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Why Global Education?
Teaching the dynamics of globalization to education students is an important aspect of teaching for
social justice and for the development of critical awareness, thinking, and sensitivity. Yet teaching this topic is
also fraught with tensions, particularly since studying issues of suffering, exploitation, and injustice
from a global perspective can be overwhelming.
(Hytten & Silvia, 2008).
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Gradute Course Requirements
• Graduate educational technology course
• Short 3-week winter term?!!• Two Blog discussions• Global Partnering Project
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Global Partnering Project
Two Project Options
1. Select a country, make contact with a teacher (your class can communicate and partner with the class) or an organization in that country (collaborate on some issue about that country).
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Global Partnering Project
2.Select a global issue (such as world hunger, poverty, health, environmental, arms control, fair trade, endangered animals, etc.) and partner with an international organization promoting that issue. Most of the international organizations provide ways to partner with them and get involved.
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Global Project Requirements
1. Develop a mashup website with an attractive homepage, three other pages for the other three technology projects, and a resources page with APA references and information links.
2. At least three technology projects must be embedded (not linked) on the website
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Global Project Technology Options
If you choose a country, technology projects could include examples like a remix of music from their country, multimedia projects collaboratively developed by your class and a class in the chosen country such as graphs of data collected by both classes, collaborative digital story, collaborative documents such as writing or research, or other technology projects.
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Global Project Technology Options
If you choose a global issue to support, technology projects could include examples like technology products to promote the issue and/or the organization. Some teachers and their classes hold fundraisers and send money to the organization; some join the organization and create commercials or digital stories about their cause.
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Global Project Requirements
• One or more of your three technology projects must clearly be developed in collaboration with your international partner.
• At least one of the technology projects must represent higher-level thinking in the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Analyze, Evaluate or Create level).
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Global Project Resources
Some Sources to Find Global Classroom Pen-pals:
Start Your Own Global ProjectePals Global CommunityPen Pal and Email-Pal OpportunitiesThe Kids on the Web: Pen PalsMulticultural Education Internet Resource GuideAmazing Kids! Pen PalsUS Diplomacy Center: e-PalsOur World, Our Stories
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Global Project Resources
Find ideas and tools for your Technology Products for your Website Mashup here:
Effective Web 2.0 Tools for the ClassroomBest 100 Web 2.0 ToolsDiscovery Education: Web 2.0 ToolsKathy Schrock: Ed Tools and Web 2.0 ToolsWeb 2.0 for the Classroom TeacherCool Tools for SchoolsFlat Classroom ProjectsGoing GlobalCurriculum 21: Global Partnerships
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Global Project Resources
International Data Websites
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Gapminder
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Global Partnering Student Projects
Sustainability
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Global Partnering Student Projects
Human Trafficking
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Global Partnering Student Projects
Teacher in Bowling Green partners with
a teacher in Seoul,
Korea
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Global Partnering Student Projects
Global Poverty
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Global Partnering Student Projects
Global Warming
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Global Partnering Projects Findings
• I learned that partnering with an international organization is not as difficult as I initially thought it would be.
• Students learned new technologies• Provided impetus to create global
project with their students• Overwhelmed with the project in
the beginning, then shifted to awe and amazement at topic information
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Global Partnering Suggestions
• Do not offer this course in a 3-week term again!
• Allow students to share global resources
• Have students share their mashup websites with each other, comment and make suggestions to each other
• Encourage students to share their websites with other teachers at their school
• Allow students to work on the Global Partnering Project in pairs
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Building Global Partnershipsby Marge Maxwell, Ph.D.
Questions?
Hytten, K. & Silvia B. (2008). Teaching Globalization Issues to Education Students: What’s the Point? Equity & Excellence in Education, 41(2), 168-181.
