This document summarizes a workshop about TakingITGlobal (TIG), an online platform that aims to empower youth to be global citizens. It discusses how TIG can help prepare students for a globalized world by increasing cultural awareness, discussion of global issues, and volunteer activity. The workshop agenda covers what TIG and TIGed are, their site tools and programs, and how teachers can utilize TIG's resources in their practice to bridge formal and informal learning around student voice, global citizenship, and environmental stewardship.

1. Take Your Classroom Global!
PGL12
June 29, 2012
Kate Gatto & Sara Hassan

2. Introduce Yourself!
• Where are you from?
• What is your role in education?
• Why did you decide to attend PGL12? This
workshop?

3. Agenda
• What is TakingITGlobal (TIG)?
• tigweb.org site tools exploration
• What is TakingITGlobal for Educators (TIGed)?
• tiged.org site tools exploration
• Virtual classroom platform
• TIGed Programs
• Student Outcomes

4. TODAY’S STUDENTS WILL …
… “sell to the world; buy from the world; work for
international companies; manage employees from
other cultures and countries; collaborate with people
all over the world in joint ventures; compete with
people on the other side of the world for jobs and
markets; and tackle global problems such as AIDS,
avian flu, pollution, and disaster recovery.”
(Vivien Stewart, “Becoming Citizens of the World,” Educational Leadership)

5. Today’s students need to be prepared to
COMPETE in a global knowledge-based
economy AND COOPERATE across borders to
address global issues.
… Both of which require the
effective use of technology.

6. Technology enabled
youth empowered
to be global citizens.

7. Social Network for Social Good
www.tigweb.org

8. Young people everywhere are actively
engaged and connected in shaping a more
inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable world
Inspire, inform, involve

9. TakingITGlobal attracted
5,154,048
visitors in 2011

10. Crowdsourced
Translation
into 13 languages
Arabic, English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish

11. Community
Action Tools
Resources
Youth Media
Global Issues
Regions
Informal Learning Community
www.tigweb.org

12. HOW MIGHT YOU UTILIZE TIG’S
TOOLS AND RESOURCES IN YOUR
TEACHING PRACTICE?

13. The Impact

14. 89% increased cultural awareness

15. 82% talk more about local/global issues

16. 66% increased their volunteer activity

17. Food for thought…
“Children know more about what’s going on in the
world today than their teachers […]. They’re
immersed in a media environment […] that was
unheard of 150 years ago, and yet if you look at
school today versus 100 years ago, they are more
similar than dissimilar.”
(Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

18. “ Today's education system faces
irrelevance unless we bridge the
gap between how students live
and how they learn.
”
(The Partnership for 21st Century Skills)

19. TIGed: Bridging Formal & Informal Learning

20. TIGed’s Program Pillars
Student Global Environmental
Voice Citizenship Stewardship

23. www.deforestaction.org

25. Why
TIGed
Students and teachers plug into the world’s largest
multilingual community of global leaders, which they
can engage with while using TIGed and after.
Student impacts:
Connected, Technologically savvy, Informed
Globally minded, Inspired, Empowered

26. Educators can help
to make this
happen!
THANK YOU!
education@takingitglobal.org
www.tiged.org
Twitter: @TIGed