Improve the World

My friend, Rushton Hurley from Next Vista for Learning has a great project for students to get involved in called Improve the World.

“Next Vista for Learning invites students around the world to share ideas that can help others.”

The student needs to make a video for 90 seconds or less. On his page about the project, Rushton gives in great detail how to go about sharing your idea to improve the world.

“The video can be you explaining something to the camera, or a screencast with slides as visuals, or narrated artwork. The style and editing are not what is important; what is important is that you have and convey a compelling idea.”

The student would choose one of the following categories for the video:

1. Promoting peace
2. Fighting disease
3. Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
4. Saving mothers and children
5. Supporting education
6. Growing local economies
7. Protecting the environment

He encourages students to show others before submitting and get lots of feedback. Once it is refined, the student would upload the video to YouTube or something similar. Rushton also gives some recommendations for settings when doing this.

There is no deadline because this is not a contest. It is a project to help others improve our world. They will take the best ones in each category listed and share them with service organizations around the world who may decide to do that project.

What a great project that would incorporate all subject areas! It could be a month-long project or even a year-long project depending on the research and follow-up you would decide to do. This could be a class project or even a school project depending on how many teachers would want to get involved. It also would be great to make learning relevant to our students concerning the issues in their community and world.

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