Teachers and Gloabl Learning

A little on global learning: "Our global future is developing through communication, collaboration, and innovation- all of which are dependent on technology. The internet is now a global marketplace, a global workspace, and a global meeting place that provides a vary array of opportunities to not only learn about the world but to interact with the world" - Lisa R (Co-founder of Global Schools connect)

This week we learned a lot about the importance of teachers being able to find ways in use of technology to be able to identify those strategies through sources of articles. The one chosen by the Mano's was found on the Asia Society Website, for worldwide locations, titled " Five ways to use technology and digital media for global learning"

  URL: http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/professional-learning/five-ways-use-technology-and-digital-media-global-


This article identifies 5 key points. 

 1) Develop media literacy on a global scale
2) Discover personal opinions behind global issues
3) Tap into gloabl knowledge networks
4) Engage a global audience through online publishing
5) Harness the power of virtual simiulation