Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative

I've been contemplating on what I want to write about in my staff reflection and I'm thinking about all of conferences I've attended this past month. I've received a tremendous amount of insight on theoretical conversations about new paradigms and how the media is affecting our youth. I'm thinking about the impact of digital media on learning and how we should begin to integrate technology and virtual worlds into our learning instead of criticizing and rejecting it. I'm thinking that I've witnessed our youth create a new way of processing knowledge via technology and media. I want to articulate all of the theories and projections for the future of our youth and I'm excited yet stuck on what and how much I want to say. Then it dawns on me that this is my last staff reflection at Global Kids and I pause to think about what am I taking with me as I leave GK.

Since day one, working at Global Kids has helped change my perspective about the world. I no longer see a foreign country as an unreachable isolated world apart from my reality. I know that with a click of a button I can be connected to another part of the world. This connection makes us one community in a matter of second, sharing the same experience across the hemisphere. Technology makes the world a smaller place to say the least.

I am taking with me the importance of becoming a responsible global citizen. I am taking with me the tons of technology skills that I've enhanced and learned. I will forever hold in my memories the enthusiasm and dedication that GK's staff has towards empowering our youth and last but not least I am taking with me the laughter and the many smiles of the GK staff. Thank you GK for making me a part of your family.