Beginning List of Educational Content

Educational content

1. The visitors will have the opportunity to learn how international human rights organizations such as Witness, are using technology to bring attention to the violations of human rights, and ways of helping to respect the freedom and dignity of  people on a global scale.

2.  In addition to learning how technology can help share real life stories about human rights, the exhibit provides an interactive educational experience. The visitor can explore how they form concepts about being part of humanity, while also respecting individual freedom. This offers a chance to use technology to appreciate how our personal representations of ideas about ourselves and each other can influence how we decide to act toward people

3. The rationale for the content of the interactive part of the exhibit is the following; 

  Research from cognitive psychology and sociology

    From cave paintings to virtual worlds, people have represented their experiences to have a vision of the possibilities they want to happen, and events they would try to prevent from happening.

     One common characteristic of these images is the ability to create both abstract designs that could stand for many possibilities, and pictures that look like the event itself.

      Even forty thousand years ago, people drew pictures that did not resemble an exact match to the experiences given by their senses, but might resemble an abstract design.  These representations might be used to guide a person’s actions; for example, to be able to look for several possibilities that could fit to a person’s concept about what it means to be human, rather than only seeing an exact match between the image in one’s mind and what is seen at the moment.

      Examples of how people can explore their concepts of each other to try and avoid abuse of human rights can be found at; Stanford Prison Experiment, www.prisonexp.org, Seeds of Peace, www.seedsofpeace.org LA gang intervention www.edutopia.org/no-gangs-here-stage.