General Big Thinkers on Education and 21st century Learning
Kathy King is an author and motivational speaker and podcaster whom I admire enormously and cannot recommend her sites highly enough, including Transformation Learning and with Mark Gura--the excellent Teachers Podcast .
Sir Ken Robinson, is one of the most innovative and creative thinkers out there and whose sound common sense ideas of what it takes to educate a young person today are very worth reviewing.
Steve Hargadon is founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network and his webinars often featuring authors and thought leaders in the education 2.0 space are consistently interesting and the format allows unusual kinds of interaction if you participate through the LearnCentral using Eluminate software allowing guests from all over the world can interact.
K-12 Resources
Oxfam Global Citizenship Education Since the UK mandated global citizenship education the site is rich with materials for the classroom but can be used in non UK settings as well
• Beyond the Fire Gripping-life stories of teenagers who have survived war and have lived to tell the tale
•iEARN allows teachers to connect students to projects and dialogue with kids in other countries.
Asia for Educators Asia for Educators is an initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.
Choices for the 21st Century Education Project Curricular resources, professional development workshops, and special projects, focusing on empowering secondary level students in international issues and civic engagement. Based at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
Facing the Future
Standards-based resources related to global issues and sustainable solutions.
Globaled.org A teachers’ resources database from The American Forum for Global Education including lesson plans, teaching units, primary documents and book reviews. Also links to Issues in Global Education, occasional papers on important topics for educators and education policy makers.
Global Education Collaborative The Global Education Collaborative is a community for teachers and students interested in global education. Contribute by adding media, conversation, and collaborative project ideas.
Global Dimension
A guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects and provides summaries of resources and relevant links. It’s designed for UK schools, but is of much wider interest. It focuses on resources in English, from a number of countries.
Globalization 101
This Web site features cross-disciplinary lessons for high school students that address globalization through different perspectives. The issue briefs, news reports, and video clips are important resources for educators wanting to address this hot international issue.
Heifer International for Educators
Heifer International offers a website with lesson plans tied to national education standards, video documentaries, games and activities for use in the classroom to teach students to take action and make a difference by learning about world hunger. Information about Heifer’s popular Read to Feed activity is also included.
Oracle ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest is learning platform where teachers and students create learning projects, participate in a website competition, and browse a library of student projects. Teachers can integrate learning projects into the classroom curriculum and collaborate with members around the world.
Peace Corps Connect Global TeachNet
Resources, networking and support to bring a global perspective into classrooms and communities managed by the National Peace Corps Association.
Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools
The Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools program strives to help U.S. schoolchildren better understand and appreciate the diverse cultures and issues of the world by communicating with a Peace Corps Volunteer overseas through an exchange of letters, artifacts, photos, and artwork.
Route 21
To help education leaders implement 21st century teaching and learning, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills has developed Route 21, an online, one-stop shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/
TeachGlobalEd.net
TeachGlobalEd.net is the product of ongoing collaboration of Ohio State University's Social Studies and Global Education program with OSU's African Studies Center, East Asian Studies Center, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Middle East Studies Center, the Slavic and Eastern European Studies Center and Indiana University's Center for the Study of Global Change. The Centers have approved all resources offered here for K-12 teachers.
TeachUNICEF
TeachUNICEF helps teachers engage students as active global citizens in learning about UNICEF—the United Nations Children's Fund—and its efforts on behalf of children worldwide. TeachUNICEF education materials have been designed to help educators bring a global understanding of the needs of children and families around the world into the classroom.
U.S. Department of State for Youth
Resources related to foreign affairs and international diplomacy including lesson plans.
Key Groups and Their Websites
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century. The Partnership encourages schools, districts and states to advocate for the infusion of 21st century skills into education and provides tools and resources to help facilitate and drive change.
Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning
The Partnership for Global Learning is an Asia Society membership network that connects state and district decision makers, school leaders, teachers, university faculty, and other stakeholders to increase the number of K-12 schools offering rigorous and relevant international studies curriculum and to increase the demand for investments in international education.
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) fosters cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices. Their professional work is built on cross-disciplinary interests and expertise as historians, sociologists, economists, psychologists, anthropologists, and educators.
The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES)
The goals of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies are to promote the study of comparative and international education throughout the world and enhance the academic status of this field and to bring comparative education to bear on the major educational problems of the day by fostering co-operative action by specialists from different parts of the world.
Other Great Resources
Thoughcast
Jenny Attiyeh is the host and producer of "An online watering hole for ideas. Its focus is on conversations with authors, academics and intellectuals, and its sub-beat is ‘public media.'
Online Magazines
Edutopia
Technology Horizons in Education
