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Global Issues 2010 Web Quest

The following ten questions are to act as a guide as you begin to negotiate your way through the EARCOS Global Issues Network Website. This website will be a great resource as you begin to focus in on your global issues projects. So please follow the link and answer all of the questions to the best of your ability; it will prove valuable in the near future. Post your answers on your blog in a post titled: Global Issues 2010 Web Quest

Go to: http://www.earcos.org/gin.php

1) What is the slogan for the Global Issues Network Conference 2010?

-Know Care Act

2) What book is the Global Issues Network ideas based upon and who is the author of that book?

-Francois Rischard in his book High Noon “Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them.”

3) When looking at the home page, Jean-François Rischard’s rally call for an, “alternative model of global governance based upon independent global networks that are flexible and super-responsive.” Why are international schools in a good place to begin to apply this concept?

Because students who go to international schools come from different places, they can learn about many different global issues happening in different countries.

Go to: http://sites.google.com/site/earcosgin2010/home

4) Under the link 20 Global Issues what are issues:

7: . Massive step-up in the fight against poverty

10: Global infectious diseases

11: Digital Divide

12: Natural disaster prevention and mitigation

17: Trade, investment, and competition rules

20: International labor and migration rules

These issues will constitute the main focus for your projects this unit.

5) Under the “Resources” section of the Global Issues site please list the url for at least 3 different sites that could help your group in research on one of the above issues (from question 4). Please include title of website with url.

URL: http://earcosgin.ning.com/

EARCOS-GIN Ning Site

URL: http://www.earcos.org/form_membership.php#regular

The East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools – EARCOS

URL: http://www.cis.edu.hk

Chinese International School

6. From the main page find a list of keynote presenters who will speak at the conference. Pick two and write about where they are from and what issues they will speak about.

1. Jo Ruxton. She is from UK and she will speak about Ocean containing millions of tons of floating plastic waste.

2. Chung To
. He is from Hong Kong and going to talk mainly about education.

7. What does EARCOS stand for?

It stands for East Asia Regional Council of Overseas School