A 12-year-old Henry Otero, a student of Waldo Middle School, joined a unique in-house field trip in his school in Arora on Wednesday morning in a hundred and seven classmates of his classmates, where students learned a lesson about the use and misconduct of technology.
After watching a drama about the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, Henry said, “I have received a message about technology that everything is not answered and children are tied to very phone vs. relationships.” “I learned more about it through this performance and it maintained my interest. I enjoyed music and dance. ,
The newly written drama “Bright Futures” was introduced at the school through Paramount Theater and Paramount at Aurora. Drama, which is recently being done for free in “Hit the Road”, local schools.
One hour production involved a dozen artist and crew on Wednesday, helping to tell the story about the app used to write papers for class.
A press release by Paramount stated that in the play, “Following some arguments as moral implications, the app gains popularity through the entire school as a secret weapon. The futures are bright for all those who dream of higher education, prestige and opportunity. ,
The drama, which was presented to the teachers of the area through a script-keval reading about a year ago, was debuted last Monday at the courshed middle school in Arora.
Prior to Wednesday’s performance at Waldo Middle School, Kara Davidson, director and associate artistic producer of the new works, said that the first rollout of the drama was led by some tweex before the live audience.
“The idea for this actually started back in 2019, so it took several years to achieve things at this point,” he said. “We are doing nine shows in the next two weeks. We learned a lot from having many students in the room. Each performance will include around 300 students and therefore there is a piece of the puzzle that you don’t know until you are performing for the audience, so we have tuned some things. ,
Two of the three authors of the play were urged by its last director to write the script, Davidson said, the pair later asked a third writer to join him.
The play includes an original soundtrack written by the same trio as well as some comprehensive choreography.
Elene Roberts, principal of Waldo Middle School, said it was very good to perform at school.
“I think it is a great opportunity for both liberal arts to expose for both, where students can do theater and learn about speaking skills, but I also feel that it teaches them about cultural risk and sees what a theater would be if they went to paramount or any other theater,” Roberts said.
“I think the message is about technology because we deal with it daily with it and overall I think it’s a great opportunity for our children,” Roberts said. “It is also a way to learn how to listen and we are involving them in the way to act as an audience for children.”
Roberts said that in the context of a follow -up, he hoped that the teachers would have reflected what they saw and also discussed things like a career in the theater and perhaps a writing assignment about the experience.
Laura Quinons, 25, a 25 -year -old cast member from Chicago, who played one of the best students in the school, who eventually inspired others to reject technology, said it was great that it was great that the play was being staged in local schools.
“I think my favorite thing about this process is that we are reaching schools where demographic is very diverse, very diverse and our actors are very diverse, so it is a kind of opportunity for these children to bring theater and show them, this is something that they can do,” he said.
There is a message from ‘Bright Futures’, honestly there are many messages in the show, “Quinonons said. “It is mainly the idea that you do not believe whatever you see on the Internet, believe in the people in front of you because they are more important. They are the ones who are going to keep you safe and keep you happy. ,
Davidson said that “At the time when we live with information everywhere, especially electronic information, I hope that our students decide for themselves what to believe in information.”
In the context of the play, Davidson said, “The presence of artificial intelligence in our world is not all, ending all.” “I hope that children will go home and discuss the same topic with their parents, about which we are all thinking – what are our responsibilities with technology and intelligence? Bright futures are about what we make them, and there is a scene about kindness and kindness with honesty rather than investing in friends and spending so much time on apps or electronics. ,
David Sharos is a freelance reporter for Bicon-News.