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What 21 st Century Skills Do Our Students Need to be Globally Educated?

What 21 st Century Skills Do Our Students Need to be Globally Educated?. Presented to the GE Forum William Paterson University Balmurli Natrajan March 2008. GE: Great Enigma? Growing Encumbrance? Glaring Error? Got Education? Global Ed?. Rescuing GE from a Point of View.

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What 21 st Century Skills Do Our Students Need to be Globally Educated?

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  1. What 21st Century Skills Do Our Students Need to be Globally Educated? Presented to the GE Forum William Paterson University Balmurli Natrajan March 2008

  2. GE: Great Enigma?Growing Encumbrance? Glaring Error?Got Education? Global Ed? Rescuing GE from a Point of View

  3. Globalization is not Globaloney Culture: A Shifting Landscape Shrinking Distance Assertive Identities Interconnectedness Rights Discourse Social Movements Power Shifts (Un)Stable (trans)State? Security Capital Frenzy Flight(y) Fecund Fury Foreign Environment Consumption Conflict Control Clean Technology

  4. Student Realities Got Skills? Who represents us? Who’s drivin’ my bus? Power Analytic Skills Political representation awareness Global decisions affect the Local Learn that IMF/WB/WTO are not UFOs Ain’t no more your job to take, ‘Tis only your job to make Where did my culture go? Have I one anymore? Critical Thinking & Learning Skills Economies are Flexible Jobs and Labor Cross Borders Unevenly Work in multidisciplinary teams Learn Multi-skilling with Specialization Complex CommunitySkills Cultures are Fluid/Hybrid Learning to live with Difference Appreciate Connectedness

  5. Operationalizing GE Corporate Social Responsibility? Public Health? Student Skills Complex Community Critical Thinking & Learning Power Analytics Thematizing GE Global citizenship? Media and Democracy? Public Education? Identities and Inequalities?

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