NAIS Publications catalog - Schools of the Future - (Page 18) A LOOK AHEAD: Global Education, Sustainability, and Creativity The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century THOMAS FRIEDMAN List and Member Price $13 Item #B90 Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc., 2005 496 pages High Noon: 20 Global Problems and 20 Years to Solve Them JEAN FRANÇOIS RISCHARD List and Member Price $16.95 Item #B91 Basic Book, 2003 256 pages Thomas Friedman tells an eye-opening story about a world he describes as “flat” or “connected”: the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. Friedman walks readers through pivotal examples of our flat world, such as the growth of the telecom industry in India, the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and 9/11. And he provides an easy-to-understand explanation of outsourcing, offshoring, and open sourcing. Friedman provides for independent school folks a fast education and information for a powerful discussion. In High Noon, J.F. Rischard challenges us to address the issues of the 21st century with a new approach to global problem-solving. Defining and then offering a brief overview of the 20 most important and urgent global problems, Rischard explains that in our increasingly crowded, fast-moving, interconnected world, we don’t have an effective way of addressing the problems that such a world creates. Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving. This book is the basis of NAIS’s Challenge 20/20 program. Owned by the Land: Global Education and the Environment Edited by JANET W.B. ROGERS AND ERIC WIDMER List and Member Price $8 Item #B47 Deerfield Academy Press, 2001 184 pages Take the 20/20 CHALLENGE 20 GLOBAL PROBLEMS | 20 GLOBAL SOLUTIONS The importance of our interconnected world has long been recognized at Deerfield Academy (MA), which hosted the Global Connections IV Conference on Environmentalism in 2000. This collection includes essays on China, India, Botswana, and Australia — among other countries — by authors such as Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic. As part of the NAIS Challenge 20/20 Program, student teacher teams from two schools — one in the United States and one outside the United States — work together to come up with a solution to one of 20 global problems. Here’s your chance to partner with a school in another country to solve a global problem… and make a real difference. www.nais.org/go/challenge2020 18 18 http://transact.nais.org/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=B90 http://transact.nais.org/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=B91 http://transact.nais.org/Purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?Product_code=B47 http://www.nais.org/go/challenge2020
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