Thursday, December 11, 2014

Resources for Educating Global Citizens


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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


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