Teacher Creates Global Ning: Needs Educators for Collaboration

Although this project is geared toward High School students and teacher, the concept would work well with Junior High and ambitious Elementary students as well.  Global Nation is a website that invites students and teachers from all over the world to share about their cultures.  I have seen postings from students in Afghanistan and even Indondesia. 

The website states: "The purpose of this forum is for educators to collaborate on a Unit of study called Globalization. Educators will join together to create a Unit of study on Globalism in which their students will be able to use distance labs and advanced technologies to teach each other about each other. The purpose of this program is to promote world peace through understanding. I think it is important for us as educators to start thinking about education in a global perspective. Never before in history has the world been this inter-connected. Technology has made it possible for us to communicate with each other in ways no one would have imagined just a few years ago. Texting, twittering, Facebook, Myspace, emails, blogs, webcasts, podcasts, and other technologies have created a global village of sorts. There is a tremendous cultural lag behind this technological revolution, Sure, we can communicate with each but do we really understand each other. It is the duty, the responsibilty of every educator to prepare their students for a world in which peace can only be achieved through true understanding. This understanding comes from education" (Strelec).

Strelec, J. (2010). Global nation: a global way to educate. Retrieved from http://globalnat.ning.com/