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Hi Scott. You can delete this after you read it: just want to say I enjoyed listening to your introduction to the topic using Tellagami. I will review other components later (too late at night right now!). Will you please also share this padlet with mjh434@drexel.edu (my work account). Thank you!

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Tellagami is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video.

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Why Should Service Learning and the Understanding of Altruism Matter to the Academic Community?

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Why Should Service Learning and the Understanding of Altruism Matter to the Academic Community?

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Please use the attached document to view the Purpose of the Research, Problem Statement, Significance of the Research, and Gaps in the Research sections.

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Altruism: the attitude of caring about others and doing acts that help them although you do not get anything by doing these acts.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Governments, businesses and civil society together with the United Nations have started to mobilize efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Universal, inclusive and indivisible, the Agenda calls for action by all countries to improve the lives of people everywhere.

In 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Service Learning: a process of involving students in community service activities combined with facilitated means for applying the experience to their academic and personal development.

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1.      Does the understanding of altruism in ninth grade students’ increase with participation in community service projects related to the UN sustainable development goals when compared to high school students who do not participate in community service projects?

2.      Is there a measurable change in feelings about global citizenship by ninth grade students who participate in community service activities inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals when compared to high school students who do not participate in community service activities?

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The partnership created by families, schools, and communities is essential to providing a strong developmental foundation for the youth of today. Adolescents tend to receive criticism for their lack of commitment to the communities where they live.  There are numerous examples of adolescents who influence their community due to their desire to make a difference.  Schools and communities are able to display the altruistic nature of youth by facilitating opportunities for adolescents to affect their communities and world through designing and implementing service projects.

The focus of this research is to study the change in high school students in terms of their commitment to altruism when they participate in the design and facilitation of service projects in their community.  In preparation, high school students learned about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and designed projects that targeted these goals in their local community.

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Scott DeShong, M.Ed.
Principal,
Avon Grove High School
Ed. D. Candidate,
Drexel University
Email:
sdeshong@drexel.edu