Episode #104. Saturday April 30, 2022, 5:30 pm Eastern
This session is focused on attracting students’ interest and engagement in inquiry, meaningful learning, global education, and cross-cultural projects. Broadening students’ world vision as well as strengthening their knowledge about different cultures is critical to teaching in the 21st century. Knowing how to break down barriers between students from different learning backgrounds and cultures is of particular importance today. This session of Silver Lining for Learning will highlight how three award winning Fulbright teachers have down just that. They all authored chapters in the recent book of 41 short stories edited by Curt Bonk and Meina Zhu, “Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative,” and published by Routledge. Attend this session and hear about their exciting journeys into transformative teaching around the world.
More about our guests below the video
Diana Zamudio is interested in global education, curriculum development, and educational technology. As an award-winning Fulbright teacher, she is an advocate for global citizenship and mutual understanding among nations. She has recently been granted the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Partner Country Scholarship Award 2021-2023 to pursue the International Master in Adult Education for Social Change, starting first semester at the University of Glasgow. Diana can be reached at dianazamudio16@gmail.com.
Diana’s chapter in book: From Moment to Momentum: Technology Expanded Classrooms from Mexico to France and Back
Minsyuan Sandy Tsai holds an M.A. degree in Foreign Languages and Literature. She has been teaching English in Kaohsiung Industrial High School in Taiwan for 16 years. From 2010-2015, she was in charge of administrative work associated with the school’s international exchange programs and students’ activities. In August 2015, Sandy embarked on the 2015-16 Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching (DAT) Program and successfully completed the program in December 2015. Since returning from the Fulbright DAT program, she had been conducting workshops with Taiwan Fulbright ETAs (English Teaching Assistants) and local English teachers in different cities. She remains involved in many local and international projects; for example, the Free Shop, Couchsurfers in Class, Writing for Rights, and the ‘Pen Pal’ project. Sandy may be contacted at sandy626@hotmail.com.
Sandy’s chapter in book: Distant Horizon, Close Friendship: Learning through Cross-Cultural Projects and Exchanges
Jhenyi Wu is a primary school teacher and a bilingual counseling teacher of the Bureau of Education, currently working in Tainan, Taiwan. She is also a lecturer in National University of Tainan and a member of the NGO Institution in the Society of Wildness in Taiwan. Her life goal and mission is to provide realistic and authentic scenarios for students to connect the world from the local environments to global issues and then take actions to improve society. She may be contacted at jhenyi@gmail.com.
Jhenyi’s chapter in book: Activating the Active Learning Classroom: Making the Connection from Local to Global
Bonk, C. J., & Zhu, M. (Eds.). (2022) Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy. NY: Routledge. See Routledge. See Amazon.
