Today I went to a women's coffee tasting at World Concern headquarters in Seattle. This was an amazing experience, one of those experiences that, for me, rekindles by burning desire to be involved in the lives of children overseas. As the afternoon progressed, we heard many speakers. However, one thing that particularly blew me away was the fact that most of the speakers used videos as either an opening to talk or a supplement for it.
I realized just how much we connect with a video. There is something about seeing the moving faces of children in different countries that connect us to something greater then ourselves. We become emotional. The child in a statistic is no longer a floating imaginary being, but someone we have seen, someone who is real that we could know. That child connects with us.
So What:
Media, is an excellent tool that can be used for great good. It can be used to fundraise for a necessary ministry, or to call an audience to think outside itself. It is vitally important to embrace media in order to reach not only my generation but the generations to come. We no longer are satisfied with a statistic on paper, we need to know that another human being is in fact looking for our help. Therefore, as a teacher I hope to use video as a tool to connect my students to the world around them.
No What:
Well, as far as World Concern goes, support that ministry, it is amazing. As for me, I walked away convinced that I want to help teach "school on a mat" in Bangladore or Thailand. Is this entirely because of the video I watched in a two hour session, no. But a hunger that was already inside of me re-birthed, oh yeah. Now, I hope to use the tool of video to encourage my students to think out of the box. If we are studying Africa in class, we will watch a video on an African village. If we want to learn spanish, We will Watch a video on another class in Chile learning English. If we want to analyze current events, we will watch a video on the earthquake in Chile, or the Winter Olympics. Really, there are endless possibilities for inspiration when students can see a living picture of something in which they have never experienced before.
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