Why Participate in the ASEF 2020 Blogging Project?

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

                                                                                                               Barack Obama 

The ASEF Global Writing Blogging project will allow your students to become participants in the issues that shape the world but perhaps equally as importantly, their sense of having a voice and right to explore their future. Your students will learn not only about the content, the project based independent nature of personal engagement but also the applications that allow them to collaborate beyond geographical boundaries. They will share their dreams and fears for the future but it is most important to ensure that they move beyond reactive behaviours and mindsets toward a growth mindset where empowerment takes place. A place where they know that they can dream, set goals and take action towards building the future they choose.

Students may participate within the curriculum but also beyond it. We will use a number of digital tools that provide structure and opportunity for young writers to have authors, publishers, bloggists and editors read their work through Write the World. They will be able to choose a focus that grabs them, that speaks to their hearts and intellects, which means that teams may be compiled across nationalities. Participants will gather and respond to resources both provided and those they discover, and perhaps most importantly, they will not be bound by a strict scaffolded formula but rather, have the flexibility to create and curate their own team's blog of responses within the boundaries of the project.

So let's go. Join us as we create a collaboration that builds bridges beyond geographical boundaries.