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John Hunter on the World Peace Game
This is a 20 minute video in which "John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board -- and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches -- spontaneous, and always surprising -- go further than classroom lectures can."
"The game triggers an eight-week transformation of the children from students of a neighborhood public...
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- Material Type:
- Presentation
- Date Added to MERLOT:
- April 26, 2011
- Date Modified in MERLOT:
- March 28, 2013
- Author:
- John Hunter, Richmond Community High School
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Cathy Swift
Cris Guenter (Faculty)
My student teachers appreciated this video clip when I shared it with them. It is now included on my list of class materials. It certainly set the stage for our discussions on social justice in education, the implications of arts education in learning, and what it really means to be a teacher. It is timely and powerful. It can be used as a discussion starter for educators or trigger individual research or investigations.