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The 3 C's of Global Learning--Communicating, Collaborating, and Creating by Erin Barrow

Global learning—communicating, collaborating, creating Global learning includes being able to communicate, collaborate and create with others from different cultures, languages, and values. It means respecting others’ individuality, traditions, and perspectives. Global learning incorporates being open-minded and non-judgmental of people or ideas that are not similar to one’s own. It means to not be elitist, but humble, and willing to learn from others and work with them. I believe in today’s digital world that it is essential to learn to communicate, collaborate and create in any means possible (including new literacies). Global content of education means that teachers themselves must be global learners and comfortable enough in the context of global education that they can teach students to be culturally, linguistically, and globally aware. It means that teachers must have cultural awareness and foreign language training and experiences in order to be more pedagogically sound in their own teaching of global learning. I think every student should learn to respect other cultures and be engaged in global learning. In the 21st century, many jobs require individuals to be able to compete globally and to communicate, collaborate, and create with other companies globally. Therefore, I believe that education should not be any different. I think students should be required to have a high level of global awareness and communicate, collaborate, and create with others from different cultures, languages, and values. Global learning includes the ability to respect and be aware of other cultures in order to communicate, collaborate and create with people across the world. Therefore, in an effort to learn more about each other’s culture, languages, and values to raise our global awareness I have created a few questions. These questions will help us further our understanding of global learning. ||
 * || I think teachers need to teach new literacies and utilize technology tools to increase global awareness and collaboration within the classroom. As Zhao (2007) suggests, the key to global education and global citizenship is creativity. I would love to see every classroom having students create with other students in classrooms around the world. One way to implement cultural awareness and foreign language is through inquiry based projects. I think teachers and students should use Web 2.0 tools and the Internet to enhance global learning. I think today's learning requires newer technology and skills to transcend beyond the traditional classroom and connect classrooms across the globe.

Here are a few more questions about who we are and what our place in the world is:
 * 1) How can students learn to be culturally aware, respect diversity, and communicate and collaborate with other cultures?
 * 2) What can you do to become more culturally aware and learn about other countries, religions, languages, values, cultures?
 * 3) How can you learn about another culture by participating in an online collaborative project?
 * 4) In order to create a project online with other students in other countries, does it matter what their religion, language, values and culture are? If so, explain why?
 * 5) What is global learning to you? Explain what it involves.
 * 6) Is global learning simply listening to others and working with others? Is global learning simple or complex and why?
 * 7) Why is global learning important to you? How would you define global learning?