GCED Youth Online Course
In a normal day I was just scrolling my Line timeline while fully aware that my midterm exams are just around the corner. It was quite normal to see me chill at some risky situations such as that day because I'd like to keep things in a "yolo" way and so I kept on scrolling until I found an interesting post about a course that involves Global Citizenship Education.
Whats this? I wonder, and in the description I read that this course is a must for youth who are interested in topics such as education, sustainable development, human rights, peace, diversity etc.
As a person who likes to engage myself into social activities and I am currently pursuing an education to be a teacher, this post had my full attention. It sparks curiosity to my mind so I decided to follow the information on the timeline that follows me to a website with the name www.gcedonlinecampus.org. Soon I learned that the website is powered by a well know institution shadowed by the United Nations, the one and only UNESCO! UNESCO has its own segment of institutions also, which is the Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) and I am quite certain that this Online Campus is one of its work programs.
Honestly, I am wowed by this great website. The web is called "GCED Online Campus", and it is a course platform that has vast varieties of lectures, talks, and courses, all in the GCED topic. At first I was kind of confused about how the web works, the sophisticated theme and all, I even thought it was a commercial online course platform! But its not. GCED Online Campus is free as long as you are a global citizen. With their tagline "Online Campus for Global Citizens', I came to understand what are the meanings of these unfamiliar topics. I soon learned about it after I applied the course that made me came to the website in the first place, titled "Voices of Youth: Youth Advocacy for GCED".
As already written in the introduction of the course, Voices of Youth: Youth Advocacy for GCED course, it is 'expected to recognize youth as an active agent for GCED and gain competencies in planning and implementing youth-led activities in a variety of contexts. The course introduces what advocacy is, how to plan and carry out campaigns and other advocacy initiatives on GCED, and shares good cases and practices worldwide.' OK it sounded sophisticated, even to me that already knew a little about development goals and some UN programs. But as soon as you take the course, trust me, all of your questions are all be answered in the lectures!
The course contains 4 sessions and it got a little tricky to try to understand how it works, but the compact website seems to serve everything such as manuals and instructions. Just don't ever be lazy to read those manuals. It brings light in everything, believe me. I soon got the hang of the course after a few how-to reads.
First Session discuss about "What Is GCED?" which is my biggest question when I first arrived to this website. I mean, the word GCED is in every lectures, courses, and everything at the website and I don't even know what it means!
The session gives me a link to watch a video of a brief explanation. In the video that explained audience with info graphics and pictures, GCED is a transformative education that can empower learners diverse knowledge and skills for securing a sustainable world. What it means by transformative is that it utilizes a multifaceted approach by adopting the concepts, methods and theories. Its expected approaches is to link Local and Global in the aspects of Education.
For those who didn't know, it is also explained that global citizen education is based on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) number 4 which is Education For All. Goal number 4 is also being divided in smaller topics into 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc and 4.7 is about GCED.
Learning GCED is important. It can be implemented in practical life because it helps us understand global issues, have empathy, act responsible, etc. In conclusion, GCED is educating us to be a good citizen of the global world (not only a citizen of a country).
In this session I was also being introduced to aspects around Education itself, such as the Four Pillars of Learning; To know, to do, to be, and to live together and also the 3 domains of learning; cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral aspect.
To perform GC Education we should understand what does this education means and so that we could participate in the issues that could occur. So it is a must to know, what are the areas of GCED? GCED promotes justice, solidarity for humanity, human rights, peace, diversity, sustainability,etc. If teachers should educate GCED, teachers should have conceptual understanding of GCED themes, (note to myself!) have keen interest in local and global issues. In this GCED, teachers are facilitators where they promote participatory learning and have constant dialogues with the students.
GCED aspects and forms was new to me, it seems like the awareness about this topic is not really wide reached (yet) in Indonesia (Or is it just me and my not-enough fulfilling insights?). But I am very glad to know this aspect of educations I have never heard before.
I continued the course until the end of the session where a quiz tests us about the theories we've already learned. The course even provides participants a forum where we can discuss! Its fun to know that we can discuss with youths who has the same spirit and enthusiast.
Second session discuss about Advocacy. Another word that I didn't fully understand. What is it with advocacy? I am then being explained that advocacy is taken in action by lobbying, campaigning, and mobilizing.
Lobbying is an activity to negotiate, emphasize our ideas to other people so they could be affected by our ideas. Campaigning can be done in medias, especially social medias to gain specific results. And Mobilizing can be done by linking with others in order to grow empathy. Growing strong empathy could attract people to support our ideas.
The role of youth in doing advocacy is to 1. Take action, and 2. Demand action. We can help by doing from the smallest things like give testimonies, footage to bring situations to light. This can make people understand what is going on so it would make them aware of certain issues.We can also start organizations that could address the problem directly. Or try lobbying decision makers if you are capable. Or maybe hold a social awareness campaign. There's still many concrete ways we can always explore!
In the third session discuss youth as an active agent of GCED. Youth should be learners, educators, advocates, and leader at the same time. They have a huge potential in the society, but youth are considered not capable to sit in high positions. We shouldn't think like what people portrays us because 1. the number of youth population is huge, 2.Youth have an unleashed potential - more educated, connected and mobile than ever before, 3. Youth are diverse and heterogeneous , 4.Youth can be easily affected by global challenges, such as climate change and violence and are more subjective to suffer from them.
When promoting GCED at local levels, sometimes GCED are considered as not compatible to the local policies. Note that the concept of GCED is not always about the global level. Instead GCED is built from local. The lecturer analogies GCED as a mosaic that is formed by the locals. GCED is all about interconnections, interdependence, mutual understanding, and respect of different cultures. So each culture in every locals -> makes one family in the world.
To understand promote GCED better, we can do a Mapping process. Mapping is doing a research to find out actors who work on the promotion of GCED. By doing the process, we are able to find inspirations, avoid us to do overlapping the same projects with other, gives us better understanding within the local community, and helps us find, identify potential partners to work with. Start the process by doing these tips:
-Find people who know anything about GCED.
-Search information online
-Contact local UN agencies and find people who can inspire us
-Work on the program of the workshop
-or implement GCED as a segment of a project
Now that we already have the basics such as understanding GCED and advocacy, now its time to prepare for an advocacy campaign. The tools for an advocacy campaign are:
1. Think about what inspires you, what makes you mad? This is a way to find your Why. Make sure that you are passionate with the issue.
2.To think about what do you know. Write down reflections on a problem/opportunity. Identify what is the problem? With whom? Whats the cause of it? etc.
3. Who do you need to speak to?
4. What sort of evidence is needed? Could be data or statistics, always make sure to be transparent and confidential. Try making a Problem Tree, contains Causes Problem which is the root, Main Problem which is the trunk, and Effects in the form of branches.
5. Define your message and do it!
After that, reflect what needs to be change in the problem tree? What is your message? What made you want to find out more about it? Appeal to the heart, head, and hands. While realizing, it is important to make it simple, solution focused, practical, reasonable, evidence based, and consider is it appropriate for the audience? Also define your targets; map stakeholders, supporters, followers, and opponents. And then perform your ideas and messages in your writings, talks, exhibits, petition, campaigns, etc.
Now that the main ideas of Youth, GCED, and Advocacy has been understood, the last session is a sharing session about cases of youth advocacies from several countries. At the end of the course, there is a final assignment to share our own youth advocacy in our community. I submitted a one-minute video titled "My Initiatives to The Community" and i've posted it in my youtube channel haha! Fun fact; I've prepared the text and filmed it in the last 30 minutes before the course ends. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwdNrZGWI3U to see my very short video! Its a shame that I couldn't tell anything else, just a very quick introduction and brief explanations. But still, I am quite satisfied by being able to good look in the video *whips hijab
Overall, I felt very filled with new, relevant insights after I finished the Voices of Youth course. I am certainly coming back to take other GCED courses when I have free time. I should really get going to my midterms exams now!
One thing I regret after the end of the course, I just came to know that there is this fully funded program named 5th Youth Leadership Workshop for Youth could be applied after completing the course. Sadly, when I tried to open the application form the application has already closed just several hours ago:") I didn't know that they closed it in that day but in Korean South Time.*(note: The application closes at 31st March KST because APCEIU office is in Seoul, South Korea). Unlucky me:(
Talk about luck, I felt lucky enough by able to share this experience to all of you. I just wanted to say, we live in such a sophisticated, mobile world. We can grasp everything in our hands if we could just have the intention to learn and enrich our horizons! Start by taking online courses. Its very simple yet effective way to fulfill our minds. Just have time and a good intention. Hail technology!
Whats this? I wonder, and in the description I read that this course is a must for youth who are interested in topics such as education, sustainable development, human rights, peace, diversity etc.
As a person who likes to engage myself into social activities and I am currently pursuing an education to be a teacher, this post had my full attention. It sparks curiosity to my mind so I decided to follow the information on the timeline that follows me to a website with the name www.gcedonlinecampus.org. Soon I learned that the website is powered by a well know institution shadowed by the United Nations, the one and only UNESCO! UNESCO has its own segment of institutions also, which is the Asia Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) and I am quite certain that this Online Campus is one of its work programs.
Honestly, I am wowed by this great website. The web is called "GCED Online Campus", and it is a course platform that has vast varieties of lectures, talks, and courses, all in the GCED topic. At first I was kind of confused about how the web works, the sophisticated theme and all, I even thought it was a commercial online course platform! But its not. GCED Online Campus is free as long as you are a global citizen. With their tagline "Online Campus for Global Citizens', I came to understand what are the meanings of these unfamiliar topics. I soon learned about it after I applied the course that made me came to the website in the first place, titled "Voices of Youth: Youth Advocacy for GCED".
As already written in the introduction of the course, Voices of Youth: Youth Advocacy for GCED course, it is 'expected to recognize youth as an active agent for GCED and gain competencies in planning and implementing youth-led activities in a variety of contexts. The course introduces what advocacy is, how to plan and carry out campaigns and other advocacy initiatives on GCED, and shares good cases and practices worldwide.' OK it sounded sophisticated, even to me that already knew a little about development goals and some UN programs. But as soon as you take the course, trust me, all of your questions are all be answered in the lectures!
The course contains 4 sessions and it got a little tricky to try to understand how it works, but the compact website seems to serve everything such as manuals and instructions. Just don't ever be lazy to read those manuals. It brings light in everything, believe me. I soon got the hang of the course after a few how-to reads.
First Session discuss about "What Is GCED?" which is my biggest question when I first arrived to this website. I mean, the word GCED is in every lectures, courses, and everything at the website and I don't even know what it means!
The session gives me a link to watch a video of a brief explanation. In the video that explained audience with info graphics and pictures, GCED is a transformative education that can empower learners diverse knowledge and skills for securing a sustainable world. What it means by transformative is that it utilizes a multifaceted approach by adopting the concepts, methods and theories. Its expected approaches is to link Local and Global in the aspects of Education.
For those who didn't know, it is also explained that global citizen education is based on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) number 4 which is Education For All. Goal number 4 is also being divided in smaller topics into 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc and 4.7 is about GCED.
Learning GCED is important. It can be implemented in practical life because it helps us understand global issues, have empathy, act responsible, etc. In conclusion, GCED is educating us to be a good citizen of the global world (not only a citizen of a country).
In this session I was also being introduced to aspects around Education itself, such as the Four Pillars of Learning; To know, to do, to be, and to live together and also the 3 domains of learning; cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioral aspect.
To perform GC Education we should understand what does this education means and so that we could participate in the issues that could occur. So it is a must to know, what are the areas of GCED? GCED promotes justice, solidarity for humanity, human rights, peace, diversity, sustainability,etc. If teachers should educate GCED, teachers should have conceptual understanding of GCED themes, (note to myself!) have keen interest in local and global issues. In this GCED, teachers are facilitators where they promote participatory learning and have constant dialogues with the students.
GCED aspects and forms was new to me, it seems like the awareness about this topic is not really wide reached (yet) in Indonesia (Or is it just me and my not-enough fulfilling insights?). But I am very glad to know this aspect of educations I have never heard before.
I continued the course until the end of the session where a quiz tests us about the theories we've already learned. The course even provides participants a forum where we can discuss! Its fun to know that we can discuss with youths who has the same spirit and enthusiast.
Second session discuss about Advocacy. Another word that I didn't fully understand. What is it with advocacy? I am then being explained that advocacy is taken in action by lobbying, campaigning, and mobilizing.
Lobbying is an activity to negotiate, emphasize our ideas to other people so they could be affected by our ideas. Campaigning can be done in medias, especially social medias to gain specific results. And Mobilizing can be done by linking with others in order to grow empathy. Growing strong empathy could attract people to support our ideas.
The role of youth in doing advocacy is to 1. Take action, and 2. Demand action. We can help by doing from the smallest things like give testimonies, footage to bring situations to light. This can make people understand what is going on so it would make them aware of certain issues.We can also start organizations that could address the problem directly. Or try lobbying decision makers if you are capable. Or maybe hold a social awareness campaign. There's still many concrete ways we can always explore!
In the third session discuss youth as an active agent of GCED. Youth should be learners, educators, advocates, and leader at the same time. They have a huge potential in the society, but youth are considered not capable to sit in high positions. We shouldn't think like what people portrays us because 1. the number of youth population is huge, 2.Youth have an unleashed potential - more educated, connected and mobile than ever before, 3. Youth are diverse and heterogeneous , 4.Youth can be easily affected by global challenges, such as climate change and violence and are more subjective to suffer from them.
When promoting GCED at local levels, sometimes GCED are considered as not compatible to the local policies. Note that the concept of GCED is not always about the global level. Instead GCED is built from local. The lecturer analogies GCED as a mosaic that is formed by the locals. GCED is all about interconnections, interdependence, mutual understanding, and respect of different cultures. So each culture in every locals -> makes one family in the world.
To understand promote GCED better, we can do a Mapping process. Mapping is doing a research to find out actors who work on the promotion of GCED. By doing the process, we are able to find inspirations, avoid us to do overlapping the same projects with other, gives us better understanding within the local community, and helps us find, identify potential partners to work with. Start the process by doing these tips:
-Find people who know anything about GCED.
-Search information online
-Contact local UN agencies and find people who can inspire us
-Work on the program of the workshop
-or implement GCED as a segment of a project
Now that we already have the basics such as understanding GCED and advocacy, now its time to prepare for an advocacy campaign. The tools for an advocacy campaign are:
1. Think about what inspires you, what makes you mad? This is a way to find your Why. Make sure that you are passionate with the issue.
2.To think about what do you know. Write down reflections on a problem/opportunity. Identify what is the problem? With whom? Whats the cause of it? etc.
3. Who do you need to speak to?
4. What sort of evidence is needed? Could be data or statistics, always make sure to be transparent and confidential. Try making a Problem Tree, contains Causes Problem which is the root, Main Problem which is the trunk, and Effects in the form of branches.
5. Define your message and do it!
After that, reflect what needs to be change in the problem tree? What is your message? What made you want to find out more about it? Appeal to the heart, head, and hands. While realizing, it is important to make it simple, solution focused, practical, reasonable, evidence based, and consider is it appropriate for the audience? Also define your targets; map stakeholders, supporters, followers, and opponents. And then perform your ideas and messages in your writings, talks, exhibits, petition, campaigns, etc.
Now that the main ideas of Youth, GCED, and Advocacy has been understood, the last session is a sharing session about cases of youth advocacies from several countries. At the end of the course, there is a final assignment to share our own youth advocacy in our community. I submitted a one-minute video titled "My Initiatives to The Community" and i've posted it in my youtube channel haha! Fun fact; I've prepared the text and filmed it in the last 30 minutes before the course ends. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwdNrZGWI3U to see my very short video! Its a shame that I couldn't tell anything else, just a very quick introduction and brief explanations. But still, I am quite satisfied by being able to good look in the video *whips hijab
Overall, I felt very filled with new, relevant insights after I finished the Voices of Youth course. I am certainly coming back to take other GCED courses when I have free time. I should really get going to my midterms exams now!
One thing I regret after the end of the course, I just came to know that there is this fully funded program named 5th Youth Leadership Workshop for Youth could be applied after completing the course. Sadly, when I tried to open the application form the application has already closed just several hours ago:") I didn't know that they closed it in that day but in Korean South Time.*(note: The application closes at 31st March KST because APCEIU office is in Seoul, South Korea). Unlucky me:(
Talk about luck, I felt lucky enough by able to share this experience to all of you. I just wanted to say, we live in such a sophisticated, mobile world. We can grasp everything in our hands if we could just have the intention to learn and enrich our horizons! Start by taking online courses. Its very simple yet effective way to fulfill our minds. Just have time and a good intention. Hail technology!
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