TakingITGlobal: Inspirera, Informera, Involvera

I’m passionate about connecting youth, enabling them to connect to each other and impact the their world. As the Director of the Centre for Global Education, we partner over 10,000 students every year from every corner of the planet focusing on Peace and Global Education and Higher Level Learning and...

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One of the biggest challenges for most teachers is time, and any innovation to curriculum requires an initial investment of time and energy. However, as educators begin to see the value of interactive media’s role in international education, the advantages provided by a TIGed virtual classroom become...

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I am very much concerned about the issue of children and youth. It is my desire and interest to see that I fight social vices like child abuse, illiteracy among young girls and boys and ensure that they are shaped into good citizens. This is part of my agenda also as a teacher.

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With the stuff that TIG is doing, it makes it so easy for kids to find something that they’re passionate about, to help other people all over the world, to make the world a better place, and as a huge unbelievably great side effect of that, they’re going to feel better about themselves.

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The Sprout e-course was born out of a question commonly asked at TIG: How can we work to enhance the effectiveness and impact of the activities of young leaders? In 2008, we decided to combine the knowledge and experience that our staff have acquired over...

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TIGed provided my students and I with the virtual classroom tools and resources that we needed to link to students from another side of the world. My students look forward to using TIG and other websites to learn more about the reality of life in different corners of the world: they realize that even...

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Students are constantly being bombarded with IT in their lives. They come to school as digital natives and we are their immigrants. We need to teach and learn using these tools, as they are using them anyway. We need to guide them through this shift in education, or we will have a group of unmotivated,...

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I’ve found that the different tools and resources from the TakingITGlobal site really attracted the kids, so I thought it would be good to use the TIG and TIGed tools to get the kids started on thinking about the global community and caring about the planet and caring for other people. We’ve only just...

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