Aki Kurose Middle School students in Seattle view the digital story "Compassion in Action" made by students at the Tibetan Children's Village.
Students at the Tibetan Children's Village work on their digital story "Compassion in Action."
BRIDGES AMBASSADOR CLASSROOM PROGRAM
The Bridges Ambassador Program connects youth in classrooms in Seattle, Washington, USA, with classrooms in India, Peru, South Africa and Guatemala. Teachers and their students are highly supported by Bridges staff and volunteers in following the Bridges project-based learning curriculum and in the production of digital stories.
Students explore Culture and Traditions, Conflict and Reconciliation and Environmental Sustainability from local and global perspectives. Students share and learn with international peers through teacher-facilitated online dialogues using the Bridges website, and through creating digital stories.
Students develop a sense of global interconnectedness, an understanding of the implications of global problems for each other’s regions, and empowerment to act on the issues that affect youth locally and globally. Youth gain skills in research, communication, writing, photography, cross-cultural understanding and technology while increasing their awareness of global issues.
In 2009-10, our classrooms are using a modified version of that curriculum, which will be available online soon.
Looking for more curriculum? Please visit the public sections of our Bridges Global Citizens Program, where you'll find our Bridges Digital Storytelling Guidelines, which outline how we use digital storytelling in the classroom. We are also building a library of stories with associated curriculum guides, and a few of those guides are already available in the Global Citizens Program section of our website …watch for this library to grow!