Group+Lingle

Essay on Global Learning
 * Name === === || School / Country === === || ===Personal Profile=== || ===Phase I=== || ===Phase II=== || ===Phase III=== ||
 * Darrell L. || ECI 524 || [] || x || x || x ||
 * Ashley H. || ECI 512 || Ashley from Raleigh, NC || x || x || x ||
 * Douglas A. || Hawaii ||  || x || x || x ||
 * Kris K. || Hawaii ||  || x || x || x ||
 * John K. || Hawaii || [] || x || x || x ||
 * Noah G. || Ravenscroft ||  || x || x || x ||
 * Grace B. || Ravenscroft ||  || x || x || x ||
 * Lilli-Ann F. || Dillard Drive ||  || x || x || x ||
 * Olga A. || Russia (Univ) ||  || x || x ||   ||
 * Anna N. || Russia (Univ) ||  || x || x || x ||
 * Alexandra I. || Russia (Middle/High) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Shuoyao Z. || Beijing || [] ||  || x ||   ||
 * Elif Naz O. || Turkey || [] || x || x ||  ||
 * David A. || Exploris ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Bethany H. || Exploris ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Hannah W. || Exploris ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

When reflecting on my own course work and opinions about global learning I’m also forced to think about this project and the positive and constrains of global learning. One of the first things that I felt was important for the education system here in the United States is our singular language. Thus far in our group we only have the participation of one international student. Elif from Turkey has shown that we here in the United States are falling behind in this very important aspect of educating students for the future global world. Elif has written his portions of our project in very well written English. This has forced me to review an alternative and hypothetical aspect of our project. If one of our international participants were to run the glip project instead of me in his/her native language could any of our students participate as well as Elif has done? I feel the answer is no at least not without the assistance of an interpreter. One of the effects of the deindustrializing of the United States and the shrinking U.S. economy is that business and politics are going to be more dependent on relationships with foreign nations. A primary aspect of this will be affectively communicating with others internationally and language is a key piece toward cultural understanding. Language and culture sensitivities will strengthen the global political and economic interests for our future. Education has always been a key aspect for preparing us for our future as individuals and as nations making global education more important than ever before. I have read extensively on the term “boomerang” generation which is a term that I fear not only for my generation but even more for the majority of the students in our project that are thinking now of careers or attending a university. Boomerang describes students that go to school receive their degree and return home to live with their parents unable to find employment. When thinking globally about this term it means two things are either taking place to cause this effect. The first is that either our universities are failing to meet the requirements of the workplace. Now I think about the global aspects I previously discussed and this is a very real possibility. I am able to reflect on my own education with the realization that at the conclusion of next semester I will have an advanced degree placing my education in the top 10% of the United States. I then question the preparedness of educators with advanced degrees I’m fluent in only English and this is only the second course that I have taken that deals with the global aspects of our future. I will be expected in 7 months to be an expert on educating students on social challenges but could also be preparing them to be a part of the boomerang generation. The glip project is giving us a rare and exceptional opportunity to communicate some of the issues of globalization in an environment that our fellow students are simply not given access to. We have the opportunity here to develop some common interests between our different places and approach even if only hypothetical solutions to tackling globalization and global education. As a pre service educator this gives me a perspective to understand global challenges that need brought into the classroom for students in the group this can be a road map experience for building your future and education.

Common aspects we all share as a group:

There are some definite group continuities that exist. We have similarities in the ways that we identify ourselves particularly with our families and our homes. Many of you directly credit family as the key component of your identity. This is something that is expected as we first have a natural paternal bond and we typically form very similar beliefs and opinions through transference and proximity. Some of the things mentioned by a minority of us that I thought were excellent ways of finding our identity were athletics, religion and personality. Our sense of place is somewhat varied into three different responses the first being home which seemed kind of narrow spectrum to me at first but I�m assuming that is because students spent the majority of their time at school and home? The next response for sense of place is the community that we are members of. The final aspect of what makes up our sense of place for some in this group is climate, beach, and basketball court. The aspects that each brings to the group is all positive attributions such as personality, being open minded, being a leader, cultural understanding. The local problems portion had some similarities in the state of Hawaii homelessness was the big local struggle. For Raleigh and Turkey pollution seemed to be the common theme for local problems with two different methods of pollution one by coal the other being littering. Not surprisingly the attributions to changing long term problems are a close resemblance to what positive things we said we could bring to the group.



= What i think we should do is a prezi about this travel box. = = because it is easer and i have have the prezi account and i can desigh it all pretty. plus it is much easer to do the prezi than a power pointand then i thought if we did a prezi it would much better because you can make it all pretty and with picture and music this is my idea = = lilli-ann frechette = = I like the idea of a Prezi. I have used Prezi before and found it to be very concise and visually appealing. Would you like to take the lead on the tech aspects and assembly for our group? = = Darrell Lingle = = Thank you we all should do the prezi its all easy plus i can set it up right now please chose the prezi guys. lilli-ann frechette =

also with the travle package we should so the prezi because we ca add all of this stuff its just like a power point but better so please chose the prezi

Travel Package: A sense of Culture []