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The incorporation of global education into today’s classroom has recently been debated as an issue of expense not only in dollars, but also to a teacher and students’ time in the classroom. It is known that as we progress in our educational philosophies, teachers are often handed more and more tasks that take their focus off of their essential purpose of teaching.
Some may see global education as something additional but I personally feel that it is something that streamlines education. I feel that through global education, my students will receive a comprehensive education that takes the world’s varied viewpoints and brings them into the classroom using a structured curriculum.
Through the use of technology, students are able to access global information, speak one-on-one with experts from around the world, collaborate, create, and fore fill educational competencies with a macro prospective as opposed to one micro in caliber.
This does not mean that teachers will have to completely overhaul their educational curriculums, or adjust their lessons to complete new ones, it is simply a matter of taking some time, getting to know the current technologies available to teachers and finding ways for their students to use them in the classroom. Sure, at first, it may be a little time consuming. But once the technology has been learned (it will probably already be used by the students) it will eventually streamline lessons and allow the students to be creative and work from almost anywhere!
Agreed, the teachers are not needing to overhaul all of the curriculum, just incorporate it in small bits and pieces slowly. It is not about how much technology as it is the genuine learning experiences that are made better by the incorporation of the technology.
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