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Create to Learn, Learn to Create: A Student Exchange between India and Canada at the iEARN Conference

      

Mali Bickley

iEARN Canada

Mali Bickley has recently retired. She has 35 years’ experience as a classroom teacher. Over the past 15 years, she has integrated ICT, literacy, and content area curriculum to have her students connect, communicate, and collaborate with several classes from around the world. As a classroom teacher, Mali is using global education...Read Full Bio

Mali Bickley

Mali Bickley has recently retired. She has 35 years’ experience as a classroom teacher. Over the past 15 years, she has integrated ICT, literacy, and content area curriculum to have her students connect, communicate, and collaborate with several classes from around the world. As a classroom teacher, Mali is using global education projects to integrate reading and writing strategies into meaningful projects that connect students globally. Mali’s students have successfully collaborated within their classroom and with classrooms around the world to make a difference in the lives of others. Mali is the educational collaboration advisor at TakingITGlobal and designs and facilitates many international projects.  

      
Session Details

Type: Interactive Workshop

Location: Room 1106

Date: Thursday

Time: 2:00-3:50 PM

This session is associated with a UN SDG!

This session relates to the Don't Waste, Create iEARN Project!

Session Description

Imagine the joy when two iEARN schools are brought together to work on an ongoing project to investigate and take action on recycling and the importance in preserving our planet. For the past two years, 2017 and 2018, students in Pune, India and Wyevale, Ontario, Canada have collaborated on projects with an environmental theme. Together, the students created unique and innovative solutions to address several environmental issues. We'll show you how to the students and teachers in India and Canada created an authentic, active, technology-enabled, collaborative project addressing pressing global issues through different strategies, pedagogies, tools and resources linked to sustainable development goals. Participants in this workshop will work in small groups to brainstorm a simple tool to help solve an environmental issue while working through the Inquiry Based Learning model.

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

During this workshop, participants will

  • Develop and understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to iEARN projects
  • Experience the student process of understanding and acting on a project idea
  • Create a solution to an environmental challenge in a small group
  • Understand how Inquiry Based Learning supports collaborative projects
  • Learn tips on creating a student exchange between iEARN classes

Additional Session Information

Global project-based learning helps foster intercultural skills and broad learning competencies. iEARN Projects always have a magical component: being able to bring students together from around the globe. Using technology to communicate, collaborate, connect and create together is an opportunity that is powerful and meaningful for all involved.

Imagine the joy when two iEARN schools are brought together to work on an ongoing project to investigate and take action on recycling and the importance in preserving our planet. For the past two years, 2017 and 2018, students in Pune, India and Wyevale, Ontario, Canada have collaborated on projects with an environmental theme. Together, the students created unique and innovative solutions to address several environmental issues.

We'll show you how to the students and teachers in India and Canada created an authentic, active, technology-enabled, collaborative project addressing pressing global issues through different strategies, pedagogies, tools and resources linked to sustainable development goals. Participants in this workshop will work in small groups to brainstorm a simple tool to help solve an environmental issue while working through the Inquiry Based Learning model.

The workshop will recreate several elements of authentic project-based learning for participants, putting teachers into a true project-based learning environment while simultaneously offering them strategies, pedagogies, tools and resources for their own global projects. Participants will participate in activities which allow them to construct one project for their classrooms during the session and gain valuable professional feedback from other educators. This session will link to the new UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development (2015-2030), adopted by world leaders in September 2015.

Session Resources

TakingITGlobal
TakingITGlobal is another place to find projects and information about global issues.

TakingITGlobal Guide to Action
Guide to Action

Pune-Wyevale STudent Testimony Video
Indian students reflections

Student Reflection Playlist-Pune Wyevale Exchange
Here are the student reflection videos for the Pune-Wyevale Project

Create to Learn-Learn to Create: India-Canada Student Exchange
Presentation for Session