An innovative program offered in some Massachusetts elementary schools is giving kids a chance to become bilingual early—and learn from each other. This story in the Boston Globe describes how the program, which begins in kindergarten, mixes native English speakers and native Spanish speakers and teaches all subjects in both languages. The article states: According [...]
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-Ray Bradbury
Globalization
Building Global School Leaders
10/17/2008
How do we convince professional development programs that leaders need a 21st century, global mindset? Are there models of higher education that are consistently, proactively, and effectively building school leaders who are prepared to compete in a knowledge economy? More accurately, are there higher education programs that are producing school leaders that create a school [...]
Social media and intercultural education
8/6/2008
Ruth Marie Sylte tweeted: I just got an email from an intl ed colleague that made my day! I have inspired someone in the field to explore social media/networking. [elaborated here] This got me thinking. In international and intercultural education programs, most practitioners are entirely missing opportunities with social media –the blending of technology, social [...]
Brooks on the “Cognitive Age”
5/2/2008
David Brooks wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. He states that individuals cannot be successful in a globalized world without building advanced capabilities to transform information into meaningful knowledge: The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a grand competition between nations and [...]
What do you think?
4/5/2008
Charles Leadbeater, Debbie Powell and Tim Cowie assembled a short video based on Leadbeater’s We-think book, which “explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.” (Thanks to Cristóbal Cobo for the link.)
UNESCO Third Global Knowledge Conference audio online
2/29/2008
Jayson Richardson forwarded this link to audio from the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3): From UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector’s news service, the conference centered on the development of knowledge societies, and: Topics ranged from community radio, telecentre, CMC in Asia, Africa and Caribbean, present and future conferences, ICT for disabled, Citizens media, Brain Store, [...]
Did you ever wonder?
2/22/2008
Bill Farren, a technology integration facilitator in the Dominican Republic, created a response to Karl Fisch’s Did you know? slides: Farren asks: How is preparing students to enter an economic and industrial system that is at war with itself preparing them for the future? Wouldn’t we be better off educating people so that they can [...]
m-learning in Open Seminar 2.0
2/18/2008
[Cross-posted from e-rgonomic] Special thanks to John on showing how a paper cup is a technology (see post). Here is a small demonstration of the Open Seminar 2.0 conference and the emergence of M-Learning (mobile learning) era. This is a success story for the intelligent use of domestic mobile ICT and education. [Idea: Edwards Bermúdez] [...]
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