Crowdsourcing and Students' International Communication

Crowdsourcing might be an efficient and productive procedure to start and maintain a certain type of international communication among high school students. International communication among high school students needs international communication among high school teachers as its precondition. As those teachers are hardly organized internationally, an organized procedure to start communication is very difficult, unless we are to depend on those international entities such as UNICEF or UNESCO. Crowdsourcing procedure starts with “an open call” from someone, in this case, some teacher. As far as teachers are networked, and if the open call is relevant and interesting enough, the call will create a certain stir among teachers, and consequently among students. The question is who will throw an open call first. The answer is “Nobody knows.” We have varieties of cultures. Our interests may be generated or controlled by varieties of bureaucracies we have. Each of us should throw a call, and someone will throw a fluke.