The Global Search for Education: Producer and Creator of Apples and Oranges Discuss Teaching Acceptance in a Polarized World
This month audiences can screen Apples and Oranges on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel. The film won the National Award in India for the Best Educational Film this year.
The Global Search for Education: Educator in Taipei Gives Young People the Opportunity to Make Videos on Social Issues They Care About.
Young people care deeply about global challenges and they want to be a part of the solution. This month on the Planet Classroom YouTube Channel, audiences can screen the short film, Saving Africa With Featured Flight – a youth production that serves as an innovative example of the ideas that can be generated by creative young minds to benefit the health of our world.
The Global Search for Education: Director Craig Norton on the Power of Drumming to Unite and Heal Us.
We are all wired for rhythm. Music is a communal experience. In Craig Norton’s Rhythms of Life, shot over the course of 3 years in the United States, Senegal and West Africa, we learn from the leaders and the musicians in the community drum circle movement how rhythm makes us feel and why it brings us all together. The film also focuses on the wellness and therapeutic aspects of music as drummers speak about healing journeys from cancer, Parkinson’s, depression and other challenges.
The Global Search for Education: Director of Rainshadow Hopes Film Will Be a Springboard for Learning Reform
What are the ways society should measure success other than testing and numbers? Kari Barber’s Rainshadow film won her the Best Nevada Filmmaker award from the state’s largest film festival. The film (curated for Planet Classroom by KIDS FIRST Film Festival), now screening on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel, follows a Nevada community charter school called Rainshadow. Unlike other schools, Rainshadow embraces and focuses on creativity, which helps its students find purpose and meaning and an outlet to express themselves. However, low test scores make the institution a target for closure.
The Global Search for Education: Adam Hersko-RonaTas Explores Iceland’s Transition Into A Globalized World
This month, audiences can screen the acclaimed documentary, Scaling Iceland (Curated by NFFTY) on the Planet Classroom Network YouTube Channel.
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