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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Where I'm From: Cultural Exchange through the Arts and Voicethread
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Song, Young Imm Kang; Donovan, Lisa – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2013
This paper discusses a cultural exchange project that is being conducted between classrooms at the Songwon Elementary School in South Korea and the Lee School in Massachusetts, USA. As its main communication tool between the students in the two countries, this project uses VoiceThread--an audiovisual discussion tool that can serve as an ideal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exchange Programs, Elementary Schools, Audiovisual Aids
Voices of Resistance, Voices of Transcendence: Musicians as Models of the Poetic--Political Imagination
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Baxter, Marsha – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2010
How might songs, like John Lennon's "Imagine" or Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the wind", offer ways to explore alternative ways of being in the world, to challenge the status quo? How might these songs become springboards for original pieces that capture students' ideas about world issues? In this article, I observe what happens when selected…
Descriptors: Musicians, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Social Justice