Globally Connected
Technology Tools to Bring the World to Your Students
Why do our students need to be globally aware?
- Builds empathy--enables students to view issues/problems from alternate perspectives.
- Helps develop respect for cultural differences.
- Many come from families with limited experiences outside the local home/community.
- Business leaders value globally competent workers.
- Global issues/crises require globally coordinated solutions.
- Gives students increasing expertise.
"Global awareness and international collaboration during the formative years results in more rounded individuals, encouraging our pupils to see things from different perspectives and helping them to make informed decisions, acquiring transferable skills that will be useful to them and will remain with them for life."
-Jose Picardo, The Guardian
"In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny."
-Thomas Friedman
"...the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lands but in seeing with new eyes."
-Marcel Proust