Global Connections

Introducing Shout - a new worldwide program designed to help educators and students use technology to address global environmental issues.

Shout

Learn more about how Shout facilitates educators and students taking an active role in global environmental issues. Connect online to interact with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with other committed individuals around the world. Visit the website

Want to give your students a voice? A voice that needs to be heard? A voice of leadership? Help them Shout! Shout connects educators with rich content, tools, expertise, and collaboration that get students to take action on global issues.

A new multi-year partnership between Microsoft Partners in Learning, the Smithsonian Institution, and TakingITGlobal, called Shout, has been designed to connect educators and students from communities around the globe. Innovative use of current and emerging technology will establish a virtual learning community and provide learners with the tools to engage in, communicate about, and take action on real environmental issues. Shout will challenge educators and learners to reach out, to connect, to engage and to collaboratively explore solutions, while learning 21st Century skills.

How to get involved

  1. Check out www.shoutlearning.com and register for the Smithsonian’s free online events where you can meet some of the world’s leading scientists as well as experts in arts and humanities. Sessions are appropriate for educators, students, and the general public.

  2. Check out the Shout community on the Partners in Learning Network, for competition details, and supportive peers and mentors, new content and curricula and tips and tricks for incorporating Shout challenges into your curriculum to improve 21st Century skills.

  3. Learn how Shout impacts your classroom teaching! Microsoft is offering the opportunity for 250 educators to measure the effect of the program in their classroom teaching over a one year period using the Innovative Teaching & Learning Survey. In addition, three educators will be selected from the survey respondents to attend the next WWIEF in November in Washington D.C. Learn more about our contestRead the Official Rules.
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