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International Engagement Through Education: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Cou... - 0 views

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We must improve language learning and international education at all levels if our nation is to continue to lead in the global economy; to help bring security and stability to the world; and to build stronger and more productive ties with our neighbors.
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The United States is a country made up of many cultures—and we often celebrate that diversity. But just as often, we rely on the predominance of English as the language of global business and higher education when looking toward the world.
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Paul Beaufait on 26 Mar 15

What Sec. Duncan said about cross-cultural and language education in the U.S. may apply to other countries around the world as well.

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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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 For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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 But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15

This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.

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About the Project | Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia - 0 views

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"The purpose of Global Freedom of Expression & Information @Columbia (Global FoE&I @Columbia) is to advance understanding of, and promote, international norms and institutions that protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to face and address" (Objectives, ¶1, 2015.03.17).

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Climate Action Tracker [Home] - 0 views

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"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).

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Teamwork Behaviors: A Review and ... preview & related info | Mendeley - 0 views

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Rousseau, V., Aubé, C., & Savoie, A. (2006). Teamwork Behaviors: A Review and an Integration of Frameworks. Small Group Research, 37(5), 540-570. doi:10.1177/1046496406293125

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Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate - and what we might do about it | Talk Vi... - 0 views

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"Economist Nicholas Stern lays out a plan, presented to the UN's Climate Summit in 2014, showing how the world's countries can work together on climate" (deck, ¶1, 2014.10.31).

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Survival International - The movement for tribal peoples - 0 views

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"Watch this short, satirical film, written by Oren Ginzburg and narrated by actor and comedian David Mitchell, which tells the story of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of 'development'."

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Schooling the World: Resources: Essays & articles - 0 views

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Essays on this Schooling the World resource page (2014.10.06) include: The Other Way of Knowing To Hell With Good Intentions Education is Ignorance Do Indigenous Peoples Benefit from "Development?" Indigenising Curriculum: Questions Posed by Baiga Vidya Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing Childhood in an Indian Village

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Farewell message from Director Takahashi of the Department of JET Programme Management ... - 0 views

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"In order for Japanese people to be able to make necessary contributions and play an important role in the future of the world as a member of the international community, it is vital that Japanese people cultivate an interest in other countries. In particular, I have a strong desire to see the younger generation on which the future of Japan depends upon, look outward to the world."

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Time to revive our love for the English language | Free Malaysia Today - 0 views

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This Sept. 13, 2014, article announced a national requirement for public university students in Malaysia to demonstrate proficiency in English before they graduate.

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English proficiency the way forward - BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sarawak Da... - 0 views

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the competency that a person possesses and his confidence in communicating in the language does not happen overnight. Similarly it cannot be evaluated with just one exam or course
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Paul Beaufait on 18 Sep 14

This Sept. 14, 2014, article announced a national requirement for public university students in Malaysia to demonstrate proficiency in English before they graduate.

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About the Ethnologue | Ethnologue - 0 views

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages
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Language descriptions in the Ethnologue are organized by world area, UN region, and country indicate region of use within countries list alternate language and dialect names specify the three-letter code from ISO 639-3 estimate speaker populations give genetic classification of the language describe language use and viability identify writing scripts used cite availability of literature and other products of language development
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Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14

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INTERVIEW: Peter Senge on Education, Systems Thinking and Our Careers - 0 views

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We live in a world of increasingly complex and intractable problems. These are especially evident in the environmental and social domains. They range from climate change and destruction of ecosystems, to scarcity of water and other critical natural resources, and to the disproportionate effects these growing scarcities are having on the poor of the world
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We have deep intractable social issues, such as youth unemployment around the world and the growing gap between rich and poor. All these ultimately are economic in the same sense that all social and environmental issues ultimately show up in our economic system. No one is very happy with the ability of their economies to establish pathways of sustainable progress
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Without reflection, people tend to just assume their point of view is the right point of view and defend and argue from that point of view. Reflection is a key gateway that opens people to beginning to think together and move from just arguing for about who is right to collaboratively solving the problems we all face
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In terms of people’s careers and opportunities both as employees and entrepreneurs, I believe the combined foundation of social, emotional, and systemic intelligence will be pivotal
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businesses know very well that the skill sets they need today and in the future are very different than those in the past
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they will need students who can think for themselves, work in teams, work with cross-cultural boundaries, and especially work together to solve complex ill-defined problems
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Paul Beaufait on 29 Aug 14

Author interview by Sharlyn Lauby (2014.08/10) sharing "rationale ... [for] incorporating focus-related skill sets into education" (¶2).

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Vision | Global Digital Citizen Foundation - 0 views

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"The Global Digital Citizen Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating responsible, ethical, global citizens for a digital world" (Vision, deck, 2014.08.27).

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Beyond Knowing Facts, How Do We Get to a Deeper Level of Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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The elements that make up this approach are not necessarily new — great teachers have been employing these tactics for years. But now there’s a movement to codify the different pieces that define the deeper learning approach, and to spread the knowledge from teacher to teacher, school to school in the form of a Deeper Learning MOOC (massive open online course), organized by a group of schools, non-profits, and sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation.
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So what defines deeper learning? This group has identified six competencies: mastering content, critical thinking, effective written and oral communication, collaboration, learning how to learn, and developing academic mindsets.
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“Before we assess, we need to know what we are assessing for,” said Marc Chun, program officer at the Hewlett Foundation. What does effective collaboration look like? What does it really look like to be a critical thinker? These skill are more oriented towards process than content, making them difficult to assess in a standardized way.
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Paul Beaufait on 26 Aug 14

Schwartz (2014.02.28) acknowledged that approaches fostering deeper learning are not new, and pointed out related competencies derived from a MOOC. She also highlighted challenges of assessing such competencies.

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Vision of Humanity - 0 views

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"Vision of Humanity is a strong proponent of the need to further study, advocate and act on peace. It groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace which enjoy the support of a wide range of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world's attention and awareness around the importance of peace to humanity's survival in the 21st century" (A word from our founder, Steve Killelea, ¶3, 2014.08.26).

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Welcome | Global Issues in Language Education - 0 views

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The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) GILE SIG "works to promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching drawing on fields such as global education, peace education, environmental education and human rights education" (Main page, Welcome, ¶1, 2014.07.10).

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Provision of comprehensive information regarding the events and highlights on... - 0 views

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Provides links to the latest comprehensive progress report, an archive of previous reports, and related websites

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