12 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom: Creating a Global Classroom
(This post originally appeared on EdWeek.com’s Global Learning Blog here.) I met my co-author on Twitter. We hit it off in a series of 140-character communications, where we realized we shared similar...
View ArticleHow ANY Classroom Can Become a Global Classroom—In Five Easy Steps
(I wrote this post for National Geographic Education’s blog in the spring. Thanks to all the readers who made this one of their most widely read articles ever! Here’s the link to the original piece, or...
View ArticleWhat do babies around the world eat?
On the heels of publication of two terrific books, How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood and my friend Christine Gross-Loh’s Parenting Without Borders interest in parenting practices...
View ArticleOur GlobalEdToolkit Google Hangout for #BacktoSchool – Linked Here
Thanks to the great initiative of the Multicultural Kid Bloggers network, which I’m delighted to be part of, we had a great 30-minute Google Hangout chat with Kim Vij, from the Educator’s Spin on It....
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai And Kailash Satyarthi: Contrasting Approaches Come Together...
Waiting for my coffee to brew at dawn this morning I got an instant jolt scanning news on my phone when I saw the headline Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. My heart...
View ArticleTeach Kids About Africa As If Our Lives Depend Upon It – And Maybe They Do
On top of the sheer panic unleashed by the spread of the Ebola virus from West Africa, an astonishing amount of ignorance has reared its ugly head. As some have commented, this ignorance may be more...
View ArticleThis book is, by far, the best book I’ve ever read…
… about early elementary global education. … It’s a wonderful thing to receive such amazing accolades for our new book, The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners, especially when coming from...
View ArticleUse Twitter to Create a #Global Classroom!
Don’t let @justinbieber ruin it for you. With 59.8 million Twitter followers as of this writing, the hype around J-Biebs is exactly what drives thoughtful people to run in the opposite direction of a...
View ArticleClassroom #EdTech for Global Connections
The proliferation of technology in our connected society has trickled into our classrooms, whetting the appetites of savvy teachers and kids who have been born with technology in the palm of their...
View ArticleUnabashedly Excited to Announce…Nina’s World!
Earlier this month I was in Los Angeles for the public launch of one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever been fortunate enough to work on: A new children’s animated series called Nina’s World! The...
View ArticleWhat do babies around the world eat?
On the heels of publication of two terrific books, How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood and my friend Christine Gross-Loh’s Parenting Without Borders interest in parenting practices...
View ArticleOur GlobalEdToolkit Google Hangout for #BacktoSchool – Linked Here
Thanks to the great initiative of the Multicultural Kid Bloggers network, which I’m delighted to be part of, we had a great 30-minute Google Hangout chat with Kim Vij, from the Educator’s Spin on It....
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai And Kailash Satyarthi: Contrasting Approaches Come Together...
Waiting for my coffee to brew at dawn this morning I got an instant jolt scanning news on my phone when I saw the headline Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded Nobel Peace Prize. My heart...
View ArticleTeach Kids About Africa As If Our Lives Depend Upon It – And Maybe They Do
On top of the sheer panic unleashed by the spread of the Ebola virus from West Africa, an astonishing amount of ignorance has reared its ugly head. As some have commented, this ignorance may be more...
View ArticleThis book is, by far, the best book I’ve ever read…
… about early elementary global education. … It’s a wonderful thing to receive such amazing accolades for our new book, The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners, especially when coming from...
View ArticleUse Twitter to Create a #Global Classroom!
Don’t let @justinbieber ruin it for you. With 59.8 million Twitter followers as of this writing, the hype around J-Biebs is exactly what drives thoughtful people to run in the opposite direction of a...
View ArticleClassroom #EdTech for Global Connections
The proliferation of technology in our connected society has trickled into our classrooms, whetting the appetites of savvy teachers and kids who have been born with technology in the palm of their...
View ArticleUnabashedly Excited to Announce…Nina’s World!
Earlier this month I was in Los Angeles for the public launch of one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever been fortunate enough to work on: A new children’s animated series called Nina’s World! The...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean When We Talk About Global Education?
(For International Education Week, the online magazine Education Week’s Global Learning page (curated by the Asia Society) featured this piece I wrote, sharing some of the conundrum we face in global...
View Article#NCGS, #IREX, #IAWF, #SXSWEDU, #SXSWi, Beijing… Anyone Going?
I haven’t updated my speaking calendar on this website in a while, but between getting snowed in with the record storm last weekend, and the sheer anticipation of meeting and learning from amazing...
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