We all watch videos on Youtube about pranks, trick shots, amazing singers or even our funny pets. But what if we can use YouTube to create change?

Infrastructure industrialization

Industry, innovation and infrastructure

identify the types of mass media such as television, radio, Internet, podcast, YouTube, newspaper, periodicals, blogs, social networking, emailing, texting, search engines, and music; and

LA.9-12.CM.2.A

evaluate which telecommunications methods are most appropriate to a given situation; and

BUS.12.4.A

apply appropriate business ethics and correct etiquette when using telecommunications.

BUS.12.4.B

assess the benefits and costs, including the environmental costs, of economic growth (e.g., with reference to job creation, loss of jobs as a result of relocation offshore or technological changes, increase in gross domestic product [GDP], technological innovation, new products, increasing consumerism, corporate consolidation and growth of multinational corporations, overfishing, deforestation, air and water pollution, climate change)

B3.3 Growth and Sustainability

assess the effects, both positive and negative, on the region of outside demand for its products and/or resources (e.g., development of infrastructure, job creation, improvement in standards of living, increase in tax revenue, deforestation and
other types of resource depletion/mismanagement,
monoculture and other unsustainable agricultural
practices, vulnerability to demands of multinational
corporations, sweatshops, air pollution, environmental degradation)

C1.2 Sustainability and Stewardship of Natural Resources

analyse impacts of consumerism in developed countries on ecumenes in developing countries (e.g., economic growth and job creation, increased resource consumption and pollution, migration to cities and the rise of informal settlements, greater potential for exploitation of labour as a result of demand for low-cost production)

D3.3 Challenges of Interdependence

assess the economic implications of pollution reduction and other environmental protection policies (e.g., job creation or reduction; savings in health costs; reduction of losses from damage to crops, building materials, forests; costs of research, monitoring, enforcement, infrastructure changes)

D1.3 Reducing Pollution

identify the effects of government policies and practices on economic and social disparities (e.g., subsidies, tax incentives, supply management programs, and trade agreements may promote job creation and reduce disparities between individuals but may also increase some disparities by favouring some individuals, economic sectors, or regions over others; foreign aid programs provide resources to help economically poorer countries reduce disparities, but mismanagement of aid programs can also increase disparities within the receiving country)