| Abstract: | People around the world with different cultures, languages and races have more opportunities to
interact with each other because of the trend of globalization. The awareness of international cultures,
the exchange among countries on economy, diplomacy, and environment protection all deeply
influence countries and people around the world. The emphases on the knowledge and the abilities of
accepting different cultures, languages and races as well as societal changes become more important.
Scholars mentioned that global education is an approach of education. The implementation of global
education must focus on the integration of students' knowledge, skill and attitude. Experiential or
authentic learning experience is proposed by most scholars to be the most effective way for global
education. However, distance, costs, and time will be the barriers if we want to implement international
exchange. Therefore, using the attributes of technology in the global education can help us to solve the
limitation of time, space, and furthermore to facilitate face-to-face contact and interaction among
students.
ShowMe the World, initiated by the University of Missouri, is an international exchange project of
global education using information technology to connect people in different areas, to enable students
to know their own cultures, to raise students' understanding of other cultures, to be aware of that we
live in a complex and interdependent society, to know more about others' lives and cultures by
cooperating with opposite students and to raise global perspectives in advanced. The purpose of the
research is to study one English teacher with her class in a junior high school which participating in
" ShowMe the World" project and cooperating with Villa Duchesne High School in Missouri, U.S. It
is hope that through this research we can understand the instructional design of a global education in
terms of exchange program, document the learning of students in terms of global perspectives and
English language, realize the roles played by the educational technology and investigate the reality of
international exchange of two different classes from different cultures. |
