In today’s highly competitive global “knowledge economy”, all students need new skills for college, careers, and citizenship. This supports most states' adoption of the Common Core Standards. The failure to give all students these new skills leaves today’s youth-and our country-at an alarming competitive disadvantage. As Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap suggests, "Schools haven’t changed; the world has." In this session we will explore how schools are able to use the tools of project-based learning to support our students’ travel as they develop into true Global Citizens. Specifically we will travel the world digitally with a clear lesson plan replication for teachers to use across grade levels.

1. Supporting the Literal and
Digital Travel of our
Global Student Citizens
through the Exploration
of Project-Based Learning
Susan Wells
wellssusans@gmail.com
Lynne Goodhand
goodhandlynne@gmail.com

2. Today- highly competitive global
“knowledge economy”
 all students need new skills for college, careers, and
citizenship
 Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap
suggests, "Schools haven’t changed; the world has."
 In the United States, most states this year adopted and
began implementing the Common Core Standards, is this
a match for a “knowledge economy?”

3. Explore how schools must use tools of
project-based learning to support students’
travel as they develop into true Global
Citizens

4. Class organization and collaboration

5. Product presentation

6. Create and capture multimedia

7. Making connections in collaboration

8. Content choice to make meaning

9. Global connections

10. K12 Lesson Plan: Problem-solving, My
Community and Responsibility as a
Global Citizen
 Each student joins classroom prepared edmodo group
 Project assignment begins with student choice and
opportunities for research
 Each tool introduced can be used across levels from young
children through adult users
 Begin where one lives connecting identified problem at home
to the larger community
 Web-based news for research
 Google maps to connect where you are in the world and
connect as Global Citizen

11.  Begin Prezi, making and recording
connections, capturing research, being mindful of
authentic audience
 Taggalaxy.de allows opportunity for additional
vocabulary development, unexpected
connections, student conversation and collaboration as
project develops
 Voicethread provides creative development of
multimedia presentations for inclusion in product
presentation and uploading within Prezi or directly to
Edmodo
 Prezi is completed and practiced for authentic audience
seeking real change for identified real problem
 All products are uploaded to edmodo for sharing with
wide audience

12. Our charge…prepare globally
competitive students ready for
college, careers, and citizenship!

13. Sources
 http://mobilelearningequityandaccess.com
 www.edmodo.com
 Prezi.com
 Voicethread.com
 Taggalaxy.de
 https://maps.google.com
 www.nbcnews.com