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Preparing students for the digital AND GLOBAL world
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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Tagged communication, culture, education, foreign language, fungibility, global economy, job prep, jobs, learning, life skills, living abroad, purpose, teaching, technology, user-centered design
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The U.S. must come out of its monocultural cocoon
There’s an old joke, commonly known among linguists: What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?—Bilingual. 3 languages?—Trilingual. Only 1 language?—American. School taught me a lot about western civilization and local history, but not much about the rest of … Continue reading
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Fortune cookies: the relevance of education
Today, my husband and I ate at a Chinese restaurant. Here are our fortunes. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” Paulo Freire would certainly agree with that. He was a Brazilian educator who taught impoverished peasants … Continue reading
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Tagged education, education reform, education transformation, Freire, learning, memorization, memory, motivation, relevance, teaching, technology
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Want to join the 21st-century coffeehouse for optimizing education?
“Chance favors the connected mind.” —Steven Johnson This blog is about the upcoming convergence of technology and globalization with education. The blog’s purposes are: To inform, provide resources, answer questions. To let people from different constituencies (teachers, students, parents, educational technology … Continue reading
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The global economy is COMING… or is it HERE already?
Everyone knows that whatever is published on the Internet is available to virtually everyone, everywhere, all the time. And we communicate in many ways: via phone, text, webcam, social networks, instant messaging, etc. We do that already, and it’s easy. … Continue reading
Welcome to Education Is Global!
This blog is for teachers, parents, students (at least 13 years old), usability specialists, and everyone who’s interested in improving the learning process. We’re living in an interesting time: education must integrate technology and become global. (I’ll explain why I … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Asia, blog, communication, education, Education Is Global, education reform, educationisglobal, English, ESL, foreign language, global, global economy, language, language acquisition, learning, literacy, reading, second language, student-centered design, students, teachers, teaching, technology, technology integration, usability, user-centered design, users
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