Global Education Initiatives AIMS Technology Retreat Spring 2008 Alecia Berman-Dry St. 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?

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?

Cooperation

Developing Global Awareness

Employable and Self Reliant in Global Marketplace http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/22/73/0000042273_20070824163919.jpg

Synthesizing the Books http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0374292884/ref=dp_otherviews_0?ie=UTF8&s=books&img=0 http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/1594481717.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CImn6oEBL.jpg

Adding In A Little Recent History http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195079108.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0262631598.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

Math and Science Jobs? By SAM DILLON Published: November 14, 2007 New York Times

http://web2.wsj2.com/

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

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. http://www.kalumriverlodge.com/fly-fishing/fly-fishing051.jpg

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)

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

Early stages

Voicethread

Blogs

Wikis

Getting to Know You…

Ning

VOIP

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/poetryslam.htm http://www.theodora.com/wfb/images/th01_00a.gif

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/poetryslam.htm

Issues Faced Time Zones/Asynchronous Communication Cultural Bias Hardware accessibility/Bandwidth Importance of Guidelines for Participation Evaluation Our rubric Other rubrics

Time Zones/Asynchronous Communication

Cultural Bias

Hardware accessibility/Bandwidth

Importance of Guidelines for Participation

Evaluation

Our rubric

Other rubrics

The Final Frontier Student Travel World Leadership School http://services.tos.net/pics/st5/st5-crew.jpg

Student Travel

World Leadership School