Hi everyone
We would like to invite your colleagues who are unable to attend SITE to our panel session on Tuesday 1.30. We will be using the interwise platform to allow 2 of our panel members to contribute from Ireland and Israel so the session will be open for participants from around the world as well as those attending SITE. The participants will hear the presentations and see the powerpoint presenations and even be able to ask questions.
The subject of the panel is "How effective are intercultural projects in bridging between different cultures?" and the panels represent different communities hearing and deaf as well as cultures in conflict, North and South Ireland - Moslem and Jews in Israel.
In order to enter the session please go to http://interwise.macam.ac.il/mofet/portal/mofet
and then choose SITE at the appropriate time.
Please pass this message along to any of your colleagues who are interested in the topic to enable them to attend.
looking forward to a great conference
Elaine Hoter, Miri Shonfeld, Harry Markovicz, Asmma Ganayim and Roger Austin
We would like to invite your colleagues who are unable to attend SITE to our panel session on Tuesday 1.30. We will be using the interwise platform to allow 2 of our panel members to contribute from Ireland and Israel so the session will be open for participants from around the world as well as those attending SITE. The participants will hear the presentations and see the powerpoint presenations and even be able to ask questions.
The subject of the panel is "How effective are intercultural projects in bridging between different cultures?" and the panels represent different communities hearing and deaf as well as cultures in conflict, North and South Ireland - Moslem and Jews in Israel.
In order to enter the session please go to http://interwise.macam.ac.il/mofet/portal/mofet
and then choose SITE at the appropriate time.
Please pass this message along to any of your colleagues who are interested in the topic to enable them to attend.
looking forward to a great conference
Elaine Hoter, Miri Shonfeld, Harry Markovicz, Asmma Ganayim and Roger Austin
posted by Elaine Hoter at 1:33 PM
5 Comments:
This sounds really exciting, Elaine! My background and current interests are in ESL/EFL, so I am particularly interested in the subject of this panel. I can't help but feel there is tremendous potential for not only learning, but also for healing, reconciliation, and mutual understanding through intercultural projects.
It breaks my heart to see how large-scale, global issues get played out in our schools and even within single classrooms. There is so much need right here in my own backyard! I look forward to learning from the insight and experience of the panelists, as well as the other participants.
I am looking forward to this panel as well. I think peoples' perceptions are changed most powerfully through relationships, so finding ways to help students and teachers at all levels create and sustain international relationships is very important.
I think it is important that these classroom activities (which could certainly extend beyond the traditional 8-3 school day) do not reinforce pre-existing negative stereotypes. Through interactions and exchanges, even if they are virtual rather than face to face, I think we need to find ways to help students understand the wonderful diversity as well as similarities that define us all.
Elaine, I've just re-read Ian Gibson's keynote address from the SITE 2005 conference in which he closed by noting, "The answer to ending ignorance and separation and to providing personal learning power to individuals across the globe is to bring them together-to connect them. " Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to connect with this group of colleagues.
Janet
Elaine, this sounds great! My research interest center around global education and the role technology can play in "leveling the playing field". I am particularly interested in culture and its impact on learning, learning styles and educational assumptions. Any opportunity for people of varying backgrounds to get together and discuss issues that are relevant to all of us is always a good thing. I look forward to "seeing" you all then.
I am also passionate about this issue and have been working within SITE and beyond to raise awareness of what we could do more of inside teacher ed. Here is a link to a relatively recent issue of SITE's online journal, CITE on a special issue I edited on "Intercultural Competence and the Role of Technology in Teacher Education" Responses to the papers are still welcome!
http://www.citejournal.org/vol4/iss4/maintoc.cfm
I'd also link to add a personal historical link to the panel because I helped Roger Austin send his first email (when we were both in N. Ireland) at the start of his seminal work - way to go Roger!
Wish I could be with you at SITE, but just very glad to link in this way from my sabbatical in New Zealand.
Niki
PS our ILET community of transatlantic doctoral students have FlickR in the SITE playground to show a little aspect of us building international networks with future teacher educators who, as a result, appear to get a jump start on their careers.
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