In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build understandings with peers from different backgrounds. Out of Eden Learn, an initiative of Project Zero, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a free online program for students ages 3-19 that has so far served more than 20,000 young people in 57 countries.
Students at Nanyang Girls' High School film an Out of Eden Learn lesson.
Emi Kane
Out of Eden Learn is one of the Out of Eden Walk’s education partners and dates to 2013 when Paul Salopek set off in Ethiopia. It has evolved into a promising model for promoting thoughtful cross-cultural inquiry and exchange, drawing inspiration from the ways in which Salopek and other writers and artists interweave “slow journalism” and local and global storytelling. The project is generously funded by the Abundance Foundation, with additional support from Global Cities, Inc., a program of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
On Out of Eden Learn’s custom-built social media platform, students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings come together for collective learning experiences. Occasionally videos are created that show what the project looks like and means for participants. We recently developed a collaborative and experiential visual storytelling workshop for two groups of high school students participating in Out of Eden Learn’s specialized curriculum, Stories of Human Migration. The workshop provided students with tools to film and share their experiences as they participate together in Out of Eden Learn.
Watch the video, filmed and co-produced by the students, above, or learn more about the project here.
Sarah Sheya is the project administrator and media specialist on the Out of Eden Learn project. She manages the day to day operations, conducts research and produces multimedia documentation for the project. Follow her on Twitter @worldnaming.
Students at Nanyang Girls' High School film an Out of Eden Learn lesson.
Emi Kane
Out of Eden Learn is one of the Out of Eden Walk’s education partners and dates to 2013 when Paul Salopek set off in Ethiopia. It has evolved into a promising model for promoting thoughtful cross-cultural inquiry and exchange, drawing inspiration from the ways in which Salopek and other writers and artists interweave “slow journalism” and local and global storytelling. The project is generously funded by the Abundance Foundation, with additional support from Global Cities, Inc., a program of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
On Out of Eden Learn’s custom-built social media platform, students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings come together for collective learning experiences. Occasionally videos are created that show what the project looks like and means for participants. We recently developed a collaborative and experiential visual storytelling workshop for two groups of high school students participating in Out of Eden Learn’s specialized curriculum, Stories of Human Migration. The workshop provided students with tools to film and share their experiences as they participate together in Out of Eden Learn.
Watch the video, filmed and co-produced by the students, above, or learn more about the project here.
Sarah Sheya is the project administrator and media specialist on the Out of Eden Learn project. She manages the day to day operations, conducts research and produces multimedia documentation for the project. Follow her on Twitter @worldnaming.
This video was filmed and produced by Out of Eden Learn team members and students at Merlo Station High School, in Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A., and Nanyang Girls' High School, in Singapore. (Subtitles available.)
Out of Eden Learn
