Global Collaborator

Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

Students:

• use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.

• use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

• contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

• explore local and global issues and use collaborative technologies to work with others to investigate solutions.

While the primary purpose of education is to prepare students for life, we cannot ignore the fact that innovations in technology are changing as we seek to exist in the virtual world. Today's and the future workforce need global collaboration skills to work in the global arena to find solutions for existing challenges. In this regard, teachers are now required to foster and facilitate lessons to equip students with strong global collaboration skills. With the use of collaborative technologies, a global collaborator is able to connect with their peers, experts and community members to research, explore and share different points of view to achieve a common goal. Students are expected to perform locally and globally and work with digital tools in a team to achieve the objective.

Students utilize the Google Suite applications such as (Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites) which enables them to collaborate on projects as they work. Other applications such as Quizziz, Nearpods and Pear Deck are also commonly used in the teaching and learning environment to engage learners and provide forums for increased interaction. In addition, by gamifying the lesson students improve in knowledge absorption and retention as they become more aware of their environment.

It is after demonstrating this qualify, in an effective and constructive way, that the students would be considered compliant with the ISTE standard.