Align with international travel experiences?
Spark student interest without pandering?
Select and curate core course materials?
Ensure the user experience is visually appealing?
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D E S I G N C H A L L E N G E Integrate with classroom teaching?
Create meaningful assessments and activities?
HOW
MIGHT
Ensure secondary school students will be motivated to succeed?
WE
Develop highly engaging online content?
BEST DESIGN AN ONLINE COURSE ON
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP?
WHAT WE HAVE
SEEN
Global education is sweeping our schools. From 21st Century Skills to the Common Core, voices have converged around the critical need for our students to understand and act on issues of global significance.
We need to build a base of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that sparks students to ‘travel well’, to be curious about the broader world, and to take seriously the responsibility Envoys is an of being a true educational organization. We work directly with global innovative schools to build high Our work has proven that citizen. quality global education
students who prepare for their international experience, who study their destination’s history and culture, who have a framework for their travel experience demonstrate higher gains in:
programs, blending preparatory online learning with focused international experiences and rigorous evaluations. By design, each program has a tight focus on a specific globally-relevant, topic, ranging from the potential of microfinance in Malawi to sustainable development in the Galapagos Islands to the role of Islam in daily life in Morocco.
Social & Cultural Awareness Willingness to Explore Empathic Sensibilities Perceived Competency
WHAT WE ARE DOING ABOUT IT
FOR OUR 2014 DESIGN CHALLENGE, ENVOYS IS BUILDING AN INTRODUCTORY ONLINE COURSE ON GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP TO BE OFFERED TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Highly skilled, highly motivated individuals to participate in a fast-paced, one day workshop to design the schematics for Global Citizenship 101.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
Following IDEO design thinking methodology, you will engage in a series of group activities, thought exercises, creative protocols, and prototyping challenges.
WHY SHOULD YOU DO THIS?
You want to see global citizenship education go beyond magazine articles and TED talks to actually challenge students to see the world in new ways. You are intrigued by online education, and you have real ideas about how to make it a reality for secondary school students. You want to disrupt the way global education is currently conducted in our schools. You are exactly cool enough for school.
9AM 2PM
FEBRUARY 1 ST Cambridge Innovation Center One Broadway, Kendall Square 2014
To register for the workshop, please visit www.envoys.com/dc2014