Bringing the World to Your Classroom in the 21st Century
Susan Hopper from the St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas, shares ways to implement projects collaborative projects from around the world. The information about the project and all of the contact information can be found at the “What’s Happining in the Global Learning Center”
Formula for 21st Century Learning: 3Rs x 7C’s = 21st Century Skills
Project is only as good at the partner you get. Make sure you have guidlines in place for timelines/dates for information exchange. They do this over a Skype call in order to discuss the details live with all teachers involved in the project.
The most powerful projects involve 1:1 learning: student to student.
Use a class survey to familiarize the students with the project.
Set up a website for the project.
Students work in the project is posted on the site to be shared with all campuses involved in the project.
Classes exchange a teddy bear, then each class connects for 10 mins. per week on Skype to share what the teddy bear did when it goes home for a week. Some teachers want to be able to Skype any day when they have a question.
Skype Weather Reports with a class in another part of the world.
Grandparents from around the world, Skype in to read to the grandkids that live anywhere. Great way for them to be able to visit their kids when they live far away.
Go to the Whats Happening in Global Learning
www.iearn.org to find projects and people connections.
