4. "...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…"
-President Barack Obama
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5. A world class education system should call
for
globally connected schools
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6. WHY NOW?
@oline73: Can you distill why globally connected classrooms are vital in 2010?
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7. 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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9. The influence of new media
The push for 21st century skills
The “highly connected teacher”
The urgency presented by complex
global problems
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10. 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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11. Millennials Want to Learn…
✴With technology
✴With one another
✴Online
✴In their time
✴In their place
✴Doing things that matter
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12. “The Highly Connected Teacher”
The National Educational Technology Plan
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13. The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report K-12
Emerging technologies
Adoption horizons
1 year or less
2 to 3 years
4 to 5 years
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14. 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
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15. 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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16. 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. Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.p21.org/
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18. CCSSO and
Asia Society’s PGL
New resource on global
competence!
Download a copy here.
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19. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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20. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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21. High Noon
Issues involving the
global commons
Issues requiring a
global commitment
Issues needing a global
regulatory approach
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22. Additional Resources
Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to
Think Globally
EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Prepare students to be citizens of the world by
being one yourself. Teach from a global
perspective.
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29. 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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30. Arlington Heights School District 25
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/about_us/vision.php
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39. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
AWhole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global
Awareness.
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44. GEC Features
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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45. 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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49. 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
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70. 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
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72. Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
iChat AV (videoconferencing, desktop sharing
recording)
Garageband (recording, podcasting)
iPod, iPod Touch, iPad - microphone attachments &
apps
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73. Suggested Toolkit
Still or video camera - Kodak cameras
Web Cam - Logitech
Chat client - Skype (free)
Digital recording device or web site
Collaborative workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest),
blogs, wikis
Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed ning
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74. 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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76. 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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