From annual Easter Egg rolls that are exercises in measurement to OREO projects that change every year, this is the place to come for creative global projects with kids around the world.
Meet the new philanthropists - Silicon Valley teens with innate computer networking skills, affluent family connections and the one-click ability to bear witness to global poverty.
The Global Education Collaborative is an online community for teachers and students who are interested in joining global education projects. With more than 800 members, the site encourages users to post media, blogs, and ideas for advancing collaborative education worldwide.
"Inconvenient Youth, a new non-profit, non-partisan network for and by teens has started recruiting and training young people to fight global warming, according to an Aug. 15 press release. Today the group launched with a three-day workshop on climate change at Stanford University attended by youth from around the world. "
The real issues of digital citizenship include understanding identity online and the opportunities afforded to students when teachers teach students to be global citizens. More at <b><a href = "http://ideasandthoughts.org"> http://ideasandthoughts.org</a></b>
Blocking access to these tools in classrooms discourages student-centered learning, leading education technology consultant says
Do you wonder how kids are being affected by growing up in a globally interconnected, multicultural, participatory world? Whether you're a parent or educator, it's important to understand the challenges and opportunities experiences like posting to Facebook, creating a blog, or IM'ing offer to kids, and what you can do to help your kids be successful today.
"This chapter examines the emerging world of online civic engagement sites for youth and by youth. Through a close examination of TakingITGlobal, an global online civic engagement site, combined with a landscape survey of sites with a mandate to civically engage youth, we present some initial findings on how youth are civically engaged and what it is they are actually doing on these sites."
When South African 7th graders, Shandre Lee Davids and Kirsten Goliath went to school on Friday morning, they might have told an inquiring family member of a whirlwind day ahead.
During the course of the school day, under the guidance of their English Teacher, Ms Lesego Raleholi, and accompanied by 17 more of their classmates, they interacted with educators and learners from Beijing, two cities on the East-coast of the USA and two other South African schools in Mafikeng and Cape Town respectively.
Digital Youth Network gives students tools to be engaged, articulate, critical and collaborative. Facilitate the ability to become creators – designers, builders & innovators – who can envision new possibilities.
Award winning author, Don Tapscott, and award winning global collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis are excited to announce the 2010 NetGenEd Project, a global collaboration to envision the future of education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading technology trends and create their vision for the future. The project involves over 300 students from 6 countres and 15 classrooms.
Coordinates donations via text-messaging to nonprofit organizations in support of relief for worldwide catastrophic events.
To demonstrate and better understand how the philanthropic and non-profit sectors can utilize virtual worlds to advance their various missions, informed by the goals and grantmaking of The MacArthur Foundation.
The project was born out of a sense of curiosity and experimentation. Can youth and adults have open and honest conversation in an online setting? What are the perceptions and tensions across generations when it comes to how we act on the Internet? Is it possible to reach common ground when it comes to digital ethics?
The classroom lessons on TeachableMoment.Org foster critical thinking on issues of the day and a positive classroom environment. Teachers are free to use these lessons in their classrooms. (Organized by the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility).