| Learning Projects Fall 2009 |
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Three-Continent School Partnerships are now ready to launch student learning projects in the Fall 2009. In January 2009 three school districts on three different continents launched a project to connect their schools together: Pasco County School District in Florida USA, Stockholm City School District in Sweden, and Nanshan District Schools in Shenzhen China. The Global Partnership Project is facilitated by the ISC working in partnership with leaders from each of the three school districts who coordinate activity locally and work out communication challenges together globally.Eleven school partnership teams have formed, each team having a school from the USA, Sweden and China: three schools for each partnership team. During the last five months the project schools have met together locally many times to learn and share with each other, and talk about their experience. In addition, each school team has also met with their partner schools on other continents. School principals, teachers and technology specialists from each of the 33 project schools have met each other using combinations of SKYPE, e-mail, video conferencing, OOVOO, and MOODLE. Pasco County School District’s technology department has developed a work site on MOODLE for the GPP project as a whole, and a work site for each of the 11 partnership teams. Educators and students are beginning to dialogue and to post documents and video clips. They are also able to access other forms of real-time virtual communication systems from their MOODLE site. In many cases students have been involved in the conversations, all of which have focused on getting acquainted and preparing for the student learning projects in Fall 2009.The specific student learning projects will be decided by each partnership team, including its students, and center on a global issue today that is also local. The purpose is to help students get acquainted with life on other continents with different cultures than their own, to form friendships, and also to learn together across borders about the global challenges facing humanity today. In this sense, the GPP is designed to help students develop their capacity as global citizens, who make friends with people in other locations and time zones, and also who work together on some the world’s pressing challenges to sustainability of the human community.You can look forward to reports from each school district soon about their perspectives on the impact of the Global Partnership Project on their professionals and students.Dr. Karolyn J. SnyderISC President |
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