The Global Search for Education:  Gavin Strange talks about Turtle Journey and the Global Ocean Crisis
Sep15

The Global Search for Education: Gavin Strange talks about Turtle Journey and the Global Ocean Crisis

Turtle Journey, directed by Aardman’s Gavin Strange, is a new acclaimed animated film created for Greenpeace that tells the story of a turtle family heading home through an ocean threatened by pollution, oil drilling and overfishing.

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The Global Search for Education: A Conversation with Copwatch Director Camilla Hall
Sep08

The Global Search for Education: A Conversation with Copwatch Director Camilla Hall

The pressure on leaders and police departments to do more about reforming police brutality has spurred protests globally. Some people believe that taking videos of beatings or killings holds police officers accountable for their actions.

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The Global Search for Education: What’s Next for K-12?
Sep03

The Global Search for Education: What’s Next for K-12?

. As communities prepare their plans to re-open schools, it’s a good time to take stock and look at the likely future of education. What might come next for K-12, given all we’ve been through?

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The Global Search for Education: What Can Classrooms Learn About Mastering Collaboration from the Real World?
Sep01

The Global Search for Education: What Can Classrooms Learn About Mastering Collaboration from the Real World?

Classrooms all over the world are looking for better ways to teach team collaboration skills. Imagine a group of students gathered together, either in person or virtually, to engage and collaborate on a high-level task or assignment or to discuss and debate an issue.

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The Global Search for Education:  Emily Downe’s Film Better Explores a Perfectionistic Culture in the Age of Social Media
Aug25

The Global Search for Education: Emily Downe’s Film Better Explores a Perfectionistic Culture in the Age of Social Media

The story of Better, Emily Downe’s short animated experimental film, is based on the journey of one character through a fantasy jungle. The jungle acts as a portal for idealized worlds to become external. The story explores the ways in which modern technologies and social media give us access to an imaginary existence that we are able to control.

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The Global Search for Education: Boys State Directors Discuss the Powerful Stories of Four Young Men Struggling to Win an Election
Aug18

The Global Search for Education: Boys State Directors Discuss the Powerful Stories of Four Young Men Struggling to Win an Election

Husband and wife filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda Mcbaine learned from a Washington Post news article in June 2017 that a group of teenage boys had voted to secede from the Union.

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