I listened to the pre-conference key note speaker classroom teacher and international educator Kim Cofino. Below is a link to watch her video presentation:
Going Global: Culture Shock, Convergence and the Future of Education
This was a very intriguing presentation as a lot of it dealed with teaching overseas in another culture. This is something that is very interesting to me and would pursue the opportunity to be able to participate in an expereince like this should one arise.
The speaker had many interseting points, and it was also a cool perspective to get to learn more about international schools. Prior to this, I really didn't know very much about international schools, but now I can see that they are a very unique community, and it would be a unique position to teach in.
I liked that the presentation inculded interviews from many different people across the world touching a number of people from a wide range of ages through the use of a webcam.
One of the most useful things that I learned from the presentation came towards the end and was about building a network of relationships of teachers from other countries. This can be done by using skype and other online resources. Once a relationship has been established, it is easy to do differnet projects with the other classroom to help expose kids to cross cultural experiences through technology, which would be very cool.
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