I have explored The Global House and Taking IT Global as the global cooperative programs.
Both the sites aim to connect people through technology to collaborate and work on various projects to solve global issues of various natures. Both the websites involve teachers, students and community in meaningful projects where they can learn by exchanging information through technology to develop literacy, communication skills and to encourage teamwork, cooperative learning and multi cultural understanding. The Global House aims to promote 21st century education and invites people to work on the projects on the wide variety of topics. The most interesting part of this site is that it allows schools, teachers, students to collaborate with 90,000 members from 194 countries. Taking IT Global is also very useful site which provides people an opportunity to work on the areas of culture and identity, health and wellness, environment and urbanization, education and learning, peace, technology etc.
I think I can use these sites to encourage my students to collaborate with the other students of different countries, understand their views on the different global issues through discussion and then finally work with them on various projects to find the solutions of the problems faced by the whole world. To encourage them more I might work with them in these projects. In this way we will be crating better policy makers, teachers, economists, leaders etc. in future.
The Global Schoolhousehttp://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html
TakingITglobalhttp://takingitglobal.org/
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Saima,
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Dr. Burgos