Paper short abstract:

In response to current challenges, education must adapt. Social Sciences address global issues, emphasizing the need for global citizenship education. Our initiative fosters multicultural collaboration using technology, inviting scholarly dialogue for further improvement.

Paper long abstract:

In light of the latest technological advances, such as AI, it has become increasingly evident that education and didactic techniques need a deep transformation in order to adapt to the needs of younger generations.

Within the field of Social Sciences, practitioners are constantly challenged to create larger, more innovative and more effective solutions to address the pivotal global challenges articulated in the 2030 agenda.

In this context, the cultivation of global citizens within our classrooms assumes paramount importance within the goals of middle and higher education institutions. As professionals in this area, teachers are constantly trying to create new experiences that will provide students with significant emotional learning processes that will allow them to connect in a personal level to the issues their subjects or projects are trying to address. The latter with the objective of bringing knowledge beyond the classroom, inspiring the students to engage and taking their knowledge to action.

This paper elucidates the operational framework and outcomes of our Global Shared Learning Classroom initiative, which has connected students and teachers from all corners of the world in close collaboration to carry out multicultural, collaborative, online critical thinking activities. Interacting with different partner institutions, we have managed to create engaging experiences, providing the students with true multicultural environments facilitated with the use of different technological tools.

Moreover, this discourse invites scholarly engagement on avenues for refinement and enhancement, encapsulating a truly multicultural exchange that embraces diverse methodological approaches.