Above and Beyond with Communication

Above and Beyond with Communication — page 3 — Born to Communicate You might not know it but you have been communicating since you were born As a baby you cried and fussed until your needs were met Later you learned to say simple words that helped you get what you wanted You used finger paint and crayons to draw pictures You learned the alphabet and how to print your name and other words Before long you were writing down your stories and sharing your ideas Now you sing write notes smile make presentations give high fives and send texts You communicate in all sorts of ways OOO SPOTLIGHT Malala Yousafzai changed the world one blog entry at a time In 2009 at age 11 she began writing about her life in Pakistan Malala family runs schools in their region The Taliban a terrorist organization declared that girls in Pakistan should be forbidden from attending school The young girl bravely spoke out publicly for the rights of girls and was shot by a Taliban gunman for expressing her opinions Malala survived the attack and refused to be silenced She spoke at the United Nations wrote a book about her life and continues to inform and motivate people to stop injustice around the world When the whole world is silent even one voice becomes powerful Malala Yousafzai

Above and Beyond with Communication — page 4 — Why Communicate Sign Language People communicate to inform instruct motivate and persuade others To motivate means to give someone a reason to do something To persuade means to convince someone to do something We communicate in social settings at home at school and at work Communication helps us make friends and stay connected to them It allows us to share our opinions and ideas at school and work with others to achieve shared goals on the job It shows others who we are and what we have to say for ourselves People communicate in many different languages Some people who are deaf use Sign language to communicate Sign language is a system of hand signs and movements that are used to convey meaning Facial expressions and body language also help people who are deaf send their messages AB t Neep W An a These are the hand signs for each letter of the alphabet as used in American Sign Language ASL It is estimated that there are more than 100 different sign languages used around the

Above and Beyond with Communication — page 5 — I ISTORY A BRLE OF COMMUNICATION Rock of Ages Brave New World It was difficult for early peoples to Over time people developed new ways to communicate beyond their communities inform instruct motivate and persuade since they lived without paper telephones or others Paper was invented which enabled large scale transportation Instead they used people to record and preserve their histories the resources available to them to share their in a new way one that we still use today messages and tell their stories even long The printing press allowed books to be mass after they were gone Early humans used soil produced and information to be shared and charcoal to paint pictures on the walls widely The telephone enabled people to and ceilings of caves The Inuit stacked rocks exchange ideas and information instantly to form landmarks called inuksuit These Today we communicate with people all guided travelers and marked hunting and over the world through the Internet fishing grounds in the Arctic In many Native Each new technology changes the communities histories were passed on through way people communicate oral stories and songs These nonwritten forms of communication show what life was like in Alexander Italian inventor different early communities Samuel Morse Graham Bel Guglielmo Marconi sends sends the first patents Louis Braille The Lumière the first radio the first German message by invents a brothers signal across telephone inventor telegraph a system of raised make and the Atlantic The pencil is device used Tsai Lun Johannes dots called show the invented in Ocean to transmit a Chinese Gutenberg Braille that first silent England messages over creates the official allows people movies in long distance invents paper first printing who are blind o France in China press with visually impaired movable type to read and write 1844 1876 1895 1829 1901 1564 1450 105 yo DS

Above and Beyond with Communication — page 6 — Necessity ls the Mother of Invention In 1825 American painter Samuel Morse received a letter that his wife was very sick He rushed home and was shocked to discover that she had already died and been buried Morse was heartbroken and angry that it had taken days to receive word by slow moving horse messenger Determined to improve long distance communication Morse got to work and later invented the telegraph You might recognize his name from Morse code which is a system of ights used long and short sounds or to send messages Before audio technology was perfected silent films were popular Actors used body language and facial expressions to tell their stories British computer scientist Tim Berners Lee Television Twitter is launched the first tweet reads just setting up my twttr becomes Mark invents the World Wide Web Zuckerberg launches a popular The first medium for handheld broadcasting cell phone is Hungarian information produced innovator The first The first text the social networking service now called Facebook Laszlo Biro patents the first ballpoint personal computers are sold message is sent pen 1938 1950 1992 1973 1977 1989

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