The educational impact of GNG programs can be acutely demonstrated in three main areas: technology-enhanced learning, experiential learning, and project-based learning.

Technology-Enhanced Learning:
The impact of GNG’s programs has made a marked difference in how teachers teach and students learn in a technology-enhanced classroom because videoconferencing greatly enhances school curricula by bringing it to life for students. It is a means to achieving the instructional end goals for teachers. To illustrate, in a recent survey to teachers, all those polled concurred that GNG videoconferences were a valuable tool for teaching and learning (77% strongly agreed, and 23% agreed). Moreover, more than 80% of respondents in this same survey strongly agreed that GNG programs generated in-class discussions afterwards, which makes a technology-enhanced classroom a sustainable experience for all those who are involved.

Experiential Learning:
GNG programs are part and parcel of fostering global literacy in the 21st century classroom, especially in the area of experiential learning. In other words, students internalize individual meanings about their role in the world from their collective videoconference experience. In the words of a student who participated in a recent videoconference, “I had an experience that I will never forget. I felt like a part of history. I was able to convey my personal opinions and feelings with the world and had the opportunity to see events through other people’s perspectives.”

Project-Based Learning:
The Global Nomads Group takes an innovative approach to project-based learning, since our programs attempt to tackle real-world issues through a sustainable task-related perspective. For example, before each videoconference, students work together in their own classes to study a pressing social issue head-on through a lesson plan that has been provided by GNG. Afterwards, they link up with students in other parts of the world to deliberate on what they have discovered in their quest for more knowledge on the topic. Additionally, teachers believe that this is an efficient way to engage in project-based learning. According to a school teacher who participated in our Rwanda program, “Students have taken the Rwandan 10-year anniversary of the genocide and have made it more than just a cross-curriculum academic project. It has become a way of learning how to have compassion for others.”