Global+Learning+Essay+Teitelbaum

Global Learning and the **GLIP**: Can you **//TALK//** your way out of a box? This is quite an interesting project. It serves more or less as an introduction to many to global issues. It could also be a continuation to some of a study or investigation of what is means to be involved or engaged in the world as a whole. But, either way, one thing is for certain, you have to start somewhere: at the beginning. And the beginning must have one tool in common: language. In order for us all to be able to work together to understand the world’s issues, problems, cultural differences, and to enjoy and appreciate the world’s nuances, gifts and treasures, we must understand what its people are saying to us. Of course there are many ways to communicate, but the one would argue that the most effective way to communicate is through the written and spoken word. In this project, we are all using the English language to communicate. It’s the common thread that pulls us all together and takes us out of our individual “box”, if you will. Now, having that common language allows us to engage in meaningful conversations about important issues, but first it allows us to get to know each other, as we did in presenting our profiles and in Phase 1 of the project. We used English, as well as a series of images to present our homelands to express our sense of place in Phase II, as well as our homeland’s culture and people. In Phase III we will tackle the problems that we have brought up initially, and in order to effectively do this, we must all be able to communicate capably and productively. And this, of course is the stepping stone to learning another people’s language. (And that’s for another project!)