by Mali Bickley and Jim Carleton
In this article, the authors display the idea to not only have a resource for students to communicate with other students around the world, but to have a global collaborative learning experience. The International Education organization created various activities to help students learn different perspectives among the students and to resolve problems that both groups encountered. One new perspective that was processed was the "Machinto Project". This literature, based on the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima, Japan, teaches children how war affects others their own age. The students then had to create a picture book on the Machinto website for children who are war-affected as a sign for friendship. Hence the name "classroom without borders", this project allowed virtual chat with others.
I also found in this article that students used "wiki" to work in collaboration to create a mural. This way student ideas from different countries could be incorporated into the mural in a quick and effective way. I found this as a neat idea because one idea leads to another idea. Even connecting different cultures will create more points of views on things which will give the opportunity for the students to learn about each others' backgrounds.
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