
American Democracy Project (ADP)
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Educating Globally Competent Citizens: 7 Revolutions



7 Revolutions
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) created a program entitled the Seven Revolutions, a strategic look at planet earth out to the year 2030. The program identified seven areas of revolutionary change:
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Population demographics
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Natural resource management
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Technology innovation and diffusion
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Development and dissemination of information and knowledge
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Economic integration
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The nature and mode of conflict
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The challenge of governance
The program was created to identify and analyze the key policy challenges that policymakers, business figures, and citizens will face out to the year 2030. CSIS wants to promote strategic thinking on the long-term trends that too few leaders take the time to consider.
Goals
The Seven Revolutions initiative is a partnership between CSIS, an international policy center in Washington, D.C., The New York Times, and eleven AASCU member institutions. The goal of the Seven Revolutions initiative is to translate the Seven Revolutions identified by CSIS into curricular and co-curricular undergraduate programs, producing strategies, materials, and programs to develop globally competent citizens. The Seven Revolution initiative is the only of the national initiatives to be focused internationally, preparing American students to make informed decisions about global issues.
7 Revolutions AASCU Institutions
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Teaching Materials
Overview of Educating Globally Competent Citizens: A Toolkit for Teaching Seven Revolutions
View full 7 Revolutions Tool Kit here. ( The Tool Kit contains the following resources:
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Seven Revolutions content (direct links and Student Guide)
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Case studies of AASCU partner institutions
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Teaching materials (e.g., syllabi, activities, assignments)
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Teaching resources (e.g., print, video, audio, Internet)
Sample teaching materials
CSIS Material
CSIS 7 Revolutions videolibrary
This links you to Martin Shapiro’s home page that contains a folder of the PowerPoint lectures used in his class: Opening, Futurist Perspective, Population, Biodiversity, Water, Food, Biofuels, Biotech, Neuroscience, Information, Economics, Microlending, Governance, PTSD and Brain Injury in soldiers.
7 Revolutions Video Library
TED Talks are 10-20 minute videotaped talks by some of the world's best thinkers on some of the world's most pressing issues. The talks are organized by topic. The global issues and technology talks are especially useful in teaching Seven Revolutions.
Hans Rosling (boxes talk on population)
Eli Pariser (filter bubble)
Syllabii
First Year Seminar/Freshmen
ONE_fall10_student_final.pdf
KSU1111Syllabus7Revs.pdf
Honors
Capstone Courses
Honors (Fresno, Martin Shapiro)
Assignments and Activities
Kennesaw (Keisha Hoerrner)
1111_group_TRS.pdf
1111_PSA_2010.pdf
Paper1_photo_F10.pdf
KSU Common Reader Global Village.pdf
Course Assessment
Pre-Post survey
Online Resources
Diigo is a cloud-based personal information management system that allows users to collect and access information, including articles, images, and web sites. We have created a "Seven Revolutions" group on Diigo that includes articles from journals and newspapers such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Geographic, Scientific America, and The New York Times, as well as reports and videos from CSIS. Items in our group library are tagged with words and phrases, connected to the Seven Revolutions, such as "population," "economic integration," and "natural resources." There are over 350 items in the Seven Revolutions group library.
Information Communications Technology (ICT) is a key enabler of a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world in the aftermath of one of the most serious economic crises in decades. The Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011 highlights the key role of ICT as an enabler of a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world.
In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. The authors of this report assessed a sample of 29 countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement (low to high) with respect to their ability to acquire and implement 16 key technology applications (e.g., cheap solar energy, rural wireless communications, genetically modified crops). The study’s major conclusions are that scientifically advanced countries such as the United States, Germany, and Japan will be able to implement all key technology applications evaluated; countries that are not scientifically advanced will have to develop significant capacity and motivation before barriers to technology implementation can be overcome; and public policy issues in certain areas will engender public debate and strongly influence technology implementation.
NOVA produced a excellent video on population issues around the world. The website is a companion to the video including activities, quizzes and articles.
Miniature Earth: Short video of statistics of the people on earth.
Slideshare.com: website for sharing PowerPoint lectures.
Worldmapper:
Gapminder:
Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square: CNN's Fareed Zakaria along with other leading journalists at TIME and CNN help make sense out of global issues.
Globaia: Educational materials for global citizenship.
iTunesU: Audio and video materials from Oxford, MIT, Stanford, Yale, etc.
Better World Shopper
Selected World News Sources
Foreign news sources are, of course, useful for different national or cultural perspectives on global issues.
Al Jazeera
Arutz Shiva (Israel)
China Daily
Christian Science Monitor
The Economist
Guardian Weekly
Iran Daily
Le Monde (France)
Moscow Times
National Public Radio
New York Times
Palestine Media Center
Spiegel (Germany)
Times of India
Washington Post
The Kathmandu Post
World newspapers in English
Other Resources
Books
Text books for students:
1. Annual Edition: Global Issues by Robert Jackson
2. Taking Sides: Clashing views on Global Issues by James Harf
Teacher Preparation and/or Student Book Reports:
7-Revolutions Institute: Fresno, Oct. 28th and 29th, 2011
Denny Falk: Introduction PowerPoint
Ken Hill: FYE, Resources and Teaching activities
Martin Shapiro: FYE
Martin Shapiro: Resources
Martin Shapiro: Opening with music
Brett Whitaker: Service
Paula Landis: PowerPoint on California Water
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