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As one school year closes and we have a little time to breathe and make plans for another. A little while back I began to collect a list of my favorite discoveries for engaging in global connections and participation for my pre-service grad students. Here’s the growing curation and below are a few highlights of […]
As one school year closes and we have a little time to breathe and make plans for another.
A little while back I began to collect a list of my favorite discoveries for engaging in global connections and participation for my pre-service grad students. Here’s the growing curation and below are a few highlights of the opportunities that range from simply sparking a degree of global awareness to fully emerging in meaningful projects and connections with potential for both personal and global impact.
SDGs in Action App: The free app, also based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, presents information about all 17 goals, including targets, videos, facts, data, news, notifications, and the ability to discover local actions and events.
Google Lit Trips: Using Google Earth, these downloadable files share the journeys of famous literary characters. Select from among a large variety of pre-made trips or create your own. As you follow a character’s journey, you’ll encounter placemarks with pop-up windows offering supplementary information, media, links and thoughtful discussion prompts.
Flipgrid and beyond: I’ve been using Flipgrid to connect my students with each other and with others and to share stories for what seems like a very long time now. Many of us are discovering that the connections can be global and that Flipgrid might be used to increase social learning, global empathy, and cultural understanding.
FlipGrid Global Connections emerged as a space to share collaborative projects, and CoPilots was introduced to facilitate managing your grids with partner educators. These connections allow for all types of cultural sharing penpal or GridPal-style. In Global Connections, you can set grade levels, subject areas and goals.
All this happily led to the virality of the #GridPals hashtag and to GridPals: a match-making service organized byBonnie Bonnie McClelland–a New York Instructional Coach for Digital Learning who created a form to facilitate teacher and student connections around the world. You can connect with the Flipgrid Team directly by writing gridpals@flipgrid.com
Empatico: Aimed at first through fifth grades, this KIND Foundation initiative’s mission is to offer kids the chance to explore their similarities and differences, expand their horizons and strengthen their empathy muscles. The free, standards-aligned tool matches classrooms globally and allows teachers to connect using seamless video conferencing technology.
ISTE’s Global Collaboration PLN (you must join to access resources) promotes digital collaboration beyond classroom walls with such resources as best-practice curriculum design and a community sharing tools and methods, curriculum developments, and opportunities for collaborations.
#Globaledchat: Join a group of international educators for a live Twitter chat on global education topics every Thursday at 8 PM Eastern as well as regular postings.
International Dot Day Mid-September every year (usually September 15th), millions of students and educators around the world participate in celebrating creativity. Simply sign up on the website, get inspired by reading or re-reading Peter H. Reynold’s The Dot and consider the many ways you might make a mark and connect with others.
As Peter shares:
Imagine the power and potential of millions of people around the world connecting, collaborating, creating and celebrating all that creativity inspires and invites. I hope you will join the growing global community of creativity champions using their talents, gifts and energy to move the world to a better place.
Skype in the Classroom: Skype literally offers our classrooms a world of possibilities. The online community is packed with ideas for connections and collaborations, including:
ePals, supported by Cricket Media, offers strategies for connecting learning partners around the world. Teachers can search by country, language, age group, language, subject. You may also choose to join an Experience, or global project for target ages, subject or type of experiences. There are also engaging Challenges to enter. And individual students can set up their own teacher-moderated pen pal exchange.
Google Science Fair: is an international, online science and engineering competition for students ages 13 to 18. It is designed to champion a new generation of innovators by encouraging young people to change the world through scientific inquiry and problem-solving. Keep an eye out for new material regarding the Fall 2018 competition, but in the meantime get your starter kit and check out the inspiring past projects, interviews with scientists and these posters inspired by past young winners.
The Global Read Aloud: Created by Pernille Ripp in 2010, this annual fall event continues to inspire with more 4,000,000 students from more than 80 different countries participating. Participants sign up to read the same book aloud to their own students and then choose platforms on which to connect during the six weeks of the project.
Pernille explains the goals of the project:
Global collaboration is necessary to show students that they are part of something bigger than them. That the world needs to be protected and that we need to care for all people. You can show them pictures of kids in other countries but why not have them speak to each other? Then the caring can begin.
And follow along using the Twitter hashtags for the year:
Picture book author study: #GRAJFMGS
A Boy Called Bat: #GRABat
Amal Unbound: #GRAAmal
Refugee: #GRARefugee
Love, Hate, and Other Filters: #GRALov
One World Classrooms: students share their art with students around the world and use Voicethread to communicate with partner classrooms.
Flat Connections: Julie Lindsay offers a “call to action” for educators, inviting them to engage in a range of global projects and discussions around how they might be integrated into curricula, recommendations of tools that support online connection, communication and collaboration, strategies for designing learning, strong rationale to make your case, projects, courses, Online Global Collaborative Learning Playbooks, and so much more.
Global Youth Debates: This Flat Connections global project, for ages 10 through 18, provides a unique global collaborative experience for joining diverse cultures in authentic debate to foster global competence, international mindedness and action. A new debate topic will be announced for the fall. Check out the protocols for this exciting international debating experience that make use of new methodologies to connect, communicate and collaborate have made asynchronous formal debating possible globally. Also check out some of the archived Best Debates.
The Global Art Project for Peace: occurs biennially in April. Its mission is to joyously create a culture of peace through art. The Project celebrates diversity and multi-culturalism while expressing the idea: We Are All One.
Quadblogging: Launched in 2011, this exceptional project = has engaged students in more than 65 countries in blogging together. Participants are allocated a Quad containing four classes including your own, each with a Quad Co-ordinator. Classes rotate responsibility for being the “focus class” each week with the other three classes visiting and commenting.
Students explain the power of the project:
5 -Clue Challenge: These short student- and teacher-created videos present a series of clues about places (and sometimes people, animals and things). Your students can try to solve these riddles in as few clues as possible and may add to the gallery of puzzles by producing their own videos. Keep up with new videos by following the Twitter hashtag is #5ClueChallenge
Here’s a summer example:
Geoguessr: In single player or challenge mode users navigate and analyze Google Street View panoramas from around the world for clues trying to determine where they are. The closer your guess, the higher your score. Though the appearance of the maps are “semi-randomized,” you can check out some of the games in these categories: World maps,Famous places,United States, European stadiums, Famous places all over the world,US cities , the Arctic, lost in Russia. Check out this post from 2013 relating my high school students’ experience of playing with Shannon Miller’s experienced 4th graders.
I am planning to continue to build this little curation of projects and resources for connecting learners and inspiring partnership well beyond classroom and library walls.
Please remember that we are trying to launch our own hashtag to foster global collaboration. If you are seeking a partner on social media, consider using the new #inTLchat hashtag.
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