The resources below are tools that I came across and/or created to bring global education into my classroom. Each represents a starting point - a way to incorporate some of the fundamentals of global education in daily instruction (including the images below).
Using NotebookLM, I created an AI-powered podcast series covering the key themes and content of our coursework on global competencies and their role in the classroom. The full 7 episode series is available here.
This presentation covers the application of place based education to classroom instruction.
Generative AI tools open up new possibilities when exploring ways to bring global learning into the classroom. This interactive "room" on MagicSchool allows students to interact with chatbots, created using primary source documents, representing early immigration experiences to the United States. Two were created from multiple interviews of early American immigrants held by the Library of Congress. The other two were based off contemporary refugee stories from the Choices program. For each, I instructed the chatbot tools not to recreate the individual voices, but rather to develop new characters whose experiences were similar to those described in the sources. I felt like this was a more ethical approach to using real peoples’ stories in creating artificial “voices” for students to engage with.
On my homepage, you can find an embedded playlist I created to capture the "scoundscape of Peru". While I put this together prior to the International Field Experience, the signifigance of music as a tool for global education was highlighted by one of the Peruvian educators we met in Lima. His use of popular music to help his students develop their English skills was amazing to see, and expecially incredible to listen to!
I've used Padlet for years as a way to connect my students with their own community as part of an authentic assessment on local population trends. Turns out, this is really just scratching the surface. Tools like Padlet allow for asynchronous connection and conversation among posters. We had great success using the platform for an inter-school activity (see below), and now I'm exploring it as a platform to connect my students with international peers. From simple "bulletin boards" to timelines and interactive maps, there's a lot here to use as a foundation for rich connections.
Working together with a TGC partner (shoutout to Mattie Lundy!), the attached is an example of an inter-school activity designed to get students from different geographic locations working together on a common issue.