Mastering Global Literacy

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Greetings I'm Heidi Hayes Jacobs I'm delighted to have an opportunity to speak with you about work and ideas that
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I'm considering and playing with and shaping and creating models dealing with global literacy and its importance for
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our learners I also want to include the work of our team and our faculty at the curriculum 21 project I'm director of
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that project and also president of curriculum designers Inc based in Rye New York I think there are three
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literacies and I have a new book series out with solution tree that deals with the intersection between these three

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that is digital literacy media literacy and the one in the forefront for our discussion global literacy I'd like to
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look at those three I'd like to look at their intersection and in particular pay attention to why I think this latter one
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global literacy is so challenging and if such particular importance I've had the good fortune of working with many
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schools in the United States and overseas and I'll bring the best I can of those ideas in our short time
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together I think the three literacies are distinctive from one another and yet overlapping digital literacy it has to
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do with the ability of a student to select and choose an application or a digital tool that will best match a
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purpose it requires sophistication it requires access it requires tools like tagging
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and skills like creating clearing houses and curating websites media literacy has to do with both being a good receiver of
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media on multiple forms a good critic but also a good medium maker the ability to create a quality video podcast a
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quality audio podcast a quality format that uses new media to convey ideas global literacy I believe rests on the
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shoulders of the work that we did on our global competency program that was sponsored by CCSSO and Asia society and
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my colleagues Tony Jackson and Veronica Bois Mozilla have put those ideas together in a marvelous free download
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that could get on Asia Society on global competency those competencies deal with
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helping students be fluent investigators of the world being able to examine different perspectives being able to
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report and share their ideas and then take action well it seems to me those global competencies are only possible if
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you're digitally literate and you're able to convey your ideas effectively with good media one thing in particular
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that strikes me about global confidence is unlike digital and media which are content free global competence feels
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with the word global there's information there that our students need and we can use a GPS and we can take a look at
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where we are in our car and get directions but it doesn't tell us anything about the place about the
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people and who lives there so one important part of being globally literate it's being able to acquire
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really meaningful and current information about people in places I think that also has to do with
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personalizing as I investigate the world and I take action and I gain perspectives and in that regard I really
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recommend that every classroom in the United States and every classroom that has the capability worldwide at least
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once a year creates a partnership or a link with another school but here's the key point
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for curriculum purposes so it's not simply to turn on a skype and and go to a classroom in another country and and
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think wow what are their kids look like it has to do with actually connecting it with say a contemporary issue or a
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common problem and being able to make those connections one organization I strongly would recommend to any of you
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who are listening right now would be facing the future facing the future org has been with us for over 20 years
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providing substantial content and information about other places to create those links I guess what I'm afraid of
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in some ways is superficiality but just turning on a camera and connecting with another place doesn't do it another
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option I would recommend is project oriented I'd like to encourage you to go to our website
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ulam 21 and in particular go to the resource hub and pull up the Global Partnership hub and that link will be
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posted on the materials that go along with this video clip the global partnership hub is a free service that
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we provide to help link teachers to programs of substance for example one group I've had a good pleasure of
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working with is the Pulitzer Center the Pulitzer Center which of course you probably associate with the field and
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surprised and should is an education group that specifically has everyday global journalists posting articles
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sharing curriculum materials curriculum maps on contemporary issues or perhaps it has to do with Paul Salopek s--
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project for he's walking around the world and you can connect with that project as well through National
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Geographic or you may be looking at the hundred people portrait that the Gates Foundation has underwritten there is the
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classroom project of course one of the best but there are many many projects that have a curriculum twist to them
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that you can easily integrate into your common practice so the point really is this if we want Johnny Susie Abdul Maria
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any of our kids to be contemporary citizens they need to be cultivating the three literacies digital media and
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global showing the intersection between those three and their projects and work using digital tools creating media to
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share and being globally connected both with information and point-to-point and real projects that means they need
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teachers that are that way they need principals that are that way so I encourage the professional
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development also in poor and employed digital literacy media literacy and global literacy in its work so every
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faculty that we work with we encourage to connect with another faculty we encourage you to set up your own
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clearinghouses use your own digital tools in your own curriculum planning our kids deserve no less and if we don't
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do this we're basically choosing to live in the last century as opposed to this one thank you so much for your attention
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and I wish you all good things in your quest to become globally kin did teachers