Global Education Initiatives

Slide 1: Global Education Initiatives AIMS Technology Retreat Spring 2008 Alecia Berman-Dry St. John’s Episcopal School

Slide 2: 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?

Slide 3: Cooperation

Slide 4: Developing Global Awareness

Slide 5: http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/22/73/0000042273_20070824163919.jpg in Global Marketplace Employable and Self Reliant

Slide 6: 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 Synthesizing the Books

Slide 7: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195079108.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0262631598.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Adding In A Little Recent History

Slide 8: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

Slide 9: Math and Science Jobs? By SAM DILLON Published: November 14, 2007 New York Times

Slide 10: http://web2.wsj2.com/

Slide 11: Guiding Questions + Books + Needs + Social Media = ? • The classroom that serves the global student should be: – Able to evaluate sources – Self disciplined, persistent – Proficient at Collaboration and Teaming – Reflective and compassionate – Focused on Global awareness and understanding – Able to create new paradigms and content, innovation – Leadership minded

Slide 12: 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.

Slide 13: 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)

Slide 14: Collaboration Formats • Early stages – Voicethread – Blogs – Wikis • Getting to Know You… – Ning – VOIP

Slide 15: 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

Slide 16: Issues Faced • Time Zones/Asynchronous Communication • Cultural Bias • Hardware accessibility/Bandwidth • Importance of Guidelines for Participation • Evaluation – Our rubric – Other rubrics

Slide 17: The Final Frontier • Student Travel – World Leadership School http://services.tos.net/pics/st5/st5-crew.jpg