After using the hashtag, #globaleducation, I stumbled upon a moving article that addresses the history of education and applies it to the current issues educators are facing during a pandemic. We, as a globe, are facing a pandemic that is turning our lives upside down. With the technology we have today it has been way easier to connect across the continents and share the same anxieties about the coronavirus. This article starts with the headline “Every crisis is a chance to learn” and continues on with a quote by Johann Amos Comenius. The quote reads “‘We are all citizens o one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly!'”. Although this quote was pulled straight from the 1500s and 1600s, it is still just as relevant today and with the new adaptations of technology we find it even easier to welcome our neighbors. Our country might have been founded on pointing out differences. The advanced technology that is now placed in classrooms provide an environment for students to safely explore the differences our world has and with the right kind of teacher these students would be able to recognize differences and build solid relationships with other countries. Our country for a very long time has had significant trouble accepting differences and focusing on building a relationship that will benefit our country as these students are our future. The article directly states, “Talking about global education, pedagogy is not far from diplomacy” (Raab). The classroom experience of talking to other countries and developing better communication skills will better our country as a whole when the children learning these skills rise to power and begin running our country.

Another huge topic throughout this article that I briefly touched on above is the COVID-19 pandemic and how our technology has brought people together in times of finding solutions. The amount of technology in our world right now has allowed countries to come together in hopes to develop a list of solutions or ideas on how to handle the dangers of this pandemic.

Learning about global education has become especially prominent during these trying times. Technology has brought our world together in a way for everyone to share the anxieties of the virus and the anxieties of self isolation and to find a way to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Teaching students about the world around us and how to effectively communicate with all different types of people will bring us closer with our neighboring countries.