Lucy Gray gave a presentation on preparing students to be global citizens. She discussed her background working in global education and outlined the context of increased connectivity and focus on 21st century skills. She presented a vision of teaching students to be problem solvers by connecting them globally and provided examples of classroom projects that bring real-world global issues into learning. Gray also shared resources for teachers, including networking platforms, collaboration tools, and her Global Classroom Teacher's Toolkit.

1. Going Global
Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World
METC • February 13, 2013
Lucy Gray
Lucy Gray Consulting
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
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2. Slides available at:
http://www.lucygray.org
@elemenous on Twitter
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3. Where is Matt?
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4. Where’s Matt 2012?
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http://goo.gl/aQ0DU

5. Agenda
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My Story
The Context
Vision and Mindset
Mapping This Space
The Global Education Conference & Network
Example Projects
The Global Classroom Teacher’s Toolkit

6. Lucy Gray
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Consultant
Co-Founder of the Global
Education Collaborative
and Conference
Apple Distinguished
Educator
Google Certified Teacher
Middle School Computer
Science
Primary Grades
Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/genista/6898950/

7. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
A Whole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global Awareness.
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8. Classroom 2.0
Link
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9. Global Education Collaborative & Conference
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Text

10. Mission
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The Global Education Collaborative is a community of practice where
people connect and build the professional relationships necessary for
effective collaboration across borders. Via this social network, educators
and organizations from all over the world share conversations, resources,
projects, and initiatives with a strong emphasis on promoting global
awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards
solving real-world problems. Our ultimate goal is to help prepare students
for a rapidly changing and complex world.

11. Over 500,000 unique visitors
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12. 15,000 members from
150+ countries
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13. GEC Features
Groups
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Discussion forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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14. Learning 2.012The Education Project
2010
Apple Asia Distinguished
Educator Institute 2008
Connecting Globally
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15. The Context
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16. Arne Duncan
Diane Ravitch
A NEW
NATION AT
RISK
MOMENT?
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Rahm Emanuel

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Factory Model = Compliance
Learning By Doing Model = Communication, Creativity, and Collaboration
Where do you
stand?

18. @oline73: Can you
distill why globally
connected
classrooms are vital
in 2010?
Photo source
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19. We have urgent problems that need to
be addressed and, in order to prepare
our students to work on these
problems, we must connect them
globally.
We must teach them how networked
learning leads to networked problem
solving.
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20. The influence of new media
The push for 21st century skills
The “highly connected teacher”
The urgency presented by
complex global problems
Factors Within This Context
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21. Millennials Want to Learn…
With technology
With one another
Online
In their time
In their place
Doing things that matter
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22. “The Highly Connected Teacher”
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23. Creating Innovators
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24. Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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25. CCSSO and
Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning
Comprehensive
resource addressing
global competence
Download a copy here.
Attend the PGL
conference
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Common Core

27. High Noon
Issues involving
the global
commons
Issues
requiring a
global
commitment
Issues needing
a global
regulatory
approach
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28. Flat Classroom Project® & Book
Julie Lindsay & Vicki Davis
Steps to Flattening Your
Classroom
Project Development
PD Toolkit
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29. Additional Resources
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Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to Think Globally
EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson

30. Vision & Mindset
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31. Edutopia
February/March 2008
http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens
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32. 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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33. 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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34. 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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35. Prepare students to be citizens of the world by being one
yourself. Teach from a global perspective.
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37. Mapping This Space
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38. Connect All Schools
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39. The Global Education
Conference & Network
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40. Global Education Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com
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41. Steve Hargadon
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42. Closing Session
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43. 2010 - Brian Mannix
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44. 2010 - Polar Bears International
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45. 2010 - Catlin Gabel School
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46. 2011 - Pam Allyn - LitWorld
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47. 2011 - Greg Jacobs - Louder Than a Bomb
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48. 2011 - The Shoah Foundation
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49. 2012 - Anne Mirtschin- Hello Little World
2012 - Michael Trucano
2012 - Andrew Revkin
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50. http://globaleducationconference.com
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51. Example Projects
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52. Earth Day Groceries ProjectMark Ahlness
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53. Projects By Jen
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Jen Wagner

54. Around the World with 80
Schools
Silvia Tolisano
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The Writer’s ClubRob Sbaglia

56. Google Lit TripsJerome Burg
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57. Sample VideoValerie Becker
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58. WikiValerie Becker
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MyThologyMatt Cauthron

60. A Whole New MindKarl Fisch
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61. The iEARN Project Book
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62. The Global Classroom
Teacher’s Toolkit
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63. Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
iChat AV or FaceTime (videoconferencing, desktop
sharing recording)
Garageband (recording, podcasting)
iPod, iPod Touch, iPad - apps
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64. Generic Toolkit
Still or video camera - Kodak cameras
Web cam - Logitech
Chat client - Skype (free)
Digital recording device or web site
Collaborative workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest), Google Sites,
Wikispaces
Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, TakingITGlobal, Global Ed ning
Web 2.0 Tools - VoiceThread, Voki, Google Docs (Forms), Google Maps
& Earth etc.
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65. Global Collaboration, Exploration
& Innovation on iTunes U
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Build professional relationships.
Keep it simple.
Join existing projects.
Evolve.

68. Where the h*** is Matt 2?
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69. Slides with clickable links
available at
http://www.lucygray.org
@elemenous on Twitter
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70. Lucy’s Contact Info
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lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
http://lucygrayconsulting.com
http://globaleducation.ning.com
Username: elemenous
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