Transcripts For SFGTV2 20130321 : vimarsana.com

no don t know my book or face space and when you have to look at youth culture. we talk about texting and sexing and omg and i didn t text anything to you. i spoke to and part of the language and how they engage so until we look at the culture of young people and how do we impact today s 20th century media culture we can t make a huge impact in regards to bullying or electronic aggression or whatever name we want to place on it and is affecting the students and i am excited you re addressing this issue and it s a crucial time for this generation and if we don t take serious this conversation today and action tomorrow we will see more and more issues arise. [applause] and i m going to cap it up and i totally agree with that and one of the resources i want you to point is out is the family institute on line and platform for good a couple days ago. anne was there for the launch in dc and the goal of this whole thing is connect parents, educators and teens together to talk about both the eat your peas and how you stay a digital citizen and do the whole thing and i encourage everybody to check that out and i think that s the type of resource that will get us to where we need to go. it s called a platform for good .org and part of the family institute. yay. i think that s the way to cap it off really. let s lose the fear. let s bring it s safety, risk prevention, online risk prevention, whatever you want to call is is not the goal. it s important but not the goal. it s the mean to the end and the end is full safe effective successful engagement in participatory media and culture and society. this is a participatory medium that we re talking about in a network world. we re are in this environment and network participatory environment and our students need the tools. they need social emotional learning is a key tool and technical and literacy and media is behavioral so this has just been a fantastic day. thanks to all for coming and thank you everybody. i just want to share one piece of data which i don t understand completely. maybe our friend from facebook can explain, his twitter colleagues what they do. a hash tag was created and stop bullying sf barb and hash tag and generated 3 million personal impressions and 1.3 million followers within the last 24 hours. [applause] isn t that incredible? we talked about some of the dangers in social media today and i guess that s part of the beauty of social media and the video is part of that as well, so on behalf of all the childrens and families and parents and communities in the district i want to thank everybody for coming for all the work that you do. i feel optimistic in all of work that you do. thank you and go forth and do great work. 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor s park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood. the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children s play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. the playground and the soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public s money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. this park is open.