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This project is inspired by a video collaboration project organized by Debi Taylor, a Spanish teacher in California. She established a relationship between the children in her Spanish classes and several children in a small...
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This project is inspired by a video collaboration project organized by Debi Taylor, a Spanish teacher in California. She established a relationship between the children in her Spanish classes and several children in a small Mexican village. As the video courier, she travelled between the two locations, shooting and transporting footage of the children. Her intuitive ability to film the kids doing interesting activities, as well as organize performances and video letters between them created a very strong and entertaining relationship between the two groups of children. While this model allows for a wonderful experience for all involved, it is difficult to scale. It relies on an artistic and creative teacher with the time and resources to travel between two locations and bridge these communities. Children Without Borders gives the cameras and vision to the children themselves and relies on the internet for the sharing, discussion, and collaboration of the videos. By putting technology directly into the hands of children, giving them access to the infrastructures of globalization, and giving them control over the process, good things will happen. These good things include bottom-up peer-to-peer education resulting in a shift of power from centralized systems to the people who themselves are experiencing the effects of globalization. The result is a more literate, well-informed, empowered, and articulate public more able to identify their own needs, and to communicate them to effect changes.
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Children Without Borders could use your help. Your tax deductible donation is greatly appreciated and goes directly to purchasing cameras for kids. Please consider the following donations: $100 gets one kid filming today with a...
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