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Title: Global Competence and Digital Competence: The New Universal Knowledge and Skills Statistics on Global Incompetence: Most young Americans lack geographical knowledge: Surveys from National Geographic and Asia Society -83% could not locate Afghanistan -25% of college bound high school students could not name the ocean between California and Asia -80% did not know India is the world's largest democracy -37% could not locate China on a map of Asia and the Middle East Definition of Global Competence from Fernando Reimers, Harvard Education Professor: I define Global Competency as the knowledge and skills that help people understand the flat world in which they live, the skills to intergrate across diciplinary domains to comprehend global affairs and events and to create possibilities to address them. Global competencies are also attitudinal and ethical dispositions that make it possible to interact peacefully, respectfully, and productively with fellow human beings from diverse geographics. Are your students Globaly Competent? Are You? Digital Competence or Incompetence? The Nigerian Scam wich originated in the 1920's and has evolved into a multimedia scam. If you have fallen for this plea or something similar you are not displaying digital competence. Digital Competence defined by Yong Zhao: 1. Knowlege of the nature of the virtual world 2. Positive attitude towards the virtual world 3. Ability to use different tools to participate and lead in the virtual world 4. Ability to create products for the virtual world Do you feel Digital Competent?