Learning Resources
The workshop plans in Fly Kites Not Drones are for adults to deliver exciting work with children young people of different ages, whether in or out of school. The different workshops are listed below, and there is guidance on finding the best content for your group here.
A printed pack is available for £5 from the Quaker Book Shop at Friends House - go to the order page.
About armed drones - Information about armed drones.
Convenient Killing: Armed Drones and the ‘Playstation’ Mentality - This report from the Fellowship of Reconciliation asks looks at the proliferation and the effects of armed drones.
Curriculum grid.pdf - Plan which workshop activities will work for your group using this grid of learning outcomes from Fly Kites Not Drones
Fly Kites Not Drones Introduction - What is an armed drone? - This animation introduces the idea of armed drones and how they effect people in Afghanistan and around the world, to be used in combination with the education pack.
How to use Fly Kites Not Drones V4.pdf - Guidance on how to use Fly Kites Not Drones
VIDE0 : 4:13 | The drone operator who said 'No' - From the BBC. For almost five years, Brandon Bryant worked in America's secret drone programme bombing targets in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
VIDEO | 1:26 | John Brennan: No civilian deaths - John Brennan White House Counter Terrorism Adviser for President Obama claims "there hasn't been a single collateral death" due to drone strikes. From 29 June 2011 Thanks to C-Span.
VIDEO | 2:37 | Interview with Nabila, 9-year-old survivor of a drone strike - On October 24, 2012, a drone strike hit, injuring this then 8-year-old girl and killing her grandmother. For the first time ever, on October 29, 2013, Nabila ur Rehman, along with her father and brother, will testify before Congress and share their story with the American public in a briefing called by Representative Alan Grayson
VIDEO | 7:59 | America's Ex-Drone Pilot - 13+ years | Brandon Bryant, a former drone pilot and sensor operator for the of the US Air Force, quit his job after 5 years of being in the Drone Program left him emotionally traumatized. In this episode of Transmissions, Motherboard speaks with Brandon about his feelings of responsibility for the remote killings of people with predator drones, its connection to Germany's drone program, and why ultimately drone warfare makes us lose our humanity.
VIDEO Drone Strike Survivors speak - "I know longer love blue skies": Nabila and Zubair speak about the drone strike that nearly killed them during CNN coverage of the Congressional briefing called for by Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-09) for the drone strike survivors and Robert Greenwald's documentary "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars."