Not only do great minds think alike. Now with all the interactive media, great minds can now share alike. In relation to widening educational opportunities for the global village of planet earth, there is everything to gain with collaboration being the human glue that holds the technology together. If people are connected in the most fundamental way, through shared understanding and shared perceptions, then the expansion of individual minds via the internet and live stream digital connections might translate to a greater chance for peace on earth or least improve the chances of making a generation of present adversaries future collaborators.
As grandiose as that sounds it is the human connections made through the new means of communication that make everyone more humane and compassionate. If elementary school children can connect and share a lesson and discussion via a voice thread or live video stream with their counterparts on all five continents making the global village a true global classroom then this collaboration will extend through other facets of society. The best place to affect the future is with those still children today. To have a face and a name with children half way around the world can only bode well for the future. Sharing and collaborating among second grade teachers on a global level might yield profund consequences unrelated to academic success for these children. The results might be a new age of humanity and compassion for all people worldwide since after all we all went to school together. And that's a connection, through the assembly of the classroom of all ages, that will probably stand the test of time.
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