Tag Archives: living abroad

What do Halloween, population growth, and other global issues have in common?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

Halloween, and a snow day already—yes, two months before winter officially starts. About 2,000,000 east-coast customers have no electricity; countless trees broke because they hadn’t lost their leaves yet. It’s Monday, and trick-or-treating has been moved to Saturday in many … Continue reading →

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Preparing students for the digital AND GLOBAL world

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

Leadership Day is organized by Scott McLeod: Dangerously Irrelevant (blog on Big Think). Summary of this post: Digital, linguistic, and cross-cultural skills are required for jobs in the global economy; what jobs are actually like in global business, and suggestions for schools.  … Continue reading →

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From the Icelandic Volcano to a World School

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

A year ago, we received daily reports about the effects of the horrible earthquake… not the ones in Christchurch or Sendai, but in Port-au-Prince. And then there was the eruption of the volcano in Iceland, which disrupted aviation for a … Continue reading →

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