Globalization and
Education
Collin College
EDUC 1301
Chapter 8
 Globalization: Increasing
global
interdependence in economic, cultural,
social, & tech spheres
 Knowledge economy: Dominated by
exchange of knowledge
• Knowledge is an important asset and a product
of major economic & cultural value
• There exists a fiercely competitive global work
force
 Skills that must be taught in school:
• Technological
• Collaborative
• Creative problem-solving
• Fluency in languages besides English
 Personal traits that are important:
• Flexibility, comfort with change
• Curiosity, passion for learning
 Teaching
in the 21st Century
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTIBDR4Dn2g
• Teachers are no longer the source of information,
they are the FILTERS
• Focus on SKILLS
• Goal is CREATING
• Engagment
 Active
 Meaningful
 Creative
 Powerful
For Learning
Applicable
Fun
Long-term
Problem-Solving
Exciting
 Review “Teaching
in the 21st Century”
 Using Social Studies TEKS for selected
Grade level and the Lesson Plan Template,
plan a 21st Century lesson in which students
gather data from reliable sources and
collaborate to create an age-appropriate
business/presentation to show master of the
concept of “goods or services”
 Fill out all parts of the lesson plan template
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 Knowledge
of the world
 Creative problem-solving skills
 Ability to manage new information
sources
• Sort, interpret, validate, and act on vast amounts
of fast-changing information
 Collaboration
skills
• Cultural sensitivity and fluency in other
languages are important skills for global teams
 ePals
Global Community
http://www.epals.com/
• Links students in 200 countries
• Teacher can choose match by type of school, age
range of students, languages spoken
 Example
of cross-cultural science project
• By high school students from 3 countries
• They describe collaboration process
 Intercultural
E-mail Class Connections
http://www.iecc.org/
 International Ed. and Resource Network
http://www.iearn.org/
 United Nations programs
 Lesson
 Info
plans & videos on global issues
about educational
videoconferencing
Part of the pre-conference materials
sent to help teachers prepare their
students for a discussion about
asteroids
Source: NASA Digital Learning Network, Asteroids PowerPoint Presentation,
http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln/content/catalog/details/?cid=67
 Real-time
audio & video communication
that allows people in different locations
to “meet face-to face”
• “Virtual field trips” to museums, zoos
• NASA scientists and engineering experts
videoconference with students
 Provide pre- and post-conference materials to
teachers

Videogame culture: gaming refers to
playing computer and video games.
Video game culture is a form of new
media that has enormous potential for
teaching and learning.
 When
developed correctly, games can
engage players in learning that is
specifically applicable to school
curriculum.
 Students
and teachers in different places
 Increasingly common at high school level
 How they work:
• Students communicate daily with teacher
• Counselor tracks students’ progress
• Student needs maturity, motivation, and good
work habits to succeed.
• High school students who cannot find courses
offered in their own schools can now take these
courses online! Especially important in rural
areas.
 Especially
important in poor and rural
pre-K–12 schools that……
• May lack resources for advanced classes
• Can provide cultural enrichment in schools with
limited diversity
 In all schools:
• Can provide classes that would be otherwise
unavailable to students
• Opportunity for international study, crosscultural experience
 Your
job is to help students:
• Make meaning of information
• Develop skills for polite cross-cultural
communication
• Collaborate in a productive manner
 This
teaching environment changes:
• Teacher-student interactions
• Peer communication
• Assessment and accountability
 It
is hard to predict what the world will be
like when your students become adults
 Connectivity, communication, and
collaboration are the new “reading, ’riting,
and ’rithmetic”
 We need the “three Rs” to master the “three
Cs”
 To teach today, we must keep pace with
rapid change;
 Global communication challenges us to
expand our vision and work for positive
change!