Kist (literacy methods and curriculum and instruction, Kent State U.) helps K-12 teachers prepare students for an increasingly connected and internationalized world. Drawing on interviews, he describes projects from teachers in the US, Canada, Japan, and China who are using new literacies, digital literacies, and social networking to achieve an intercultural critical education; promote twenty-first century skills of higher-order thinking in terms of global issues, diverse cultures, and understanding other nations and cultures; and develop the capabilities of students to engage with texts that build knowledge, experiences, and worldviews. He provides ideas for assignments, projects, and outlines views and descriptions of global education and twenty-first century skills, examples of small steps every teacher can make, more complex instructional strategies, situations in which students can visit countries for a global education, and trends in global education instruction and steps teachers can take to globalize their classrooms. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)