It's Computer Science Education Week and part of this should be exploring the fact that the world, and work force, are globally-connected and cross-cultural.
You can find some programs and resources that help to Educate Global Citizens here at Pearson Labs' site: http://labs.pearson.com/educating-global-citizens-theres-an-app-for-that/
Here is a summary of some of the resources:
- programs that train students to collaborate with non-local students to come up with 20 solutions to globally relevant problems
- National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)’ Challenge 20/20
- Chris Stevens Youth Network (CSYN)’s iEARN-USA
- programs that help students create international bookclubs and wikispaces
- Flat Connection’s Edmodo
- programs that help students learn the universal language of code
- Code.org’s Hour of Code
- programs that help students make their own educational apps
- Paadlet Backback
- Mural.ly
