Participate and share: Poster 
The purpose of this presentation is to share the ways global collaboration was used to connect students living overseas with other students around the world and subject matter experts for environmental and sustainability projects at a United States military elementary school in South Korea. Participants will learn how to connect students around the world using through projects and how to connect students with outside experts, such as rangers from the National Park Service and other organizations. Participants will see how global collaboration with other students provided another level and more perspectives to the projects and problems that the students were working on. Participants will learn tips for how to connect with other students and experts from around the world and will take back ideas and activities and projects to use in their own schools. One of our challenges is meeting the diverse needs of our transient population of military children, and providing real-world opportunities to problem solve and generate solutions to environment and sustainability problems that are both local and global, and make connections through global collaboration with other military students around the world helps them to fit in and feel like part of a community. We will show how to use tools such as Padlet, Google My Maps and Flip in projects and global collaborations to help bridge those connections around the world. Our students were able to use these technology tools as part of intentionally-designed projects related to the environment and sustainability, but also to provide opportunities for creativity and innovation as students could begin to consider issues and problems that exist now but will definitely be part of the future. The evidence of success is the amazing projects that were created by the students, the level of engagement with the outside experts, and the enjoyment that the students had meeting and sharing ideas with students from around the world.
During my poster session, I plan to engage with attendees through peer-to-peer interaction and a brief slide presentation that demonstrates examples of how global collaborations connected DoDEA students around the world with each other and subject matter experts to collaborate on environmental and sustainability problems affecting the world. I will answer questions about any of the technology applications and student projects. I will have QR codes displayed, and on handouts, that will link to all of the session materials and takeaways. I intend it to be a free-flowing conversation but will be able to provide a 5-7 minute overview to larger groups using the slide presentation when necessary.
Global collaboration is a research-based best practice that connects students around the world to work together on learning goals in all subjects, with opportunities to share experiences in hands-on learning, real-world problem solving, collaboration, and project-based learning. I am providing citations to multiple research papers and websites that support the importance of global collaboration, particularly in environmental and sustainability projects.
A. D. Owens & R. L. Hite (2022) Enhancing student communication competencies in STEM using virtual global collaboration project based learning, Research in Science & Technological Education, 40:1, 76-102, DOI: 10.1080/02635143.2020.1778663
Bickley, Mali, and Jim Carleton. "Students without Borders: Global Collaborative Learning Connects School to the Real World." Learning & Leading with Technology 37.3 (2009): 20-23.
Castek, Jill, and Bernadette Dwyer. "Think globally, act locally: Teaching climate change through digital inquiry." The Reading Teacher 71.6 (2018): 755-761.
Lindsay, Julie, and Vicki A. Davis. Flattening classrooms, engaging minds: Move to global collaboration one step at a time. Allyn & Bacon, 2013.
Lock, Jennifer V. "Designing learning to engage students in the global classroom." Technology, Pedagogy and Education 24.2 (2015): 137-153.
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