FYI, over the next week or so I am turning my blog over to Lisa Martin and the students who help her run the Online Model United Nations (O-MUN) program. Many of you may be familiar with the Model UN program and know what a wonderful experience that is for students. Now imagine taking that program and...
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Connected global youth and the Online Model United Nations movement [guest post]
I became an educational entrepreneur by accident. A humble social studies teacher and Model United Nations (MUN) director by training, I am now working with students in over 50 countries to develop one of the most innovative global ed programs around: Online Model United Nations, or O-MUN for short. Up until 2011 there had never...
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The nuts and bolts of online debating [guest post]
THIMUN Online Model United Nations evolved around (mostly) free and open source technology tools and today revolves around three, interrelated parts: our website, our Blackboard Collaborate suite of conference rooms, and our social media network. Each of these pieces plays a part in creating an online community that is both student-centered and capable of delivering information...
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Palestinian-Israeli citizen calling for peace, making her voice heard through Online Model United Nations [guest post]
I have a dream, I dream of a world with no racism, with acceptance no matter what religion, colour, language, or ideology. My name is Salam, I am 18 years old, and I was rejected my entire life by the people around me, something that made me so insecure. I was born in a country...
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Online Model United Nations: Raising our voices [guest post]
My first contact with Online Model United Nations (O-MUN) was in my sophomore year of high school. At the time, I approached the program with some degree of caution; after all, although I had done a substantial amount of Model United Nations (MUN), I had never heard of its existence online. MUN was supposed to...
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Junior Online Model United Nations: Connecting masters and apprentices [guest post]
The Online Model United Nations (O-MUN) program is not only a powerful model of global conflict resolution and community building for students. The fact that the traditional Model United Nations (MUN) academic simulation can now take place online makes O-MUN a powerful example of the evolution of Connected Learning principles (see Scott’s post on Connected Learning)....
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Why do teachers have an excuse when it comes to technology in the classrooms? [guest post]
Hi, I’m Ugbad Kasim from Somalia (Northeastern part – Somaliland to be exact), a young lady who was fortunate enough to go to school and study in one of the best schools in the country. Although those schools are counted as the best schools, they are technologically behind. I’m not saying that they don’t have...
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Making connected learning the norm: What will it take? [guest post]
On this almost three-year-long journey that has made up the development of Online Model United Nations (O-MUN), I have returned time and again to two overriding questions: What does it take to nurture this kind of innovation among students and educators, and what role do we want schools to play in making this happen? Educators need both...
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Let’s stop talking about meaningful global empowerment for youth and start doing it (Online Model United Nations wrap-up)
December 16, 2013 by Scott McLeod 1 Comment I’d like to extend a huge thank you to Lisa Martin, Kristin Rowe, and their students for taking over my blog for the past week. All of the guest posts regarding Online Model United Nations (O-MUN) are linked below. This is the kind of powerful, global, student-driven learning...