How does technology help you to globalize your classroom?
Technology helps globalize my classroom in several ways. Firstly, it allows my students to access resources that expose them to other cultures and issues of global significance. Secondly, it helps my students research the various perspectives on these issues. Thirdly, it provides a global audience in which my students can get relevant feedback. Finally, technology allows my students to engage with the world through video conferencing or partner classes. Before the proliferation of technology in education my students could learn about the world. But now technology allows my students to learn from and with people all over the world. One example, seen in the picture below, was of my students using Skype to discuss what hunger looks like in Conakry, Guinea and their own community. |
Digital Learning Survey
Below is a comprehensive inventory of digital tools available to educators seeking to globalize their classrooms. I found the 10 question survey useful in assessing what technology was available to teachers and my students in my school. |
Global Assessment Tools
Here are three tools I've used in the evaluation of global education in my school community. The first, Global Education Checklist, is my favorite. It is wonderful for gauging how your students, curriculum, staff, and campus are doing in regards to the global competencies. The second, Checklist for Teaching for Global Competence, is a great tool to determine whether your lessons are leading students toward global competency. The third, Global Assessment Rubric, is great for assessing individuals, the students body, or even your faculty as a whole on their level of global competency. This rubric would be great to use at the beginning of a PD session for people to gauge their own perception of their global competence. |
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Additional Resources
The following videos help explain the importance of global education. In the first video, Dan Rather interviews Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University about the education systems of other countries, including Finland's, considered by experts to be one of the best in the world. In the second video, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a specialist in curriculum and instruction, discusses the new literacies of the 21st century. In the third video, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, explains the danger of hearing only one story about another person, culture, or country. I use this video in class with my students. The fourth video was created by the Pulitzer Center for Education which provides incredible free resources for classroom use.
The following videos help explain the importance of global education. In the first video, Dan Rather interviews Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University about the education systems of other countries, including Finland's, considered by experts to be one of the best in the world. In the second video, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a specialist in curriculum and instruction, discusses the new literacies of the 21st century. In the third video, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, explains the danger of hearing only one story about another person, culture, or country. I use this video in class with my students. The fourth video was created by the Pulitzer Center for Education which provides incredible free resources for classroom use.
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