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The World Peace Game for fourth graders that sparks creative thinking in order to solve simulated world problems. John Hunter is a teacher previously with Charlotesville City Schools and most currently Albermarle County. This is his talk at TED, but I've also posted the link to the World Peace Game web site.

This is the foundation that John Hunter set up to promote the World Peace Game and the movie made about the game and his students' thinking. As a side note...John is a VCU graduate!

I think this tool gives a voice to all of those students who are being bullied (and cyberbullied) and feeling that they are alone in this world. It engages the students so that they can make their own creative submissions to help cope with the isolation they are experiencing and to take control of their situation. There is even a game called "Bully Busters" that allows students to create their own heroes and personalize their experience. Furthermore, there is a section that talks about "Peer Power Presenters", a program that coaches and empowers students to make presentations during Bullying Awareness Week, asserting that presentations will only be made by youth to youth. Finally, there is an option to submit and access helpful resources that include multimedia, books, articles, laws and policies, projects, research, and lesson plans. This site is packed with information and hands on materials.

Teacher created templates for a fake version of "twitter" and there's also a "fakebook" one...