Going Global: Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World

GOING GLOBAL
Preparing Students
To Be Citizens of the World
Lucy Gray
2011 ISACS Conference
November 4, 2011
1Thursday, November 3, 2011

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Where the h*** is Matt?

"...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…"
-President Barack Obama

A world class education system should call
for
globally connected schools

WHY NOW?
@oline73: Can you distill why globally connected classrooms are vital in 2010?
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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.

TODAY’S CONTEXT

The inﬂuence of new media
The push for 21st century skills
The “highly connected teacher”
The urgency presented by complex
global problems

21st Century Students (and Teachers)
New Connections
Connected
Individuals
New Communities
Virtual
Communities
New Content
Collaborative
Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways

Millennials Want to Learn…

Millennials Want to Learn…
✴With technology
✴With one another
✴Online
✴In their time
✴In their place
✴Doing things that matter

“The Highly Connected Teacher”
The National Educational Technology Plan

The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report K-12
Emerging technologies
Adoption horizons
1 year or less
2 to 3 years
4 to 5 years

The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2011 K-12
1 year or less
Cloud Computing
Mobiles
2 to 3 years
Game-based learning
Open Content
4 to 5 years
Learning Analytics
Personal Learning Environments
2011 Report

The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem-Solving
Collaboration Across
Networks and Leading
by Inﬂuence
Agility and Adaptability

The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Initiative and
Entrepreneurialism
Eﬀective Oral and
Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination

Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.p21.org/

CCSSO and
Asia Society’s PGL
New resource on global
competence!
Download a copy here.

From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World

High Noon
Issues involving the
global commons
Issues requiring a
global commitment
Issues needing a global
regulatory approach

Additional Resources
Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to
Think Globally

HOW DO YOU
PREPARE STUDENTS?

Edutopia
February/March 2008
http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens

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.

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.

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.

Prepare students to be citizens of the world by
being one yourself. Teach from a global
perspective.

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

Arlington Heights School District 25
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/about_us/vision.php

THINK Global School
12 countries in 12 trimesters

YOUR EFFORTS?

Take This Survey
http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurvey

View Results Here
http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurveyresults

Connect All Schools
iEARN

MY STORY

Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
AWhole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global
Awareness.

Classroom 2.0
Link

Global Education Collaborative
Link

386,934 unique visitors

7,493 members from over 115 countries

GEC Features
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos

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

The Education Project
Bahrain

Global Education Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com

Steve Hargadon

Closing Session

Homa Sabet Tavangar

Polar Bears International

Brian Mannix

Milton Brown

Catlin Gabel School
Program Information

2011 GlobalEdCon
November 14-18, 2011
Chris Dede
Howard Gardner
Alan November
June Lee
Geetha Narayanan
Greg Jacobs
And many more...

A Selection of Presenters
and Partners
Asia Society Partnership
for Global Learning
Bridges to
Understanding
Flat Classroom Project™
Global Nomads
iEARN
ePALS
Journeys in Film
Primary Source
Roots and Shoots
TakingITGlobal
World Savvy

EXAMPLES

Basic Project
Earth Day Groceries ProjectMark Ahlness

Next Steps
Around the World with
80 Schools
Silvia Tolisano

Next Steps
Google Lit TripsJerome Burg

Deep Cuts
Sample VideoValerie Becker

Deep Cuts
WikiValerie Becker

Deep Cuts
AWhole New MindKarl Fisch

Three Cups of Controversy
Greg Mortenson
Central Asia Institute
Pennies for Peace
Three Cups of Tea
What Mortenson Got
Wrong
American Institute of
Philanthropy
Better Business Bureau
Charity Navigator
Great NonProﬁts
GuideStar

TOOLS OF THE TRADE

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

Suggested Toolkit
Still or video camera - Kodak cameras
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

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

Where the h*** is Matt 2?

Connect with Lucy
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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/
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