Global Citizenship / Education

Project presentation about Global Citizenship (Reflection)

One of the projects given by our speech class professor Sherri Sinkoff was about Global Citizenship. If we stop to analyze, being a global citizen is about having the general knowledge to understand the wider world, our place and at the same time take an active role in our community. Health Care, Wealth, Education and Morals and Ethics related with politics were the four subtopics that were divided in groups to be presented. Also, each group had a leader in charge of every project. After telling you this, I will explain to you a little bit about each presentation and how they were performed.

Group #1

The first group’s discussion was related to health care. During their presentation they discussed the different programs that we have in the U.S. such as the Medicare, the Medicaid and the Obama care. 

Their leader made an amazing work introducing each one of the members of his group as they were presenting. Even though some of the participants had notes to do their part, they made a good use of this tool. Also, their power point slides were clean and easy to read.

Group #2

The following group performance consisted about wealth. In this project the participants talked about different factors related like Social Security, which is one of the most important factors that determine the wealth of an individual in our country. They also made an overview on farming and the disparage between classes (Middle class).

 During their talk each participant made questions to the audience (us) making the performance interesting. From my viewpoint, I think they were well prepared because every participant was looking to the public as they were presenting. This time the leader started the presentation and made his part fist which was excellent in my opinion.

Group #3

The third group is one of my favorites in my opinion. Their subtopic was about The Morals and Ethics in our society today. They covered each factor related with morals and ethics. They talked about knowledge between right and wrong, the requirements to be a president, the negative impacts of technological advancements and religion. 

As they were presenting, every team member was dialoguing with us as if they were having a normal conversation. They also gave examples and made gestures to explain what they were talking about so we could understand the topics discussed. These factors left us with no doubts about the topic they were performing.

Group #4

The fourth group was mine and our subtopic was related with education. 

For the project we made research about why teachers were underpaid, the different viewpoints of political parties in education, how does the student debt affect students and we also included an interview video made at Miami Dade College having the opinion from the Dean about what they think of education and global citizenship.

 Our group was the last to present, this time our performance was a video presentation which took longer than we expected due to the corona virus. Even though our team members were distant from each other we were communicating constantly in order to complete the film. In my opinion we could have improved better the film, but like I mentioned before, we had an unexpected issue that interfere with our project, but I feel very comfortable and proud of my group with what we accomplished.

Thank you for your time.

Joel Mari