Community Reading Project: Front Desk (online)
- jengloballibrarian
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 22, 2020
Front Desk: Online Project
As part of the ongoing community collaboration sponsoring #ownvoices, Kobe Public Library is hosting an online session on How to Use Social Media for Activism for Teens. Using social media platforms as a tool for education and empowerment, KPL social media maven and librarian Jen Jones will lead this session. Some examples of social media platforms for will include Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Social networking has easily and quickly become a big part of social learning and it can be used to foster both connection and community. Teen activism online is trending and KPL wants to get behind these efforts in order to support the young adult community.
The session will last 45 minutes and will be broadcasted live and recorded for future viewing and stored on KPL’s website and YouTube channel. The only equipment both the participants and leader will need is a computer with access to the Internet. Kobe Public High School will be open after school for students to use the computer lab (and internet) if they need access. The event is free and does not require a KPL library card for registration. Only one librarian will lead the session and it does not require an allowance.
Teens are naturally inclined to question authority. More importantly, using social media as a tool to safely identify and freely share lays the groundwork for a beginning understanding of intersectionality. The facilitator, Jen Jones can play the embedded link as a way to introduce intersectionality to teens. Intersectionality addresses the social, economic, and political ways identity-based systems of oppression and privilege connect, overlap and influence each other. There are four ways in which teens can break this down: identification, diversity, justice and action.
This activity will encourage participants to approach a range of anti-bias, multicultural, and social justice issues. Young people will need to ask questions in order to examine the issues themselves.
One exercise can be for students to investigate, interview and profile a person working for equity and social change. The person can work on the local, national or international level, with an organization or as an individual. The compiled profiles can be posted on a blog and will form a resource for other students in the future.
A brief online survey can be pushed to the participants to collect data on the effectiveness of the session. Here is an example of an online survey for this program.
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