Global Squares

A Virtual Exchange Program 2020-2021

Students build global competencies and other skills and knowledge they need to participate in the workforce and in society

Program Overview

Culturingua brings together high school students from its partner schools around the globe to work together to develop a solution for a global issue. Through virtual meetings and project-based learning, students are grouped in small cross-geography teams to create a social enterprise solution in the form of a social enterprise that works towards solving a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG).

School Partners are from:

United States

Palestine

Qatar

Libya

Program Overview:

Using Design Thinking process

Teams will create a Social Enterprise

Solving one of the UNSDGs

Students learn how to:

1) Communicate with others with different backgrounds, cultures, and mother languages;

2) Be empathetic towards others’ challenges and use Design Thinking methodology to design their business idea;

3) Have a mindset of learning from failures and building on previous work.

This program supports the following 21st Century Skills, with a particular focus on those bolded and underlined:

21st century interdisciplinary themes :

- - Global Awareness
  - Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy

Learning and Innovation Skills:

- - Creativity and Innovation
  - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  - Communication
  - Collaboration

Information, Media, and Technology Skills:

- - Information Literacy
  - Media Literacy
  - ICT (Information, Communications, and Technology) Literacy

Life and Career Skills

- - Flexibility and Adaptability
  - Initiative and Self-Direction
  - Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
  - Productivity and Accountability
  - Leadership and Responsibility

Partners

Join the network

Teachers and/or school administrators, bring the virtual exchange program to your students. Contact us

How Virtual Exchange helps

Virtual exchange uses technology, curricula, and facilitation to give young people around the world the opportunity to learn and work together. Virtual exchange programs already connect thousands of young people across the United States and around the world, in primary and secondary education as well as in higher education. Educators and other facilitators use a wide variety of tech tools and address many subjects through their programs. Virtual exchange is cost-effective, scalable, and uniquely capable of reaching populations that are not otherwise reached by in-person exchange programs.

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