BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//128.200.235.219//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:DML2015 X-WR-CALDESC:Equity by Design X-FROM-URL:http://dml2015.dmlhub.net X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-11219@dml2015.dmlhub.net DTSTAMP:20170323T214256Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:EF/Expanding Freedoms CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Janeen Lee\, Heather Harkess\, Fahad Ahmed\nVirtual exchange programs are tapping into advances in new media technologies to connect youth across borders\, fostering the skills and capacities they ne ed to succeed\, and lessening the potential for global misunderstanding. V irtual exchange programs also equip a new generation of youth with key ski lls to effectively address 21st century opportunities and challenges of an increasingly inter-connected world: the ability to communicate effectivel y with people from diverse backgrounds\, to think critically\, to collabor ate in teams to solve complex problems\, and to work effectively with tech nology as it continues to change. Key to taking this impact to scale is th e collaboration across countries and sectors. In the summer of 2014\, DePa ul University’s Digital Youth Network (DYN) partnered with Soliya and Sear ch for Common Ground (SFCG) to bring twenty youth from Morocco (representi ng multiple cities around the country) and Chicago together for a five-wee k cross cultural virtual exchange program titled Digital Exchange Society. Using synchronous and asynchronous platforms\, participants engaged in a weekly\, three-hour long virtual exchange using Soliya’s curriculum\, faci litation model and platform and also interacted with one another through t he creation of various digital artifacts and reflections shared via the iR emix platform. Participants in this panel will learn how virtual exchange experiences can facilitate compelling learning experiences for youth and h ow the Digital Exchange Society utilized new media technologies to link yo ung people across cultures in sustained and meaningful ways. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150612T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150612T123000 LOCATION:The Palace SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:12759 EF: Virtual Exchange Program: Connecting Under-Represented Yo uth URL:http://dml2015.dmlhub.net/event/12759-panel-ef-virtual-exchange-program -connecting-under-represented-youth/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nOrganizers: J aneen Lee\, Heather Harkess\, Fahad Ahmed
\nVirtual exchange programs are tapping into advances in new media technolog ies to connect youth across borders\, fostering the skills and capacities they need to succeed\, and lessening the potential for global misunderstan ding. Virtual exchange programs also equip a new generation of youth with key skills to effectively address 21st century opportunities and challenge s of an increasingly inter-connected world: the ability to communicate eff ectively with people from diverse backgrounds\, to think critically\, to c ollaborate in teams to solve complex problems\, and to work effectively wi th technology as it continues to change. Key to taking this impact to scal e is the collaboration across countries and sectors. In the summer of 2014 \, DePaul University’s Digital Youth Network (DYN) partnered with Soliya a nd Search for Common Ground (SFCG) to bring twenty youth from Morocco (rep resenting multiple cities around the country) and Chicago together for a f ive-week cross cultural virtual exchange program titled Digital Exchange S ociety. Using synchronous and asynchronous platforms\, participants engage d in a weekly\, three-hour long virtual exchange using Soliya’s curriculum \, facilitation model and platform and also interacted with one another th rough the creation of various digital artifacts and reflections shared via the iRemix platform. Participants in this panel will learn how virtual ex change experiences can facilitate compelling learning experiences for yout h and how the Digital Exchange Society utilized new media technologies to link young people across cultures in sustained and meaningful ways.
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