Small hands smelling of peanut butter and jelly and chalk have put them there, inching them toward cities and mountains, tracing where desk-bound explorers have been, and more importantly, where they are going. What you can't see is the imagination each brave explorer invests in the journey or the excitement each new discovery brings. Even though you can't see those things, they are there. I could memorize something for 24 hours, then it was as if somebody flushed. For things to stick, they had to be relevant to my own life.
Educators struggle to make learning come alive, especially when the subject is unfamiliar cultures.
Enter the World Wide Web. As Executive Vice President of GlobaLearn, Inc., Crowley is one of the pioneers helping turn the promise of the internet into a real solution for classrooms. Through GlobaLearn students forge personal experiences in a foreign land. Live expeditions are mounted all over the world and daily dispatches are sent back to classrooms in over 40 countries. Since 1995, the non-profit company has fielded teams of five to six adult explorers in the Black Sea Nations, Brazil, Asia, and South America.