The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools

Our Mission: The Coalition of Lighthouse Schools exists to create a dynamic learning community of schools that is utilizing one-to-one computing to empower students and teachers to lead in the twenty-first century.

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:

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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