Global Kids We are happy to be back at Global Kids, and to be re-engaged! Global Kids hosted three interns. A Scholar from Binghamton University worked with Global Kids' U.S. in the World Summer Institute, a summer initiative in collaboration with the Council of Foreign Relations. Read...
Global Kids (GK), a nonprofit operating in New York City and Washington, D.C., works to ensure that youth from underserved areas have the knowledge, skills, experiences, and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process, and achieve leadership in their...
Houston Haunts PD This month, Global Kids took our Haunts NYC curriculum just a little bit more global. We here on the Digital Learning and Leadership team (DLL) are happy to announce that this work has made it to Houston! From June 4th to the 8th,...
By Myles Bittner, GK Intern & Elizabeth Bishop, Supervisor of DLL Last week, the NYC Department of Education hosted a Computer Science For All (CS4ALL) Professional Development Institute and the Global Kids Digital Learning and Leadership (DLL) team was invited to present a Scratch workshop series...
By Ahmed Ali (GK Trainer) Using digital tools like Sketchbook and digital drawing pads, several dedicated Global Kids students from PS 96 worked during lunch periods and after school to create portraits of significant figures in science for Black History Month. Not only did the students...
By Marcus Del Valle (DLL Trainer) and Matthew Wallace (DLL Trainer) The DLL team had a busy first day of CUNY Games Conference 2018. Bishop, Marcus, and I led three consecutive events in the afternoon! The first was a panel on the tech tools DLL uses...
Matthew and Iram DLL Trainers A few weeks ago, DLL’s Matthew and Iram attended the 2017 Games for Change Festival! Matthew enjoyed the session exploring "VR in the Classroom," both because it's a topic that DLL should explore more in the future and also because this is a...
Some swag from the Esri Conference In mid-July, thanks to the support from the Hive Learning Network Opportunity Fund, my Global Kids colleague, Marcus, and I participated in the Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) User Conference “Applying the Science of Where” in San Diego. Esri, which...
Sarah Giffin Senior Program Associate There we were－ educators from libraries, after-school programs, school classrooms, and community-based nonprofits-- in the Chattanooga Public Library’s makerspace, pouring over books on the city’s history. These weren’t books you could get on Amazon. They were locally published by...
Matthew W. DLL Program Assistant Last fall, when I began teaching DLL classes at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) and PS/IS 109 in East Flatbush, my goal was twofold: teach students to code using Scratch – a free, online, browser-based coding platform – and...