Global collaborations are an invaluable piece of 21st Century Learning. Our goal is to ensure we prepare our children for meaningful and productive global interactions through Virtual Team Teaching. By connecting with a local classroom on a consistent basis, our students had a working foundation from which to launch into profound engagement with their global community. The following are two examples of our students dabbling in international cooperation.
Malaysia
It has been an absolute honor to collaborate with Dr. Wan Zuhainis Saad of the Universiti Putra Malaysia, Putrajaya. Dr. Wan created a way for her college-level students to organize their knowledge of microbiology to teach our students New Mexico 4th grade science standards. Our students learned more that we could have possibly imagined! What is even more incredible is that the wonderful microbiology students traveled by bus at midnight to teleconference live with our fourth graders over a fourteen hour time difference.
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Jamaica
We had the honor to meet David Dyer, a secondary educator located in Kingston, Jamaica, at Nearpod Pionear Summit in Austin, TX. Mr. Dyer tasked his students with creating an engaging and informative Nearpod Lesson covering marine habitats for our desert dwelling students to interact with and learn from. This tool allowed over 60 students to connect across 2,174 miles.. The peer to peer interaction was an incredible sight to behold.
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