2010 National Online Youth Summit: How the First Amendment Affects You in the 21st Century

Posted by on November 23, 2009

Register for the 2010 National Online Youth Summit – It’s Nothing to LOL About: How the First Amendment Affects You in the 21st Century
American Bar Association Division for Public Education

Afterschool programs linked to schools might be interested in this Online Youth Summit. Feel free to share it with their school districts.

How have First Amendment rights been affected by the changing ways we communicate? Have our rights to the freedom of speech, the right to assemble, and free exercise of religion changed in the classroom and in the virtual world as weve settled into the 21st century? You and your high school students can join in this highly relevant discussion during the free, interdisciplinary program, the 2010 National Online Youth Summit (NOYS). Apply online today!

http://www.abanet.org/publiced/noys/10/theapplication.shtml

Enhance Your Curriculum
During the course of the 12-week web-based program, students will study, research, and analyze First Amendment implications in the 21st century, and then engage in civil discourse online with students around the country. Students will explore First Amendment freedoms through study of:
> historical context
> Supreme Court decisions and public policy
> digital communication
> student rights versus adult rights

Visit http://www.abanet.org/publiced/noys to apply and for more information.
Register by December 9, 2009, to ensure your spot in this exciting program.