6. Just A Few Definitions
Definitions of Empathy on the Web:
â understanding and entering into another's feelings
â wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
â Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.
â en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
â the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person; capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result
of such understanding
â en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathy
â empathic - showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor"
â wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
â empathize - sympathize: be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
â wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
â empathic - Showing or expressing empathy
â en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathic
â empathize - to feel empathy for another person
â en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathize
â empathically - In an empathic manner
â en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empathically
â The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding, and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of others,
thus imagining the same sensations as that of those actually experiencing them.
â www.poeticbyway.com/gl-e.html
â ability to emotionally relate to another individual's emotional state.
â anxiety-panic.com/dictionary/en-dicte.htm
â The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of
either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the ...
â access.autistics.org/resources/glossary/main.html
â A sense of shared experience, including emotional and physical feelings, with someone or something other than oneself. Empathy is often used to
describe the response of a reader to a literary character. ...
â www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_de.htm
18. http://freerice.com/
Free Rice
Free rice is an organization in which you answer questions and for each
question you answer correctly you donate 10 grains of rice to people who
need food and cant afford it across the world. My tech class just looked at the
site and I donated 300 grains of rice to the needy. In the video I learned that
the Free Rice foundation has donated 60 billion grains of rice, thats enough to
feed 3 million people a day. The site was very impressive, it shows how much
time and effort the people who started this great idea put into this wonderful
site. After watching the video and playing the game it shows how many
people really need help and you feel sorry but it is great to know that you can
help. âJordan, 8th Grade
19. If It Were My Home
Data
Ground Zero
The True Size of Africa
GapMinder
Stop Disaster!
24. http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
If It Were My Home
My "child" was born in Tanzania. Tanzania and the United States are so
different, in Tanzania there is a 12% chance a baby might live past five years
old. There is child labor, illiteracy, corporal punishment, child marriage, and
many other issues. I had the opportunity to spin that wheel many times, but
the children I drew would only have one. I can't even begin to fathom life in
Tanzania. I have a life of great ease, and most of the children born, won't live
past five years old. âAlyssa
Led to:
Inquiry, Research, Gathering Data, Geographic Skills
26. Right after a group of middle school students had a video
conference with students the same in Ghana, a student got up
and said,
"It was mesmerizing. I was able to talk with someone my age
all the way in Africa. I learned that they are no different than
we are.
I will never think of Africa the same again."
Video Conference
The True Size of Africa
40. An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is
going on inside me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil -
he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and
ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love,
hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy,
generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is
going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
"Two Wolves" - A Cherokee Legend
43. It is what we want to drive creativity,
innovation and problem solving.
Empathy can be fostered, experienced
and grow through using technology.
It is skill and attribute
we want our future citizens to possess
Empathy is THE 21st
Century Skill.