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Social Media and Global Change video demonstrates the powerful impact of students from Egypt, Morocco, and the US working together to address social issues of common concern.
Seen through the eyes of participating students, the video is a compelling story about students who faced the common challenges of using virtual communications across very different cultures, and then working together to begin to implement solutions to pressing social issues in their respective countries. Using a project-based learning approach, students tackle real world problems and must find a way to first develop meaningful relationships with members of their global team (without ever being in the same room together), and then identify member strengths so that they can, within 10 weeks, come up with ideas to solve the problem presented to them by a local social sector organization. Greg Tuke worked with students to produce this video, drawn from a course he taught at Seattle University, 2014 |
Student impactThree students at the U of Washington, Bothell, discuss how their course work experiences interacting virtually with Tibetan students in India impacted how they view themselves in the US. And, how it impacts their views of their three home countries; Djibouti, Yemen and Somalia.
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stimulate creativityIf we want to have our students tap into their own creative talents in doing project-based learning, I want to model it as well. Here is how I gave one class their assignment to form their first global teams..
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Greg's top picksProject-based learning: Suzie Boss at Edutopia
Understanding group dynamics -What google found out Understanding cross-cultural communication Understanding group roles |