This presentation by Jennifer D. Klein explores the importance of global education and educational strategies and pedagogy for transformative student experiences. Presented as part of the LearnCentral webinar series on August 31, 2011. See more about Jennifer's work at www.principledlearning.org.
2. â Real change requires not just the absence of destruction, but the presence of construction.â ~ Oscar Arias Nobel Prize Winner Peace Jam 2006
3. Global Awareness and Citizenship Why is it important to be globally aware, and what does global citizenship look like?
4. Morley Safer Quotation â As diverse as America has become, it remains remarkably inward-looking. Without an educational and media establishment that takes on the responsibility of teaching and informing and respecting the riches of foreign cultures, this country could become a paranoid and parochial suburb of a vital global village.â ~ Morley Safer CBS News Correspondent
5. â Even before September 11 shattered any notion of American isolation, it ought to have been abundantly clear that American students know far too little about the rest of the world. In June 2001, the National Commission on Asia in the SchoolsâŠreleased a report that said that young Americans are âdangerously uninformed about international mattersâ⊠âAsia Society, from âCitizenship in the Global Ageâ
6. Harvard Education Letter â Although definitions vary, most lists of 21 st century skills include those needed to make the best use of rapidly changing technologies; the so-called âsoft skillsâ that computers canât provide, like creativity; and those considered vital to working and living in an increasingly complex, rapidly changing global society.â ~ Harvard Education Letter
7. BENCHMARKS & SKILLS IMPROVED BY A GLOBAL CURRICULUM Source: Harvard Education Letterâs list of âSkills for the 21 st Centuryâ
11. Roderick Paige â Ours is a world of 24-hour news cycles, global markets, and high-speed Internet. We need to look no further than our morning paper to see that our future, and the future of our children, is inextricably linked to the complex challenges of the global community. And for our children to be prepared to take their place in that world and rise to those challenges, they must first understand it.â ~ U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige
12. Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paolo Freire (Brazil) â Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.â
22. The Challenges of Global Education The Problem The Solution Differences in Time Zones, Class Times and School Year More Asynchronous than Synchronous Tech Platforms, Opportunities Built around Vacations Limitations on Foreign End (Technology, Follow Through, Finances) Build Lower-Tech Opportunities and a Plan B into All Projects Teachersâ Work Load Develop an Interdisciplinary Team to Share the Load Accusation that Global Education is âFluff,â not Core Tie Global Units to Core Benchmarks, Assess Using ISTEâs NETS and Asia Societyâs Global Competencies Matrix
23. TakingITGlobal Overview Facilitating Youth Voice in Decision-Making Developing Youth Leadership & 21 st Century Skills Leveraging Social Networks for Civic Engagement TakingITGlobal
24. Shared Vision Young people everywhere are actively engaged and connected in shaping a more inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable world Shared V ision
30. Partnership Quotation on 21 st Century Skills Today's education system faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn â The Partnership for 21 st Century Skills â â
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32. Essential Questions for Department Teams: What does global citizenship look like in y our particular discipline? Essential Question for Teachers of Global Education
40. Lake Forest School: Community Development with Awamaki Weaving Cooperative, Patacancha, PerĂș (HS)
41. Berkeley Carroll School: Student-Driven United Nations Initiative Convention on the Rights of the Child Students fundraise to bring four students to NYC from Sierra Leone, to present before the United Nations
42. Berkeley Carroll School: Transit of Venus Global Collaboration Project (MS & HS) Students measure the trajectory of Venus in front of the sun from all over the planet. In Partnership with TakingITGlobal and the Centre for Global Education
Give basics of my âWhy Iâm Hereâ story, clarifying that this is something we do on trips.
Point outââglobalizingâ also means pluralizing in every senseâdiversifying the perspectives explored. Subtle choices make a particular difference for kids from different culturesâmake the connection between global ed and improving diversity/dialogue in schools.
Shared VISION!
LIVELY LEARNING COMMUNITIES
â If you want to succeed â Double your failure rateâ â Thomas Watson, founder of IBM
http://www.linktv.org/onenation2007/films/view/238 (Theyâll have to click PLAY)
Mention Real World Math in particular (www.realworldmath.org), emphasize economics and non-humanities applications.
Development Focus
âHomemadeâ global projectsâall it takes is an idea. Building your own collaborations with TIG.
http://www.playingforchange.com/episodes/3/One_Love (THEY will have to click PLAY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA (YOUTUBEâWill start to play automatically)