ISTE 2018 - Global Education Day Notes

The 5th C - cultural awareness

Bill Harrison

• Stdnts need to communicate and collaborate with Stdnts all over world
• Global immersion transforms schools
• Stdnts can talk about their global audience as learning happens through a global lens

Empatico Website

• Forming a COL (communities of practice) through online communication, collaboration and a shared u/st 
• Tchrs in different states used a shared lesson plan to connect classes through Skype-meant stdnt needed to come up wtith qu and be able to respond to qu in a stdnt led conversation - chn saw states through the eyes of the local chn so gained a deeper u/st as chn had a strong connection to the learning - not a T driven lesson

Virtual exchange and global citizenship

• Failures of QFI - Quatar Foundation International
• Virtual exchange - Arab stdnts connect with US stdnts to discuss issues (eg: women driving) - aim to grow peace and justice - diversity of ideas = diversity of solutions
• Connected classes undertook a shared project (eg: growing the same plant - reflect/on shared growth rates and possible reasons why eg- climate
• Stdnt opinion needs to be valued as it will -ref to pic of girl and quote about the importance of her voice being heard

Table 21: Enhancing 21st Century Literacies and Global Collaboration through Student-Exchange Program

• This is a discussion thread for those at Table 21 and will be facilitated by Nandita Gurjar. Ref to pic of handout
• Discussion with T from Haiti, USA
• The focus of this roundtable will be how student-exchange program builds students' communication, collaboration, creativity, inter-cultural understanding, and appreciation of one's humanity that is crucial in today's world. Through field trips, informal cultural events, and an immersive socio-cultural, linguistic experience with the host family, inter-cultural understanding is enhanced and respect for one another is generated. Social media communication following the program strengthens continued global connection and collaboration. 
• Important to connect T and Stdnts thru global collaboration and cross cultural bridges thru social media eg: twitter
• 21C literacies continue to evolve to allow access to social media
• Value cultural capital - connections can be made thru cultural storytelling - compare same/diff in stories that have a similar purpose
• Immersion allows for strengthened connections as builds intercultural u/st
• Zoom.us - for collaborative online discussionhat carried out online but monitored