
Flipgrid - a great tool for global learning!
Have you heard of Flipgrid? Did you know it's got amazing potential for engaging students and teachers in global learning? Check out this great blog by Matthew Frattali on the #TeachSDGs website: Using asynchronous video to augment student voice. Essentially, Sir Ken Robinson and the World's Largest Lesson invite global educators around their world to contribute little videos (it took me 4 minutes using my smartphone) about what they're up to. You can then reply to these vide

Empathy: the most difficult skill of all in global learning?
Much has been written and researched on empathy – the skill of understanding things from someone else’s point of view. I remember the first time I had the concept properly defined and explained in a History class at school. Historical empathy seemed so straightforward at first, all I had to do was write one sentence that showed I understood why people in the past acted in the way they did whilst showing some understanding of context and chronology. When I became a teacher mys

Resources and recommendations for #TeachSDGs: building on what's already out there.
Soon to present to a number of authors and editors about making reference to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in new education resources, I have been compiling a suggestion list which obviously starts by acknowledging Target 4.7. The field of global and development education in the UK has a long history of creating useful guides to support teachers that want to embed a global dimension (or global citizenship education, or sustainable development education – whate