Global Education Initiatives

AIMS Technology Retreat Spring 2008

Alecia Berman-DrySt. John’s Episcopal School

Guiding Questions

• How can we better empower our students to cooperate and to utilize themselves in an ever-globalizing society?

• Can we develop a better understanding of what divides the nations in today’s rapidly changing world by connecting the students to develop an understanding for global issues that affect their everyday lives?

• How can we use technology to increase the capacity of students to become employable and self-reliant in today’s global marketplace?

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Developing Global Awareness

Employable and Self Reliantin Global Marketplace

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Guiding Questions + Books + Needs + Social Media = ?

• The classroom that serves the global student should be:– Able to evaluate sources– Self discipline, persistence– Collaboration and Teaming– Reflective and compassionate– Global awareness and understanding– Create new paradigms and content, innovation– Leadership minded

Finding Parnterships

• Put out a lot of lines

• Some will get bites– But some fish are too small and have to be

tossed back in to mature

• No such thing as a fish that’s too big…until it overwhelms you.

Some Good Fishing Holes

• Your own school• Epals• GlobalSchoolNet• Global Education Collaborative &

Classroom 2.0 Nings• Sister Schools Project• NAIS 20/20 Challenge• World Wise Schools (Peace Corps)

Collaboration Formats

• Early stages– Voicethread– Blogs– Wikis

• Getting to Know You…– Ning– VOIP

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Collaboration Models

• Flat classroom project– Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis– http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/

• The Horizon Project– http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/

• The Literacy Workshop– http://www.literacyworkshop.org/poetryslam/poetrysla

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Issues Faced

• Time Zones/Asynchronous Communication

• Cultural Bias• Hardware accessibility/Bandwidth• Importance of Guidelines for Participation• Evaluation

– Our rubric– Other rubrics

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The Final Frontier

• Student Travel– World Leadership School