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Educators' Voices: Teaching the Global "YouTube Generation"

Posted on December 04, 2019

"For good or bad, they are going to change the world." So says online learning expert John Vivolo of the students coming of age today, with access to an array of free online content---from Open Educational Resources to videos to freeware. As Director of Online Education at the Katz School of Yeshiva University, Vivolo oversees all the school's online education programming, and he has been involved in the growth and improvement of online learning for more than fifteen years.

Thankful for Globally-Minded Students and Teachers

Posted on November 27, 2019

Cornucopia. Wildflowers in a field. — "Cornucopia," an image of wildflowers in a field. By Daniel Sutton.

With an eye towards tomorrow's Thanksgiving festivities, WWB Campus would like to thank all the teachers and students who read and think across borders. This month alone:

Teaching Uyghur Poetry: Updated with breaking news

Posted on November 16, 2019

This summer, Words Without Borders Campus published a post on teaching the poetry of Tahir Hamut, an ethnic Uyghur (pronounced we-ger) poet and filmmaker who is living in exile in Washington, D.C. following the Chinese government's large-scale repressions of Uyghur Muslims. The New York Times just published a leaked government archive that sheds new light on these repressions, and we have updated the post, below.

In NYC? Consider This Workshop

Posted on November 10, 2019

This Thursday, November 14, the English Language Arts Committee of the UFT will be hosting a workshop on deepening students' reading, writing, thinking, and collaboration:

New from the Philippines: Film, Identity, and Representation

Posted on November 03, 2019

What are the cultural divides within our countries? How well can we ever understand one another across those divides? A Filipino poem about an indigenous boy, published in this month's Words Without Borders, grapples with this question and hints at the risks of looking at another human being as if he is "a fish / in an aquarium."