The ubiquity of digital media and its effects on society suggest that we are at the start of a new era in industrial history, called the Information Age, perhaps leading to a paperless society in which all media are produced and consumed on computers. Digital media has also posed new challenges to copyright and intellectual property laws, fostering an open content movement in which content creators voluntarily give up some or all of their legal rights to their work. Combined with the Internet and personal computing, digital media has caused disruptive innovation in publishing, journalism, public relations, entertainment, education, commerce and politics. Digital media often contrasts with print media, such as printed books, newspapers and magazines, and other traditional or analog media, such as photographic film, audio tapes or video tapes.ĭigital media has had a significantly broad and complex impact on society and culture. ” ‘Everyone at the school is my friend, and I want to pay off their lunch ticket.’ ”Īpril Ching has been offering plenty of help to her son along the way, stamping letters on wooden blocks, tying knots too tough for Keoni and purchasing boxes on boxes of charms.Examples of digital media include software, digital images, digital video, video games, web pages and websites, social media, digital data and databases, digital audio such as MP3, electronic documents and electronic books. “(Keoni) said, ‘I’m going to do as much as I can,’ ” April Ching said.
Sherman made $27,000 worth of donations in November to districts in Washington and California to pay off students’ lunch debt. “He’s always been that kindhearted kid,” his dad, Barry Ching said.Īs it turns out, it was a former Seahawk, Richard Sherman, who was the inspiration for the keychains. Keoni, who’s enrolled in the school’s Mandarin immersion program, was brainstorming projects for the week with his family last month. “That makes the world a better place,” he said.įranklin Elementary School this month will celebrate its Fourth Annual Kindness Week, a celebration of all things nice at the Vancouver Public Schools campus.
Wealthy donors and corporations have cut large checks to districts across the country to ease the strain - and small donors, like little Keoni. And while school nutrition directors agree that all students should be fed, the effect is that school districts can rack up thousands of dollars in unpaid meals by the end of the school year. In Washington, a 2018 change to state law requires school districts to feed students a hot meal, regardless of whether they have money in their lunch accounts. “If they don’t have enough money, that’s money there,” Keoni said as he started on a new keychain, this one reading “Pizza.”Ī national spotlight has turned toward lunch debt in recent years.
In less than a month, he’s raised $840 in sales and donations and is pushing toward $1,000, April Ching said. Keoni is a Dolphins fan, his mom, April Ching, said. The customized trinkets go for $5 apiece, unless they’re Seahawks-themed, in which case the price is $19.77. Keoni Ching, an 8-year-old at Vancouver’s Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, is selling keychains made of lettered beads to pay off his classmates’ outstanding balances on their lunch accounts.
A Clark County second-grader is working to make the world a little bit kinder, one bead at a time.
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