This document summarizes a presentation about preparing students to be global citizens. It discusses how globally connected classrooms are important for solving complex global problems. Preparing students involves teaching 21st century skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and digital literacy. Teachers should connect their classrooms globally through projects, online tools, and experience with other cultures to develop students' cultural awareness and global perspectives.
3. "...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…"
-President Barack Obama
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4. A world class education system means
globally connected schools
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5. WHY NOW?
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6. We have urgent problems that need to be
addressed and, in order to prepare our
students to work on these problems, we
must connect them globally. We must teach
them how networked learning leads to
networked problem solving.
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8. The influence of new media
The push for 21st century Skills
The urgency presented by complex
global problems
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9. 21st Century Students (and Teachers)
New Connections
Connected
Individuals
New Communities
Virtual
Communities
New Content
Collaborative
Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways
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10. Millennials Want to Learn…
✴With technology
✴With one another
✴Online
✴In their time
✴In their place
✴Doing things that matter
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11. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report K-12
Emerging technologies
Adoption horizons
1 year or less
2 to 3 years
4 to 5 years
Report
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12. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2009 K-12
1 year or less
Collaborative environments
Online communications tools
2 to 3 years
Mobiles
Cloud computing
4 to 5 years
Smart objects
The personal web
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13. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2010 K-12
1 year or less
Cloud computing
Collaborative environments
2 to 3 years
Game-based learning
Mobiles
4 to 5 years
Augmented reality
Flexible displays
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14. The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem-Solving
Collaboration Across
Networks and Leading
by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
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15. The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Initiative and
Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and
Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination
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17. High Noon
Issues involving the
global commons
Issues requiring a
global commitment
Issues needing a global
regulatory approach
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18. Additional Resources
Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to
Think Globally
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21. First you help them define the term “citizen
of the world”. Then you help them learn
what being a good citizen means -- to
themselves, to loved ones and family, to the
school community, to the surrounding
community. One’s actions can be directly
linked to one’s values (beliefs, feelings, and
actions that are important to us), so
starting with a basic understanding of
one’s values is essential to any
meaningful discussions on citizenship.
The global context is meaningless unless
students are good citizens of their own
nation.
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22. Right before our eyes, all that the education sector
has controlled, dismissed, manipulated, validated,
embellished, fictionalized, and ranked within an aura
of tradition and ritual may be accessed by point-and-
click. We need to stop chasing exponentially
expanding content. Inquiry, problem recognition
and solution, creativity, knowing one’s strengths and
weaknesses, communication, and relationships are
what students must be prepared for.
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23. Becoming a world citizen requires
knowledge and experience of other
cultures; U.S. schools do not provide
knowledge or experience. Rather, they
provide a cursory glimpse of others in order
to exemplify how not to be American.
“Diversity Day” does not create world
citizens, it patronizes cultural difference and
touts xenophobia, and always winds up
pandering American culture as
Eurocentrically defined. Only travel and
immersion in other cultures creates world
citizens.
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24. Prepare students to be citizens of the world
by being one yourself. Teach from a global
perspective.
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25. Asia Society
Globally Literate Educators
Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning
Teachers are:
✴ Skilled and knowledgeable
✴ Critical thinkers and problem solvers
✴ Culturally aware
✴ Aware of world events and global dynamics
✴ 21st Century Literate
✴ Collaborative
✴ Use media and technology effectively in their work
✴ Responsible and ethical citizens
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26. Arlington Heights School District 25
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/about_us/vision.php
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32. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
AWhole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global
Awareness.
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37. GEC Features
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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38. Apple Distinguished Educators
ADE Institute Asia 2008
Visited six Singaporean
schools
Worked with educators
from Singapore, Hong
Kong and assorted
international schools
Worked in teams to
create collaborative
projects
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47. Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
iChat AV (videoconferencing, desktop sharing recording)
Garageband (recording, podcasting)
iWeb (publishing of blogs, photos, podcasts)
iPod, iPod Touch, iPad - microphone attachments &
apps
Apple Learning Interchange (social networking)
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48. Suggested Toolkit
Still or video camera - Flip cameras
Check out Woot.com
Web Cam - Logitech
Chat client - Skype (free), Oovo, Sightspeed
Digital recording device or web site - Gcast
Collaborative workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest),
blogs, wikis
Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed ning
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49. Recommendations
Learn to network; network to learn
Keep it authentic
Start small and design very structured projects
Join an existing group project
Develop a customized vision of 21st century learning
for your classroom, school and district
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51. Connect with Lucy
elemenous@gmail.com
elemenous
On Twitter, Slideshare, YouTube, Flickr etc.
Blog
http://www.lucygray.org
The Global Education Collaborative
http://globaleducation.ning.com
Social bookmarking resources
http://groups.diigo.com/group/globaleducation
http://www.delicious.com/tag/globaleducation
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