Globally competent students recognize the relationship between places and people. Globalizing your curriculum demands a strategic design. Here is a menu to help you make discerning choices that will assist your students in becoming globally competent in the 21st century.
Challenge 20/20 is an Internet-based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K-12) from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries; together, the teams (of two or three schools) find local solutions to one of 20 global problems.
Realtime statistics for such statics as world births this year and today, cellular phones bought this year, emails sent this year, tweets sent today, etc. Fascinating!!