GOING GLOBAL
Preparing Students
to be Citizens of the World
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago Urban Education Institute
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

\"...the future belongs to
the nation that best
educates its citizens…\"
-Barack Obama
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A world class education system means
globally connected schools
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TODAY’S CONTEXT
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The 21st Century Student
Connected in innovative and new ways
New Connections New Communities New Content
Connected Individuals Collaborative Communities
Virtual Communities
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Millennials Want to Learn…
✴With technology
✴With one another
✴Online
✴In their time
✴In their place
✴Doing things that matter
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Education Map of the Decade:
Trends, Hotspots and Dilemmas
✴Participatory pedagogy
✴Personal digital media
✴Media-savvy youth
✴Technologies of cooperation
✴Media rich pervasive learning
✴Integrating digital natives and digital immigrants
The KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2009 K-12
Emerging technologies
Time to adoption
1 year or less
2 to 3 years
4 to 5 years
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The New Media Consortium
Horizon Report 2009 K-12
1 year or less
Collaborative environments
Online communications tools
2 to 3 years
Mobiles
Cloud computing
4 to 5 years
Smart Objects
The personal web
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The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and
Problem-Solving
Collaboration across
Networks and Leading
by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
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The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Initiative and
Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and
Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination
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HOW DO YOU
PREPARE STUDENTS?
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Edutopia
February/March 2008
http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens
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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.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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 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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Prepare students to be citizens of the world
by being one yourself. Teach from a global
perspective.
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Asia Society
Globally Literate Educators
Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning
Teachers are:
✴ Skilled and knowledgeable
✴ Critical thinkers and problem solvers
✴ Culturally aware
✴ Aware of world events and global dynamics
✴ 21st Century Literate
✴ Collaborative
✴ Use media and technology effectively in their work
✴ Responsible and ethical citizens
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

MY STORY
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Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
A Whole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global
Awareness.
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Classroom 2.0
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Global Ed Collaborative
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171, 376
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1,451
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GEC Features
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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Apple Distinguished Educators
ADE Institute Asia 2008
Visited six Singaporean
schools
Worked with educators
from Singapore, Hong
Kong and assorted
international schools
Worked in teams to
create collaborative
projects
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EXAMPLES
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Basic Project
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Next Steps
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Deep Cuts
Sample Video
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TOOLS OF THE TRADE
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Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
Photobooth (photos, video, green-screening)
iChat AV (videoconferencing, recording)
Garageband (recording, podcasting)
iWeb (publishing of blogs, photos, podcasts)
iPod or iPod Touch - microphone attachments & apps
Apple Learning Interchange (social networking)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Suggested Toolkit
Still or video camera - Flip cameras
Check out Woot.com
Web Cam - Logitech
Chat client - Skype (free), Oovo, Sightspeed
Digital recording device or web site - Gcast
Collaborative workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest),
blogs, wikis
Project partners - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, Global Ed
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Suggest Toolkit Items
Sharon Peters
http://wearejustlearning.pbwiki.com/
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Recommendations
Learn to network; network to learn
Keep it authentic
Start small
Join a group project
Keep it authentic
Develop a customized vision of 21st century learning
for your classroom, school and district
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009