This document discusses creating global competency in classrooms by infusing media asset projects. It defines global competency as having international awareness, appreciating cultural diversity, foreign language proficiency, and competitive skills for today's interconnected world. The author advocates for media asset projects where students select topics, think globally, and create digital representations with sources from outside the US. Examples are provided. Resources like Skype, Google Docs, and cultural centers can enable digital field trips and global collaboration to develop students' global perspectives.

1. Creating Global Competency
by Infusing Media Asset Projects
into your Classroom
by
Darla Kay Hill
Education Consultant

2. QUESTIONS
• What does it mean to you?
• Why is it important?
• Are you currently addressing it through your teaching?
• Is it easier to see in some subjects vs. other subjects?
• How does technology enable the infusion of global
competency into teaching?

3. A BIT ABOUT ME
• 20 + years in K-20 education
• online faculty and curriculum developer/reviewer
• e-learning consultant and edtech strategist
• Peace advocate
• Model United Nations
• The Student Peace Alliance
• Congressional District
Representative for the creation
of a US Department of Peace
• University of Peace in Costa Rica

4. GLOBAL COMPETENCY
“The 21st Century isn’t coming; it’s already here. And our
students have the opportunity and challenge of living and
working in a diverse and rapidly changing world. Public
schools must prepare young people to understand and
address global issues, and educators must re-examine
their teaching strategies and curriculum so that all
students can thrive in this global and interdependent
society.”
~ former NEA President Dennis Van Roekel

5. GLOBAL COMPETENCY
• the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to navigate and succeed
in today's interconnected world
• the acquisition of in-depth knowledge and understanding of international
issues, an appreciation of and ability to learn and work with people from
diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, proficiency in a foreign language,
and skills to function productively in an interdependent world community

6. GLOBAL COMPETENCY
• INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS
• world history
• socioeconomic and political systems
• other global events
• individual actions effect others
• APPRECIATION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY
• understand people from other cultures
• acknowledgement of others’ points of view
• view cross-cultural differences as a collaborative opportunity
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
• COMPETITIVE SKILLS
• higher-level thinking enhances creativity and innovation in a world
market

7. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• ECONOMIES ARE BECOMING MORE INTERDEPENDENT
• AMERICAN SOCIETY IS BECOMING MORE DIVERSE
• GLOBAL CHALLENGES ARE BECOMING MORE COMPLEX
• GLOBAL COMPETENCE ENHANCES OVERALL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
• CAN SERVE AS GATEWAY FOR SUBTOPICS
• CULTURAL COMPETENCE
• HUMANE EDUCATION
• CONFLICT RESOLUTION
• SOLUTIONAIRE LEARNING
• DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

8. MEDIA ASSET PROJECT
• background
• (sample) Media Asset Project instructions:
• select a topic
• think of the topic through a global lens in some way
• create a digital representation of your topic
• presentation, website, blog, movie, etc.
• Phase 1: list your topic and what you are creating
• Phase 2: draft project with at least 4 sources, one being from
outside the US
• Phase 3: final project
• Phase 4: sharing/presenting of final project

9. EXAMPLE

10. EXAMPLE

11. EXAMPLE

12. EXAMPLE

13. RESOURCES AND TOOLS
DIGITAL FIELD TRIP
• Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21)
• Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
• UNESCO
• International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)
• ePals
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Virtual Field Trips

14. DIGITAL FIELD TRIP
• Taking It Global
• Skype
• TeacherMatch
• Global Oneness Project
• Solutions Journalism Network
• Global Collaboration Day
• TedX
• Unimersiv
• Google Docs / Google Earth
• Resources within your community
• international students
• retired individuals
• businesses
• cultural centers
• churches
• museums
• indigenous cultures

15. WHAT CAN WE DO
• align teacher preparation programs with global perspective
• create opportunities for global teacher collaboration
• design and support professional development programs with global
focus
• identify new ways to foster international exchanges
• expand the teaching of foreign language
• benchmark educational systems, standards, and community/family
support systems against high achieving countries

17. Darla Kay Hill, M.A. M.S.
Education Technology Strategist and Consultant | Speaker | Presenter
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2203 Aspen Drive
Traverse City, MI 49686
231 342 2289
dhill@nmc.edu
Skype: darla_kay_hill
immersivewave@gmail.com
http://www.immersivewave@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darlakayhill
https://twitter.com/immersivewave

18. REFERENCES
• National Education Association
• Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21)
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National Center for Cultural Competence