2020
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2019
Out of the Blocks teamed up with Inspire Citizens to spend a week at Seoul Foreign School, working with students on empathy, active listening, and community impact through positive media. The week culminated in a Global Youth Media Conference, when 150 middle & high school kids from international schools in places like Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Abu Dhabi headed out into the streets of Seoul to interview strangers. Check out this special audio postcard, and hear what the students learned about others and about themselves.
Check out Seoul Foreign School’s VoiceLab to see some of the videos, stories, and the first member station of the Inspire Citizens’ Global Youth Media (GYM) hub. This GYM hub will be launched in July 2019 with the support of student-led member stations from around the globe.
Steve and Aaron talked with podcast host, Jeremy Williams, of Dismissed about the Empathy to Impact Approach and the “Why” behind Global Competence, students engaging with UN SDGs, and the Global Impact School model.
Who is reshaping education in a time when we need it? Who is impacting educators and students around the world at a time when the world is in need of help? Inspire Citizens are! We chat with Steve Sostak and Aaron Moniz from inspirecitizens.org. They cohosted the Shekou SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Summit in Shenzhen, China. We got to chat in person and what they do and how they are reshaping education.
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We first met Aaron and Steve earlier in 2019 in Taiwan where they attended an AppsEvents Google Summit. They were both teachers in Beijing, China and recently left to form their own company called ‘Inspire Citizens’ which focuses on ‘Global Citizenship’. Their organization helps schools build a culture of global competence, service learning, and relevant problem-based learning, built upon local and global community engagement. They incorporate a lot of design thinking principles which is a huge interest of ours at AppsEvents.
Aaron and Steve are both interesting and thoughtful guys and it’s a great story of ‘teacher entrepreneurs’ and please let me know if this is interesting to you as I would like to record more interviews on this topic.
We also talk a lot about what it’s actually like to live and teach in China and the realities of daily life there for anybody considering a move to one of the ever-increasing numbers of International Schools.