"The Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom provides students with many opportunities for building their skills as global citizens. Make direct connections to other countries in your classroom activities. Students can engage in online activities with students in other parts of the world.
Build students' overall awareness of other countries. Students studying government structures can identify similar governments in countries around the world. Students can trace inventions to other countries; and they can look at today's manufacturing cycle in terms of other countries around the world."
Dr. Nancy Sulla - Students Taking Charge
Reflection Questions:
How will students be impacted by and be able to impact global events in their future?
What opportunities exist in your classrooms and schools for students to be active global citizens?
Students will be greatly impacted by global events in the future. Technology enables them to have 1st hand information about world happenings. Blogs, Twitter and the like allow people to connect and share thoughts and ideas instantly. Sometimes this is not always positive, but nevertheless it is and will be such a huge part of students lives.
ReplyDeleteThe school community at FLHS allows students to volunteer to build houses in 3rd world countries and travel abroad to experience cultures on a first hand basis. We have an exchange program as well that allows students to immerse themselves in the homes and lives of other cultures.
It is important for students to be able to interpret information as global citizens, so that they look at news and information through an insider/native lens, as well as through their outsider/American lens. They need to be able to identify propaganda and bias, including their own, and this is why a site like Newseum.org, which features front pages from newspapers around the world, is so useful.
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