With travel and exchanges becoming increasingly affordable to more schools and students, we have an opportunity and responsibility to build effective K-12 level school-to-school partnerships with student exchange programs that are much more than vacations abroad. With vision, design, resources, persistence, and a little bit of luck, school-to-school partnerships are treasure troves for student learning […]
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Categories: communicate ideas, digital, technology
Twitter has become a vibrant venue where educators around the world connect and share ideas—in 140 or fewer characters at a time. A primary way educators find one another on the massive social networking site is through the use of hashtags. A hashtag is a #word or #severalwords prefixed by a # symbol. In this […]
You Know the Old Joke, and It’s Not Funny
Categories: communicate ideas, foreign language, world language
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone who can speak one language? American. It’s an old joke that’s no longer funny. U.S. national security and American businesses alike have called for greater language capacity among Americans, but schools have not been able to help meet this need. […]