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Closing the Global Education Gap

Digital Promise

The bottom line is that as an increasingly globalized world requires every student to develop more complex skills to confidently navigate cross-cultural relationships and value diversity, we must ask ourselves: How can technology connect students across cultures and borders to help them develop critical global competence skills?

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What Educators Need to Know about Generation Alpha

ED Surge

This generation has a deep sense of global connection, which teachers can tap into. The teachers I coach say their students use technology to effortlessly connect with people across the world. But it’s important to honor their paths and resist the impulse to force them on the well-traveled road.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

Unpacking the ‘British Values’ Although promoting fundamental ‘British Values’ as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development in maintained schools is non-statutory, these values do go a long way in ensuring establishments can meet their obligations under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 (Gov.UK, 2014). McPhee and V.-M.