Educating and Cultures: Balancing Global and Local Links
In this presentation the panel were talking about the phrase ‘think globally act locally’ and that these days because of globalisation and the increase in technology it now should be ‘think globally act globally’.
It was interesting to have Frank Schulenberg on the panel from the Wikipedia Foundation to talk about the importance of translating information in all languages.
“The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.” http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
The panel then spoke about the importance of preserving languages in particular English, they spoke about ‘Globish’ If you are not sure what this is then check out this link http://www.globish.com/
How do you promote both local and global links in your school?