Global+Education

Global Awareness I think that global awareness is when students can read, respond to and interact with information that is outside of their immediate world. If students can read an article or text and put themselves "there", that is part of global awareness. I think that it is also when students can be less self-centric and more open to what others think, believe or know. As I teach biology, students so often think only about humans when we talk about living things. So many students have seen so few living things aside from a few plants, some zoo animals or maybe aquarium organisms that they find it difficult to think about organisms in other ecosystems, or smaller or bigger then themselves.

After reading the Crawford and Kirby article my ideas have not changed much in terms of what my perspective of what global awarness is, but what changed most for me is how we can help our students achieve more global awareness. I was struck by how many resources the article cited (table 2-Overview ofWeb Based Organizations the Foster Global Awareness), the table went on for pages and had some valuable sources for teachers to use to bring more global awareness to their classrooms, through a variety of technologies. 21st Century Skill I think that students need a much wider global awareness than 15 or more years ago. The world is literally at their fingertips with the internet and all of the ways they can communicate. What we need to work on with students is communicating with all their technological ways in a more educational means versus in the social ways that they use the technology for. Along the lines of skills needed in the classroom, the article was swift to discuss that teachers not only need access to the technology but training on how to use the technology and how to integrate it into their regular pedagogy to teach the content that they still have to teach. Campbell and Kirby also make the points that I agree with that students will need to be able to collaborate and problem solve, while using new technologies (telefieldtrips and tele-conferences included), that the use of those skills are not unique to teaching and learning in a technological world.

Campbell and Kirby

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