Global Citizenship: Empowering Students to Change the World
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This document discusses empowering students to become global citizens through connecting their learning to real world issues. It provides examples of projects where students can collaborate across borders, including cultural exchanges, virtual field trips, mystery Skype calls, and collaborative problem solving projects. The goal is to foster skills like cultural understanding, communication, and critical thinking. Connecting learning to students' passions and the wider world through these types of global projects can help motivate long-term learning and empower students to create positive change.
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Global Citizenship: Empowering Students to Change the World
- 1. Global Citizenship: Empowering Students to Change the World Engaged & Empowered Student Minds Boston, 2016 Mike Soskil @msoskil
- 3. STEM is not Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. It is a culture of problem solving in which all disciplines are used in conjunction to make the world better.
- 5. Does the learning in classrooms matter to students? Photo Credit: Flickr/cristic • Long-term learning cannot take place without emotional connection with content • Extrinsic v. Intrinsic Motivation • Empathy correlates with both happiness and success in life
- 6. How do I get started? Rachel’s Story
- 7. Why Global Learning? • Cultural Understanding • Emotional Experiences • Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity • Student Empowerment
- 8. It’s hard to change the world when you don’t know much about it.
- 9. South Elementary Global Connections • Song/Cultural Exchanges • Virtual Valentines • Exchange Skype/YT Video Messages • Data Collection in Collaborative Spreadsheets • Quadblogging • Slow Twitter Chat • Collaborative PBL Projects • Mystery Skype • Skype Teacher Exchange (guest teacher from another location) • Digital Post Cards
- 12. Project LINC http://projectlinc.clubefl.gr/ Kansas Students – Microsoft Video
- 13. Children are never too young to change the world.
- 14. Students are never too young to change the world. Hanif and Gethera Video by the Ms. Heidemann & the Cushkins
- 15. HIP Academy - Mukuyuni Bridge Project
- 17. That’s great for your students. But, how do I do that?
- 18. Growth Mindset
- 19. Virtual Field Trips • Skype in the Classroom: education.skype.com • Discovery Education: discoveryeducation.com/featured-programs • Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants: exploringbytheseat.com • JASON Learning: jason.org • LivingMaths: livingmaths.com
- 20. SANCCOB
- 21. Mystery Skype • Similar to "20 Questions" • Each class takes turns asking Yes/No questions to figure out location of the other class. • Variations: animals, numbers, elements, occupations, etc. instead of locations. • Builds critical thinking skills and content knowledge. • Creates opportunities to connect with other locations to have Q&A sessions about culture. Resource to get started: MysterySkypeOneNote.com
- 22. Mystery Skype w/ Iro Stefopoulou
- 23. Quick Tour Of the SITC Website
- 24. Overcoming Time Zone Issues
- 25. The 5 Clue Challenge • Use Skype Video Message or YouTube to leave 5 clues for partner class to guess location, animal, etc. • After each clue, students will pause video, do research, and take a guess. • 5cluechallenge.weebly.com
- 26. 5 Clue Challenge – Mystery Location #1
- 27. 5 Clue Challenge – Mystery Location #2
- 28. 5 Clue Challenge – Mystery Animal #1
- 30. EdTech Chat ‘n Chew Projects Easy global projects where we make the connections for you • Global Kidwish Project (December) • Virtual Valentines Project (February) • Global Video Exchange (September-October) • Awesome Squiggles (April) EdTechChatNChew.Weebly.com
- 32. Twitter Not Just for Donald Trump Anymore! • As of a year ago, over 4.2 million tweets per day were related to education, most by educators • Hashtags allow you to curate and organize what you see • There is an educational hashtag for almost every content area, grade level, and educational interest area
- 33. Tweetdeck.com
- 34. Finding Global Connections • Twitter/Tweetdeck • Have students contact experts • Facebook • Friends/Family Twitter for Global Connections #GlobalEd #TeachersLeading @SkypeClassroom #GlobalClassroom #MysterySkype #Skype2Learn #MIEExpert #TeachersMatter #SkypeMT
- 38. Every problem in the world has a solution trapped inside our students’ passions. Helping them see the connection is our job as teachers.
- 39. Connect with Me Twitter: @msoskil Website: michaelsoskil.com Email: mrsoskil@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- ----- Meeting Notes (11/5/16 08:45) ----- Came across my Facebook wall a few days ago Most people think that I am biased toward STEM subjects, but it's not true.