By Students, For Students: The Windworld News

Want to get the inside scoop on what is happening at Windward? Check out this student-produced newsreel courtesy of Kiloh Fairchild's 8th grade minimester students, hosted by Gillian and Julian.

Learn what students like best about the CTL, what seniors are feeling about graduating, stories from other minimesters, sports stories, students' favorite movies, gender and social issues at Windward, and the best and worst of food at Windward.

Power to the People! How Democracy and Technology Can Change the World

Reading the news can depress even the most resilient optimists: poverty, workers without any rights, medical mishaps, suicide. But what if you had the power to change the world? Since Clay Shirky’s publication of Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations in 2008 and the constant news about how social media technologies help disparate groups to organize protests and even overthrow their governments, few would question the strength of networked technologies to empower common citizens. 

Three days may not be a reasonable timeline for 8th graders to imagine solutions to the world’s ills, but last week they did just that. In a three day intensive course that combined both current events and technology, eight groups of students chose a social problem and addressed it with a future or emerging technology. Co-Directors of the CTL and minimester leaders Jim Bologna and Larisa Showalter were both impressed with the wide variety of topics that students chose to address. Here is a taste of some of the projects:

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