WHILST IN WASHINGTON, D.C., we had the opportunity to see “According to What?”, a large survey of Ai Weiwei’s work at the Hirshhorn Museum where Kruger’s “Belief + Doubt” was also installed. Seeing the work they had been studying first hand was a great experience for many of our art students and helped deepen their understanding of the artwork, as well as the creative process. As a culmination of the...
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AS PART OF THEIR ART CLASS, Grade 9 and 10 students spent the first part of our term in Boston considering what the artist’s role in society is and how they or their work can incite change. This unit of work entitled “Power and Persuasion” was framed by the life and art of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, American artist Barbara Kruger’s text-based critique and commentary on consumer culture and the...
Read MoreDuring each term, we invite a variety of guest speakers to engage with and lecture our students and faculty on a broad selection of topics central to our location's curriculum. In Buenos Aires, for example, students learned of Argentina's Dirty War horrors from those who experienced it firsthand. This term, while in Washington, D.C., we had the privilege to meet with and listen to Iran's Prince Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi was...
Read More(Editor's Note: The following post coincides with our Fall 2012 Buenos Aires term, when we visited the Estancia La Candelaria to learn more about gaucho life past and present). In the Americas, few professions are romanticized quite like that of the cowboy. Images of rugged men dashing about on broncos have earned a place in both North and South American history, the hardships of their chosen lifestyle masked by the...
Read MoreGears. Wheels. Motors. When used in conjunction, these components can be used to create elaborate robotic devices with endless capabilities. Even better, companies like LEGO have taken robotics out of the confines of high tech laboratories and made them readily available to anyone with the desire to create and learn. THINK Global School science teacher Jarret Voytilla has taken this concept to heart and into the classroom to teach his...
Read MoreWe started our Harvard workshop at Howard Gardner's office. Yes, the same Howard Gardner that published his work on the theory of multiple intelligences plus countless other educational gems. Needless to say, we were a giddy bunch of teachers! The Project Zero staff had given us the simple task of using one of their global thinking routines (GTR) while exploring Mr. Gardner's office. Upon hearing that a bunch of international...
Read MoreThe following post is the fourth in a series of four highlighting guest speaker Greg Simon. You can view Mr. Simon's lecture in its entirety on YouTube. On February 15th, THINK Global School visited the campus of George Washington University for a lecture provided by politician Greg Simon, who had agreed to share his time by participating in our ongoing guest speaker series. The series, which has included Hans Rosling...
Read MoreThe following post is the third in a series of four highlighting guest speaker Greg Simon. You can view Mr. Simon's lecture in its entirety on YouTube. On February 15th, THINK Global School visited the campus of George Washington University for a lecture provided by politician Greg Simon, who had agreed to share his time by participating in our ongoing guest speaker series. The series, which has included Hans Rosling...
Read MoreThe following post is the second in a series of four highlighting guest speaker Greg Simon. You can view Mr. Simon's lecture in its entirety on YouTube. On February 15th, THINK Global School visited the campus of George Washington University for a lecture provided by politician Greg Simon, who had agreed to share his time by participating in our ongoing guest speaker series. The series, which has included Hans Rosling...
Read MoreOn February 15th, THINK Global School visited the campus of George Washington University for a lecture provided by politician Greg Simon, who had agreed to share his time by participating in our ongoing guest speaker series. The series, which has included Hans Rosling and Tony Wagner, is designed to provide our students and faculty with unique perspectives related to the current term's curriculum. In his role as a guest speaker,...
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