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Sylvia Martinez, President of GenYes, talks about giving students a voice - not just a token voice, but real support within a school to develop leadership skills and to have a say in the running and direction of the school. Are you ready to do this school leaders?
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Brad Ovenell-Carter shares recent thoughts and experiences with leadership. Recommended reading.
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This short United-Eye Productions video employs free-style animation to show five key ways that education is improved by technology: Global learning Game-based learning Virtual worlds, digital simulations, and models Mobile learning Real-time data-based decision making
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My presentation at the TICAL School Leadership Summit today
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Flat Classroom will run another global live event in Hawaii, July 24-26 2013. plan to join us now! "Educators and students interested in global issues and improving their international connections should join this conference."
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My presentation for the ECIS IT conference, London March 2013 Recipe to flatten your classroom - 3 essential ingredients: 1. Connection 2. Citizenship, with a dash of global competency 3. Collaboration, the sort that includes co-creation
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The FREE online storyboard creator for schools and businesses.
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The school from Nepal, Lincoln School, has a blog to share experiences during the A Week in the Life Project this semester
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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From Grant Wiggins (Understanding by Design author)
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Interesting blog post about 'Control' and promoting more student control over their own learningtags: education
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Our Flat Classroom Certified teacher 13-1 cohort is truly a global group! Celebrating their success at reaching the end of Part A of the course.
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tags: education flatclassroombook
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Blog reflections from Jean Hino about the Flat Classroom Conference 2013 in Japan
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"I wanted to create a post about our current project we are exploring in 6th grade. I am working with a small group of students for a global debate project, Eracism, conducted by Flat Class. We are debating the following topic: "The use of Facebook by students around the world to communicate with one another does more harm than good.""
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Whitepaper sponsored by HP - downloadable PDF
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March 11-15 2013 - Did you attend?tags: opencontent education
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Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy Created by Jeff Utecht and Kim Cofino Excellent accredited course - online or via localised cohorts. International educators can receive up to 15 credits (half a masters degree) by completing 5 courses over 18 months.
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tags: blendedlearning education
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tags: googlehangout education
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tags: googlehangout education
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A great quad blog on possibilities for teaching and addressing social awareness as it relates to digital citizenship in schools.
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Thought provoking quad blog post about global awareness and digital citizenship from Flat Classroom Certified Teachers
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"Cultural awareness in the context of a global project reaches further than using correct ‘netiquette’, inclusive language and knowing what time zone your group members are from. At the core of cultural awareness is respecting and embracing cultural difference and valuing the cultural learning taking place." A collection of resources for looking at digital citizenship through the areas of awareness 'cultural'.
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Simple to use online software to to screencasting.tags: screencast education
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Great reflection blog post from Sunny, a teacher in Australia who ventured to the Flat Classroom Conference in Japan! Full of ideas I've headed home - collected my thoughts and hope to put some of the plans we made as teams into action - because flattening our world - connected across the globe to share experience, help each other and learn together is what education should be about. Final presentations and more about the conference can be accessed at http://conference2013.flatclassroomproject.org/home
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A short interview with Julie Lindsay after her keynote at the ECIS IT Conference 2013. ACS Cobham, UK
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Interesting ranking - I am #38. Excited to see Vicki Davis in the Top 10!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Education Is My Life: Interview with Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay
AJ Juliani interviews Julie and Vicki on their book, 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds'
tags: jul education vickidavis flatclassroom flatclassroombook
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Higher standards for teacher training courses | Better Schools
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FCC Conference PP - Google Drive
Slides with embedded videos for the Flat Classroom Conference 2013 Closing Ceremony. Students shared ideas for the theme "How do we help each other?
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How Teachers Can Start Curating Information for Professional Development > Eye On Education
tags: education curation infographic
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Flat Classroom® Conference Asia 2013 Photos #flatclass2013, flatclass @flatclassroom | Eventifier
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Flat Classroom Certified teacher, Aaron Maurer, has designed an implemented this global project that shares the excitement of the Bald Eagle life cycle with friends around the world.
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"This year Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK, has been awarded $1 million in seed-funding for his wish to design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. He hopes to build a School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online."
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Oh....in my spare time I can do this....wishful thinking, looks great!
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- This parent guide has a list of questions - some interesting answers - post by Anne Jeschke
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This is MUST READ article. Voicethread is an essential tool in the K-12 classroom - at all levels.
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"Two principles guide this article: 1. Social-Emotional skills and strategies should be addressed and taught in school settings. 2. Video and online games can promote SEL skills and as such, should be integrated into classroom instruction."
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A national survey conducted by the Kids & Family Reading Report showed that the number of kids ages 6-17 reading ebooks has nearly doubled since 2010.
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"In 2013, a theme that is absolutely certain is disruption. Some of that disruption will be through technology, some of it decay of existing power-sets. How it will change education over the next twelve months can be guessed in part by looking at the previous twelve, a time period where we’ve seen iPads capture the imagination of national media, MOOCs catch the eye of the bluebloods in higher ed, and BYOD look like a better and better choice for K-12 public education districts everywhere. In 2013, those trends will continue, along with some new ideas as we begin to demand more than feel-good potential out of learning experiences for students."
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Changes coming for the COPPA law
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- And therein lies one of Facebook's biggest challenges: With more than 1 billion users worldwide and an unstated mission to make more money, Facebook has become a social network that's often too complicated, too risky, and, above all, too overrun by parents to give teens the type of digital freedom or release they crave.
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Sunday, March 03, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Vicki Davis talking about what 'flattening the classroom' means.
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March edition of the ECIS IT blog by John Mikton that has a special feature on mobile computing. Excellent resources for tablet and ipad use in schools.
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"Learning to love the iGeneration"
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tags: viralvideo education
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tags: 21centurylearning education
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tags: viralvideo education
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tags: education digitalcitizenship
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Great resources and student examples - I am finally getting into livebinders!tags: digitalportfolio education
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Silvia Tolisano has collected excellent resources for digital portfolio developmenttags: digitalportfolio education
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I love the new Wallwisher - now called Padlet!
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tags: education
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tags: infographic education
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"Alan Kay, who invented the prototype for a laptop in 1968, made a similar point when he said schools confuse music with the instrument. “You can put a piano in every classroom but that won’t give you a developed music culture because the music culture is embodied in people.” If, on the other hand, you have a musician who is a teacher, then you don’t “need musical instruments because the kids can sing and dance…The important thing … is that the music is not in the piano and knowledge and edification is not in the computer.” Or online instruction, I would add."
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Great 2 min videos made by teachers for the K-12 Ambassador Project New Media Consortium.