Collaboration Spring 2008
PROPOSAL
Connecting Kids Globally Across the Curriculum
What
Our project will be based on children connecting and sharing globally across the curriculum (art, music, literature, dance/movement) using audio, visual and web conferencing technology tools.
This project will demonstrate how a US classroom could interact with classrooms around the world to show and share information and ideas while learning new technologies and new ways to process information.
Using resources such as e-pals, students and teachers will be able to reach audiences that they can compare, contrast, learn and share experiences across the curriculum.
This is an opportunity for students to implement technology and ideas in all learning environments just outside of the classroom, this is also an opportunity to connect with special subject teachers to link to the classroom.
Why
The purpose of this assignment is to give students an opportunity to interact with children around the globe to help them prepare for a changing environment and collaboration with others helps to build a well rounded student who will be able to think critically and from a global perspective due to a changing environment.
This collaboration can benefit students by allowing them to become better communicators, build leadership relationships and teach them to work well with others, and become more aware of their cultural surroundings.
Some key elements of the EEV that will be addressed in this project include:
- The children are desired, vital, and contributing partners with others in a learning community.
- It extends into and beyond school or work days to a more holistic view of life and living.
- It blurs work and play, or obligation/ responsibility and desire/choice.
- It builds caring, meaning and self-worth.
- It has components that would change or be dramatically enhanced with powerful tools of electronic communication and multimedia expressioning being used well. It build activities that exist as vital in themselves, separate and off the computer. The village works to balance what is most successfully done on and off the computer.
- Art, dance, music, writing, speech, and other types of expression become the aesthetic domains of all people.
- It crosses academic disciplines often blurring the very sense of a particular discipline andbuilding a wholistic, natural learning experience.
- It is energizing and intrinsically motivating for children and adults.
- NYS curriculum and standards fit naturally within village actions.
Diversity
More capable students can create longer and more detailed responses, and less capable students can create shorter and less detailed responses.
How
Students will connect with one another through a Global Collaboration forum through the following website http://globaleducation.ning.com/profile/Teri. in order to gain knowledge about students in other areas of the world.
The participants will be from Unites States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South American classrooms.
The Global Education Collaboration will be the area where we can find classrooms interested in being a part of the collaborative global project.
Who
The participators will be:
- Angela Luciano-1st Grade class
- Teri Polis-1st Grade Class
- Nicole Crecca
- Anny Espinal