[report] Global Kids Featured in New Report by the Asia Society and the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
A new report, "Afterschool for the Global Age," produced by Asia Society and The George Lucas Educational Foundation, features Global Kids work as an example of best practices developing global education, both in person and online.
Learning Locally, Connecting Globally Global Kids is a New York City basednonprofi t that works with youth after school and online to build digital literacy,foster substantive virtual dialogues about current events, and promote civic participation through interactive games. Global Kids holds in-person and online youth conferences, including roundtables and summer institutes at the Council on Foreign Relations as well as online in Teen Second Life. A multiplayer virtual reality environment, Second Life users from around the globe interact within an online community. Global Kids students create action campaigns to educate Second Life participants about global issues. Global Kids students also create educational video games, such as Ayiti: The Cost of Life, in which players learn about poverty by taking responsibility for a family in rural Haiti.
The report is described as: "A pathbreaking report for education and youth development leaders who wish to expand and deliver the highest quality afterschool programs in our increasingly diverse, global communities. The report offers a research-based overview of why international education is so vital today, and highlights promising practices, new innovations, and recommendations to mobilize action on building effective programs."
To download the full report, go here.
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