February

Global Awareness- February

The internationally-minded IB student is a critical and creative thinker. They engage in global ideas and issues with humanity and compassion. The world can be unpredictable and challenging at times, but the IB student can break down problems and make ethical, reasoned and balanced arguments based continual development.-- ibo.org. For the month of February, engage in global based activities to better understand the world around us.

Reflection/Inquiry Question

Why is it important to maintain linguistic diversity?

How would it affect your family and your personal identity if your mother tongue were banned?

What resources should we devote to preserving languages spoken by very few people?

Why do languages become endangered?

Know

More than 6,000 different languages are spoken around the world. About 1,000 of these languages are spoken by only small communities of people, and the Foundation of Endangered Languages estimated that the world loses 25 mother tongues every year.

Think/Communicate

Each language reflects a unique culture or way of knowing the world.Choose a community in which you are involved (such as your family, school, or country) and think of the languages represented in it. Can you create a map to represent the relationships between the languages in the community?