Dear Parents,
As our grade wide community service contribution, every year the Grade 7 classes sponsor several students from the R-35 School in Khao Lak. We sponsor the students through the After the Wave foundation. This year we also plan to use some of the money raised to improve the learning and living conditions of children at the Border Police School in Ratchaburi, visited during our recent grade trip.
For the past three years we have raised money through a Digital Technology Challenge and it has been so successful, for learning and for fundraising, that we are repeating the challenge.
On Tuesday February 24th, beginning at 6:30 am, every student in Grade 7 is going to attempt to go without using electronic communication devices for 24 hours. They will not be required to use any technology during the school day. Later that week we will have a Socratic Seminar about the impact of electronic devices on learning and on their lives in general.
Please help sponsor our students as they take the 24-hour Digital Technology Challenge on February 24th. If each student raises 200 baht we will be able to continue our sponsorship of the same children 7th graders have sponsored for the last 4 years. If we raise more we will be able to help improve conditions at the Border Police School. We see this as a good learning opportunity for our students and a good way for them to give of themselves as we fund-raise for others.
We want our students to be as honest as possible about how many hours they can survive without cell phones, video games, the internet, television and music etc. Our seminar will address the ways in which being digitally wired can cause multiple distractions. We believe that talking about our technology use (and abuse) will help us make better decisions about how to manage our time and our ability to communicate.
Two of ISB’s 3 major exit outcomes involve community service and giving to others. Experience shows when we are giving up something to help others, be it time or effort, then the lesson is stronger and more meaning is attached to the giving.
We thank you in advance for your support.
Team 7
(For information about After the Wave and the school in Khao Lak, please click here).