The Festival of Learning 2016 has ended, it took place June 6–9, 2016. This post-secondary education event hosted more than 400 delegates, offering a variety of session formats, learning experiences, unique spaces, as well as social and networking events. Don’t miss the next Festival of Learning 2018 happening May 28-30, 2018.
Open Session Limited to 60 Participants (First-Come, First-In)
Strathcona Elementary, a school on the downtown eastside of Vancouver Canada, and Iyoli Primary, a remote village school in Tanzania, are schools committed to learning about each other using art, story and technology.
Please see: https://www.facebook.com/The-Iyoli-Water-Project-767771733336984/
Watch our first video in a series of six where kids from an inner city school in Canada and a remote village school in Tanzania share how they make friends, one of the many questions they asked each other. The videos will be released as part of our #H2Ope campaign to help Iyoli school build a well. It's a pioneering approach to fostering global citizenship through eduction.
Strathcona students worked on four different projects for 6 months: a book of stories, a video, a song and a virtual reality tour of their school. In March 2016 Lara Kroeker, director of the Iyoli Water Project, went to Iyoli Village Primary School with a few google cardboards, a projector and generator to show kids in the Iyoli storytelling club the Strathcona creations. Iyoli responded by creating their own stories, photos, videos and virtual reality water walk. Kids get excited using new technologies. We provided the Canadian and the Tanzanian kids the opportunity to tell their stories in a variety of media: virtual reality (using the theta and Bubl camera), book software (to make a beautiful hardcover book), photography and video (using high end Canon cameras and lens). Our goal was to get kids excited about sharing stories using technology that was exciting and as a result created compassion and awareness about global water issues.
Presenter
Lara Kroeker
