Bloomberg, 108 th Mayor of New York City and philanthropist. It was a highly productive and generative meeting, with school districts, education leaders, policy makers, and other digital exchange practitioners sharing their expertise and insights with one another. I represented Out of Eden Learn, alongside my colleague Shari Tishman. Last year, Out of Eden Learn was invited to present at Global Cities’ symposium on The Future of International Digital Learning. We are honored to receive this gift, which recognizes the important contribution we are making, as they are, to the developing field of digital cross-cultural exchange. We are therefore excited to announce that Global Cities recently committed $250,000 to Out of Eden Learn to augment the Abundance Foundation’s ongoing support. Global Cities also shares our interest in developing ways to identify and evaluate the kinds of learning that can take place in such online contexts – and to then use those findings to further enhance digital exchange practices. Global Cities has found, like us, that young people are highly responsive to opportunities to engage in authentic interactions with peers they would not otherwise meet, and to learn more about the world at large. Global Scholars learn about, investigate, and work collaboratively on an important global issue of our time, such as energy conservation, access to water, and digital literacy. Like Out of Eden Learn, Global Cities clusters groups of classrooms together so that young people are exposed to a variety of perspectives. Global Cities’ signature program, Global Scholars, connects 10,500 students aged 10-13 across a variety of cities around the world to engage in a shared, original, interdisciplinary curriculum. One such organization is Global Cities, Inc., which functions under the auspices of Bloomberg Philanthropies. Other organizations share our sense of mission and urgency. We have previously written on this blog about the way in which the political and social context in which we operate has made our work seem all the more timely and important, given recent trends of xenophobia and intolerance.
Since 2013, Out of Eden Learn has been promoting meaningful digital exchange among youth growing up in diverse geographic contexts.
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