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Teachers Without Borders was founded in 2000 in order to close the education divide by connecting teachers to information and each other.
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- 1. Fred Mednick, Founder Nov. 10, 2011
- 3. 59 million teachers …the largest professionally-trained group in the world
- 7. Brains are evenly distributed around the world… …but education is not
- 8. Leaders aren’t born or made; they just show up
- 10. Certificate of Teaching Mastery
- 11. Community Teaching & Learning Center
- 13. Peace and Human Rights Education
- 16. TWB Toolset
- 17. Teacher Pulse: Mobile Evaluation A Hard Question Problem: “I can rate and provide feedback on a restaurant, but how come I can’t rate or show impacts on projects in my community?”
- 20. An active, global human network …will not let you down
- 24. Emergency Education Gujurat, India Kashmir/Pakistan Bam, Iran Sichuan, China Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- 29. “When you shake another’s hand… …that is the time you truly feel your own.” - Martin Buber
- 31. How can you at Cisco really help?
Editor's Notes
- Opening slide, for introduction
- What do you see outside your window? Dissertation on the “Qualities of an Educated Teen for the 21st Century”Nicaragua – NorwayOver the course of my research, I also realized that there are….
- Sick, missing, orphaned by AIDS – key to international development – premise – why not connect them?> Glue> Catalyst
- Build a global network which, at that time I called: “Napster meets Columbia Teachers’ College” Connect them to information and each otherToday, of course, it’s social networks, CMS, LMS. I’m there – having created one of the first social networks to dovetail with open courseware. HOWEVER…we’re talking about international development
- It’s complicated….Doors open? Doors closed? What do you notice?GOOD NEWS – BAD NEWS SCENARIOSBADInternationally…. - 8 MDGs: 1990, 2000 > 8 Goals by 2015: more likely – 2040 - Education: ECE, girls, access, gender, adult literacy - 70 million children our of school; 200 million secondary school-aged kids - Somalia: trivia contest on radio: AK-47s, hand-grenades - Global economic crisis – food security, less $ for foreign aidDomestically: (TWB’s increasing focus) graduation rates violenceGOODPlenty of reason for hope: - Substantial change in abolition of school fees; 14 African countries – 36% enrolment - Disease mitigation – affecting schools – malaria nets - Girls education – as incontrovertible as evidence about climate change
- Everyone has an answer: Sound familiar? No Child Left Behind Race to the Top Technology: Click, buyducational “bling,” killer apps, magic bullets, white papers, blue-ribbon panels Change the test. The “new” test will diagnose all our problems Change the class-size Change the school day Change the textbook Change the teacher, pay for performance and publish the results Wait for Superman
- This is where Cisco comes in and has for the last eight years. Everyone knows this. Without Cisco, TWB would simply not exist.
- TWB is the story of teachers. Leaders. WorldwideEverything else is secondary.
- So I introduced myself to teachers, who led to conferences and the Certificate of Teaching MasteryStory of the slum kids, if time….
- 5 coursesSelf-PacedMentor ledOpen Educational ResourcesEndorsedMultilingualEmergency EducationSafetyScienceToolsJust as we are bridging the gap between teachers and international development, the tools bridge the gap between…Content circle – collaboration circleNEW: May 2010Community EvaluationTrue teaching (integrates evaluation)TransparencyMillennium Development AmbassadorsSMS – real impacts in communities; sustainable
- You meet more teachers who ask you to help them with what turned out to be one of the first Hutu/Tutsi conferences in Rwanda and Burundi… and that leads you to:
- Millennium Development AmbassadorsTrue teaching (integrates evaluation)Transparency
- Connect, create, collaborate: global social network, customizable groups – all freeOpen Educational Resources: Creative Commons 3.0 license so that teachers can remix and reuse, translate, subtitle, share, adapt, and adopt
- Community EvaluationTrue teaching (integrates evaluation)Transparency Problem Data gathered is inconsequential or missing entirely Process is disconnected from projects and intimidating Results are delayed, expensive, and top-down
- Science inquiry methods – going great!
- TWB was in Dujiangyan two years before the Chinese earthquake. Our community was devastated. We responded. The program has been adapted and adopted by the Ministry of Education throughout Sichuan ProvinceEVERYTHING GONE.
- Those brains, evenly distributedThe Minister of Education asks to connect science to safety. We reached into our network to find someone with experience and we found the perfect person – SolmazMohadjerIntroduced Cisco to Dujiangyan, where they started Connected Sichuan
- In Tajikistan, many communities believe that earthquakes are caused by wayward women. Others believe that a bull lives under the earth and when bothered by mosquitoes, shakes furiously. How do we deal with culture and science? Earthquakes and safety? We put it all together in a science and safety program that puts the teacher in the center as community-development agent. The students learn inquiry science, about their PARTICULAR region, and know how to prepare.
- Shake tables, earthquake scienceToday….reaching 180,000 children and we developed EMERGENCY EDUCATION…
- In Tajikistan, many communities believe that earthquakes are caused by wayward women. Others believe that a bull lives under the earth and when bothered by mosquitoes, shakes furiously. How do we deal with culture and science? Earthquakes and safety? We put it all together in a science and safety program that puts the teacher in the center as community-development agent. The students learn inquiry science, about their PARTICULAR region, and know how to prepare. Here’s Solmaz….
- …and here’s the program.
- Haiti: Organization of American States, University of Pennsylvania, NGOs
- Pakistan: You find yourself in strange places. Incredible leaders. Helped with the Kashmir earthquake as well, and then the devastating floods two years ago.
- CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACES
- Emergency Education throughout Central Asia
- But it ends up like this
- But it works like this!OBSTACLES ESTABLISHED BY “REALISTS” – A DIFFERENT CURRENCY!!!!We can’t wait for the world to hand us change. We have to go out there and make that change. Money – never enoughEnormity – 59 million teachers. Bite off what you can chew!Xenophobia – why not in our own backyard? Why “other peoples’ children?”Cynicism: who do you think you are? OR it’s too overwhelming….how can you stand it after what you’ve seen?Anxiety: “the price you pay for being your own guardian angel.” – John GardnerA DIFFERENT CURRENCY: because money should be used to SCALE MIRACLES, NOT CREATE THEM This is NOT about the Margaret Mead thing, because money is important and you need a large group of people to make change There is also: The currency of frequent flyer miles The currency of sweat equity The currency of trading in the market-place AND the currency of persistence, reciprocity, human agency. “The world is a cesspool, filled with generous people.”EXAMPLE: Pakistani earthquake and forklift driver – saved the day and ended up saving lives
- Thank you