By Virginia Pittaro | Director of Global Partnerships
Designed as a fast track to global citizenship education, the online streaming platform takes students on a journey from empathy and critical thinking to action. Over 1,825 educators, 42,570 students and 170 institutions globally are already using the platform.
Selected from the finalists and winners of the annual Social Impact Media Awards, SIMA Classroom is a global, ever-current and expansive streaming service presenting the gold standard of social-issue cinematic storytelling. It provides access to a carefully curated collection of over 165 award-winning short documentaries and Virtual Reality films with learning resources and participatory skill building lessons. The 2019 SIMA AWARDS allowed us to incorporate gems such as The Future of Iraq, Dignity with Flowers and Lives on Hold in Lebanon to bring global issues such as human rights, refugees, and social entrepreneurship to life in the classroom.
In order to keep sharing our purpose and invite millions to join the movement of using impact cinema as a tool for education and social change, we participated in the The Humane Summit and the 2019 Ashoka U Exchange Conference.
The Humane Summit Virtual Speakers Series brought together education professionals from around the world to learn, share, and connect about humane education. We had the opportunity to introduce SIMA Classroom to more than 600 educators that learned how to use social impact film to inspire young leaders.
This month SIMA will host a Virtual Reality Lounge at the 2019 Ashoka U Exchange Beyond Boundaries and Borderswhich gathers 700 social innovators in higher education. We will present the idea of using the power of visual storytelling to take students’ engagement to the next level and invite attendees to experience Virtual Reality Social Impact Storytelling by taking a 10 minute walk inside Beirut’s Shatila camp, the Palestinian refugee camp built in 1949 that today, 70 years later, has evolved into an urban slum.
With warmth and gratitude from all of us at SIMA Classroom.
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