6.a+Distillation+of+Findings

Despite the fact that we were looking to create active global citizens, it would seem that we found a way to encourage students to become more passive global citizens. Due to a lack of access to technology, but also due to the fact that a teacher and/or other leader wasn’t facilitating discussions on the weekend, it would seem that even our “super users” didn’t step up to encourage activity on the weekends.

The best super users were typically teachers and classroom accounts that were being led by a teacher, and of those, teachers that were more apt to participate were those that were more inclined to be interested in these issues as evidenced by the pre and post surveys.

We already had a “gut” feeling that people would be more willing to act on simple actions (something that would take just a few minutes to complete), despite the length of time of an action, participants were more willing to take action when it required an offline component. Being able to touch, see, and feel their actions proved to be much more engaging than purely participating online.

We found a good way to encourage passive global citizens. We had a lot of people exploring resources on their own after exploring other actions and resources. Even though they didn’t reach the level of acting on their own, they did actively seek to educate themselves. Knowing is half the battle!

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