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Your Name and Title:  Melda N. Yildiz, Global Scholar

School or Organization Name:  Walden University

Co-Presenter Name(s): Fulbright Scholars and Students

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: New Jersey, USA

Language in Which You Will Present:  English

Target Audience(s):  Educators, Global Scholars and Entrepreneurs

Short Session Description (one line):  In this session, we will explore globally connected projects, grant opportunities and resources for educators who seek global opportunities to teach, research and provide service around the world.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

We would like to share several Global Education Networks that provide transdisciplinary grant projects, resources to promote collaborations among learners and educators around the world.

We will share our experiences with Fulbright scholars and students. Fulbright is one of the organization that provide teaching and research grants.

As Neil DeGrasse Tyson said, “We are all connected. To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically.” In this interconnected world, educators who seek connections around the world will be able to explore globally connected projects, resources and grant opportunities such as Fulbright, StarTalk in this session.

This session benefits P-16 teachers and teacher educators who seek innovative strategies for transdisciplinary and participatory projects around the world while sharing their passion and expertise participating in globally connected multilingual, multicultural and multimedia projects.

Conference participants will be able to:

· argue the challenges and advantages of transformative critical pedagogy in global education context;

· introduce the use and the role of innovative technologies in developing global competencies, critical thinking and 21st century skills among educators;

· showcase their transdisciplinary projects across content areas (e.g. math, geography, cultural studies, world languages);

· demonstrate creative strategies and possibilities for engaging educators in project-based globally connected activities integrating new media and technologies;

· investigate the use and the power of innovative technologies and online resources such as MOOCs, wikibook projects and interactive games as a means to promote heutagogy among educators,

· outline the best practices, assessment tools, and curriculum models that promote transformative and heutagogical teaching models.

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Weblink

https://njfulbright.wordpress.com/resources-for-teachers/