1. 1. Global Education Digital technology Technology and Elementary students Internet Control Solution
2. 2. Global education is an active learning process based on the universal values of tolerance, solidarity, equality, justice, inclusion, co-operation and non-violence. Global education motivates and empowers people to become active, responsible global citizens. Resource: http://glen-europe.org/global-education/what-is-global- education/
3. 3. Qualities of Global Citizens
4. 4. Global citizens communication Critical thinking openness Cultural competence Qualities of Global Citizens
5. 5. Why should educators pay attention to digital technologies? Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulb4jl3xqs8
6. 6. Why should educators pay attention to digital technologies? Technology is an advantage in the classroom for the following reasons: Motivates students in their learning due to their enjoyment and ease of use with various technological mediums. Reaches students of various learning styles. Technology use applies to and compliments Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Allows students to create and design their own unique products reflective of their personalities and learning needs/styles. Encourages students to manipulate media to construct their own meaning. Enables students to easy share their learning with teachers, families and peers. Gives students the chance to explore technological mediums which in inevitable increase job skills that employers look for in the workforce. Resource: http://purposefultechnology.weebly.com/how-can-we-embed-digital-literacy-in-the- classroom.html
7. 7. Then How to prepare elementary graders for the globalized age by introducing digital learning into their classrooms?
8. 8. Why elementary school? Resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ZJlAz47bg
9. 9. Thoughtfully planned, such lessons engage students to a higher degree than traditional teaching and lead to the development of 21st-century skills such as complex thinking, creative problem solving, and collaboration. --Boni Hamilton Please click here to view more: http://www.iste.org/docs/excerpts/itsele-excerpt.pdf Why elementary school?
10. 10. How to implement digital learning in elementary school? Resource: http://digitallearning.setda.org
11. 11. Resource: http://www.tpack.org
12. 12. Step 1 Build their needs for technology and globalization. Step 2 Provide supportive learning community (workshop, study group, training, etc.) Step 3 Infuse global education and technology into curriculum.
13. 13. How can educators continue to strive for global education in China by facing the internet control?
14. 14. Use satellite classrooms http://en.bjroyalschool.com/html/yjss_9_408.html
15. 15. Other ways International students exchange program Summer camp, Winter camp Travel Communicate with foreigners in China