Going Global: A Road Map for Bringing the World to Your Classroom

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Going Global: A Road Map for Bringing the World to Your

Classroom

Lucy GrayThe Center for Urban School Improvement

The University of Chicago

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TODAY’S ITINERARY

Looking at the Weather Report: Understanding Context for Global Awareness

Mapping Your Route: Developing A Plan

Finding Traveling Companions: Tapping Into Your Personal Learning Network

Hitting the Open Road: Creating Successful Projects

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The Context

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+ The Connected Student4Friday, February 29, 2008

Globalization

We can no longer compete in the global marketplace as in the past. Outsourcing is the economical choice of corporations.

Ingenuity and creativity will be valued in tomorrow’s workforce.

Most of the jobs our students will have do not exist today.

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6 Aptitudes for Success

Design – creative, engaging, beautiful

Story – high-concept, high-touch

Symphony – synthesis, big-picture

Empathy – relationships

Play – games, humor, but still serious

Meaning – Maslow’s hierarchy, spirituality fulfillment

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The 21st Century Student

New Connections

Connected Individuals

New Communities

Virtual Communities

New Content

Collaborative Communities

Connected in innovative and new ways

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Millennials Want to Learn…

With technology

With one another

Online

In their time

In their place

Doing things that matter

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Education Map of the Decade

The KnowledgeWorks Foundation

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Trends, Hotspots, & DilemmasParticipatory Pedagogy

Personal Digital Media

Media-Savvy Youth

Technologies of Cooperation

Media Rich Pervasive Learning

Integrating Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants

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The Plan

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How do you prepare your students to be

citizens of the world?

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Edutopia February/March 2008

http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens

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

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Traveling Companions

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Project Creation

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Essential Tools

Blogs

Wikis

Photosharing Sites

Chat

Video

Google Tools

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Resources

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Favorite FindsArticles

A Night in the Global Village: Heifer Ranch | Edutopia

Global Education on a Dime

As the World Learns: Education as a Vital Global Marketplace Represents the Future

Web Sites PanwapaYou Tube - The

Davos Question AfterEd

Blogs SkoolaborateGlobal Issues Club Always Learning:Step-

by-Step Guide to Global Collaboration

Projects What Could It Be? Live Blogging AWNM

World Simulation Project

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“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

-John Dewey

Final Thoughts

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