Student Symposium
33rd Annual Holocaust Education Symposium for High School Students (OISE Day)
IWitness: One Voice at a Time
Generously supported by Fred and May Karp and Family
The Neuberger would like to thank all of the teachers and students who attended our symposia this year. We look forward to learning with you again next year at the 2014 "OISE days."
7 May 2013
9:30 am - 2:00 pm
OISE – The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto (TTC: St. George)
Dr. Kori Street (pictured at right), Director of Education at the USCShoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education in Los Angeles, California, delivered the keynote address at the Neuberger’s 33rd Symposium on the Holocaust. Kori is the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award, conferred by Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, and one of the leading international educators on the use of recorded testimony. Her expertise and engaging presentation style has made her an in-demand speaker at leading centres of Holocaust education globally. She has introduced IWitness in Australia, Hungary and Italy.
Kori introduced one of the Shoah Foundation’s latest technological programs – IWitness. This internet platform brings the human stories of the Institute’s Visual History Archive to high school students and their teachers by engaging multimedia-learning activities. Kori will demonstrate how teaching with IWItness integrates digital literacy, problem-based learning and information literacy into classroom learning. To find out about IWitness for your classroom, please contact Carson Phillips.
“Imagine if there was a voice that spoke for a generation and could guide us through the dark chapters of human history. Imagine if that voice could help us think about our values, our society, and our own behaviours. Imagine if we could take that voice of human conscience and transform the way a generation learns. Well, we do have that voice; in fact we have 51,696 voices. And with IWitness, our educational website for secondary school teachers and their students, we have made more than 1,300 of those voices available to inspire students to act to overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry – and the suffering they cause.”
Dr. Stephen Smith – Executive Director
USCShoah Foundation
Keynote Speaker
Kori Street with students following a presentation at a library during the 2012 Holocaust Education Week