Promoting global citizenship using statistics: The role of synchronous communication technology

The potential of synchronous communication technology to enhance distance learning has been widely explored, yet there is very little research on how this technology can be used in mathematics classroom. On the other hand, global citizenship has been increasingly discussed in international education forum these last few years. This paper report how synchronous communication technology can support statistics lesson in promoting global citizenship, as well as the potential and suggestion on the use of synchronous communication technology in the classroom.