Blog for April 5, 2010
The students at the MYC are a group of young people who, working with adults are increasing their potential in all areas of art, music, computers, and life skills.
Hannah Arendt states on page 163, that “our desire to know opens up further horizons of knowables.” She goes on to state, that our desire to know stems from several things, one being curiosity.
The youth at MYC are reaching for knowledge not only by showing up each day or each week, but retaining what they have learned. They are learning to pass along to others what they have learned as a result of their practice in different skills of computers and video.
The Luna group has been learning software programs that can be used to implement music into a video and cartoons to superimpose onto film. The knowledge these girls learn may at some point in their lives become a passion that leads them into the computer world, TV, film, or even teaching. It may also become a hobby that they can pass along to others.
The girls in the Luna group are also learning how to work together and follow directions. This past week while making a video, one of the girls suggested making Q-Cards. Not only did this help the “actors” that were on screen, it was a lesson in learning to co-operate with each other. This decision was made with just the girls with no adult input.
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