TOPICS

The document outlines 10 topics for driving questions and projects related to social issues. Some topics included promoting green spaces, raising awareness about superstitions, convincing elders to use technology, understanding various jobs, and exploring the popularity of e-commerce. For each topic, it provides potential approaches such as conducting research, interviews, surveys, role plays, and presentations involving photos, videos, or audio recordings. The overall document provides a list of social topics and prompts for multi-media projects to research and raise awareness on various issues.

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TOPICS & DRIVING QUESTIONS

1. homes/green spaces in the city/cutting trees to make living spaces.

How can I keep my neighbourhood/ home/ school green?
Present a proposal based on research...
Are there any places or neighbourhoods in India that have done it?
Present--photos n narration/interview

2.Superstitions/astrologers
How can I and my group members make friends and family aware of the ill-
effects of superstitions?
 Interview...ask qs, talk about popular idioms or proverbs or urban
legends...
 Was there a reason to float such beliefs earlier? Look into it.
 Harm caused--podcast /chat show/RJing/panel etc.
 Awareness-how?

3.The eldery/grandparents and technology usage

How can I and my partner convince the elders of friends and relatives to use
technology?
 probs, merits, adaptation, challenges,
 reasons why they adapted, do they have an email, do they use
whatsapp , do the know terms like router* or wifi etc..
 Why dont they use tech..how can one convince them? Should you
convince them?
 @Panel discussion

4.Survey on pocket money

How can I and my group members promote the practice of giving pocket-
money to teens?
 Why required@teens? Where is it used?
 Should they be doing chores or working to earn it? Is it an entitlement?
Does it nurture fiscal sense?
 Presentation could be a humourous drama like puppets/one act
play/role play on asking parents for money...
 Composing a poem/song on it and performing( cud be done to the tune
of songs like 'bapu sehat ke liye haanikarak hai'@Dangal movie or why
this kolaveri di or any other.

5. A day in the life of _______________________ ( a policeman/ domestic

help/ guard/ doctor/ car cleaner/ vendor...etc
How can I and my partner understand a day in the life of______?
1. Live that day
2. Video bytes if wat u feel
3. Interviews
4. How it varies from ur own
5. Observations

6. stories behind the choice of names

How can I and my partner discover the stories behind names of friends and
relatives?
 Interviewing friends and relatives and collecting various stories
 Researching online the meanings of names and their connection to
movies, mythology etc.
 Common names of people in certain regions
 Doing a video with photos is a good idea.

7. Pet dogs and advantages

How can I and my partner convince the neighbourhood that pet dogs are
advantageous and not a menace?

 via survey- research.

 Stories, movies, songs about anima look ls to supplement. Presenting a
self created one, is a good idea.
 Neighbourhood stray dogs issues- research etc.
 Solutions. Interviews from NGOs who manage all this is a good idea

8. Is facebook a fake book?

How can I and my partner convince our schoolmates that most information on
facebook cannot be relied on?
 How authentic is the information posted?
 Quality check of doctored videos and posts?
 Survey: How do people in your acquaintances react to Facebook Post?
 What impact does it have on socio-culturally and politically?
 What's your take?
 Students could have a chat show, or podcast or hv video bytes

9. e-Commerce platforms
How can I and my group members reach the conclusion why the e-commerce
platforms are popular in the present times?

 Is it because of the pandemic?

 The offers they come up with?
 Compare and contrast brands that are available at the fingertips
 The most popular e-commerce platform for say specific purchases-
(Garments/Gadgets..) What products they prefer shopping online
 Age group of people using this?--Homemakers/Young adults/The
employed/Senior citizens.
 Have an interview and record the same
 Presentation–shopping does not mean stepping out to buy and can be
done conveniently from home

10. How I handled ___________________ ( bullying/ peer pressure/

academic challenge/ self esteem issues/ pressures)
How can I and my teammate share information on what makes people
perform a particularly challenging task when they are not feeling up to the
mark/not confident and what they feel would help them perform better?
 What is self esteem? How does it help you succeed?
 Refer to any personal incident that affected confidence - can speak to
people who have faced setbacks in life and still succeeding even if in
small ways-could be family members with particularly challenging lives
 presentation - Interview, either video/radio show