Slide - Global awareness instruction must move beyond foods and holidays

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Comments

[Bill Ferriter]

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Good slide, Scott---

I also think that in an era of interconnectedness, education needs to move beyond our current emphasis on producing "globally competitive" students and towards producing "globally cooperative" students.

It might just be a small semantic shift, but until we can get school and community leaders to give up the "sky is falling" rhetoric around the economic implications of disappearing borders, we'll never produce students who are open to the world.

Does this make any sense?
Bill

[Scott McLeod]

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Yes, it does, and I agree with you. And sometimes I stoke those fires too strongly myself. Will have to watch my language...

[Bill Ferriter]

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What's really weird is that stoking those fires in some ways makes sense...because it's the kind of language that seems to get the attention of business leaders and school principals.

I know that when I'm trying to make the case for more digital tools and opportunities in classrooms and for more efforts at getting my students to learn with (instead of just about) the world, I'm "heard" more often when I beat the economic competition drums.

It's a fine line, I guess---and one that we'll need to dance on for awhile in order to get the change that we want to see started.

[Scott McLeod]

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Hey, Bill, see

www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2646401268

[Gene McCracken]

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Movie Promotes Blogging - driving home last eve after seeing Julie and Julia and I thought of your post Scott. Movie is about a young woman who cooks all of Julia Child's 520+ recipes in 365 days and BLOGS about the experience daily - circa 2002. It is also about Child's life in France in the early 50's with her husband learning French cooking.

OK this is not a great movie, but will be watched by a fair number of middle age plus folks. My bet is that it will promote blogging as a creative regenerative growthful activity.

I found a certain irony that this tech promoting movie had a "foreign food" motif. I do agree with the post message that "globalness" is about more than food and holidays.

Re good comment on language and competition and cooperation - I'm reminded of old saying about change - it happens due to peer or fear. We change because we copy a peer or because we are scared. Both are external motivators.

Change liking learning works best and lasts longer if internally motivated.

[Lucy Gray]

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Hey Scott -

If you're interested in global education, I encourage you to join the Global Education Collaborative at http://globaleducation.ning.com.

Lucy Gray