ISTE 3rd Day

The Global Learning Imperative:  How do We, as Teachers, Help Empower Our Students to Take Their Learning Experience Global.
NETST 1-4
GaPSC:  Standard 4  Element 4.3

One of the key things is to teacher students empathy.  Have students see things from other people cultural perspective.  "Global Empathy is the missing piece. There times were the schools have no alignment between their mission statements and networking."  (Alan November).

Many schools have a mission statement or vision that they want their students to be global learners.  They want to have students to collaborate with other students in other countries.  But... as many of us teachers have faced when they try to go globally the dreaded "Firewall".  Most teachers are hit with the excuse of District Policy.  Alan November presented a school were the walls came down and the students went globally.  The teachers  were given the ability to access outside the school.  The students were able to connect globally.  The students had lab partners in other countries.  The teachers would teach globally instead of just in their classroom.  The student projects were very student based and the teachers would just facilitate.
Teachers need to talk to their principals and other administrators to see about changing policies.  Having a proper lesson plan to present would help.  Just go for it.  The students are the important factor. 



Student Showcase, Birds-of-Feather and Posters.
NETST 4 -5
GaPSC  Standard 1 Element 1.1

Spent the afternoon looking at student projects done at their schools.  Students from those schools were the ones that presented their own projects.   Went to other sessions were teachers gather to network and share ideas or tools that they use in their classroom.  the teachers were the ones presenting.