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Mastering Global Literacy
Discover how educators can cultivate globally literate learners while becoming globally connected themselves. The authors explore ways to bring global issues into the classroom and personalize them using new digital tools. Find strategies for implementing global-awareness studies into the traditional school curriculum, as well as creating new types of 21st century learning environments.
Benefits
- Understand why a rapidly changing world calls for the integration of global awareness in the classroom.
- Learn practical strategies to make global issues relevant to students.
- Integrate 21st century skills into the traditional classroom curriculum.
- Nurture students to become citizens able to thrive in a contemporary society.
- Use global competence to stimulate student interest in learning, college, and careers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Educating for Global Competence: Redefining Learning for an Interconnected World
Chapter 2: The Globally Connected Educator: Talking to the World—Not Just About the World
Chapter 3: Taking the Global and Making It Local: A Qualitative Study
Chapter 4: Growing Up in a Global Classroom
Chapter 5: Interdisciplinary Global Issues: A Curriculum for the 21st Century Learner
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
- 100 People Portrait
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language
- Amnesty International’s Write for Rights
- Antarctica Bus2
- Around the World in 80 Books
- Around the World With 80 Schools
- ARTSEDGE
- Artsy
- Asia Society Resources for Schools
- Association for the Development of Mindfulness
- Book Around the World
- The Cloud Institute for Sustainability
- Dance Anywhere
- English Pravda
- Facing the Future
- The Finland Phenomenon
- Frank W. Baker’s Media Literacy Clearinghouse
- Global Curriculum Menu
- Global Goods Partners, Equal Exchange
- Global Partnership Hub
- Google Apps
- Green Raising: Earth Friendly Fundraising
- Hans Roslings’ Gapminder
- Inhabitat
- The International Society for Contemporary Music
- Italian Institute for Mindfulness
- MindUP Curriculum
- MOMIX
- National Association for Media Literacy Education
- National Geographic’s Earthpulse
- Nederland Dans Theater
- Newspaper Map
- OpenPlans
- Peace Corps/Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- Reaper
- Skype in the Classroom
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- Street Films
- Student Blogging Challenge
- Teddy Bears Around the World
- UJAM SongCruncher
- URBACT
- World Health Organization
- Wikipedia
- Wikispaces