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Welcome to the Brave New World of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) - YouTube
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Great outline video re MOOC from Dave Cormier. A MOOC is not just an online course - it is an EVENT!
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New Zealand's Ministry of Education website for leadership
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What My Connected Students Taught Me about Motivation
"Connected Learners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom"
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Chinese Language Learning 2.0 | Asia Society
Apps for use in Chinese Language classes
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Tech Rich Learning | Asia Society
Honor Morman, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, shares her thoughts about introducing global collaboration into the curriculum. "Here’s what two of my students said about our participation in the Flat Classroom Project, a 12-week project in which we collaborated with 15 other classes in seven different countries to create a vision for the future of education and society based on emerging technologies and the characteristics of the net generation: “[I learned] how important it is to be a member of a global society—communicating globally and working together as a global community is the only way we can solve global issues and improve the lives of all of us. Communicating and collaborating via the web with global partners is how we will do it in future.” –Lara “[Participating in this project helped me become] a global leader, able to communicate important global ideas and different perspectives across cultures and borders and share those ideas for the betterment of my community and the world.” –Katherine"
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RealtimeBoard | Online collaboration whiteboard
Could be a useful tool for collaboration.
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Using trigonometry to measure a really, really tall building - YouTube
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46 Education App Review Sites For Teachers And Students | Edudemic
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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6 Steps to Add Voice Comments to Google Docs ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
tags: googleapps education
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Inspired by Finland – 5 Goals I’m Setting Now « Penn-Finn Learnings 2013
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Global Education Leaders' Program |
The Global Education Leaders’ Program is a community of key education system leaders, policy-makers, thought-leaders and world-class consultants collaborating to transform education at local, national and international levels. The aim of these transformations is to equip every learner with the skills, expertise and knowledge to survive and thrive in the 21st century.
tags: leadership global education
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Teaching and learning – maximising our investment in Australian schools
Released May 2013
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Foundation for young Australians - what students think needs to happen in education
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Flat Classroom Project 13-1 - Awards
The results from the Flat Classroom Project 13-1 of multimedia Awards Ceremony
tags: fcp13-1 awards education multimedia video
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Teach Less! Learn More! » Blog Archive » I Love Book Creator App – Part 1
Heather Davis @toadie1951 shares Book Creator for iPad as a tool for elementary level.
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10 Digital Citizenship Tips From Your Mother | Edudemic
tags: digitalcitizenship education
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GLOBALCOLLABORATORSNETWORK - home
Another active network of educators implementing global opportunities for their students
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Dear School, tear down those walls! #flatclassroom | Ignorant Schoolmaster
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Flat and Connected Learning: A Recipe for Success
My proposition today, and for many years past, is that learning is 'flat' and has to be 'flat'. Learners need to connect themselves to networks, many networks, and learn from and with the immediate as well as wider world. I am talking about a change in mindset, a shift in pedagogy and an essential purpose for the integration of technology across the curriculum - including mobile computing.
Three Ingredients to Flatten Your Classroom
1. Connection - (Connected Learning)
- Connect yourself, connect your school, connect your students
- Develop habits and a daily workflow that includes regular interactions and opportunities to learn with and from
- Do not be confined by the synchronous! Develop strategies for asynchronous connections and conversations
- Use 'Pull' technologies such as RSS, blogs, social bookmarks and smart search engine use to pull information to you so you know what is going on, when it happens
- Become a teacherpreneur! Find opportunities through your PLN and bring them to your students and your school. A teacherpreneur is a teacher who sees an opportunity to make a profitable learning experience for students through the forging of partnerships with other classrooms with common curricular goals and expectations
- Make virtual connections, and participate virtually in global events
- Develop a strategy for curriculum development and refer to the Taxonomy for Global Connection to support embedding connected learning into what you do every day
2. Citizenship - (with a splash of global competency)
- Although technology is used in communication, digital citizenship is still squarely about relating to people
- Promote discussions about individual digital identity – including for older students and adults Personal Branding
- Be aware of the Enlightened Model of Digital Citizenship that includes: Five areas of awareness: technology, individual, social, cultural, and global – for framing analysis of online situations; and Four key “rays” of understanding: Safety, Privacy, Copyright, and Legal; Etiquette and Respect; Habits of Learning; and Literacy and Fluency
- Develop a powerful digital citizenship curriculum - and encourage global competency. It is not all about the hardware and software, it is about how you can learn more about the world supported by the use of technology
3. Collaboration - (the sort that includes co-creation)
- If collaboration is a needed 21st Century skill (are there any standards that do not include this?), educators need to not only teach it but to employ and model it as well
- Develop educational approaches to social learning
- Develop technopersonal skills for both synchronous and asynchronous learning
- Move towards co-creation of products with others at a distance
The Recipe
Do you want to learn more about 'Flat' learning? Do you want to embed global collaboration into your curriculum>
- Join Julie Lindsay in San Antonio, June 20-21 at the International School of the Americas (just before ISTE 2013!) for the next Flat Classroom Workshop - Yes! there are places available - and discounts for groups of 4 or more educators
- Join the Flat Classrooms network and find like-minded educators
- View Julie's ECIS IT Conference 2013 Keynote slides - 'FLAT'
Cross-posted with Around the Corner, Miguel Guhlin
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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The Teacher's Guide To Google Glass | Edudemic
tags: tgstech_ubiq tgstech_learning education Google wearabletechnology
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Qatar Academy teachers fret as former colleague jailed over alleged insults to Islam | Doha News
A not so good story about international teaching. This is the school I was IT Director in for 2 years. A reminder that education for cross-cultural understanding needs to be applied for all ages.
tags: culturalawareness education
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Teachers Vie for Overseas Postings - NYTimes.com
A reasonable article written about international schools and teaching jobs. Interesting how the number of schools has increased in the past 15 years, and how as the less well-off countries become wealthier (eg China) they want their children educated in English. Lots of opportunities for teachers in many places.
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3-D Fantasty Game Sparx Helps Treat Teens' Depression:... | Stuff.co.nz
tags: games education digitalcitizenship
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tags: digitalcitizenship education
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Great Pinterest!
tags: digitalcitizenship education
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ExamiNation: a short documentary on Vimeo
ExamiNation is a short documentary film about the notorious South Korean college entrance exam, Sooneung (수능). Can one exam dictate a culture and lifestyle in a country?
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The Digital Lives of Teens: Code Switching | Edutopia
Interesting writing about how teachers can share the narrative with students - how to include and embrace opportunities to learn with technology at school .....most of this seems obvious to some of us...?
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Blogging in the 21st-Century Classroom | Edutopia
tags: blogging education 21stcenturylearning tgstech_learning
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Reflecting on the Flat Classroom Conference Yokohama, 2013 | On an e-Journey with Generation Y
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tags: education programming code
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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tags: education customization
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Interesting decision made by Maine to go with HP rather than Apple next year.
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"One of the best services Google+ provides to its users is called " communities ". Any Google Plus user can easily create and host his/her community on the cloud and in a matter of few clicks.For us in education we can use this service to create a community for our class. In this virtual space, you will get to share with your students resources, links, and also get them to participate and contribute in it. You can also create class events with dates, location, and more details and share them with your students and their parents as well. Needless to say that you can use Google Hangout right from your community to hold video conferences with your students."
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tags: digitalcitizenship education
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Love the way this approaches the selection of iPad apps from a learning first perspective
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@langwitches, Silvia Tolisano reviews the wonderful book written by @kathycassidy for elementary level classrooms to being connecting with the world. Excellent review! Excellent book!
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Socrative is a free classroom response system that runs on the web, iPhone and iPad, allowing teachers to do realtime polling and quizzing of students. I love the way Thinking Routines 9harvard) can be integrated with it.
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I love how David Truss has set this out so clearly and shares 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom 1. Inquiry 2. Voice 3. Audience 4. Community 5. Leadership 6. Play 7. Networks
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David Truss is a colleague and innovative leader now based in Vancouver and Principal of the Inquiry Hub. . I love hearing about how he is implementing inquiry learning across the curriculum! Would love to visit this school one day!
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"One More Story is an online library of the best of classic and contemporary children's literature. Our site makes books accessible to pre-readers and early readers so that they can engage in and enjoy literature."
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A PD document written for educators in 2002 about the digital portfolio process.
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Reviewing the Common Sense curriculum for digital citizenship. There is something for everyone in here.