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Class 4-302 at PS 124 produced a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the effects of global warming and what we can do about them. After researching this topic as part of a social studies unit, class discussions determined that a class PSA could be effective by creating feelings of guilt in adults over their participation in things that could have devastating effects on the students' future.

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This is why I think it accurate to call television a curriculum. As I understand the word, a curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, train, teach or cultivate the mind and character of youth...
I refer, first, to the fact that television's principal contribution to educational philosophy is the idea that teaching and entertainment are inseparable...
The name we properly give to an education without prerequisites, perplexity, and exposition is entertainment.

— Neil Postman, Author, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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April 1, 2002 by Rhys

CS211's The Outsiders 8th graders adapted a scene from S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders through storyboarding and translation of descriptive text to images. Following the scene, students describe the process of production.

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