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The Globalized Classroom: Integrating Technology To Improve Communicative And Cultural Proficiency, Nicholas Frank
The Globalized Classroom: Integrating Technology To Improve Communicative And Cultural Proficiency, Nicholas Frank
International ResearchScape Journal
The purpose of this project was to explore how the integration of technology affects students’ communicative and cultural proficiency in a second language when connecting two world language classrooms from across the globe. Through a series of weekly emails between partner schools, students practiced their interpretive reading and presentational writing skills while gaining knowledge of their partners’ cultures and colloquial language in a meaningful and individualized manner. The participants were U.S. high school students learning Spanish and Spanish high school students learning English. This created an authentic and organic environment for language acquisition, showing improvement in both communicative and cultural …
Teaching Energy Efficiency: A Cross-Border Public Class And Lesson Study In Stem, Masami Isoda, Roberto Araya, Colleen Eddy, Gabriel T. Matney, Joseph Williams, Patricio Calfucura, Carlos Aquirre, Pablo Becerra, Raul Gormaz, Jorge Soto-Andrade, Takeshi Noine, Arturo Mena-Lorca, Raimundo Olfos, Yuriko Baldin, Uldarico Malaspina
Teaching Energy Efficiency: A Cross-Border Public Class And Lesson Study In Stem, Masami Isoda, Roberto Araya, Colleen Eddy, Gabriel T. Matney, Joseph Williams, Patricio Calfucura, Carlos Aquirre, Pablo Becerra, Raul Gormaz, Jorge Soto-Andrade, Takeshi Noine, Arturo Mena-Lorca, Raimundo Olfos, Yuriko Baldin, Uldarico Malaspina
School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications
As part of an APEC educational project on the cross-cutting concept of energy, researchers and teachers from 6 countries spent 8 months designing, testing and implementing a pilot STEM public class with two schools from Chile and one from the US. One of the researchers taught a lesson from a school in Chile, with a live transmission to the other two schools via Skype. At the same time, the lesson was also broadcasted via video streaming. In addition to live questions and answers, students used individual devices to answer four open-ended questions that were commented on by the researcher as …