"Since 2002 Global Kids has been a leader in the use of online games to promote global awareness, engaged citizenship, and 21st Century Learning Skills. Through the Playing 4 Keeps program, Global Kids trains urban youth to develop games about important social and world issues. Global Kids played a founding role in the creation of Games For Change, which is committed to supporting individuals and organizations to use digital games for social change, and Global Kids advises other institutions, such as IBM, on the creation of games and games-based learning curricula. In addition, Global Kids, staff and students speak and write regularly about this work in academic, non-profit and philanthropic settings. "

To toot my own horn for a sec, this is a site and organization I'm proud to have launched. "LSI promotes internationalism and global citizenship in public and private schools. Through its Fellows and Trips programs, LSI empowers teachers and students to work within and between institutions to understand global issues and to develop strategies for school-wide response."

"In 2010, bandwidth access will get cheaper, faster and easier for most of the world. O3b Networks is building a new telecommunications infrastructure offering low-latency links from 1 Mbps to 10 Gbps for core trunking, instant fiber-path restoration and 3G Cellular backhaul. Lowering access costs, increasing availability and bridging the digital divide, O3b Networks will enable emerging-market operators and Internet service providers to make the Internet a truly global and ubiquitous experience."

he sees the Americanization of the world as a central force of globalization that is amplified through control of capital markets and information technology. He further argues that education is increasingly being influenced by the globalization/Americaniz

Covering several popular foreign language social networks. (Naver, Baidu, Mixi, Mediapart.fr)

Sixteen teens participated in this ground-breaking initiative that uses the virtual world of Second Life to educate them about Tanzanian culture and politics, scientific research and methodology.

The International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in more than 70 countries and territories to improve the conditions and prospects for young people where they live, learn, work, and play.

We are, in Fuller's words, onboard Spaceship Earth, and the illogic of 200 nation state admirals all trying to steer the spaceship in different directions

seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore.

How the news shapes the way we see the world, and why Americans seem to know less and less about the world around them and their many connections to it.

Gates Foundation grantee, working to reform education to become more international

Obama touts life abroad as a strong foreign policy qualification. I couldn’t agree more. The benefit of my life of having both lived overseas and traveled overseas … is, I have a better sense of how they’re thinking and what their society is really

CIE at WIS's page on FB

a website for Asia Society's initiative to improve K-12 teaching and learning about the geography, history, economics, culture and languages of other world regions.

The future is here. It's multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual. But are students ready for it?

Urban secondary school students deserve an opportunity to be successful within an increasingly global environment.

Shows what carries are at which airports

assists public and private schools to incorporate an international focus in their curricula, resulting in more globally aware and responsive students

A "Flat Classroom" writing workshop between students of Korea International School (KIS) in Seoul, South Korea, Punahou High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado.

World Wise Schools matches up Peace Corps Volunteers in the field with U.S. classroom teachers.

a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society.

students and teachers from DC area schools traveling to Paraguay to better understand issues faced by a developing nation.

Students and teachers from DC area schools traveling to Zambia to better understand issues faced by a developing nation.

families across the globe, we see scenes from their everyday life. When we glance at the pictures of each family on their lawn surrounded by all of their material goods, the difference between the average American family and the average Ethiopian family

a comparative photo-chronicle of their visits to 30 families in 24 countries for 600 meals in all. Their personal-is-political portraits feature pictures of each family with a week's worth of food purchases; weekly food-intake lists with costs noted; typi

GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.

Whether they deal with local culinary flavors and cultural traditions, or provide an overview of an HIV/AIDS program, webumentaries are full of insight and raw knowledge.

Works from around the world

Graduate school programs in Toronto