1. st
21
Century Education
Presents:
Globalization
By: Johnathan Woods, Kacey Blatt, & Anne Marie Maynard

2. What is
Globalization?
It can be defined as the
process of spreading
ideas, products, and
other aspects of culture
due to the interaction
between different areas
of the world.

3. Globalization in the classroom requires:
• technology for students
• technology for teachers
• advancements in teaching methods

4. “Our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too
many of our schools do not prepare them for. In a global
economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your
knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to
opportunity - it is a prerequisite.”
–
Barack Obama

5. A student educated on globalization can:
• Investigate the world
• Recognize perspectives
• Communicate ideas
• Take action

6. As the world is becoming more of a global culture, with
many subcultures within, there becomes a need to
incorporate everyone's opinions, values, and ideas.
Globalization also plays a role in communication
between the subcultures, which creates the need to
move with the flow instead of pushing against the
current. It has created a whole new database for
information, and a new way of interpreting information
as it comes in. This has allowed for unturned stones to
now become accessible, which gives students
opportunities that were previously unavailable.

7. Applying Globalization to 21st Century
Education
• Video conferences
• Large scale group work
• Blogs
• Podcasts
• Second Life
• Twitter
• Television

8. Example:
A teacher in the United States is able to use a podcast to teach a
Spanish class by sharing information from a primary Spanish-speaker
with his or her students. The teacher can assign a reading from the
textbook (which comes from Japan) to the students concerning
greetings and wellbeing. The teacher uses a computer (which was
made in China) to interact with a person from Venezuela (who also is
using a computer from China). The person from Venezuela, we’ll call
him Harold, uses podcasting software that was made in India to create
his podcast for the other teacher’s Spanish class.

9. In the previous example, we see a person from the US
interacting with someone from Venezuela while using
technology created in Japan, China, and India. This
illustrates how information and culture is able to spread
through globalization due to the already globalized
technology.

10. Role of Technology
In the beginning of globalization, the spread relied on the actual
movement of people while cultures piggy-backed with them. As trade
routes developed, so did the lines of communication among these
cultures. This began in Europe and Asia and then slowly moved to the
Americas as technology created better transportation. As technology
continued to improve with the creation of computers and phones, the
movement of people didn’t matter as much as their actions did. The 21st
century saw globalization become a viral movement. Although this is an
advantage for the wideness of the spread, it can be a disadvantage for
some countries. Countries that do not always have the needed technology
to access the global culture can miss out on international information.

12. Work Cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
www.philaglobaled.org