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"Young people lack opportunities to meaningfully engage in a world that is undergoing vast social, cultural, technological, and economic transformation. By leveraging technology, storytelling, and personal connection we enable conversation between middle school and high schools students to promote empathy, awareness, and agency to tackle some of the world's most pressing issues."

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We believe in a generation of global citizens who are empathetic, aware, and taking action to solve some of the world's most pressing issues during these transformative times.

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Description

The SAC was developed by cooperative learning researchers David and Roger Johnson of the University of Minnesota as a way to provide structure and focus to classroom discussions. Working in pairs and then coming together in four-person teams, students explore a question by reading about and then presenting contrasting positions. Afterwards, they engage in discussion to reach consensus.

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1. Choose a historical question that lends itself to contrasting viewpoints. For example, we illustrate the SAC below with the question "Was Abraham Lincoln a racist?" but many other questions lend themselves to the technique. For example, "Was dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to defeat the Japanese?"

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"Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story."

This web tool is perfect for interdisciplinary collaboration. Students are able to express ideas using multiple modalities (images, text, video, links, maps, data, etc)

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Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.

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Create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. Publish and share your story with your organization or everyone around the world.

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The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to make a truly global connection with more than 2,000,000 students having participated.

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To see the blog with the latest news and ideas, go here.

To join our Facebook Community, go here

The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to make a truly global connection with milllions of students having participated.

What is it?

The premise is simple; we pick a book to read aloud to our students during a set 6-week period and during that time we try to make as many global connections as possible. Each teacher decides how much time they would like to dedicate and how involved they would like to be. Some people choose to connect with just one class, while others go for as many as possible. The scope and depth of the project is up to you. While there are commonly used such as Skype, Twitter, Padlet, or Flipgrid, you choose the tools that will make the most sense for you. Teachers get a community of other educators to do a global project with, hopefully inspiring them to continue these connections through the year.

When is it?

Once a year, starting in early October and running through mid-November. Due to the time commitment, this is only a once a year project, however, two fantastic spin-off projects run at other times; the New Zealand Read Aloud and the French version of GRA, Ecouter Lire le Monde.

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To see the blog with the latest news and ideas, go here. To join our Facebook Community, go here The project was created in 2010 with a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world. From its humble beginnings, the GRA has grown to make a truly global connection with milllions of students...

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Out of Eden Learn currently offers several 8-12-week long learning experiences, or “learning journeys,” designed around three broad learning goals. All of the journeys combine offline activities with online interaction and invite young people to:

1. slow down to observe the world carefully and listen attentively to others;

2. exchange stories and perspectives with one another; and

3. make connections between their own lives and bigger human stories.

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In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build understandings with peers from different backgrounds. An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Out of Eden Learn is a free online program for students aged 3-19 that has so far served over 30,000 students in 60 countries. On Out of Eden Learn's custom built, social media platform, students of similar ages from diverse geographical and socioeconomic settings come together for collective learning experiences.

Out of Eden Learn currently offers several 8-12-week long learning experiences, or "learning journeys," designed around three broad learning goals. All of the journeys combine offline activities with online interaction and invite young people to:

1. slow down to observe the world carefully and listen attentively to others;

2. exchange stories and perspectives with one another; and

3. make connections between their own lives and bigger human stories.

Out of Eden Learn began in 2013 as an experimental collaboration with journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek, who is currently engaged in a 21,000-mile ' Out of Eden ' walk following the ancient pathways of human migration. It has evolved into a promising model for promoting thoughtful cross-cultural inquiry and exchange, drawing inspiration from the ways in which Salopek and other writers and artists interweave "slow journalism" and local and global storytelling.

Out of Eden Learn is also an active research project that examines such themes as students' conceptions of culture, the character of their online interactions, and what they learn when they slow down to observe the world closely. Read more about our research agenda in our white paper.

Student Participant Reflections

-Ashley, 10th grade student, Massachusetts, USA

-Cinderella, 11th grade student, Vancouver, Canada

Educator Participant Reflections

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In this era of interconnection, disconnection, and rapid change, it is vitally important to offer young people opportunities to dialogue and build understandings with peers from different backgrounds. An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Out of Eden Learn is a free online program for students aged 3-19 that has so far served over 30,000 students in 60 countries.

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Learning.com provides an intuitive, flexible, and personalized digital education experience – built for educators by educators. We make it easy to engage students while offering a comprehensive and reliable educational platform that supports districts by empowering teachers, track results and get a return on their educational investment.

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Curriculum to support diversity and equity.

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In the BRIDGE Program, iEARN provides professional online training and curriculum-based virtual exchange activities for educators in 11 MENA countries and their U.S. counterparts. Following an online course, educators connect their students through asynchronous activities that will culminate in videoconference connections and community exhibitions in five thematic areas: environment, civic education, heritage, identity and tradition, food security, and arts and media production.

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BRIDGE Program -- Building Respect Through International Dialogue and Global Education -- A Stevens Initiative Program

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Global Scholars is a tech-savvy, direct, peer-to-peer learning program for students 10 to 13 years old. Its purpose is to develop cultural understanding, knowledge of the world, and global competency skills through direct communication in a digital classroom. Global Cities provides the curriculum, access to the secure e-classroom, and ongoing live professional development for classroom teachers by video conference. There are no fees to the schools.