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LA officials may delay school iPad rollout after students hack them in a week
Yes - and they were not expecting this?
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Pause and Think Online - YouTube
A wonderful video from @commonsensemedia for younger students to help think about using the Internet sensibly.
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12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - Edudemic
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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unit 4: collaborative learning and communities | about flexible, distance and online learning (FDOL)
tags: collaboration learningcommunity education onlinelearning
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Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age
Jason Ohler Our current technological trajectory promises unfathomable, roller-coaster innovation with no braking system. While the ride is exciting, it moves so quickly that we typically don't have time to think about the possible unintended consequences that might accompany it. The result is that we find ourselves unable to effectively respond to hot-button issues like cyberbullying and sexting because they seem to come out of nowhere.
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Providing clean water in Nepal
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TEDxSydney | Slam Poetry of the Streets
tags: tedx Sydney slampoetry education
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"Girl Rising provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate students about the issues surrounding, and the impact of, girls' education in the developing world. To help teachers learn about the movement and the predominant issues, and effectively share the information with their students, the Pearson Foundation has created this standards-aligned curriculum for two chapters in the film: Suma from Nepal, and Senna from Peru."
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Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education
Interesting set of videos produced by Pearson Foundation In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This series of videos, produced jointly by the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help school students do better.
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Wow, what a fabulous idea - getting together people for an intense few days to produce a product -I can see this going beyond 'books' of course. Collaboration is the key. Learning with and from the world is also the key.
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Interview 22 | Julie Lindsay of the Flat Classroom Project | Concordia Ed Tech Podcast
Podcast of an interview I did in May 2013 talking about the development of Flat Classroom
tags: jul flatclassroom interview education
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8 Great TED Talks About The Future Of Education And Teaching
Great resources for teacher development and to share with students.
tags: futureofeducation learning education TED change emergingtechnologies
- Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra are very inspirational educators; worth following - post by Jeanette Acosta-Fresquez
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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" the 4 Cs (Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity)"
tags: education collaboration pedagogy
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ProjectEd | Crowdfunding for Australian Education
tags: crowdfunding Australia education
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Google Glass and Social Media | Social Media Today
tags: socialmedia education googleglass
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tags: teachereducation
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The WISE Awards | WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education
Award winning organisations across the world are recognized at the WISE 2013 awards
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ISTE 2014 - Conderence presentation submissions
tags: iste iste2014 conference education
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Reflection on the Future of Learning - The Future is here already!
Too philosophical? Let's get down to practicalities then. A typical teacher, a typical school - trying to stay on top of organisational demands, parent and student demands, as well as new pedagogies and methodologies for learning while implementing mobile and ubiquitous technologies......
To embrace the future individual teachers need to develop a working PLN (personal learning network) that includes people they speak to each day as well as asynchronous connections. There are many tools to help us do this - Twitter, Facebook, blogging, LinkedIn etc - but one other good way to do this is to join a professional group or a professional development opportunity such as the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher course, and create a community of learners (PLC - professional learning community) for a short or extended period of time. This allows you to share ideas and resources and learn from and with each other.
To embrace the future schools need to focus on developing a culture of learning within and beyond the school walls. You may laugh at this, yes of course schools are about developing cultures of learning....what am I talking about! Well, maybe you have had the same experiences as me in the past 30 years where this culture has not been supported or promoted and where in fact learning as a group or sharing as a professional team has not been encouraged. This situation is not conducive to the changes that we need to implement and see in our schools, and is not conducive to 'flattening the classroom walls' so that learning can be blended, connected and collaborative for teachers and students.
To embrace the future global collaborative pedagogy for teaching and learning needs to be embedded into everyday practice - as a teacher, as a school, as a student - as a community of learners. We have the technology to do this - we need the leadership to support it - but teachers can be and in fact are the leaders in this. Rise of the teacherpreneur to forge new relationships and opportunities for their own learning as well as their students.
You may be interested to explore these resources:
Innovative Teaching and learning research - SRI 2011 report
12 changes to the future of learning
The future of learning is global - A vision for leadership
You might find my Diigo tagged bookmarks 'futureofeducation' useful also.
What resources can you share?
What is your vision for the future? What are you doing in school and beyond to support the future of learning?
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Announcing - Global Youth Debates - Join now!
Announcing the Global Youth Debates Project for 2013-14, (another Flat Classroom® Project created by Flat Connections) - a global student debate (formerly called Eracism) that joins diverse cultures and includes authentic debate for global competence, international mindedness and action.
Global Youth Debates is designed for schools of all systems across the world and for students of age 10-18 approximately.
Global Youth Debates aims to connect schools, teachers and students globally to learn more about the world, with the world. New methodologies to connect, communicate and collaborate have made asynchronous formal debating possible globally.
The Global Youth Debates provides a valuable global collaborative debating experience suitable for all learning environments and learners.
Focus on Debate - Go Global - Lead into Action
Is your school looking to connect with others globally?
Do you support researched discussion and debate that leads to action?
Are you a Debate leader in your school?
Do you want to enhance your school program and introduce debating?
Global Youth Debates offers a unique opportunity to:
- develop a strong debating program
- harness new technologies to connect and collaborate with the world
- build globally minded, culturally aware young people
- go beyond talking and implement actions based on logical debating that will change and improve your local community
- learning how to debate
- learning how to share research
- learning how to belong to an online learning community
- participation in asynchronous and synchronous debates with global partners
The project opens eyes and hearts as students debate on an issue that will bring together diverse ideas, develop transferable skills and create lasting friendships.
Global Youth Debates Theme 2013-14 - Sustainability
We believe that sustainability is a common global goal and can serve as a starting point for dialog among students around the world. The questions become how best can we protect “our” health and the environment while at the same time respect competing interests of, say, developing nations who have the need to build and otherwise industrialize their nations to feed their populations.
Schools joining Global Youth Debates will be asked to enter one or more debate teams, with the remaining students in the class being researchers around the 2013-14 Sustainability topic,
"Using plastic water bottles does more harm than good"
The initial debates will be held asynchronously but in what organizers are calling a "simulated synchronous" environment with the final winning teams debating live using a virtual classroom tool.
We welcome applications NOW from teachers and their classrooms around the world. We also need Judges to help with debate coaching. To apply for this project as a class or judge please complete this form.
Classrooms in Upper Primary/Elementary, Middle and High School are encouraged to apply (students of age 10 and above). Organisers will create two strands in this project based on demand for different age levels.
Application deadline is the week starting September 23, 2013, with announcement of project classrooms by Friday September 27, 2012.
The first teacher online meeting will take place the week starting September 23.
Actual date and time to be advised.
Global Youth Debates - SEMESTER 1 TIMELINE
September- Week starting September 23:
- Official 'Kickoff' and Information meeting for teachers
- Community of learners created using Edmodo
- Research begins and is ongoing
- Voicethread Bootcamp
- Judges training
- All schools complete a practice debate - Preliminary Debate #1
- Judges and schools provide feedback
- Debate Round 1 - a full 2-part debate bracket is completed across 5 weeks
See more Timeline details on the website
Explore the Sustainability Theme
Discover the Debating Process
Thank you to the sponsors of this project: Voicethread for making asynchronous debating exciting!
Advisory Board members for Global Youth Debates, Julie Lindsay, Eva Brown, Bernajean Porter and Marcia Alessi welcome the leadership of pre-service students from Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Read more information about Global Youth Debates (formerly called Eracism).
Full process and structure found on the Teacher Guide
Don’t miss out this year! Application Form for Global Youth Debates 2013-14
Contact us: globaldebate@flatconnections.com
Contact Julie Lindsay,
Director Flat Classroom/Flat Connections
julie@flatconnections.com
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, September 01, 2013
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Announcing the next Global Education Conference - November 18-22 2013. Free, Online and Global! Put it on your calendar now!
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Announcing my new book project in conjunction with ISTE. Possible contributions and ideas welcome via this online form: goo.gl/TSiio5
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tags: connected_learning education
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tags: connected_learning education
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Yes, I know Google Reader is not available as of July 15 2013, but this article is a good resource for current RSS tools
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Interesting scenarios for higher ed in 2020: - Branded Learning - Connect and share - Just in time skills
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Theresa Allen @tdallen5 - workshop leader and presenter at Flat Classroom Live! Hawaii recently blogs about the event.