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Hot TopicNew World: Students crossing global borders
Meet Julie Lindsay…..Global Educator
Innovator
Leader
AuthorMA Music, MA Educational Technology Leadership
EdD Student, University of Southern Queensland
Adjunct Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education
Apple Distinguished Educator
Founder, Flat Connections
@julielindsay | #flatconnect | @flatconnections | about.me/julielindsay
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Today’s Discussion…..
Part 1
Global Borders
Part 2
ConnectedLearning
Part 3
FacilitatingChange
Part 1
Global Borders
….my global journey
Zambia
KuwaitBangladesh
Qatar
China
Ocean Shores
Melbourne
Part 1Global Borders
Part 1Global Borders
Global ContextThird Culture Kid
Part 1Global Borders
What are these “global borders” we need to cross?
Part 1Global Borders
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31676942@N04/3144103410
Leads to learning ‘With’Learning ‘About’ Part 1
Global Borders
Individual creationLeads to collaborative learning
Part 1Global Borders
Collaborative LearningLeads to intercultural understanding
Why Global Collaboration?
Global competency
International mindedness
Cultural awareness
Glocalisation!
The cross-cultural skills and
understanding needed to
communicate outside one’s
environment and to act on
issues of global significance.
Everyone is not like me.
Everyone is like me in some
way.
Think global and act local!
Part 1Global Borders
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130715-reading-the-world-in-365-days
Global CompetencePart 1Global Borders
To what extent will a book help us cross borders?
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com
Part 1Global Borders
Global CompetenceSkills for the future to cross borders?
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
LEGACY
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
LEGACY
IMPACT
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
LEGACY
IMPACT
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
HOW?
CONNECT
LEGACY
IMPACT
DESIGN
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
LEGACY
IMPACT
DESIGN
CONSTRUCT
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
CONNECT
LEGACY
IMPACT
DESIGN
CONSTRUCT
AMPLIFY
Intercultural understanding in a global context…….
Part 1Global Borders
Crossing Global Borders• What are the main benefits?• Who can you collaborate with?
• Global CONNECTION• What can you create together?
• Global LEGACY• What are some actionable
outcomes to change the world?• Global IMPACT
Part 1Global Borders
Let’s discuss!
Part 2
ConnectedLearning
Flat Connected Learning
Collaborative – Culture of
Sharing
Blended learning
Flipped learning
Inquiry based
Project / Challenge
based
Part 2ConnectedLearning
LeadershipPedagogyWeb 2.0Learning Design
We need to ‘flatten’ the learning
hierarchy. Students, teachers, ALL
learners, must have freedom to
communicate ‘across’ rather
than up or down
Connected Learning FLAT?Part 2ConnectedLearning
Students
School
You
Strategies for meaningful connections
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Taxonomy of Global ConnectionPart 2ConnectedLearning
Going Beyond the
‘Wow’
Engaging learners and
leaders
Shifting traditional
pedagogies
Having realistic
expectations
Part 2ConnectedLearningChallenges of Global Collaboration
What is an Effective Global Collaboration?
An educational project that flattens or joins classrooms and people from geographically
dispersed places within a technology infrastructure built for a common curricular purpose.
Interactions foster cultural understanding and global awareness in the process of learning.
Local identity is maintained and celebrated.
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Process/Actions to connect and flatten the classroom
Technology infused learning
Digital citizenship……
Just in time SKILLS, HABITS and
ATTITUDES for learning while digital
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Blended learning modes to support collaboration
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Examples from Flat Connections Global Projects
http://flatconnections.com
Part 2ConnectedLearning
“Designing a global collaborative experience involves transcending the obvious real time linkup,
fostering higher order thinking and providing opportunities for cultural understanding while
usually making a product that impacts others in a positive way. ”
Global Project Design & Management
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Flat Connections Global Project
• 500 students• 20+ classrooms• 6 countries• 36 student teams• 1 Keynote• 24 Expert Advisors• 18 Judges and 3 Meta-judges• 213 Videos• 15 eBooks
Part 2ConnectedLearning
February-June 2014!
Community for LearningPart 2ConnectedLearning
TeachersStudentsExtended community
Community Collaborative
Learning
Building working relationships
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Project Content
Horizon Report K-12, 2013Emerging technologies impacting education and learning shared via a timeline of potential relevance.http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports/horizon-report-k-12-edition
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Project Themes
OpenLearning futurist, David Price OBE, argues that ‘open’ is not only affecting how we are choosing to live, but that it’s going to be the difference between success and failure in the future.http://engagedlearning.co.uk/
• The future of learning and education• Emerging technologies and how we can and will use them• Connected and flat learning• Collaborative and social entrepreneurship• Global issues and actions to solve them
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Collaborative wiki leading to a published eBook
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by Anita Hart: http://flickr.com/photos/anitakhart/4586879133/
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Educational Network (Ning) for community developmenthttp://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Collaborative space (wiki) for team work and sharing process & outcomeshttp://flatconnections.wikispaces.com/
Student final video
Storyboard & planning
Outsourced content
Personal contentTopic subthemeVideo
specifications
Credits & citations
Personal Multimedia Response to TopicPart 2ConnectedLearning
Synchronous student leader meetings’
Flat Connections Global Project
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Interact and Share with the World
Community Network
Spaces for Global LearningPart 2ConnectedLearning
Welcome to
Building Bridges to Tomorrow K-2 Flat Connections Project
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Tool: Youblisher
Malaysia
Colorado, USA
Tool: Padlet
Part 2ConnectedLearning
‘A Week in the Life…’A Flat Connections Project for Elementary School students
Grades 3-5, age 8-10
Part 2ConnectedLearning
‘Handshakes’
USA
INDIA
‘A Week in the Life’, Global Project Grade 3-6
Tool: Edmodo
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Co-creating a Popplet with students around the globe.
Student Co-creation Online
‘A Week in the Life’, Global Project Grade 3-6
Tool: Popplet
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Co-Created Showcase Voicethreads
Tool: Voicethread
Part 2ConnectedLearning
A Week in the Life ProjectStudent Summits
Tool: Blackboard Collaborate
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Singapore American School International School of the Sacred Heart, Japan
“Using plastic water bottles
does more harm than good”
http://globalyouthdebates.com
Asynchronous global debates between classrooms
Tools: Voicethread & Fuzebox
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Students Crossing BordersCasey & Cannelle – The two ‘C’s’
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Students Crossing BordersAustralia to Qatar - 2009
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Tool: Skype
Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong High School, Wuhan
China - 2011
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Crossing Global Borders
• What are some of the challenges presented by the technology?
• Would you do this in your school? Why? Why not?
• Are you doing this already? What is the project design? What are the outcomes?
Let’s discuss!
Part 2ConnectedLearning
Part 3
FacilitatingChange
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Giulia Forsythe: http://flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5617505546/
Pedagogical ShiftPart 3FacilitatingChange
What is ‘pedagogical shift’?
A change in teaching and learning beliefs and practices
from transmission paradigm to constructionist paradigm
Part 3FacilitatingChange
The CHALLENGE!
Teacher beliefs and dispositions
to do with technology and
pedagogical change
Wesley Fryer http://www.flickr.com/photos/31442459@N00/2516648940/
Part 3FacilitatingChange
Technology must be the bridge, not the barrier to shifting pedagogy
Image: 'forward’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/99771506@N00/3036132944
Part 3FacilitatingChange
“The pipe is more important than the content in the pipe.”
Connectivism – George Siemens
Part 3FacilitatingChange
The future of connected learning includes collaboration online – how are we supporting this?
Part 3FacilitatingChange
The change we need …….
• Community building as a prerequisite to learning
• Collaboration that leads to co-creation with other learners who are not in the same time and space,
• Pedagogical independence and leadership for change within a school/institution
• Curriculum re-design to embed global collaboration
Part 3FacilitatingChange
We CAN work with the world
Part 3FacilitatingChange
Join our Worlds Together
Cultural Understanding, Global Competence, International Mindedness
Part 3FacilitatingChange
Change: Facilitate or Constrain?
• What are the barriers and enablers to students crossing borders?
• Are you a facilitator or a constrainer? Technology infrastructureCurriculum developmentLeadership
Let’s discuss!
Part 3FacilitatingChange
Three things to takeaway…...
Image: '| WHITE moment |’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/34145688@N00/90120985
YOU can be exceptional!
Image: 'Star pencil’ ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/29468339@N02/6097158569
Connect Students for Collaborations!
SHIFT ‘Content’ to ‘Context’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29131777@N03/9528549446
Website - http://flatconnections.com
Teacher Network- http://flatconnections.net Contact: [email protected]
Learning about the world, with the world
Learning Confluence
Julie Lindsay
Director Learning Confluence
Global Educator, Leader, Innovator, Author
@julielindsay
about.me/julielindsay
learningconfluence.com
#AsiaEd14 @AsiaEducation
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