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Technology Brings Students Together
Fourth formers in Karen Jordan's Honors Modern European History course have been in contact with students at Viaró, a kindergarten through secondary school in Barcelona, Spain, through a series of Skype conversations.Discussions between students at the two all-boys schools range from common readings of primary source material -- recently they discussed Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the preamble to the Spanish constitution -- to questions about culture and identity -- as when Woodberry boys wondered if the Viaró students identified most as Europeans, Spaniards, or Catalonians. The final session of the year will focus on the future of the European Union.
Though the discussions are typically held in English and serve to help the Spanish students develop fluency, the occasional Woodberry student does communicate in Spanish.
"Among the many 'bests' has been seeing guys move out of their comfort zone to ask difficult questions," says history teacher Karen Jordan. The two schools connected through their participation in the International Boys' School Coalition. Fred Jordan, Woodberry Forest School's history department chair, met Miguel Dionis, the academic dean of Viaró, at the coalition's conference in South Africa in the summer of 2015.
Read about the joint project on Viaró's website.
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"Among the many 'bests' has been seeing guys move out of their comfort zone to ask difficult questions," says history teacher Karen Jordan. The two schools connected through their participation in the International Boys' School Coalition. Fred Jordan, Woodberry Forest School's history department chair, met Miguel Dionis, the academic dean of Viaró, at the coalition's conference in South Africa in the summer of 2015.
Read about the joint project on Viaró's website.
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