Show Me the World Learning with Global Peers

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Show Me the World Learning with Global Peers

• University of Missouri

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Challenge for educators

• To get students increase their global knowledge
• To get students to know different cultures
• To help students understand global issues
• To help students make connections through
  expanding and connecting the knowledge they gain

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Show me the World

• Global education project implemented by the
  University of Missouri-Columbia's College of
  Education (MU CoE)
• Launched in the year 2000
• Support schools by the use of technology to
  interact directly with and learn from their
  partner schools in other countries

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• Goals
• provide interactive service dedicated to helping
  Missouri's K-12 students and teachers become
  Global Citizens.
• provide ideas, resources, and tools for
  overcoming the language, culture, and geographic
  barriers separating all of us from an exciting
  and promising future.

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How?...

• Lesson Plans that involve engaging students in
  projects that enhance students global knowledge
• http//www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Reso
  urces/Lesson_Plans/index.htm
• Activities that students can engage in personally
  and learn on their own
• http//www.studentsoftheworld.info/jeux/animaux/an
  imaux_e.html
• Through collaborating with partner school and
  working together on projects and various
  activities

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Resources

• For Teachers
• Have educational value, and promote a global
  perspective based on respect and free of cultural
  bias.
• Engaging and appropriate for elementary and
  secondary grade students
• Reviewed by teachers to ensure they are kid
  safe and useful

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• For Students
• Have educational value, and promote a global
  perspective based on respect and free of cultural
  bias.
• Reviewed by Information and Learning
  Professionals
• Special attention has been given to educational
  resources from eMINTS

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• For Partner Schools
• Providing technical support to schools involved
  in partnerships through the Shadow network
  system, iVisit system (affordable for schools)
• Guide partners into getting started with their
  partner schools
• Recommending iEARN unique project based
  learning system (http//www.iearn.org )

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Forever Movie
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• Videoconference between
• Fuhsing Middle and Primary
  School
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• University of
  Missouri

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Taiwan students visit to MU
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iEARN (International Education and Resource
Network)

• Started in 1988
• Connecting youth across the globe
• Largest Non-Profit Global network
• Uses advanced technologies to enable teachers and
  students across countries to collaborate on
  projects

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iEARN Reach

• 20,000 schools in more than 109 countries
• 750,000 - 1,000,000 students are engaged in
  collaborative project each day

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iEARN Technology

• e-mail one computer to another computer, with
  possibilities of multiple copies  
• forums one computer to a discussion room/forum
  ("newsgroups" or "web forums") into which people
  "walk" and interact with whomever is in the room
  and which is accessible by thousands of computers
   
• WWW depository of files with text and graphics
  in a "gallery" which visitors can admire,
  download, and perhaps meet others
•  video-conferencing and chat taking advantage of
  both video and audio capabilities of the internet

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iEARN Member Countries
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iEARN Teachers Forum

• A lounge for teachers to meet and discuss issues
  like
• starting a project,
• issues of concern,
• support and welcome other teachers,
• build a community of educators
• share their educational experiences

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Share a project topic
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Propose a project
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Feedback on projects
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Find a project
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Find a partner school
More on this project http//foro.iearn.org/webx
?50_at_671.T0P5abOTjUZ.26377_at_.1e1605a2/0
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Morein iEARN Teachers forum

• Teachers meeting to visit a Water Filtration
  Plant in Bronx
• http//foro.iearn.org/webx?128_at_399.JZBSaQ6DjmB.159
  15_at_.1e181dad
• Teachers discussions regarding projects they are
  working on
• http//foro.iearn.org/webx?128_at_399.JZBSaQ6DjmB.159
  41_at_.ff11eda

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iEARN Elementary Level Teddy Bear Project

• An international teddy bear exchange project
  using e-mail
• After registration teachers are sent a partner
  class to work with in this project. The classes
  send each other a Teddy Bear or other soft toy by
  airmail.
• When it arrives the bear writes home a diary
  message by email at least once a week describing
  its adventures, the places it has been, as well
  as the things it has seen and done.
• Available for all ages, the project aims to
  encourage authentic writing by providing the
  children with a real audience. They write their
  email messages as if they are the visiting bear.
  
• Sometimes internet video conference between two
  classes may deepen their friendships.
• The project provides an opportunity for students
  to develop understandings about cultures other
  than their own.
• For more go to http//foro.iearn.org/.1dec44fb/0
  

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iEARN Teddy Bear Project
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iEARN- Solar Cooking Project Outcomes

• Website showing, Solar Cooking Presentation,
  movies, student contribution, teacher resources
• http//aces.miamicountryday.org/SolarCookers/solar
  _cookers.htm
• More details about the solar cooking project
  description and previous years outcomes
• http//www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/web/labsalive
  /solar.htm

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iEARN- My Dream World Project outcome

• Some creative outcomes by students can be seen
  under the following link
• http//iearn.saf.ir/dreamworld/

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