Your Name and Title: Emilio Garza, Assistant Principal
School or Organization Name: James A. Foshay Learning Center
Co-Presenter Name(s): Dr. Ronnie Lowenstein
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: United States of America
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Teachers and Administrators
Short Session Description (one line):
NetGeneration of Youth: A Catalyst for Transformation in the Global Age
Full Session Description (as long as you would like):
Invitation to the Attendees of the Global Education Conference
If you share a Commitment to Catalyzing Change and
Creating Opportunity -Rich Learning Environments;
If you share a Conviction that our
Future on Earth depends on Leaders capable of Designing
Global solutions to the Global Challenges;
We hope you will join us in November at the Global Education Conference
Mr. Emilio Garza, Dr Ronnie Lowenstein, and Ms Ingrid Graham will share how
members of the NetGeneration of Youth Global Community of Practice
are serving as 21st Century Pioneers …
Shaping the Contours of an Emerging CyberCivilization;
Harnessing Technology as Tools of Communication and Collaboration;
Establishing a Global Community of Practice to
Build Bridges of Mutual Understanding in an
Increasingly Digital World without Borders;
Conducting Virtual Visits with Role Models who
Inspire Students to Inquire, Aspire, Academically Achieve, and
Pursue Career Paths of Success and Service on a Global Stage.
Embracing Partnerships that
Forge an Ubuntu Spirit to expand collaborative opportunities;
Foster Restructuring of teaching and learning environments;
Create Synergies to enable Global Project Partners
To Achieve together what no one can do alone!
Going forward:
We invite you to join our Global Community of Practice;
We will applaud your Determination to
Pioneer curricular and instructional innovations that
Inspire students as Leaders who are
Civically-engaged, Culturally-aware,
Empowered with Global Competencies &
Dedicated to Shaping a Positive Global Future!
Going forward:
We will Honor you as 21st Century Champions
Helping to Transform Teaching & Learning & Inventing the Future
Recognizing the need to transform teaching and learning for a Global Digital Age, educators across the US and in three countries in Africa (Zambia, Uganda and South Africa) have joined the NetGeneration of Youth Global Community of Practice (NGY GCoP) to redesign their schools as active communities of inquiry with the World as the Classroom.
This presentation will be organized in three parts:
- Dr Ronnie Lowenstein, Founder and Executive Director of NetGeneration of Youth will briefly review the current reality where technology and globalization have created a state of hyperturbulence that is threatening peace, progress and prosperity across the globe. The global challenges beg for global solutions. Youth represent our hope for the future. She will
then share the legacy of NetGeneration of Youth that uses an inquiry and project based learning model in combination with state of the art technologies including SMART Bridgit desk top collaboration, Skype, NING social networking, and partnerships to not only cultivate youth as Leaders for the Global Age who possess global understandings and global competencies, but also to empower the educators as innovators and collaborators, unafraid to challenge the status quo.
- Administrator Emilio Garza, Assistant Principal at Foshay Learning Center, an inner city school in Los Angeles, California, will then discuss how he has embraced the NGY model to catalyze culture change and transform his campus as an International Baccalaureate school. He will spotlight some of the Implementation activities that continue to evolve through partnerships, from the 2008 partnership with SMART that facilitated a sister site relationship with Oude Molen Academy of Science and Technology in South Africa, to the US Department of State sponsored initiative “Global Connections Exchange-Africa “ whose mission focused on “Cultivating NetGeneration of Youth as Global Citizens, and Media Literate Leaders in a Digital Age.” His staff has adopted new instructional paradigms and enjoyed expanding enriching opportunities, such as technology enabled Virtual Visits with Inspiring role models, Global Parties with a Purpose that are youth led and teacher facilitated, three week international exchange visits of teachers and youth among sister sites, NGY National Student Leadership Scholarships enabling NGY Ambassadors to attend National Student Leadership Conference Summer Institutes (for International Diplomacy at American University in Washington, DC and for Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley in California); and use of NING where students connect, communicate as they cultivate their media literacy skills-- and become critical thinking consumers and effective creators of media.
- Finally, the Partnership Advisor Mrs. Ingrid Graham will facilitate dialogue with conference attendees regarding how to use partnerships as a strategy to introduce and sustain innovation... especially by implementing NGY to empower administrators, teachers and youth and help them discover the world.
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