Interactive Media for Learning
Interactive media is changing how students engage with learning across disciplines. SOS Explorer™ uses the NOAA-developed Terraviz™ visualization engine to create an interactive Earth for a flat screen display that can be projected on walls, computers, and large displays, providing teachers, students, and the public their own personal SOS with access to a library of selected Science On a Sphere® datasets and movies.
Photo: Hilary Peddicord uses SOSx to teach students at Casey Middle School in Boulder, CO.
Tools included in the application allow users to zoom into, probe, and graph the data, and add supplementary material including websites, videos, pictures, and placemarks. In order to make the product more accessible for teachers, NOAA has developed lesson plans and pre-programmed tours through relevant topics.
SOS Explorer™ is an image engine for an online, ad hoc World Game so that all those committed to work for the benefit of all can chart a path toward sustainability for 100% of humanity.
John Hunter has committed his life work to creating a World Peace Game that can engage students in a new approach to learning. In John Hunter’s classroom, students fearlessly set about tackling global problems-and discovering surprising solutions-by playing Hunter’s groundbreaking World Peace Game. These kids—from high school all the way down to fourth grade, in schools both well-funded and under-resourced—take on the roles of presidents, tribal leaders, diplomats, and military commanders. Through battles and negotiations, standoffs and summits, they strive to resolve a sequence of many-layered, interconnected scenarios, from nuclear proliferation to tribal warfare.
Now, Hunter shares inspiring stories from over thirty years teaching the World Peace Game, revealing the principles of successful collaboration that people of any age can apply anywhere. He offers all of us not only a forward-thinking report from the front lines of American education, but also a generous blueprint for a world that bends toward cooperation, rather than conflict. In this deeply hopeful book, a visionary educator shows us what the future can be. Now he has a book about the World Peace Game curriculum that he’s developed over thirty years.