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What are the benefits of knowing each other and sharing our work? 

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What are the benefits of knowing each other and sharing our work? 

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If you were the content creator of our Instragram page, how would you describe the presentation on Oct 28th?

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If you were the content creator of our Instragram page, how would you describe the presentation on Oct 28th?

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What specifically was the benefit of our presentation on Oct. 28?

What have you been thinking about?

How was that experience for you?

What do you want to do as a next step?

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CLA blog posts tend to be between 400 and 1200 words.

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The Connected Learning Alliance (CLA) is a network of educators, researchers, and technology makers who believe that all young people deserve engaging learning and a vibrant future. With nearly 1,000 blog posts spanning over a decade, the CLA blog is a popular resource that includes posts on connected learning, civic engagement, digital citizenship, digital learning, educational technology, equity, education research, and more.

The CLA was launched by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub of the University of California Humanities Research Institute with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative. The Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine is the CLA's current steward.

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The CLA blog publishes posts in a variety of formats, including posts about new or upcoming reports, resources, books, and journal publications, as well as timely opinion pieces from field experts. Some of our more popular topics include digital citizenship, such as this article: " The Trouble with 'Screen Time Rules,'" and educational technology, such as this article: " Three Myths About Educational Technology and the Points of Light Beyond."

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If you think you've got an idea for a post, we'd love to hear from you. Please send us a brief bio and pitch your idea via the form below before sending us your work. If we think it sounds like a good fit for the blog, we'll give you the go-ahead to write the piece and submit.

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Session: Remotely Connecting Global Youth Researchers; workshop

We had five youth from Greece and three from Colorado, all 14 years old, talking about their youth-led research and finding connections between their actions in very different places and cultures. It was quite powerful. We'd like to spotlight some of their takeaways after the event (a small vignette from maybe 3 or 4 youth).

Target date: Mid November

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Link a image or video that VISUALIZE the student relationship 

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Link a image or video that VISUALIZE the student relationship 

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Benefits of knowing people across the sea

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Benefits of knowing people across the sea

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During projects where it is you have to change something big it is very nice to know people who have an outside perspective it is also very good to just be able to talk to people from different cultures and see their perspectives it is amazing for mental health and just knowledge in general to know people from everywhere you can because not only doesn't make you friends but it also widens your views

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The benefits of working together around the world is for me personally was to learn to grow and understand just how different cultures are all coming together to create one big healthful society, and it was very interesting to me at first and it was very new to me, but I started to understand that us coming together and working together from all around the globe is a good thing and instead of this being a small community thing, we’ve spread this big all over the world and inspires me and I know it inspires others to do the same

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The perks of having international friendships are a lot . The most important for me is that gives you a deeper understanding of the world and its people . Moreover you are able to exchange opinions and discover new cultures . To sum up , knowing each other may have a positive impact on our personality and develop our character

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Being in a program in which you have the opportunity to have international relations with teenagers and students all round the world is amazing. Not only is it very beneficial for educational purposes but it is also very interesting and fun. Being surrounded by a large range of different opinions, thoughts and ideas can also be very inspiring towards student future productivity. Personally, I've already been very inspired and I believe the Erasmus program has already broaden my perspectives on all different topics and I am really looking forward for more

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This Erasmus journey offered me the opportunity to interact with teenagers around Europe. This project was definitely beneficial educationally, we got to practice our English speaking level, learn about different cultures and traditions.What most of us did not expect,which was a fun surprise,was to actually bond with our "coworkers" and become friends.So at the end of the day, working with each other became fun and interesting rather than confusing and hard.

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I believe that knowing each other is very good for both countries because we communicate with people that are living so far, and also we improve our English and not only. The benefits of sharing our work are that we have about the same project and is more interesting working with people from other countries because you learn new things, you learn about different cultures, and you make new friends.

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From the Erasmus programm it was a once in a lifetime experience. We learned a lot about democracy and history . The best thing was when we met teens from other countries . We became friends we exchange opinions, ideas. We learned about their culture and we brocasted our culture to them.

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Having worldwide acquaintances, let alone friendships, is really beneficial, especially when you're a teenager. That's because by communicating with others from around the globe, you get to "compare" your life with people that live in a totally different environment, have other customs and cultures, but also realize that there are several things that we can bond over, regardless our nationality. During such programs that involve people from around the world, we have the ability to do that and feel as part of an international team, but also inspire each other!