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R&E Networks and TEACHING AND LEARNING AROUND THE WORLD

K20 INITIATIVE. R&E Networks and TEACHING AND LEARNING AROUND THE WORLD. K-20 Education in the United States. Why Are International T&L Collaborations Important in K-20 Classrooms?. K-20 Students are already doing it: Internet Gaming Facebook My Space YouTube Twitter

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R&E Networks and TEACHING AND LEARNING AROUND THE WORLD

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  1. K20INITIATIVE R&E Networks and TEACHING AND LEARNING AROUND THE WORLD

  2. K-20 Education in the United States

  3. Why Are International T&L Collaborations Important in K-20 Classrooms? • K-20 Students are already doing it: • Internet Gaming • Facebook • My Space • YouTube • Twitter • And through other emerging social networking applications and applications yet to be developed. • Just about every K-20 institution has international collaborations and partnerships as part of their mission.

  4. Why Are International T&L Collaborations Important in K-20 Classrooms? • Most K-20 Teachers are either already doing it . . .or want to do it. • The #1 request from K-20 teachers is for international introductions and connections • 21st Century Skills Require It . . . • The Future of the US’s Economy Requires It . . . • The Sustainability of a Global Economy Requires It . . . • The Future of Global Basic and Applied Research Requires It . . .

  5. What Impediments Prevent International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • A teacher has many options when choosing a style by which to teach, but any style must: • Support state and federal standards • Be supported by the teacher’s principal, department chair, school board, Academic Dean, district superintendent, President/Chancellor and in some cases the labor union. • Have the technical and financial support of the university/district • Support the teacher’s curricular goals • Build 21st Century Skill Sets

  6. Current K-20 International Programs • Teaching & Learning Across the Pond • Cross Atlantic Alternative Energy Debate • Global Climate Change Debate • What Would The World Look Like If There Was Never an American Revolution? • Cross Cultural Pedagogy • Global Post-Olympic Discussion • ZhongguancunNo.2 Primary School, Beijing, China • Large Hadron Collider/CERN, Geneva, Switzerland • Cairo Museum, Egypt SUNY Geneseo/University of East London/Jamaica/Trinidad Enabling Global Collaborations

  7. What Impediments Prevent International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • Teachers are incredibly busy people with little time for experimentation • Especially when using R&E Networks since they can only access these networks at school • Need point and click access • Need information delivered directly to them

  8. What Impediments Prevent International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • Lack of Centralized Outreach and Information Sharing by RONs and Internet2 • MUSE is a good start but requires effort by teachers and providers to get and/or share information • Few content providers promote Internet2 as a vehicle for their programs and services • Ad-Hoc communication between RONs and their members regarding content and opportunities

  9. Why Should RON’s Care About International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • It’s in our best interest: • Disruptive Technologies –those technologies that are game changers • For the foreseeable future, K-20 schools will be looking for ways to reduce expenses by cutting services and programs that do not provide a positive return on investment. • K-20 schools are slowly starting to migrate to 21st Century T&L applications most of which can only be optimized only over R&E Networks. . .for now. • If it hasn’t already happened, relying solely on research-enabling applications will reach a point of diminishing returns. . . • 77 millionchildren and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2009 — from nursery school to college. They comprised 27 percent of the entire population age 3 and older.Source: U.S. Census Bureau, School Enrollment - Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 2009, Table 1 <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2009.html>

  10. What Can RON’s Do To Enable International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • Each RON and Internet2 needs to determine for themselves where K-20 T&L falls as a priority. • Publish on their web site: • the contact information for their K-20 T&L Coordinator. • a list of K-20 T&L connectors/schools with contact information. • a list of connected K-20 content providers with contact information. • Facilitate “People Networking” among all your connectors.

  11. What Can RON’s Do To Enable International T&L Collaborations in K-20 Classrooms? • Work with content providers to promote connectivity through R&E Networks and Internet2. • Create a “Facebook” type page through which teachers and content providers can “Like” in order to receive or promote programs and services. • Work with Internet2 to create a T&L web page or portal as part of its current web presence through which access to all of the above is made possible. • What role should Internet2’s T&L SIG assume?

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