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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/a-global-community.html?ref=opinion This link shows reader letters in response to the original article... and the writer's reply to those letters.

These same 20 problems and the book they come from... are the inspiration for the Global Issues Network conferences. http://www.nais.org/Articles/Pages/Challenge-20-20-Twenty-Global-Problems.aspx

http://asiasociety.org/global-cities-education-network/assessing-21st-century-skills-and-competencies-around-world "How do teachers assess things like creativity and collaboration, or cross-cultural skills? Our new report, Measuring 21st Century Competencies, focuses on just that question. The report grew out of the Global Cities Education Network, which is comprised of urban school systems working together on overcoming common education challenges. The participating cities are Denver, Hong Kong, Houston, Lexington, Melbourne, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Toronto."

6 writers offer suggestions for action

" Good news on ozone, bad news on greenhouse gases The ozone layer is on track for recovery even as carbon emissions boom. by John Timmer - Sept 13 2014, 2:10am CST ShareTweet 42 The Montreal Protocol, created in response to the decline in the Earth's ozone layer, called for a world-wide phase out in the production of chemicals that were responsible for the ozone's decline. It is perhaps the greatest global environmental achievement to date. And, this week, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Program announced it was working. Unfortunately, this week also saw the WMO release its annual greenhouse gas bulletin, and here the news was nowhere near as promising, as emissions returned to levels not seen since the 1980s. First, the good news. In the 2014 version of the Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, the WMO finds that the atmospheric concentrations of most of the chemicals covered by the Montreal Protocol are in decline. The exceptions are hydrochlorofluorocarbons, which are used in refrigeration, and halon, used in fire suppression. The WMO also noted that there must be some unidentified source of carbon tetrachloride to explain its persistence in the atmosphere."

He is a journalist/filmmaker who might be available to talk to our students or visit the school. He presents at Global Issues Network conferences. I think he lives in Beijing.

Added him as a follow on twitter

Since we have been talking about PD, I thought I'd share this. If you don't know of Steve Hargadon, he's a good person to follow on twitter.  He works with this group and others to put on lots of virtual conferences. Best of all, they archive many of the keynotes and presentations so they are freely available later. Hargadon puts out a weekly newsletter that I subscribed to at learningrevolution.com  He and his collaborators are sifting through so much stuff and synthesizing it for us.

On this page, the Ashoka Foundation, shares information about a range of competitions/challenges, such as this: http://www.changemakers.com/play2learn

https://www.youthventure.org/ "Throughout, participants examine local, societal and global issues; share ideas and personal experiences; and refine plans and engage in teamwork, public speaking, and peer support. With each workshop, participants move towards a greater level of innovative and creative thinking; goal orientation; and refined problem-solving skills. Each team selects an Adult Ally, who provides mentoring and support to the team as needed."

"The FIDS framework cultivates the I CAN mindset that allows children to believe they are not helpless, that change is possible and they can drive it. It develops the 21st century skills and creative confidence in people empowering them to use their creative agency to design innovative solutions." http://designthinkingguide.dfcworld.com/

"DESIGN FOR CHANGE is the largest global movement designed to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through the Design for Change Challenge that "I Can" are the two most powerful words a person can believe. Children who have discovered this are changing their world. This year, Design for Change reaches 34 countries and over 300,000 schools inspiring hundreds of thousands of children, their teachers and parents, to celebrate the fact change is possible and that they can lead that change! The challenge asks students to do four very simple things: Feel, Imagine, Do and Share. Children are dreaming up and leading brilliant ideas all over the world, from challenging age-old superstitions in rural communities, to earning their own money to finance school computers to solving the problem of heavy school bags - children are proving that they have what it takes to be able to 'design' a future that is desired." - See more at: http://www.dfcworld.com/about.html#sthash.156lf0CC.dpuf

teachers share resources and talk about how they use this tool with their students http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/#.U2bFe62SxsY

from the designer of this software: http://www.gapminder.org/donations/ Building a fact-based world view Gapminder is a non-profit foundation based in Stockholm. Our goal is to replace devastating myths with a fact-based worldview. Our method is to make data easy to understand. We are dedicated to innovate and spread new methods to make global development understandable, free of charge, without advertising. We want to let teachers, journalists and everyone else continue to freely use our tools, videos and presentations.

Fareed Zakaria interviews the author here: http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/28/why-wars-can-mean-less-war/

Generally, Zakaria does a good job on his show of bringing historians into the conversation about current events to analyze long-term trends in global society.