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ISTE is a partner for the 2012 Digital Learning Day, a culminating event in a year-round awareness campaign to improve learning and teaching for all children. For Digital Learning Day, organizers ask everyone—teachers, librarians, school leaders, after school programs, community groups, parents—no matter their comfort level with technology, to do one of three things:
Start a conversation
Try one new thing
Showcase success
Learn more about the toolkits for teachers, administrators, and parents and get ideas about what you can do to support innovation to benefit students. -
ISTE 2012 Conference in San Diego - YouTube
Promo video for ISTE 2012 in San Diego!
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Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand | Video on TED.com
An inspiring TED Talk focusing on free jazz, and decision making on the bandstand - is a mistake possible?
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Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All! | The Edublog Awards
Sunday, December 18, 2011
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
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Everything I Need To Know - About Education - I Learned In Kindergarten - iPads in Education
Another blog post from Sam Gliksman from the iPads in Education Ning. Find your own meaning....but the message is clear.
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"ISTE is proud to introduce the white paper, Technology, Coaching, and Community: Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education."
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Learning & Leading with Technology
At last I found the portal for all ISTE Learning and Leading digital magazines! You will need to be a member of ISTE I believe to view these and login. What a great reason to join ISTE! http://iste.org
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Transforming Education | K12 Online Conference
David Truss created this thought provoking video for the K12 Online 2011 conference.
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Sunday, December 04, 2011
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Our wonderful Flat Classroom Coordinator, Lisa Durff, and a blog post about our K12 Online Conference 2011 submission that went live this past week.
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12 Games of Christmas Free Teaching Pack - TES Topics
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2011 Schedule | K12 Online Conference
The K12 Online Conference has started! Make sure you watch as many videos and interact as much as you can over the next 2 weeks and more!
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
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Don't Blame PowerPoint! It's just a vehicle
This slideshow shares in a humorous way how not to approach the tool Powerpoint when preparing presentations
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7 Top Trends in Social Media | Jeffbullas's Blog
Trend One: Social Mobile
Trend Two: Socialization of Search
Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing
Trend Four: Social Commerce
Trend Five: Social Gaming
Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs
Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Businesstags: socialmedia acrossmydesk trends
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Google Verbatim – what’s that? |
great blog post by Judy O'Connell, 'Hey Jude' about the new Google search feature 'Verbatim'
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Flat Classroom Project - 5th Birthday Flat Classroom
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Bettendorf fifth-graders go to the source to learn about other cultures
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7 Tips for Citing an App in MLA Format | edSocialMedia
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Turning Students Into Teachers - iPads in Education
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join.me – Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings
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Stanford Offers iPhone App Development Course Free on iTunes U - Mac Rumors
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
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Creative collaboration for teachers globally
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Embedding Global Collaborative Projects - presentation
The first session was part of the Global Education Conference 2011, where I presented online via Blackboard Collaborate virtual classrooms.
The second opportunity was at the Beijing Learning Summit 2011, where I had a room of interested educators from Beijing and surrounds.
Don't forget our "Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration one Step at a Time" book will be released in January 2011
Some questions for discussion:
- What are the characteristics of effective global projects?
- How can we support the integration of global collaborative projects across the curriculum?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Global Education Conference 2011 starts today!
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:00:00GMT
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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ASB Unplugged 2012 - Flat Classroom Workshop
We are looking for more classrooms around the world to join us live at the next Flat Classroom Workshop to be held as part of the ASB Unplugged Conference in Mumbai, India, Feb 22-25 2012. Teachers are invited to bring a small number of students to this life-changing event. Details available from the wiki.
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David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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Our book is available on Amazon for pre-order!
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Pearson have our book cataloged online now. Coming January 20th!
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Start Your Own Global Project | Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom
Good blog post from a global collaborative teacher in Australia
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BBC News - Steve Jobs - 'a brilliant, inspirational maverick'
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
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University of Oregon, College of Education : OBA
"EUGENE, Ore.—(Oct. 28, 2011)—Oba, a global educational network featuring a comprehensive suite of online teaching and learning tools and opportunities, has been unveiled by the University of Oregon's College of Education.
The new educational platform is designed to connect students to learning opportunities offered in online courses made available by their own schools or by schools in other locations. Students also will able to engage in collaborative educational projects with students in other countries.
"We understand the challenges schools face today, and we want to help address these challenges in innovative ways," said Yong Zhao, the UO's first presidential chair and associate dean for Global and Online Education. " -
SoundCloud - Share Your Sounds
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Evoca is a great tool for audio recording. Just reading about the updated facility this tool provides.
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Great new site of educational apps for the iPad
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About GETideas.org | An Educational Community lead by Contributors, Partners & Sponsors
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Looks like an interesting tool to co0create multimedia artifacts
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Designing a Global Collaboration Using FlatClassroom® Model
This is a not to be missed session at the Global Education Conference coming November 14-18, 2011
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BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number?
A bit of fun! For my date of birth this is the result:
When you were born, you were the:2,997,159,675thperson alive on Earth76,612,037,221stperson to have lived since history began
Wow!tags: acrossmydesk population
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How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates
Looking for a new job right now? These informative infographics may help you focus on your digital footprint via social media.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
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Flat Classrooms page on Facebook
Announcing, again, our new Facebook page to support our bo0k, 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds' coming out in January 2012.
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BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter
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12 Ways To Spot Ineffective Leadership | N2Growth Blog
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Flat Classrooms Book Facebook page!
Came and be part of the excitement. Our book will be out in January 2012! www.flatclassroombook.com
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Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America | Common Sense Media
The study shows that everything from iPods to smartphones to tablet computers are now a regular part of kids' lives, with kids under 8 averaging two hours a day with all screen media. Among the key findings:
42% of children under 8 years old have a television in their bedroom.
Half (52%) of all 0- to 8-year-olds have access to a new mobile device, such as a smartphone, video iPod, or iPad/tablet.
More than a third (38%) of children this age have used one of these devices, including 10% of 0-to 1-year-olds, 39% of 2- to 4-year-olds, and more than half (52%) of 5- to 8-year-olds.
In a typical day, one in 10 (11%) 0- to 8-year-olds uses a smartphone, video iPod, iPad, or similar device to play games, watch videos, or use other apps. Those who do such activities spend an average of 43 minutes a day doing so.
In addition to the traditional digital divide, a new "app gap" has developed, with only 14% of lower-income parents having downloaded new media apps for their kids to use, compared to 47% of upper-income parents.
Clearly, media has become a staple in young kids' daily lives and influences them in ways we don't yet fully understand. But by getting involved in your kid's media life, you can help them create healthy lifelong patterns that will truly make a difference in their livestags: research acrossmydesk digital_divide dle digiteen digital_access digital_literacy
Sounding Board Classrooms wanted for Flat Classroom Project November 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
It's on again in 2011: Global Education Conference
Sunday, August 21, 2011
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The Innovative Educator: Discover what your digital footprint says about you
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Global Classroom | World Affairs Council
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eZdia : Get Trusted Experts & Projects for online freelancing job
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iGotChat - Cross-Platform Instant Messaging for SmartPhones
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
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An excellent project set up by Flat Classroom Certified teachers 2011
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A new global project created by Amy Jambour, Flat Classroom Certified teacher 2011
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BISS DezineTech - MYP Design Technology
I highly commend this website created by the Design Technology teacher, Rob Anderson, at BISS, China.
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Second Life™ Newbie Resource | StrawberrySingh.com
Just what I need at the start of the school year! A refresher and reminder about Second Life.
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Sunday, August 07, 2011
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ASB Un-Plugged Conference registration Now Open!
Come to the American School of Bombay in Mumbai, India. Flat Classroom will also be running a full student workshop as well as a teacher workshop.
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Idea Flight | Get your ideas off the ground
"Idea Flight is the only tool you need to share your ideas easily on iPad. Captivate your audience in a whole new way, keep everyone on the same page and network on the fly. Download the free app and see a sample presentation. More engagement. More control. One great idea. Yours."
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E-Learning Journeys: Flat Classroom® Projects
applications now open for elementary, middle and high school projects
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ISTE 2011 Conference Kickoff (full) - YouTube
If you scroll to the last 30 min or so you will see my presentation at the ISTE 2011 opening!
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Flat Classroom® Projects - applications now open for elementary, middle and high school projects
The Digiteen™ Project explores digital citizenship through interaction and provides an opportunity for students to not only talk about digital citizenship, but experience via online connection, collaboration, shared research and presentation. It also has an action project component where a classroom designs an action to be carried out in their own school community and then shared back to the global partnership.
The Flat Classroom® Project is designed to develop cultural understanding, skills with Web 2.0 and other software, experience in global collaboration and online learning, awareness of what it means to live and work in a flat world, while researching and discussing the ideas developed in Friedman's book.
The ‘A Week in the Life...’ Project aims to join Elementary School classrooms globally with a view to exploring what life is like in each area/country through discussion, sharing and collecting multimedia to create final products together. The curriculum focus is Interdisciplinary, how we live, how we communicate, cultural understanding and awareness.
Entry to a each project is via application and subscription. In order to help meet the subscription price, teachers can apply for a limited number of sweat equity positions as ‘lead teachers’.
All details for each of these outstanding projects can be found linked from the Flat Classroom® website. We welcome inquiries to fcp@flatclassroom.org
Watch this space for more announcements of new projects coming, including the repeat of the popular ‘Eracism’ Project, as well as an opportunity for educators to join our next Flat Classroom® Certified Teacher course, also starting in September 2011.
Also, our book, ‘Flattening Classroom, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration one Step at a Time’ is due for release January 2012. Find out more at www.flatclassroombook.com
Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Mobile Learning: Are We On the Cusp of Something Big? | MindShift
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Exploring alternatives for a learning management system this year.
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"This is a place for children, parents, teachers, and visitors from around the world to contribute to a global conversation about world cultures and lifestyles, in response to our young children’s questions."
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No child left behind - Voice of Russia
Listen to Vicki Davis interviewed on Voice of Russia recently
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Youth Movements - sign up for more information today!
Knight Foundation, TakingITGlobal, and the Global Youth Action Network launch new initiative to strengthen Youth Movements
New York, New York (July 26, 2011) - Today at the United Nations High-level Meeting on Youth, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, TakingITGlobal and the Global Youth Action Network announce YouthMovements.org, an upcoming project that will serve the purpose of aggregating and showcasing youth-led and youth-serving projects globally.
Youthmovements.org will launch later this year, providing young people and youth-serving organizations with a tool to effectively share information about their projects, to promote projects and initiatives collaboratively, and to help track and celebrate the collective progress being made worldwide to tackle the world's most challenging issues.tags: acrossmydesk tiged
Sunday, July 24, 2011
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American Kids Immersed in Chinese, Asian Education - Newsweek
How to raise a global kid....interesting thoughts in this article.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
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2.011 Conference - Library 2.0
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Is This The Tipping Point For E-Books & Libraries?
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We Collaborate! - The Contest Details
I encourage you to join this contest to win a Blackboard Collaborate room (formerly Elluminate) for a year.
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Resources from the ISTE 2011 Edubloggercon event
Sunday, June 26, 2011
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Web 2.0 Tools Smackdown: Ideas and Resources from EduBloggerCon 2011
International Society for Technology in Education - Blog >
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Lucy's iPad Resources - Google Docs
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
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Flat Classroom Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thanks to Fred Haas and other Flat Classroom teachers, we now have a presence on Wikipedia! Those involved in our projects are invited to edit and add further information.
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Twitter Hashtag List - Google Docs
Popular Twitter education hashtags on a Google Doc, from November Learning
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Myklassroom.com, Social e-learning platform
"Myklassroom.com, tranforms the way learning happens in campus & opens the doors of education beyound institutional boundaries. By harnessing the collective knowledge and increasing the engagement of students, myklassroom is tuned to deliver exceptional improvement in learning."
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
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Resources for Collaborative Project Work | Connect all Schools
"As you begin to explore the possibilities for cross-cultural interaction, global classroom projects, and new learning opportunities, several organizations and facilitators of online spaces can assist in your efforts. Many will actually facilitate these learning opportunities, while others are simply areas for you to connect and collaborate with other educators and students."
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A professional network building tool.
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Sunday, June 05, 2011
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Flat Classroom Global Collaboration Community
Come and join our Flat Classroom Global Collaboration Community on Facebook!
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An International Journey
From the book co-written by my friend and colleague, Vicki Davis and me, 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time'
Written in Beijing, China June 2011.
“Come and teach in the real Africa,” was the advertisement that inspired my husband and me to apply for and finally accept our first international teaching positions in Zambia, January 1998. Our daughter, Violet, was three. We sold up most of our worldly possessions in hometown Melbourne, Australia and left for Africa on our new adventure. We are still out there, over fourteen years and five countries later (Zambia, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Qatar and now China), experiencing in addition to Australian, also British and International Baccalaureate curriculum while exploring and embracing diverse cultural differences.
Zambia was also my first position as a computer teacher. Yes, before that I was a music teacher, dabbling in technology for performance and composition. However, this book is not about my journey alone, it is about the journey of many who are willing to ‘push the envelope’ or be pushed into learning experiences that significantly alter personal perceptions of how the world works and how we can work together to make it a better place.
The Internet changed everything. As an early adopter I still remember, in the mid 1990’s, organizing my school community at Eltham College, Melbourne, to arrive at 5am to hear via live broadcast the outcome of the International School’s Cyberfair (website design to unite and take action) competition. Our school had been shortlisted for the Environment award, and we gained an honorable mention, as announced personally by Al Gore at that ceremony. This was an exciting achievement for the school and on that day I reflected on the looks of incredulity when I announced weeks before in the staffroom I had entered the school in a global project, ‘But do the students know how to create a website?’, ‘What does it mean to share online?’ ‘What do you mean ‘global’’?
Other memories include running an ‘Internet Club’ as an after school activity at Simba School, Zambia where around the change of the millennium we participated in iEARN learning circle projects. This was an environment where the only computer allowed on the Internet at that time (by directive of our school head) was in a locked room in the library, with the non-networked computer lab being a good 5 minute walk away. This did not deter us!
My life changed again when Vicki Davis and I started the Flat Classroom® Project. I was in Bangladesh in a 1:1 school with wireless Internet access and with students who were studying the impact of technology on society. In addition Web 2.0 was emerging as a platform for communication and collaboration. The time was ripe to embark on something new that could be scaffolded by the new online technologies and could join students across the globe in meaningful learning experiences. As we joined our classrooms we shared audio introductions, posted images, instant messaged, and connected in real time via Skype. The challenge of working through time zones and cultural differences were often subliminal but omnipresent. Conversations, both synchronous and asynchronous took place during the intense project working time. Like boring a hole right through the center of the earth, students reached out, desperate for connection and confirmation that there was someone else on the other side willing to respond and work with them.
Very early on we saw the concept, power and magic of connecting with others globally and the difference it was making to learning, including stereotypical attitudes and behaviors. Not only did we keep developing new projects but we had a dream to bring students and teachers together face-to-face to cement collaborative relationships and work on action ideas. If the impact of global collaboration was evident in an asynchronous project, we imagined the opportunity for growth if we could get students and teachers working together in the same place at the same time. Our dream came true in Qatar 2009, when the first Flat Classroom Conference changed lives and cast a vision for the future.
Being an international educator, and having a daughter as a ‘third culture kid’ (with educator parents), I selfishly want others around the world to experience what we are privileged to live. I want them to be confronted with different religious and cultural beliefs and be immersed in an environment where English (or their own language) is not spoken and where simple communication can often result in highly creative sign language. I want them to acknowledge and respect differences and learn how to use their personal strengths to create a bond of understanding with new friends. I want them to question, doubt, be amazed, experience alternative lifestyles, treasure similarities, and learn how to get on with other people globally. I want them to be able to do this without losing their own identity and sense of belonging to a country or to a culture, and without feeling superior or inferior to any other person.
Through Flat Classroom® we are building bridges, forging new pedagogies, and questioning current education systems that place value on content above process and individual output and gain rather than on collaboration and community learning for understanding. This book is a part of the bridge and we encourage you to learn from the stories and apply it in your own learning situation. I encourage you to embrace your our own global journey.
As a presentation at the ISTE 2011 Opening Ceremony, June 2011.
The video excerpt:
The images from the presentation as a slideshow:
My annotated presentation slides:
Sunday, May 29, 2011
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"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below. "
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Daniel Donahoo: Horizon Report K-12 Released: The Future of Education Is Mobile
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Freakonomics » How I Self-Published a Book, And How You Can Too
Seriously considering self-publication for a future book idea.
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China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work
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You Don’t Have To Like It | Betchablog
I agree!
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eduTecher.net-explore. share. contribute
ISTE Award winning teacher, Adam Bellow created this site.....check it out now!
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eBooks.com The World's Leading Source of eBooks
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Anonymous or Transparent: Which Side Are You On?
Great article about deciding how to manage your digital footprint. Aligns nicely with our Brand of Me unit - http://brandofme.flatclassroomproject.org
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You may have come across this already? I found it when exploring updates on the school Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong High School who came from Wuhan to attend the Flat Classroom Conference February 2011.
http://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers/teachers/blog/helping-hungry-while-learning-englishtags: ipad acrossmydesk