Learn how language programs can take advantage of the many free, open access global collaboratives and educational resources to give all our teachers and students the ability to work with rich, authentic content, to support interactive global connections, to foster international perspectives and to prepare our students to live, learn and work in our globally-connected world.
1. Strengthening Language Programs
Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendhak/3569675580/
Through Open Resources & Global Collaboratives
Barbara Lindsey, University of Connecticut
ACTFL 2010
2. Framework for 21st Century Learning
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://goo.gl/2RTPy
5. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noticelj/2878326718/
Internet technologies have bridged the geographic distance that
separate global communities, raising the importance of developing the
skills needed for communicating and collaborating with people from
different countries. Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://goo.gl/WNBG6
6. Students, therefore, need opportunities to take
advantage of the communications and collaboration
tools available in today’s wired classrooms to engage in
projects and dialogue with their international peers. Just
as students can deepen their knowledge when teamed
with their peers in the classroom, students can both
broaden their perspective and enrich their
understanding of the world through relationships with
their international counterparts. Making this connection
will be vital to navigating the global marketplace.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://goo.gl/WNBG6
7. Start -Up - To the Cloud - Windows 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRrbLA7rss&feature=channel
8. Focus on basics cuts foreign language back
The Wichita Eagle
http://goo.gl/nreT0
9. Focus on basics cuts foreign language back
The Wichita Eagle
http://goo.gl/nreT0
Strapped Schools Ax Foreign Languages
Journal Sentinel
http://goo.gl/T9lu9
10. Focus on basics cuts foreign language back
The Wichita Eagle
http://goo.gl/nreT0
Strapped Schools Ax Foreign Languages
Journal Sentinel
http://goo.gl/T9lu9
UAlbany language cuts spark petition
Times Union
http://goo.gl/LYrpc
22. What do the following all have in common?
MIT OpenCourseWare
WhiteHouse.gov Al Jazeera
Nine Inch Nails
Wikipedia Google
The Public Library of Science
65. How can you model globally-
connected, lifelong learning?
66. Resources not cited inline
Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/
Barbara Lindsey’s bookmarks: http://www.diigo.com/user/
lindseybp/actfl10
Coverdell World Wise Schools: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/
Merlot: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
OpenCourseWare Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
World Digital Library: http://www.wdl.org/en/
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