Reverse Mentoring:  What a novel idea for me!  Why not let our technologically savvy students "teach" us the ins and outs of the technology available to us at school!  They know so much more than I do, but I had never thought about having them teach me.

Using reverse mentoring with global citizenship would be tricky in my school.  First our school has extremely limited technological resources.  While we do have computer labs, we are a k-12 school and all students must share access to these labs.  Secondly, my school is a school that has an extremely strict firewall.  So much to the point that I have trouble accessing my online Yearbook program for creating the Yearbook each year for the school.  Many times, my students and I are kicked off and restricted.

The first thing that would have to be done would be to gain clearance from our Central Office to open portals to allow free access to the programs and websites we would need.  Then we would begin by selecting a pilot group of students to experiment with.  This pilot group would consist of students that were our "cream of the crop."  We would do this to allow us to work out any kinks in the program before applying it to all students.  One teacher would get involved with one class.  Students would be given projects to complete and guidelines to follow.  The students would be given the freedom to create within the guidelines and then use their presentations for their projects to "teach" the teacher how to use various tools and programs.  After completing the first step of the program, these students could then graduate to the next level of technology and move on to another class where programs are slightly more difficult and involve global collaboration.  The first class would allow teachers to ensure the students had the basic knowledge of computer hardware and software to be able to function in a more complex, global project.  By guaranteeing this familiarity with the resources needed, teachers would be setting the students at the second level up to succeed.  This would be extremely important at schools like mine where as much as 50% of our student body does not have access to the internet at home.  Many don't even have a computer.  As elementary teachers began to implement multiple uses of resources in their rooms and students began to grow up familiarizing themselves with hardwares and softwares, the first stage of the upper level classes could be phased out and more global collaborative classes could be implemented.  It would also allow the teachers involved to grow into the technology over the course of a few years and benefiting from the knowledge of their more experienced students.