MULTICULTURAL EXCHANGE & NEW MEDIA - Global Education Solution for Children

Marcos Sadao Maekawa, Takehiro Suzuki, Keiko Okawa

2010

Abstract

This paper introduces the Global Education Kids Project and its research on educational programs and activities able to provide global experiences for children around the world, supported by new media technologies. A global experience can be understood as a situation in which kids can get together with others, collaborate on works and actions, share knowledge, feelings, and moments of cultural exchange, reflection and friendship. This paper explains some of the elements necessary for designing an effective program for multicultural exchange that we discovered while conducting research and promoting and/or observing experiments.

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in Harvard Style

Maekawa M., Suzuki T. and Okawa K. (2010). MULTICULTURAL EXCHANGE & NEW MEDIA - Global Education Solution for Children . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-674-024-5, pages 252-257. DOI: 10.5220/0002861302520257


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu10,
author={Marcos Sadao Maekawa and Takehiro Suzuki and Keiko Okawa},
title={MULTICULTURAL EXCHANGE & NEW MEDIA - Global Education Solution for Children},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2010},
pages={252-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002861302520257},
isbn={978-989-674-024-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - MULTICULTURAL EXCHANGE & NEW MEDIA - Global Education Solution for Children
SN - 978-989-674-024-5
AU - Maekawa M.
AU - Suzuki T.
AU - Okawa K.
PY - 2010
SP - 252
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0002861302520257