Saturday, June 9, 2012

Global Competence...speaking a second language

'Forbes magazine recently listed its top majors for the class of 2022. I was pleased to see one of the tenants of global competence, speaking a second language, highlighted: "No matter what career you decide to go into, there are two things that you need to learn no matter what. The first is a second language - and based on demographics, we recommend that language be Spanish due to the influx of Hispanics into the United States or alternatively Hindi or Portuguese to deal with businesses from the India and Brazilian powerhouses." ' 


http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/



Friday, May 18, 2012

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Voxopop Discussion » Test opening discussion (Italy)

Country Day School has been invited to take part in a student discussion regarding our Eracism Debate experience thus far.  Friends from a school in Italy have begun an online discussion here on Voxopop where students can asynchronously interview one another. This is what it means to be a "Flat Classroom!"