| If we’re going to change the world, we’ve got to start in our own communities. Changing attitudes. Changing priorities. Changing the way we think about our world. |
| If we’re going to change the world, we’ve got to start in our own communities. Changing attitudes. Changing priorities. Changing the way we think about our world. |
The Adobe Youth Voices program is an exciting new collaboration between Free The Children and Adobe that aims to engage youth domestically. The program provides high school students in underserved communities with the opportunity to use cutting-edge multimedia and digital tools to effect social change. Through the creation, distribution and exhibition of media projects, students raise awareness about local and global issues and inspire others to take action.
Students get the chance to do hands on media creation and to exhibit their projects to local and global audiences, raising awareness about issues that matter to them and about the work they are doing to change the world. Most importantly, students enhance their ability to think creatively, communicate effectively and work collaboratively, all of which are critical global citizenship skills.
Educators partake in a comprehensive professional development program to enhance teaching strategies, gain new skills, and collaborate with other like-minded educators and media experts. These skills are used to enhance students’ understanding of using media for social change.
At the end of the term, students and educators will work together to create and exhibit their own media project, which can include videos, documentaries, photo journalism, and other multimedia, showcasing an issue important to them.
With sixty groups participating in this exclusive collaboration between Free The Children and Adobe across North America, this innovative program empowers youth to "Create with Purpose".
Engage: Offer youth powerful media creation tools and experiences as an opportunity for students to share their views with the world.
Enhance: Develop participants’ multimedia skills by providing them with the latest software tools for innovative expression, and comprehensive professional development training for educators.
Exhibit: Bring the work of youth to audiences in meaningful ways that unite communities and effect social change.
Schools have already been enrolled for the 2010-2011 school year. For more information about Adobe Youth Voices, please contact Victoria Aton, the Adobe Youth Voices Program Coordinator, at 416.925.5894 ext. 172 or at victoria@freethechildren.com.
Read below to hear what participants are saying.
It gives the students a voice to express their own thoughts and feelings which then empowers them as well as enlightens the world around us.
- Lynnette Raffin, AYV Educator at Immaculata High School, Toronto
Despite the amount of technology our generation is exposed to, it wasn’t until we began using this program that we actually realized how many ways there are to put across a message, convey an idea, present a perspective, etc. Adobe Youth Voices definitely taught us a lot about the world of media making.
- Tahsina Khanam, AYV Student at East York Collegiate Institute, Toronto
Using Adobe Youth Voices, our students will be able to express their thoughts, feelings and actions for social change in the school and in the larger global community, in a way different than ever before.
- Stanley Malec, AYV Educator at Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School, Toronto
Through this program my students will be able to create authentic pieces of work that convey messages that are important to them out to the general public. It will help them build their confidence and give them some valuable career skills.
- Gina Langkamp, AYV Educator at 754X School at Jeffrey M. Rapport School for Career Development, New York
Students can learn to use technology not only for the purpose of completing a required assignment, but to bring to life an important social issue they are interested in and that they want others to be.
- Franca Fiset, AYV Educator at Notre Dame High School, Ottawa
Adobe Youth Voices allows schools with critically short resources to give their students ‘real world’ experiences using state of the art software to give voice to otherwise under-represented populations.
- Jerry Crystal, AYV Educator at Metropolitan Learning Center Inter-district Magnet School, Connecticut
The Adobe Youth voices program provides a unique opportunity for my students to voice their opinions, concerns, topics of interest, and perspectives in a form that they live and breathe in their everyday lives. What a perfect opportunity for projects with authentic purpose which enable the students to engage in 21st century skills for learning and expressing knowledge.
- Geraldine Lallo, Educator at Providence Academy of International Studies, Rhode Island
 
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