GroupX

Please add your group's responses to the prompt:

**We must___**
Group X

-	Start creating more collaborative-friendly classrooms (example- monarch butterfly migration wiki to interact initially with our partner school in Mexico but then to extend to others who are studying this migration.)

-	In the lower school, we need to build awareness that the learning that happens in the classroom extends beyond the classroom community and the school community, and involves a global view. We want to communicate with others with a purpose and share information with others in meaningful ways. Classroom projects, therefore, need to include a global component.

-	We must use the global community to enrich our teaching to make real impact.

-	Instead of sending home paper reports, students share information learned from research via podcasts. (example -1st grade polar research project)

-	Share with parents via websites and/or email.

-      Blogs/wikis – Example about global warming, author studies

-	Keep a balance between “locally tactile” learning and “globally remote” connecting, where contact can be virtual but never actual.

-	Connect with right brain areas sharing art, music, interactive discussions of collaborative areas. Ex – For an impressionism project – one group uploads original art in genre. Another group adds music, and other adds dance.

-	Find balance of investing energy into the high content informational age and investing energy in Daniel Pink’s defined age of creativity.

-	We must realize the need for balance between human connection and technological connection.