Empathy

=Empathy: The 21st Century Skill= Alan November [] There is a sense of urgency in developing countries that google isn't for creating a 10 page report. It is more about relationships with people. He just returned from trips all over the world. He wasn't so impressed by what he saw while he was gone, as much as how blown away he was by looking at us when he returned. We need a sense of urgency to globalize the curriculum - he asks us to globalize the curriculum when we get home. Children should graduate with a network of people. Knowledge and skill are not sufficient anymore. The most important skill today is the ability to see anothers's point of view. Empathy is the key to the future. Americans are the worst at theis as a group. Michael Wesch - watch his videos on youtube. Anthropologist. Will keynote the alan november conference this fall. What is the #1 skill needed = empathy. The CEO of the biggest bank in the world and an anthropologist both give the same answer to the question. Most fascinating…general petreas - just a few years ago commissions people to conduct a study to find out if the west point folks have what it takes to be in afghanistan. New mission at west point is to "win the pease" vs old mission of "win the war". Change the mission from add the technology to ….in a global economy it is insufficient to have good test scores as our mission. Pope speech riots islam - - - regensburg lecture….typed in google and not a single search in google came up with a result from turkey until he typed site:tr Empathy means seeing it from another point of view. He is stunned at how many kids don't know how to get counrty codes aor organize their search criteria - which sends you down a certain path of truth. Country codes: [] Site:sch.uk "american revolution" So often the training is about how to use the tool and not ask them to design lessons with the tool. Let the teachers in staff dev design lessons. Compare and contrats the american revolution with american perspective versus british perspective. - find the email address of the teacher who is responsible for the content. The next assignment is to send the summary of the analysis of the american version of her content. Then set up a skype interview with the teacher and students to answer whether the am revolution was inevitable. Live debate with british on the inevitability of the am revolution. Every classroom is a global communications center. They need to be able to think on their feet with people from another country studying the same topic. Twitter = #novglob Taught at a conference in denmark and showed a student project that ended up offending the attendees. He begs us to use the country codes when doing searches look for information from other country. Search.twitter.com "alan november" You would have to leave school to use the tools that helped make barack obama president. Check out the novenmber learning.com blog with rahaf harfoush - she organized barack's facebook, myspace, etc...
 * what if we blow off csap and cap and teach our kids how to be global learners?? What if??? What could happen?