Global Education

English Department – November 3, 2009

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• Howard Gardner- there is a need for students to graduate with a great range of social and cultural skills necessary to problem solve and collaborate around the world.

• Business community needs schools to prepare students differently

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• Goal- To create a more diverse and tolerant multicultural classroom

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• What is global education?

• What does global education look like in a high school English classroom?

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• Definition- Global education is teaching and learning with a global perspective;

• Recognizing the interdependencies and interconnections of issues, regions, peoples, places, systems and times;

• Infusing global issues, such as sustainable development, environmental care, peace and human rights, into traditional subject areas;

• Working toward active, responsible global citizenship toward building a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

(http://imminentshift.com/global/define.html

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• Five Dimensions for Global Perspective projects1- Perspective Conscious

» Examine a national issue from the perspective of another county – how did the different countries cover events in the Middle East? Hurricane Katrina? The U.S. Elections? Using newspapers and media sources taken from a search on Google News (http://news.google.com) focus on an issue in the news that students are familiar with and have students role-play people from other countries.

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• Five Dimensions for Global Perspective projects

2- Knowledge of World Conditions» Use a service like epals to interview students

concerning their physical and economic environment. Have students produce presentations such as blogs, wikis, or podcasts that illustrate a problem faced by a community they study.

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• Five Dimensions for Global Perspective projects

3- Cross-Culture Awareness» Use a previous classroom connection and

compare classic short stories or folk tales. Examine how they reflect qualities related to the values placed on extended families versus individual effort and achievement.

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• Five Dimensions for Global Perspective projects

4- Knowledge of Global Dynamics» Compare country-specific websites of globally

branded companies and try to determine the differences and why they exist.

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• Five Dimensions for Global Perspective projects5- Awareness of Human Choice

» Pair students off between collaborating classrooms and ask them to role-play international consultants who need to develop multimedia campaigns in each other’s home country to help build public support for compromise around key issues with global impact.

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• More than 40% of IBM employees do not work in an office

• Living in a homogeneous community narrows our perspective of the world

• Teachers need to show our students that we are part of an interconnected planet

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• 21st Century Skills - www.21stcenturyskills.org A coalition of business and education policy leaders, ten states, and a variety of educational organizations – is beginning to define a new curriculum that meets the needs of students in a globally interconnected economy

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• Embed global collaboration into the curriculum

• Students demand relevancy

• It is extra work.

• It will deepen your teaching and students’ level of engagement

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• Three Pathways

1- Empathy for Others

2- Finding New Ways to Enrich and

Engage

3- Desire for Social Justice

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• Getting to Know Your Neighbor– How do events in one part of the world

affect the way we live in our home environment?

– What are other countries doing about the threat of climate change?

– How can we lessen terrorist threats?

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• Support and Mentoring

-Available on-line and through workshops

-Necessary

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• Collaboration and Lesson Planning– Discuss what the students need to know

and the desired outcome– How will the learning be evidenced?– What learning activities can prepare the

students for the assessment?

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• Collaboration

– Whom in the school, local, or global community can the students collaborate with?

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• Project Principles and Strategies:– Aligning project purpose, learning objective,

content, and standards with project outcome– Scaffolding to support students in their

collaborative work through the use of relevant tools and online resources

– Preparing students with a knowledge of instructional design

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• Project Principles and Strategies:– The choice of assignments and decisions on how

the assignments will be measured based on a rubric are of key importance.

– Example Criteria:• Design and Technical Quality• Synthesis and construction of ideas• Online engagement and interaction with project• Reflection and evaluation

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• Preparing Students– Practice using communication tools within

the class– Set up a class Ning or Wiki– Introduce Skype (optional)– Students should communicate – Work globally on a project

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• Teacher Preparation

– Find a partner teacher

– Email in response to a project

– Allow up to 6 weeks for preparation

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• Module (series of linked lessons)

– Create a wiki devoted to lesson

– Both teachers should access this wiki

– Place entire module online

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• Sample Module1. Warm-up Activities2. Introductory Profiles3. Country Research4. Self-Reflecting Blog5. Mapping6. Collaboration7. Multimedia Content Sharing Tools8. Assessment (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php)

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• Projects DO NOT have to be heavy on

technological sophistication.

• There are many sites to help you!

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Web 2.0 Text-dominated

Multiple teachers/ student-centered One teacher-centered

Different topics for different students One size fits all

Multiple products One product

Multiple audiences One audience (teacher)

Multiple media Single text-based

Collaborative Competitive

Synchronous or Asynchronous Synchronous

Flexible Schedule Inflexible Schedule

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• Web 2.0– Free Web 2.0 tools for Discovery Education:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html

– Kids already share multimedia– All students can use these tools to experience

global communications – Can generate higher level of motivation

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• Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com and www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers – Purpose: Students can collaborate through digital

editing tools– Definition: Collection of interlinked webpages

enabling participants to add and edit content using simplified markup language.

– Wikipedia is the most well-known example of a wiki.

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• Blogs– Definition: website hosted by an individual

or a group who posts regular entries as a running commentary. In addition to text, other materials, such as graphics, links, and videos may be included in posts. From the original term “web log.”

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• Blogs– Purpose: – Teacher can read it like a log of student

progress– Everyone can exchange information– Material can be archived and reviewed

anytime

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• Ning -(www.ning.com)

a social networking tool that functions much like a wiki- with interlinked webpages that create room for dialogue among those with an account. A student can personalize his or her page.

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• Second Life- (http://teen.secondlife.com)By 2011, it is estimated that 80% of all active Internet users will have a virtual “second life.” Second life provides a virtual reality

• One project is to role-play a poor Haitian family (www.tigweb.org/tiged/projects/ayiti/game.html). They ask the question: “What is it like to live in poverty, struggling everyday to stay healthy, keep out of debt, and get educated?”

Global Education• iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)- (http://

iearn.org)• Largest school network, which features a more expansive

international and professional development mission than any other network.

• It focuses more than any other network on the pedagogies involved in creating collaborative, project-based work.

• iEARN stresses that it helps students not only develop awareness of other cultures, but deepens their appreciation for their own culture and increases compassion.

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• Global Schoolhouse (www.globalschoolnet.org)• Showcases online collaborative learning.• Far less elaborate procedures to engage in projects

than iEARN• Provides an easier entry point for a novice teacher

than iEARN because there are some ready-made projects that involve flexible time commitments – as much or as little time as the teacher can afford to devote to the project

Global Education• ePals (http://www.epals.com)• A way to allow students to find “pen pals” on the web• The site is secure, so students and parents do not have to worry about

email getting into unauthorized hands.• Easy to use student and teacher interface.• Has a translation tool, so communicating in most of the common Indo-

European languages is no loner a barrier.• ePal sample lesson:• http://content.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?

DivID=GlobalWarming_overview• List of other lesson plans:• http://content.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=index

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• TakingITGlobal (www.tigweb.org)• Organized for students in school settings and

in independent learning situations• Helps students find information and

inspiration to get involved in improving their local and global communities

• Extensive topics for threaded discussions in multiple languages

Global Education• CNN Student News (www.cnn.com/student news/)• Geared towards K-12 learners• Provides global stories, useful quizzes, and classroom

exercises

• Newseum (www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp)• Contains newspaper front pages from 45 countries

• Amnesty International (www.amnesty.org.au/hre/comments/2310)

• Provides detailed lesson plans

Global Education• Oxfam (www.oxfam.org.uk/education• Contains online materials, lesson plans, and resources for

global awareness.

• Coverdell World Wise Schools (www.peacecorps.gov/wws)• Organized lesson plans by grade level, region, and subject

area.

• Teacher’s Guide to International Collaboration (www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/index.html

• Developed to help teachers use the Internet to reach out globally

Global Education• Global Gateway (www.globalgateway.org.uk/default.aspx?page

=325)• Easy way to find schools to partner with to collaborate on

projects or communicate about common interests

• Global Learning Communities (www.glc.me.uk)• Shared learning links around the time zones of the world

• Associated Schools Project Network (www.unesco.org/education/asp)

• Students are encouraged to conduct pilot projects on four main themes

Global Education• Amnesty International (www.amnestyuse.org/educate/lesson-

plans/page.do?id=1102163)• Lesson plans and teaching guides

• Cyber UN Schoolbus (www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/cur.html)

• Curriculum units are available

• New York Times (www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/globalhistory.html)

• Lesson plan library

Global Education• PBS The WIDE ANGLE Global Classroom

(www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/classroom/index.html)• Lesson plans and activities for high school students

• Peace Corps (www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html#Lesson%20Plans) or (www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators)

• Lesson to help teachers integrate global education into daily lessons

• Telecollaborate! (http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com)

• Global Nomads Group (www.gng.org)