SDG Hyper Doc Reflection

 I really liked working on this hyper doc project. It caused me to think about which goals were important to me as a person and teacher. It also got me thinking of if I had the power, how would I make the world a better place. I also liked how we were required to watch the SDG goals video with Jennifer Lopez. The video was not time-consuming and very entertaining. It also gave me background information on why every single goal is important. I also liked how we were required to connect back to our previous activity of explaining how we would change the world and then relating it to one of the 17 sustainability goals. I said, "the way I would change to the world was that I would try to advocate more for students with disabilities," and I related it to goal 4, which was a quality education. To explain how I related the two, I had said, "My goal is that to change the world I would try to advocate more for students with disabilities would most likely be similar to the 4th goal also known as quality education. I would say these goals are similar because a lot of the time without the proper education, Students with disabilities sometimes fall through the cracks." I also had to explain how passionate I was about one specific goal, to which I explained, "I am most passionate about goal #4 (quality education. ) When becoming a special education teacher, I want to make sure students with disabilities get every resource they need to do well in school." I then had to dig deeper into one of the goals, find specific sources, and then relate them to the goal I choose to explain. The goal I had chosen to explain was "No poverty" one resource I had chosen to use to dig deeper into my goal includes this article. When explaining how article related to the goal, I had said that the article "explained that while many people no longer live in poverty, people still struggle to obtain things like shelter or food. The article also explained that when comparing men and women in poverty, there was a higher number of women in poverty. This is because, in many low-income countries, parents stop sending daughters to school at a certain age to begin learning to take care of the home and their families. The article also explains that due to recent events, people not in poverty have to make a bigger effort to help the people in poverty get out of it." A second resource I had used to dig deeper into my goal included This video. When relating the video to my goal I had explained that the video "explains what causes poverty. The things that cause poverty include war, irresponsible government, sickness, and not having a good education. The article also explains that natural disasters can cause poverty too. The article also explains the things we can do to help people get out of poverty like donating items we no longer need." A final resource I used to dig deeper into my goal also included this article. When relating the goal and the article I had said that the article "explains that poverty very uneven throughout countries and the article also explains that now there is more poverty in Africa than in Asia. The article also explains that extreme poverty has decreased due to China and India. The article also explains that the rate of poverty will increase due to COVID-19." I was also required to think about what I had discovered about the goal. In the hyper docs project, I had said I had discovered three things. The three things I had discovered are stated as follows: 

• I was surprised to learn natural disasters could lead to poverty out of everything else that could cause poverty, such as sickness or job loss; natural disasters never crossed my mind.
• I was also surprised to learn that Africa had the highest poverty rate. I always expected the place with the highest poverty rate to be Hati. I was surprised because when I think of third-world countries, I never think of Africa. 
• I was also surprised to learn that women had the most poverty. I thought people with the most poverty would be families with newborns or children because it is expensive to provide for them. 

The final part of the project was that we were required to create an intervention. This was my favorite part of the project because we got to sketch out what our invention looked liked, and we got to be creative.

I absolutely love using Hyper Docs to learn. When using Hyper Docs, children aren't listening to a teacher talking for long periods of time. They get to interact with materials given to them and be in charge of their own learning, which can sometimes be more beneficial because they have to pay attention in order to learn. 

Here is My Hyper Doc project Click on the picture to see my completed version