agree with (why?)
– what did you disagree with (why?)
– what surprised you
– any further questions it raised

Development & Wellbeing

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Traditionally in Geography we have studied ‘Development’, but this has now been expanded to include ‘Wellbeing’. In small groups

 1. Define these terms:

  • Development (in terms of countries or people, not buildings!)
  • Wellbeing
  • First World
  • Second World
  • Third World
  • (E)MDC
  • (E)LDC
  • NIC

2. What factors are used to judge a country’s level of development?

3. How is this limited?

Term 4: Geographies of Human Wellbeing

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Inquiry Questions

Factual
What is human wellbeing?
What are the spatial changes that affect human wellbeing?
Does wellbeing vary around the world?
Does wellbeing vary within countries?
What is an NGO?

Conceptual
What impact can the imbalance in trade have on developing countries?
Does political instability affect efforts to enhance well being?

Debatable
What does it mean to have and have not?
Can poverty be made history?
Is pursuit of economic growth, rather than social justice, the best way to help the poor?

BT @Aths, then hols = work 4 U … :)

23 Wednesday Sep 2015

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9 Pope (L1)   |   9 Dewhirst (L2 / L7)

Continue on with the other two paragraphs from Section 3 on Art as Protest website. These should be on slides after your original Art / Not Art slides from Monday.
Move onto Section 4 and Section 5.

*****  Remember that Section 6 is your assessment task.  *****

Next term: Time in class for first two lessons, due on 3rd lesson back (ie L1/L2 on Thursday 14 October)

Origins of Cold War – end of T3, Wk10

23 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Wed: finish (?) bringing the ‘Origins of the Cold War’ document down to about 500 words.

Thurs [BT at Aths]
Definitely finish Origins task.
Find a picture or cartoon which helps explain most, if not all, of the 11 sections.
What was the Berlin Blockade?
Any questions so far?

Fri
Answer questions generated yday…
Check progress of individual investigations ….

Party like it’s holidays

Excursion Assessment

21 Monday Sep 2015

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Monday 21 Sept – Work through questions about the assignment, time for working on it

Tuesday 22 Sept – Individual work time

Due at the start of Lesson 4, Friday 25 September.
If you have the last day off, you need to email it to me!

Art as Protest

21 Monday Sep 2015

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(Dewhirst Mon 21/9; Pope Tues/Wed 22-23/9)

Only one thing to do at the end of our citizenship unit: how much did you improve on the Australian Citizenship Test? Re-take it and compare with your initial score.
NOTE: 9DEWHIRST class averaged about 90%, so pressure is on, 9POPE!

We are going to do a short unit on ‘Art as Protest’ following on from the citizenship unit.

Start a new powerpoint document, with a Title Page ‘Art as Protest‘.

  1. Paste and name 2 examples of what you consider to be ‘Art’
  2. Paste and name 2 examples of what others consider to be ‘Art’ but you don’t think it is. For example:Jackson Pollock, 'Blue Poles', Jackson Pollock, ‘Blue Poles’, National Gallery of Australia. Not what I would call ‘art’ but I didn’t spend $1.3 million on it in 1973, nor would I spend $20 million to $100 million on it now!
  3. Paste and name 2 examples of what is not ‘Art’.

Share….

The next few lessons will be on a specific website for this unit:

http://artasprotest.weebly.com/

We will work through each section (1-5) and then 6 is the assessment task:

*** Due Friday, Week 1, Term IV ***

9Dewhirst Homework from Mon 21/9 … Finish 1, 2 & one of 3
9Pope: Wed 22/9: Sections 1, 2, 3