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It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

It'S Back To School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around The World [Ellen Jackson, Jan Davey Ellis] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In easy-to-read text, describes what the first day of school might be like for a child in Kenya, Kazakhstan, Canada

The Global Schools Assessment is the best way for a school to benchmark where they are in supporting students' global competence. It is an assessment tool to help determine how global your school is and offer ways to strenthen practice.

A reasonable article written about international schools and teaching jobs. Interesting how the number of schools has increased in the past 15 years, and how as the less well-off countries become wealthier (eg China) they want their children educated in English. Lots of opportunities for teachers in many places.

World reporting. For students, by students. An exciting initiative by the Washington International School that now includes schools all over the world. Journalism and other students writing blog posts and sharing images of news events globally.

"The efforts of the Connect All Schools consortium and like-minded programs, such as Flat Classroom, Edmodo, Twitter chats, Global Read Aloud Day, Skype in the Classroom, Microsoft's Partners in Learning, Global Classroom Scrapbook Project, and the Intel Teach Program, have vastly increased the diversity and number of students gaining global awareness and empathy beyond what would be possible through study abroad alone. Still, only small fraction of U.S. K-12 students currently have access to some kind of international experience, whether physical or virtual."

Students from the A Week in the Life Project 12-2 talk about their schools.This is an excellent artifact for comparing similarities and differences between lifestyles and cultures. Chin and USA represented.

The Horizon Report Preview is out! Below are the selected emerging technologies that will be written up in the full report by February. Flat Classroom invites interested teachers with High School classes to join the NetGenEd 2013 project that focuses on collaborative student research and multimedia development based on these emerging trends. Read full details here: http://www.netgened.org/ Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less - Massively Open Online Courses - Tablet Computing Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years - Big Data and Learning Analytics - Game-Based Learning Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years - 3D Printing - Wearable Technology

My presentation at the TICAL School Leadership Summit today

"MARK YOUR CALENDARS for May 2, 2013!! Megaconference Jr., now in its 10th year, is an international program designed to give students in elementary through secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other's learning in real time, using advanced multi-point video conferencing technology. Megaconference Jr. addresses local and national curriculum standards in multiple subject areas. It will also help students and teachers develop the capacity to effectively utilize high-speed networks, videoconferencing and other emerging technologies to enhance learning experiences."