Education and Society and Tween Programming

Chris Mburu makes a great statement in the documentary A Small Act.
To paraphrase...
"For us, education is a matter of life and death."
The ignorant are easily led by power-hungry leaders.
The ignorant engage in violence and perpetuate a grim standard of living.

Chris Mburu was a Kenyan student whose education was paid for by Holocaust survivor Hilde Back.  Mburu now runs a Hilde Back education foundation to sponsor other Kenyan students.

I wonder what it would be like to show a less than five minute clip (fair use copyright) during a tween program and have a discussion about it.

What about having a multimedia tween program involving conversation, music, video, print, and games to talk about a concept?

Middle Schoolers: Management and Moon Over Manifest

Here's a great compilation of after school, "tween" crowd control from the members of the Public Libraries: Young Adults and Children (PUBYAC) internet discussion list:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HZkbDOz9SrqmxpJHxjf5ahrbPwvjXiD7cpuH1uk-g-o/edit?authkey=CI3Y-7QF&hl=en&pli=1#

Moon Over Manifest
I'm about one hundred pages into the story, which seems pretty telling to me, since the last straight text, fiction book I actually finished reading the old school, physical book way was ... hmmmmm ... (I mostly listen to fiction stories on CD or mp3. I tend to read graphic novels, biographies, graphic novel memoirs, or bits of nonfiction books.)

So far, I'm reminded of the recent past Newbery winners ... the desert dryness in the Higher Power of Lucky (2007) and the magical mystery and importance of writing (letters/notes) and story in When You Reach Me (2010).

Resources for Serving Tweens (Ages 11-14)

... noted from a session at the Ohio Library Council Northeast Chapter Conference in Fall 2008:




Serving Young Teens and Tweens by Sheila B. Anderson









Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein









"But I'm Almost Thirteen!": An Action Plan for Raising a Responsible Adolescent by Kenneth R. Ginsburg and Martha M. Jablow



See also the Beloit College Mindset List.