Global+Awareness


 * How would you define global awareness? Global Awareness to an understanding of current events around the world. It is also a realization of how events around the world effect each of us. ﻿ The article brought up a good point, global awareness is not "the 4 F's(food, fashion, fiestas & folklore)," it is "transnational issues, global linkages, cross-cultural understanding, and perspective-taking." Perspecitve-taking is probably most difficult, but also most important to give students a true understanding of global issues. Model UN is a great example of global awareness and perspective-taking, because that is exactly what comes out of that work. Students are not simply reading an article about the culture and holidays of Poland, they are researching the country and making inferences to take the perspective of the country.


 * To what extent would you say global awareness is an important 21st century skill? Please explain your answer. Global awareness is more easily taught in a 21st Century Classroom. When students have access to technology and are able to communicate online they are also able to learn and see more, as well as interact with the people and events in other parts of the world. Globabl awareness is not reading an article about the earthquake in Haiti and looking at a map. It is watching videos, discussing problems and solutions, and interacting with humanitarian efforts. ﻿With the use of technology, goals for global awareness are more easily reached. The article gives examples of online programs for teacher programs and student collaboration to build global awareness.

media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=208771456945880497493.00049d11e3a983f1a85dd&ll=42.427281,-70.996674&spn=0.155511,0.204368&output=embed" width="425" height="350" I found it difficult at first to create this map. I was frustrated with how long it was taking googlemaps to load. Once I realized I could search a specific location and save it through the bubble. I would use a map like this to show the locations of different ancient civilizations and give students perspecitves on distance between different places and events.

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