{"id":71396,"date":"2020-07-17T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71396"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:42:35","slug":"if-you-havent-been-the-victim-of-racism-imagine-stepping-into-someone-elses-shoes-and-experiencing-it-first-hand-vander-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/17\/if-you-havent-been-the-victim-of-racism-imagine-stepping-into-someone-elses-shoes-and-experiencing-it-first-hand-vander-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you haven\u2019t been the victim of racism, imagine stepping into someone else\u2019s shoes and experiencing it first hand.&#8221; [Vander Ark]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2020\/06\/startup-tackling-systemic-racism-with-virtual-reality-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Startup tackling systemic racism with virtual reality training<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you haven\u2019t been the victim of racism, imagine stepping into someone else\u2019s shoes and experiencing it first hand. Imagine being transported into the realities of harassment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Morgan Mercer\u00a0combined insights from these immersive experiences into a venture-backed startup,\u00a0Vantage Point. As a female founder, fundraising was a challenge but the Los Angeles venture launched in 2017 with a few clients and a beta product.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Participants have independent and collective experiences with facilitation to move conversations forward. After an immersion, participants respond to tough questions like, \u201cDo you have privilege in that situation that a person of color might not?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup tackling systemic racism with virtual reality training &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark Excerpt: If you haven\u2019t been the victim of racism, imagine stepping into someone else\u2019s shoes and experiencing it first hand. Imagine being transported into the realities of harassment. Morgan Mercer\u00a0combined insights from these immersive experiences into a venture-backed startup,\u00a0Vantage Point. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,141,419,418,180,279,480,293,321,367,253,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-ideas-teaching","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-participation","category-society","category-sociology","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71465,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71396\/revisions\/71465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}