Grand strategy games can help students not only learn important historical facts but also improve their critical thinking skills. Players …
Global Awareness
Using 21st century skills to understand and address global issues; understanding other nations and cultures, including the use of non-English languages; learning from and working collaboratively with individuals representing diverse cultures, religions and lifestyles.
World Savvy works with educators to make classrooms more inclusive, relevant, and engaging. The organization’s standards-aligned educational resources, curriculum, and teaching tools support the integration of global competence into teaching and learning.
The nonprofit Students Rebuild invites students from around the world to join the 2023 Welcoming Refugees Project, an adventure of learning, empathy, and art. Students will channel their creativity to welcome people displaced by war and other crises by creating postcards that will be sent to young refugees around the world.
The US Department of State has announced STEM Innovations and Global Competence—a free, self-paced online course for US educators. The course focuses on the intersection of STEM subjects and global competence.
Sponsored by The World Around with the support of Meta Open Arts, the inaugural Young Climate Prize is an open invitation for young people aged 13 to 25 anywhere in the world to share their work and activism related to climate change.
The nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves has released resources to help students make sense of what is happening in Ukraine and the ongoing refugee crisis. The curriculum for teachers of middle school and high school students includes reflective questions designed to get students talking and come to an in-depth understanding of the war.
The Smithsonian Pacific American Center’s Learning Together webpage serves as an online venue for educational content featuring interviews with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community members, links to community-created educational resources, book recommendations, discussion ideas, and more.
We’re back in person for ISTELive 22, June 26–29, in New Orleans!
When you register, you’ll not only have the chance to participate in more than 800 learning opportunities presented by global experts, you’ll also get to collaborate, share, and see your community again. And ISTE has designed this event for every comfort level, so you can do all of that in person or virtually.
You’ll come away bursting with ideas that will pay dividends throughout the year—and beyond. ISTELive is no longer just a four-day event—it’s customized, flexible, year-round professional development.
As they watch and read the news, students may hear the acronym NATO without understanding its meaning. Yet they have no doubt heard of countries inside and outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from having watched international competitions such as the Olympics and the World Cup. Students can learn about their country and NATO with the NATO on the Map tool.
Minecraft has released an immersive educational game called Active Citizen, in partnership with the Nobel Peace Center and Games for Change. The goal of the game is to help educate youth worldwide about Nobel Peace Prize laureates, past and present, and foster an understanding of the skills needed to drive positive change in the world.