SDG's In Education Playground

Using Google's CS First Game Design to Raise Awareness About SDGs

Samuel Landete

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

To improve my grade 6 students' coding skills and bring awareness to the SDGs, I guided them through the CS First Game Design course (https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/game-design/overview.html) and then asked them to develop a game to bring awareness about an SDG of their choosing using the Design cycle. Attend this session to learn more about my process, and see that the SDGs can be used on any lesson within any content, ISTE's standards can be used to learn about the SDGs, and that teaching computational thinking using CS First can be done by any teacher in any subject.

The Global Goals & A World of 7 Billion

Laura Krenicki

With an increasing global population, there may be a challenge of meeting the SDGs. Students tackle issues with the increasing global population and how to address the SDGs. Using the World of 7 Billion video contest, students create 60-second PSAs using Buncee, Wakelet, and Adobe Spark to present potential solutions to global challenges. 

ScratchPals Students Code Their World with Scratch & SDGs

Kathleen Fugle

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

How can students around the world connect, create, and collaborate with Scratch and the Sustainable Development Goals? ScratchPals! In this ISTE Global PLN Playground presentation, participants will learn about ScratchPals -- an initiative to create global classrooms by connecting teachers and students via Scratch computer programming -- and its most recent SDG-focused collaboration, “Code the World You Wish To See.”

STEM & SDGs with Science & Humanities: How to get hands on and integrate the SDGs

Tia Luker-Putra

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

To create future leaders, students need to evolve their ability to think critically and systematically. One way is by applying the engineering process and using STEM solutions to address the SDGs in classrooms. This lens empowers students to develop their empathy towards others, their understanding of self, and their roles as global citizens. Students can creatively work within their interests with a carefully (and easily!) designed, cross-curricular and inquiry-based learning plan that still meets standard curriculum goals. This approach motivates students to see themselves as global changemakers and influencers, as sharing their work locally, or even globally, is the goal. It also generates significant opportunities for both teachers and students to walk the learning path together through meaningful exchanges while addressing the most critical issues that face our world today.

Content Connections: A Human Rights Focus

Vanessa Heller

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Participants will learn about and be able to implement a human rights focus into their curriculum using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or any human rights issue. They will be guided through a year-long unit - complete with resources - to implement the integration of human rights into any curriculum. They will be taken through the process and products of this SDG unit via a Hyperdoc SlideDeck. This session includes access to a variety of additional free resources, ideas, and examples.

2030: Portrait of a Graduate, Portrait of an Educator

Steve Sostak

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Embracing Technology in Schools to Enhance Wellbeing

Joanne Anderson

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

The focus of the presentation will be on consuming technology in a way that promotes wellbeing and positive production patterns. In the presentation, a range of apps will be presented, which are all mapped to the ISTE standards, CORE SEL competencies, and (IB ) ATL skills.  Once those apps have been shared, participants will identify useful apps for their context and experiment with them by designing a micro lesson or student conference.

Assessment for Good: Ethical Assessment

Carisa Corrow & Gary Chapin

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

For over one hundred years, our educational assessment systems have been focused on extractive practices that take information, time, and resources from students without giving back to students or the communities in which they live. This doesn't have to be the way. We can create meaningful, competency-based assessment systems that not only help us understand what students can do with the skills and knowledge but also contribute back to communities working toward any of the Sustainable Development Goals including quality education. We can use assessment, for good. This session is organized as a virtual reflective circle which serves not only to engage in the conversation about Assessment for Good and ethical assessment but also as an example of how to collaborate digitally to build collective knowledge and growth with friends we just met!

Empowered Learners Designing Sustainable Solutions - Deep Integration of the UN SDGs

Ian Fairhurst & Sue Floro

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

The Empathy+STEAM approach guides students to be active, creative producers of digital and technological solutions, rather than passive consumers. To also be globally mindful, informed, discerning users of ICT platforms and technological solutions. E-STEAM allows staff to implement inquiry, project / problem-based learning, building authentic future-focussed skills.

Students learn to recognise the power that they, as an individual, possess to enact change in the world. Students explore the possible future outcomes of potential actions, both positive and negative. Students investigate real-world scenarios where small changes at a local level could create big impacts at a global level (Think Global, Act Local). Students communicate with authentic audiences to develop empathy and understanding of human needs, and that communities succeed with diversity and tolerance.

Bring the do your :bit challenge to your students

Andrew McDonald

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

On December 1, the Micro:bit Educational Foundation launched 18 new, free SDG design challenges aligned to goals 3 and 13 - Health and Wellbeing and Climate Action. Participants will learn how to use these activities with students to inspire students to create their own solutions for goals 3 and 13. To find out the most updated do your :bit challenge resources, please visit the website microbit.org.

Gamify Literacy, Engagement and Well-Being

Carey Furze

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

See how 'Communication 4 Connection' projects give students voice and choice to generate interest in your explicit lessons for Literacy, History, Social Studies, and more. Communication skills enable students to collaborate, articulate & share ideas & knowledge, mitigate conflict, and contribute positively to a shared culture, ensuring your curriculum and SDG goals are achieved. The FamilyBookform dashboard scaffolds personalized & differentiated activities to collect emotional content automatically into books, include in portfolios & gift or sell to families. 

Youth Social Entrepreneurship: Empowering Students Through Awareness, Understanding, and Sustainable Action

Jancey Clark

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

YSE is a program to support middle and high school students in developing a sustainable project - which is aligned to one of the SDGs - that will address an issue or solve a problem in the local community. Participants of this activity will engage in the design thinking cycle, Business Canvas Model, and Pecha Kucha pitch that students use. The end goal of a student’s YSE project is to receive funding and/or create a way to generate income to keep their project going. Sample projects will be shared. Participants will be given all the resources needed to launch the YSE project at their school.

Composing with ISTE and SDGs in Mind

Lars Jefferson

Using music and art to advocate for SDGS has been a cornerstone of Xi’an Liangjiatan International School’s success for five years. In this session, there will be tips offered on how to implement this kind of PBL in your classroom. The presenters will share platforms that are used and the functionality of each for songwriting and music creation that can be used for SDG advocacy. From this session, participants will familiarize themselves with the tech platforms to begin making their music TODAY. This session will show project design and management that works. Get excited and inspired by viewing related student work at https://thearts.xalis.com/!

Student Agency through Authenticity

Niko Lewman

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

PYP Exhibition; empowering students to construct their knowledge to find their purpose. How can students effectively develop their own learning pathways? Learn about how IB PYP students who wanted more ownership of their learning: to design their own inquiry. This is an in-depth demonstration of how the IB PYP curriculum framework supports student agency and locally important globally relevant authenticity of learning.

Teaching Outside with STE(A)M and Sustainable Development Goals

Meridith Ebbs

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

This presentation will investigate ways to take STEM learning outside by showcasing projects from my classroom with “how to” examples for participants. It will include projects with Microbits, Makey Makey and data collection ideas. The purpose of this presentation is to showcase how to teach outside in order to provide a safe learning environment that maintains social distancing and to teach technology skills. This will allow students the opportunity to take learned skills and develop their own project ideas that align with SDGs in order to investigate and learn about nature. 

SDGS for the Future Classroom

Douha Jemai

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

This project encourages students to learn about the global problem of climate change in the world. Climate change is a very important problem that has a negative impact on all aspects of life. Every living and unfortunately, future generations are in danger.

In this presentation, there will be a series of empathy-activities remotely (via many collaborative web tools: Padlet, Mentimeeter, Kahoot, Wakelet, and Flipgrid) to draw attention to this issue and raise awareness around us. This presentation will help participants (and their students) to develop their skills in critical thinking and problem-solving, communication, and cooperation by identifying the most important problems and challenges facing our planet and natural resources and how to preserve it for generations to come and find sustainable solutions to these problems.

Sustainable Minecraft Goals

Leticia Ahumada Yustos

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Participants will have the opportunity to choose some or all SDGs to create and build a city in Minecraft. This is to model how to help your students discover the SDGs and then create a meaningful experience in Minecraft. First, they will learn about the specific SDG they choose, and later they will create a product in or outside the game related to it. Participants in this presentation will have a game-based learning experience, combine technologies to create meaningful lessons, and discover that learning while playing is possible. 

SDGs + Twitter = Shoes For A Cause

Ron Nober & Spencer Sharp

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Spencer Sharp and Ron Nober met via Twitter over a post about a cardboard shoe engineering design project. Learn how they combined their love of engineering design projects, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the idea of using technology for social good into an amazing project. Together with their students, their project “Shoes For A Cause” raised over $500 for schools in Africa all without them ever handling any money. 

Integration of SDGs into Curriculum

Sumedha Sodhi

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Integration of SDGs into the curriculum is the need of the hour. SDG integration is the millennial need to act for the Global Challenges. This decade is the decade of action and it involves the actions of each one so that we can reach one. Our sustainable endeavors will create a sustainable society.

This presentation will highlight how SDGs are integrated into the school curriculum, thus creating informed change makers. There will be icebreaker activities, reflective activities, and enrichment activities, all planned based on these associated SDGs. At the end of the presentation, participants will be acquainted with SDGs, find ways to integrate the SDGs into his or her own curriculum and foster the agency to the campaigners for change. 

The Future We Want

Silvia Scuracchio & Leandro Gomes

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

We have an ongoing project about sustainable development and the SGDs. One interesting activity was about water conservation. As an Eco-School we have a committee that includes our students, to create a plan for the school to save energy, water and take care of the residues and trash. In order to save water, students came up with the idea to install a vertical cistern at the school. They found a project, they made all the calculations using Excel. First, they created prototypes using Paint 3D, and then they created with pipes. They prepared a Sway about the project and we built the vertical cistern at the school. This cistern holds 520 liters of rainwater that we use to cleaning and to water plants.

Creating a Culture for Learning

Sharon Davison

I will share how I introduce and explore the goals beginning on the first day of learning about them. Through creating a map of the world on our first day together we begin to build an understanding of geography, where things and places are in the world, building an awareness one idea at a time. In this presentation, participants will pursue digital platforms that would help build a bridge, open a window, and spark an interest in exploring the goals. Participants will also think about service-learning opportunities that might connect with this work in their local communities, as well discover ideas to begin to see how they might begin exploring the Global Goals in and out of their classrooms/learning spaces.

My wiki site to find out more information: http://chiari.pbworks.com/w/page/125185091/The%20Global%20Goals%20For%20Sustainability

Debris Data Collection to Inspire Ecosystem Protection

Peg Keiner

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Inspire communities to protect life and land and life on water through debris data collection. Learn techniques and tools to collect local debris data, analyze patterns, and creatively communicate findings that inspire action. Along with an opportunity for global collaboration, lesson adaptations will be shared to make this lesson work for a variety of school environments.

Global Connections for Finding Solutions to Hunger

Connie Rensink & Jennifer Russell

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Engage your students with SDG #2 - Zero Hunger with iEARN-USA! In this hands-on session, participants will explore activities from the Finding Solutions to Hunger project. Join us to investigate introductory materials, begin building community asset maps, and brainstorm possible solutions. 

Traveling Tales

Joel Bevans

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Traveling Tales is a global collaborative story writing project that amplifies the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. When creating a Traveling Tale students are problem-solving, developing their understanding from different viewpoints from around the world, and sharing their voice and ideas to an authentic audience.

Empathy and the SDGs

Lenny Dutton

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Too often schools just talk about skills students need to be successful, but I want my kids to be more than successful - I want them to make the world a better place! In this session, we will explore different activities (empathy map, thinking routines) linked to empathy, to help our students not just know about issues in the world, but care about them. We'll look at examples of award-winning design projects that link to the goals, and will show how students can take action too!

The Impact of Global Youth Media on the SDGs

Kavita Tanna, Donna Guerin, & Skylar Vawter

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Inspire Citizens and Global Youth Media approach the SDGs through the lens of the impact that students can have by using multimedia to amplify their voice and raise awareness about sustainability, social justice, and collective well-being. We empower students to practice immersive listening, teach the skills of compassionate storytelling, and provide a platform to share the stories of their local communities with other students around the world.

Los Compadres

Pedro Aparicio & Will Piper

During these global pandemic times, the value of connecting students beyond borders and creating meaningful cross-curricular and cross-cultural opportunities is more important than ever. With much of the world teaching beyond the walls of their classrooms, two educators, Pedro Aparcio (Northridge School, Mexico City, MX) and William Piper (University School of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI USA) have created ways to connect their respective classrooms. Using tools like Google sites, FlipGrid, Genial.ly, and video conferencing tools, our classes have been able to be authentic audiences for student projects as well as engage in discussions about how the pandemic of COVID19 is impacting communities on a global level.

Fostering Empathy in the Classroom

Ella Gozie- Iwudoh

Presented By ISTE Global Collaboration Network

Tech4Good- Fostering Empathy in the classroom is a session on using technology for good in promoting life skills in addition to academic skills. The tech tools used for this session to help my students understand the importance of empathy and ways to practice it are Kahoot and Wakelet. We also created an Empathy Diary using Wakelet. Empathy Diary is a collaborative space for the students/learners to share real-life experiences of how they have been able to practice empathy and kindness.