Reimagining Literacy Through Global Collaboration, Dec/2016

Discover how to create learning environments where students gain 21st century skills, realize their work matters, and know that their work travels beyond classroom walls.

Prepare your students to adapt and thrive in the world beyond their classroom. This how-to guide offers strategies for how to establish classrooms that give students globally connected literacy experiences. You’ll discover how to use readily available technology tools to create environments where students gain 21st century skills, collaborate with others around the globe, and realize that their work matters.

1. Examine the key features of an authentic global collaboration experience and the benefits of a globally connected classroom
2. Gain tips for creating authentic and successful global collaborative projects
3. Discover what steps they can take immediately to foster global literacy classrooms
4. Consider classroom situations that illustrate the global literacy environment at work
5. Answer reflection questions to contemplate how they can apply the ideas and strategies covered in this book in their own classrooms

About The Author:

Pernille Ripp is a seventh-grade English language arts teacher in Oregon, Wisconsin; and a speaker, author, blogger, and passionate advocate for education. She is a Skype Master Teacher, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, and recipient of the 2015 WEMTA (Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association) Making IT Happen Award and the 2015 ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Award for Innovation in Global Collaboration. In 2010, Pernille founded Global Read Aloud, a worldwide literacy initiative that began with a simple goal in mind: one book to connect the world by reading the same book aloud at the same time and then connecting throughout the world. From its humble beginnings, the Global Read Aloud has grown to connect more than 1.5 million students in different countries.

Pernille's research interest is in creating passionate literacy environments within the framework of U.S. education systems in order to help students fall in love with literacy again. She uses her own classroom as a laboratory and gathers ideas from the many educators she works with around the world. Pernille is the author of Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Empower Your Students, now in its second edition, and Empowered Schools, Empowered Students; both books focus on creating learning spaces and communities where students thrive and all stakeholders are empowered and passionate about learning.