Global+Literacy+Skills

==** DEFINITION: **Bringing together education, business, and the community with the expectation of creating alliances to "develop global literacies in a new generation of students, teachers, and citizens," (Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction).==

** 5 ways to use it in the Language Arts Classroom: **

 * ====Possibly look at how poets from around the world describe the same issue, event or object and compare their work to other works from around the world. In addition to comparing poets, have students research biographical information about the poets to create a better understanding of the environment in which the lived and created their crafts. Some sample sites might be http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/ or http://www.2020site.org/milton/story.html ====
 * There is an activity using Google Earth called a Google Lit Trip that uses literature as a backdrop for travels around the world using Google Earth. This might be a good fit... Have a look: [|__http://www.googlelittrips.org__]/
 * ====Find out what kind of literature is most popular in another country/city? (i.e. the NY Times Best Seller list). Possible links: __http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Bestseller_Lists/ or http://www.abbeys.com.au/abbeys/home.do;jsessionid=C0464FB83947D209BD19CF90F8FD45BB__ ====
 * ====**As part of the research paper unit, have a technology walk and have students research how peoples’ perspectives of events are documented differently depending on where they live. For example, examine the dropping of the atomic bomb in Japan, The US version of events appears very factual in a lot of newspapers; whereas, in the Japanese papers, it is much more relational, showing how the event impacted people. __http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11781960__** ====

A different spin on global literacy and 21st Century Skills:
"The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st Century Skills" by The Washington Post's Jay Mathews -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401532.html