Week 2- 1

•Is the incorporation of a global education expensive in not only dollars but in time with the students? Teachers often complain that more and more is added onto their plates and each additional item means less time for what's important.

I decided to Google, “Is the incorporation of a global education expensive?” to see what others thought about this statement. I wasn’t looking for any profession opinion; peer reviewed and statically measure answer. Just wanted to see what the public felt about the issue. In the search results was a link to about.com; a commonly used service that answers pretty much any question you have such as, “How to boil an egg”, “what should I do if my best friends blocks me on Facebook?”, or “What is the difference between an acute and obtuse angle?” The answer was that technology has improved communication and access to information however teachers are not teaching the students how to utilize technology to compete in a global world.

In my opinion global education is very important for the student’s future. By the time students are ready to enter the work force they will be employed at global companies. It becomes easier every day to do business with other countries because of technology. Therefore, students will need the tools to be competitive for these types of jobs. In the business world we use the term opportunity cost. For example, if I choose to do homework instead of picking up a waitress shift, the opportunity cost is the amount of money I could have made on that shift. Why would I choose to make no money and get good grades? Because the investment in homework is hoped to make more money than the instance income from the waitress shift. In comparison the cost for incorporating global education is not expensive but an investment.

However teachers are not equipment with the tools to properly teach and offer these types of advances. I also believe that teachers feel threaten by change because programs are not set in place to help. I think what is technically difficult for teachers, comes naturally to students. Even if a teacher introduces a new web 2.0 a student has never used before, it takes much less time for students to master it.

Learn more form About.com on the subject at this link.
http://privateschool.about.com/od/educationaltechnology/f/solution.htm