By Virginia Pittaro | Director of Global Partnerships
Designed as a fast track to global citizenship education, SIMA Classroom takes students on a journey from empathy and critical thinking to action. Over 2,301 educators, 75,507 students and 561 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 platform presenting the gold standard of social-issue cinematic storytelling. It provides access to a carefully curated collection of over 200 award-winning short documentaries and Virtual Reality films with learning resources and participatory skill-building lesson plans.
In partnership with Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO, we launched the first two collaborative courses: The SDG Challenge and Film as a Tool for Advocacy.
The course The SDG Challenge focuses on training educators to use the power of film to advance Global Citizenship Education. More than 100 educators from more than 25 countries have joined this 4 months journey. By the end of the course, they will unlock the power of film to take their students beyond school walls, inspiring them to be media and information literate global citizens and active contributors to a more equitable and sustainable world.
The course Film As a Tool for Advocacyis designed for young leaders who want to gain practical skills and hands-on experience on how to use authentic visual storytelling to advance their own advocacy work in their communities.
Our monthly Student Film Club has been presented by outstanding partners. In June, together with Inspire Citizens, we featured the winner of The First Annual SIMA Student Award introducing the winner’s Food Waste podcast along with the SIMA film that inspired her work: A Thousand Suns. The annual global SIMA Student Award celebrates the impact storytellers of the future awarding students who have utilized SIMA’s social impact films as a springboard for their own creative impact projects.
Presented by GlobalLighthouse Studios, August’s Film Club featured Stories from the Field and Green Gold to kick off a virtual exchange around Food Waste. The first story explores the challenges and innovations for grassroots development programs and under-resourced farmers in Bangladesh, while the second one witnesses the desperate water shortage faced by local communities in Chile due to our global appetite for avocados.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support!
With warmth and gratitude from all of us at SIMA Classroom.
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
