Discussions

SURVEY and April 5th/6th Advisory Board Meeting Replay and Notes

Please take this survey when you have a chance: http://tinyurl.com/5pnhyp Also, we had a FABULOUS meeting tonight via Flashmeeting. 25 people were in attendance and everyone contributed some great ideas. Take a look at the meeting replay and notes h

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Social Networking, Avatars and the Stages of Development

Back in college, we all learned that children go though the "identity" stage of development (according to Erikson) around the ages 13-20 years old. Has anyone seen any reasearch ANYWHERE about how developing an online personality--an avatar, a myspac

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United Nations Day live chat event

In honor of United Nations Day, TakingITGlobal is hosting a live chat on Wednesday, October 24, at 10:30 Eastern Daylight Time (visit Timeanddate.com to convert to your time zone). Panelists from the One World Youth Project, UNICEF, and the United N

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Numbers for collaborative teaching and learning

Hi all, Someone recently asked me what my educated quess would be for the following questions: What percentage of teachers/schools around the world are aware of online collaborative teaching and learning? What percentage of teachers/schools are en

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Social Entrepreneurship

I've been traveling like a madwoman to various conferences and speaking engagements. I could write a book on what I am learning, but for the sake of brevity, I'd like to post on the idea of social entrepreneurship. The keynote of the NCTI conference

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Alexander Russo's article

Recently, reporter Alexander Russo plied our community for information about global education and his article was just published on Edutopia's site. Vicki Davis is quoted and there's even a link to the GEC at the bottom of the page! Feel free to add

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TEDTalks - Africa

Check out: http://www.ted.com/themes/view/id/45 I've always been a huge fan of TEDTalks, excerpts of talks given at this high-end conference that focuses on innovation in technology, entertainment and design. Today I received a notice that an Afric

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Creating a New Pedagogical Space for Global Dialogue to Occur

Youth Media Reporter – an online journal about the field of youth media education is running an article I wrote about YouthLAB in this month’s issue. Listening Across Borders: Creating Virtual Spaces for Youth Global Exchange http://www.youthmediare

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Making a Difference

I posted this on my blog and on Classroom2.0, and thought I would share it as a discussion here as well. What do you do in your digital classroom to promote Social Responsibility/World Issues? - - - - -

Here is a great thing to do with your online

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Blog Action Day 2007

On October 15, 2007, all bloggers are encouraged to blog about environmental issues and if you receive money for your blog via something like Adsense, you are encouraged to donate your proceeds to various charities. To register and get more info, vis

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Part-2 of “WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE?”

Part-2 of “WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE?” DIMENSIONS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING We have considered the background of this paper from the view-points of individual learner, individual teacher and organizations. Now, let us discuss the possibilities of ef

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Preparing Inservice and Preservice Teachers ?

If you are involved with higher education and/or colleges of education in any way, can you tell me if there are initiatives at your institution to prepare future teachers to be globally capable? If you are working in a school, are there efforts under

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Part-3 of “WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE?”

Part-3 of “WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE?” Ways & means of producing VIDEO BOOKS in all topics

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NETS Refresh

For those of you attending NECC, you might be interested in the follow meetings regarding ISTE's technology standards. My understanding is that the student standards are being released at NECC, and that the other standards for admins and teachers wil

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WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE? (Part 1 of 3)

WHAT DO WE DO WITH KNOWLEDGE? Initiatives towards freedom in teaching and freedom in learning M. SESHAGIRI Hyderabad, A.P. India What do we do with knowledge? Shall we say the answer as “We share”? Because, we share knowledge among ourselves, whic

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This is a global site everyone

We are in a position to lead our schools and teachers towards Global Awareness. As an Australian (a small country that needs to cross boarders to survive) I am acutely aware of language of inclusion when it comes to global relations. It is very possi

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Luddites

I know you have them: the parents who want you to explain to them why they should allow technology in their homes at all. They're the ones that believe there are no redeeming qualities to the activities in which children engage at home (like IM, My S

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