Julene Reed - Friday Keynote
Opening activity by Mark Benno - top ideas for enabling students in a “Flat World”
Thinking Globally
Why should we care?
Books:
The World is flat - Thomas L. Friedman
A Whole New Mind - Daniel H. Pink
It’s a new age:
- Agricultural Age
- Industrial Age
- Information Age
- Conceptual Age
Six aptitudes for success: design, story, symphony, empathy, play, meaning
The Asia Society
www.internationaled.org
www.askasia.org
www.worldcitizenguide.org
Digital learners… video games, cell phones, tv…
How much “richness” does your cirriculum provide?
What do your students create?
Why should students care about globalization?
Building relationships - cultural understanding
Email, snail mail, IM w/ iChat, iSight and iChat A/V (video-conferencing), Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting
Rock Our World - Garage Band file that went around the world w/ different tracks from each continent.
Resources:
- Apple Learning Interchange
- NAIS Challenge 20/20
- www.mywonderlulworld.com
- www.google.com/educators/ - google docs, google earth, etc.
- iPop
- Jane Goodall Institute
What is Web 2.0?
MySpace, Facebook - meet the kids where they are
http://globaleducation.ning.com - School 2.0, Classroom 2.0 on Ning
- http://www.teachertube.com
- http://karmatube.com
- http://www.flickr.com
- iTunes podcasts for education
Teaching the www - whenever, whatever, wherever.
iPod + podcast = anytime learging
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