This week's current event choice comes from Lauren Maeda. Our task was to find a resource article from an online magazine on teachers using technology. Lauren chose the International Society for Technology in Education's membership magazine, Learning & Leading with Technology. The article that she chose detailed the learning resource, Learning without Borders.
In 2010, a school district in Pennsylvania agreed to help develop an international classroom exchange called the Schoolwires Greenleaf program, which paired US students with Chinese learners to create a collaboration of learning and global citizenship. This is an amazing vehicle to create global awareness and cultural understanding between two diverse and distant cultures from very different parts of the world. Included in the article are the standards and curriculum of the project, which includes but is not limited to: landmarks, iconic images, global citizenship, and our futures and careers. The Chinese and American teachers worked via e-mail because of the different time zones, as well as through video and Skype. While this program was piloted for high school students, it could be easily modified to work with students at lower levels. There is so much to learn about people from other cultures: geography, civics, government, and climate, just to name a few. This is a great example of technology truly being used to expand our borders of learning and understanding using the tools available in the twenty-first century!
http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/issues/november-2009/students-without-
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