Presentation given at the 2008 ICE conference

1. Going Global: A Road Map for
Bringing the World to Your
Classroom
Lucy Gray
The Center for Urban
School Improvement
The University of
Chicago
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2. TODAY’S ITINERARY
Looking at the Weather Report: Understanding
Context for Global Awareness
Mapping Your Route: Developing A Plan
Finding Traveling Companions: Tapping Into Your
Personal Learning Network
Hitting the Open Road: Creating Successful
Projects
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3. The Context
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4. + The Connected Student
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5. Globalization
We can no longer compete in the
global marketplace as in the past.
Outsourcing is the economical
choice of corporations.
Ingenuity and creativity will be
valued in tomorrow’s workforce.
Most of the jobs our students will
have do not exist today.
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6. 6 Aptitudes for Success
Design – creative, engaging,
beautiful
Story – high-concept, high-touch
Symphony – synthesis, big-picture
Empathy – relationships
Play – games, humor, but still
serious
Meaning – Maslow’s hierarchy,
spirituality fulfillment
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7. The 21st Century Student
New Connections
Connected Individuals
New Communities
Virtual Communities
New Content
Collaborative Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways
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8. Millennials Want to Learn…
With technology
With one another
Online
In their time
In their place
Doing things that matter
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9. Education Map of the
Decade
The KnowledgeWorks Foundation
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10. Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
Participatory Pedagogy
Personal Digital Media
Media-Savvy Youth
Technologies of
Cooperation
Media Rich Pervasive
Learning
Integrating Digital Natives
and Digital Immigrants
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12. The Plan
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13. How do you prepare
your students to be
citizens of the world?
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14. Edutopia
February/March 2008http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens
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15. First you help them define the term “citizen of
the world”. Then you help them learn what
being a good citizen means -- to themselves,
to loved ones and family, to the school
community, to the surrounding community.
One’s actions can be directly linked to one’s
values (beliefs, feelings, and actions that are
important to us), so starting with a basic
understanding of one’s values is essential to
any meaningful discussions on citizenship.
The global context is meaningless unless
students are good citizens of their own nation.
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16. Right before our eyes, all that the education
sector has controlled, dismissed,
manipulated, validated, embellished,
fictionalized, and ranked within an aura of
tradition and ritual may be accessed by point-
and-click. We need to stop chasing
exponentially expanding content. Inquiry,
problem recognition and solution, creativity,
knowing one’s strengths and weaknesses,
communication, and relationships are what
students must be prepared for.
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17. Becoming a world citizen requires knowledge
and experience of other cultures; U.S. schools
do not provide knowledge or experience.
Rather, they provide a cursory glimpse of
others cultures; U.S. Schools do not provide
knowledge or experience. Rather, they
provide a cursory glimpse of others in order
to exemplify how not to be American.
“Diversity Day” does not create world citizens,
it patronizes cultural difference and touts
xenophobia, and always winds up pandering
American culture as Eurocentrically defined.
Only travel and immersion in other cultures
creates world citizens.
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18. Prepare students to be citizens of
the world by being one yourself.
Teach from a global perspective.
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20. Traveling Companions
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21. Twitter
elemenous
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23. Project Creation
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24. Essential Tools
Blogs
Wikis
Photosharing Sites
Chat
Video
Google Tools
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25. Web Sites
Think.com
ePals
Global School House
TakingITGlobal
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26. Resources
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27. Favorite Finds
Articles
A Night in the Global
Village: Heifer Ranch |
Edutopia
Global Education on a
Dime
As the World Learns:
Education as a Vital
Global Marketplace
Represents the Future
Web Sites Panwapa
You Tube - The
Davos Question
AfterEd
Blogs Skoolaborate
Global Issues Club Always Learning:Step-
by-Step Guide to Global
Collaboration
Projects What Could It Be?
Live Blogging
AWNM
World Simulation
Project
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28. “... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we
rob our children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
Final Thoughts
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