Global Collaboration

Nowadays technologies allow schools and students to access information and resources from across the world. It is a great way to have global-collaboration projects that connect classrooms across schools, communities and counties, and bring knowledge and diverse cultures to our students. I really like the social network called Taking It Global (TIGed). TIGed is a great online social network for young people learning about, engaging with, and working towards tackling global challenges. TIGed focuses on youth around the world to actively engage, connect and prepare students for the world by utilizing technology to engage them as active learners and world citizens. TIGed helps teachers to foster deep learning competencies through real-world problem solving. There are five categories in TIGed including Community, Action Tool, Resources, Youth Media, and Global Issues. I like to use Youth Media and Community in my teaching. Under the Youth Media, a resource library called conversations on models change provides youth movement and learning from community in different countries and story telling. By using the Youth Media, my students will know communities in different countries and compare different cultures. As a second language teacher, it is important for me to introduce different cultures including target language, history, identity, and so on. With the connect Youth media, my students will learn more and better understand different cultures. By using the feature of telling stories, my students will get more opportunities to talk target language and interact with students and peers from different countries. Under the Resources of the platform, I can use the community function to find and learn different projects and then to create and implant my projects. By bringing together youth engagement, different cultures and project based practice, my students will be more interested to participate and engage critical thinking in my second language

classroom.