Sessions
Dreamline: Connecting the World through Shared Dreams, Values, and SDGs. at the Youth Summit
Jeffrey Harlan
Cloud Cloth Education
Jeffrey has 30 years experience as a teacher and community program organizer. While teaching full-time he founded a program connecting students around the world through shared dreams by expressing them in words and art on cloth and connecting them. More than 120,000 students in 35 countries have participated. He created the Dreamline...Read Full Bio
Jeffrey Harlan
Jeffrey has 30 years experience as a teacher and community program organizer. While teaching full-time he founded a program connecting students around the world through shared dreams by expressing them in words and art on cloth and connecting them. More than 120,000 students in 35 countries have participated. He created the Dreamline Program and founded the nonprofit Cloud Cloth Education to support it. He recently left classroom teaching to work full-time on Dreaming Without Borders and on the expanding Dreamline Program. He was a workshop presenter at the 2017 iEARN conference in Morocco. That is where he and Michael Smolens met.
Type: Interactive Workshop
Location: Room 1315
Date: Thursday
Time: 11:00-11:50 AM
Session Description
Students declare and share their dreams with the world by using words and art to create physical Dream Flags on cloth, connecting them to a line, and sharing them in local communities and globally through the Dreamline mobile app and website. The Dreamline website and mobile app bring the dreams and aspirations of K-12 students into a social media space, creating inspiration, support, and encouragement for students and the public everywhere. Dreamline publishes individual Dream Flags with audio recordings of students reading in multiple languages along with geotag information, SDG tags, and school-created hashtags. Participant teachers in iEARN will include school-to-school connections through Learning Circles and the iEARN platforms as is appropriate for each participant group.
What will youth learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
Dreamline invites K-12 students to declare and share their dreams with the world, building student motivation and global empathy.