Friday, October 20, 2017

GLOBAL LEARNING PROJECT UPDATE:

Let the research begin!


Now that students have finished conducting digital handshakes with their teammates and teachers from China, Singapore, Australia and Pennsylvania, we've moved into the initial research stage of our projects. Students have been assigned to their global teams, as well as a topic to begin exploring for this project. Topics were inspired by the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development - ranging from sustainability to poverty to climate and environment. We're using Edmodo (a communication, collaboration, and coaching Web tool) to work with our global partners. The objective for students is to explore global issues and to foster meaningful discussions with students of varying backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Edmodo is a great platform for this. Learner outcomes from this project include:

  • Gaining an understanding of the lives of others in the project through sharing schools and lifestyles
  • Realizing that children are the same regardless of where they live in the world, and that global issues affect all of us
  • Exploring ‘glocalization’ and how to think global, but act local
  • Exploring action ideas that support better understanding of the world by working with others in the world
Some of the essential questions (questions that stimulate thought, provoke inquiry and direct the course of student research) that students ultimately aim to answer are:

    1. What are the essential issues and challenges of being a citizen of the world?

    2. How can we connect with each other through our differences and commonalities?
    3. How does your geography, history and lifestyle of where you live impact your global understanding?
    4. What are the essential ideas around researched global issues and how can we share 
        these?

As you can see, students were hard at work this week conducting their initial research on their assigned topics. You're getting a glimpse of the newest generation of global citizens!


1 comment:

  1. Dear Mrs. Valzania & Class - This is such an exciting project! It is so wonderful to see students engaged in an innovative project and on a global scale!

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