Globalisation

Globalization: Processes, awareness, communication
Lilian Rohde and Egon Hedegaard

Professional Challenge
Teachers and pupils need to be extremely aware of the world around them. Teachers need to master and introduce pupils to global communication.

Professional Skills
Teachers should be able to understand reasons and effects of globalization processes, and to develop pupils into global citizens through means such as online communication.

Content

This learning expedition sets out to introduce the course with regard to issues, professional challenges and professional skills. Participants will be actively involved through working in groups of mixed nationalities and backgrounds in a workshop setting.

Contents include presentations, group discussions and hand-on work on areas of globalization and its consequences, including starting a blog in English for professional purposes.

THE FINAL SESSION OF THIS COURSE: TEACHER ACTIONS, INVOLVES YOU CREATING WORKSHOPS FOR FELLOW STUDENTS ON ONE OR MORE OF THE ASPECTS OF THE COURSE. MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW.

Product!!! DEADLINE 11 FEBRUARY

 Design your blog:

1. Design your blog by copying page headings from the class blog.
2. Link to the class blog by giving the URL address of your blog to Lilian
3. Write regularly on the front page of your blog - based on your own choice.
4. Follow and comment on blogs written by other members of you blog group.
5. Find other blogs which are relevant to globalization and education.
6. Check out the first useful links (see below) and choose

MAKE SURE TO KEEP YOUR OWN COPY OF WHAT YOU WRITE ON YOUR BLOG SO THAT IT CAN BE RECREATED IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG!!

 

Write on the 'globalization' page:

1. Reflect on this quote: Globalization can ... be define as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.'  (Anthony Giddens, former director of London School of Economics). What is already done in schools in your country?
 
2. Write core concepts from this challenge with definitions

Your teachers will also comment your blog every week.

Possible key concepts (continue the list)

Globalization and glocalization

Profession

English as a lingua franca

Literature

Giddens, A. (2002): Runaway World - how globalisation is reshaping our lives (London: Profile Books)
Steger, M.B. (2009): Globalization. A Very Short Introduktion (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Wellman, B.: “Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism”

Centre for Urban & Community Studies, University of Toronto, 455 Spadina Avenue, Toronto Canada M5S 1A1, wellman@chass.utoronto.ca, http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman.

You can download advice here on how to work on your professional English:
How to work on your English for professional purposes

The network spider web can be downloaded here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3is7brq0x2ySXBvaVp6a3RJNFU/edit

Links
- on how to incorporate global perspectives in challenging ways of learning from kindergarten to highschool ( in US K-12).

 Global Citizenship post 9/11, Episode : How Do They Do It In The USA?

"9/11 was a wake-up call for global education in the US - a stark reminder that the USA isn't isolated from the world. Now there's an impetus to change that attitude. Twenty miles east of New York City, Herrick's School District is a model for change, integrating a global perspective into virtually all subjects and grade levels from elementary to high school. Here 10 year olds learn about global politics and the world trade network. World languages are taught alongside art and 15 year olds debate African economic policy, role-playing being UN delegates" ( quote from introduction on youtube)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9M8Pd1B3tI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

"The Global School. Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World" is a new book by William Kist in which he elaborates "What is Global Education.", "The World within Your Classroom", " The World Across Classrooms", "The Classroom in the World" and "Getting Started". The book is based on interviews with teachers, who are innovators in this field. You are able to access all the links through go.solution-tree.com/21stcenturyskills

 The 60 links are organized under "Guides for International Texts , International English Language News Sources, Resources for Travel Research, Teacher-Prepared Virtual Field Trips, Virtual Field Trips & Additional Resources".  I specially recommend the following because of the immanent learning potentials as well as the free and easy access:

 The ICDL Foundation is making children's literature available online free of charge. The mission is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas. Sign in and get access to 4643 books in 61 languages: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/about/mission.shtml Notice: iPhone & iPad apps are available.

Learning acts & teacher training manual: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/books/activities/index.shtml

 TakingITGlobal use the power of online community to facilitate global education, social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement for millions of youth between the ages of 13 to 30

worldwide. Link: www.tigweb.org "Global Issues" on the TakingITGlobal website connects people to the issues that matter to them most: http://www.tigweb.org/global-issues/

 "Tread Lightly" is a free climate change education and engagement program. The aim is to empower youth to reduce their ecological footprints and take action on climate change. The interactive tools on the website may be used in schools as well as by any group or individual: click http://treadlightly.tigweb.org/

"Website Tour": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syatRXG5O3w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 Small actions can have a big impact on the environment if lots of people do the same:

Commit2act is an app for iPhone & iPad inspiring you to act and document and share with others. Free in App Store. Information at http://www.commit2act.org/

 

See intro and previous newsletters at the blog http://teachglobalcitizenship.blogspot.dk/

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