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| Contentid | 9575 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Cultural Correspondents: International Students and K-8 Students Web Conferencing |
| Body | From http://nciwconnections.wikispaces.com/Cultural+Correspondents Cultural Correspondents is an innovative way of partnering university study abroad students with K-8 classrooms in North Carolina. Using 21st century communications technologies, university study abroad students are paired with K-8 classrooms to present lessons on their host country, culture, and experiences. The teachings that study abroad students and their classroom teacher design and share with K-8 classrooms are aligned to classroom concepts and curriculum, thus fulfilling State Board of Education mandates. This type of partnership is mutually beneficial because it allows study abroad students to gain valuable service-learning experience, while also allowing K-8 students to learn firsthand about another country’s cultures, climate, economy, geography, etc. Correspondent teachings are supervised and facilitated by the classroom teacher as additional parts of their lessons. Each participant receives training in web conferencing, a technology that combines familiar computer applications in a virtual online classroom designed for real-time communication and collaboration. All of these aspects combined help ensure the K-8 student has a complete education, well-rounded by an introduction to international education that can help prepare them to become 21st century graduates. Learn more at http://nciwconnections.wikispaces.com/Cultural+Correspondents |
| Source | NCIWConnections |
| Inputdate | 2009-06-01 12:27:28 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2009-06-01 12:27:28 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-06-01 00:00:00 |
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