Global Classroom

Today while at EdmodoCon learning about Edmodo, our first speaker brought up the concept of a "Global Classroom".  This teacher, from Washington DC, spoke to the fact that her students could see the Washington Monument from their homes and schools, yet had never visited the monument or set foot on the Mall.  Global???? 
Connections to what is in our backyard, across the hall, across town, across the state, country and possibly the world is what makes learning Global.


How do we open the window to the world within the confines of our four walls?  Even if that window is just into our back yard.  Being "Global" is thinking beyond ourselves.  The question is:  How can we use technology (Google, Edmodo, Wikis, Blogs, etc) to provide students with a Global Education in a Global Classroom?  How can we open the window or door?

• Global Education stimulates curiosity, motivates learning, and thus contributes to the raising of standards.
• Global Education studies different cultures and countries and the issues that face them, and develops an understanding of the impact our actions have on them.
• Global Education reflects the global nature of our society and responds to the diverse backgrounds and experiences of the children in the classroom.
• Global Education recognizes the importance of expanding the horizons of children who live in less diverse communities.
• Global Education develops skills and attitudes which enable people to take responsibility for their own lives and the world we live in and become active global citizens.
• Global Education looks at the ways in which every-day life and experience affect and are affected by the wider world.
• Global education is as much about the relationships within a classroom as it is about relationships between countries.