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ISTE to Recognize the Global Read Aloud | Global Read Aloud
Delighted as the Chair of the ISTE Global PLN to share the Global Read Aloud project as winner of the ISTE Innovation in Global Collaboration Award.
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Excellent blog post by Michael Trucano (World Bank) about "Ten comments, questions and perspectives on connecting students and teachers around the world to each other to facilitate 'virtual exchanges'"
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Announcing - Innovation in Global Collaboration Award winners
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Global Education Day at ISTE 2015
Heading to ISTE in PA this year? Come and join Global Education Day!
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CSU Interact - Copyright for Teaching @ CSU - Library Guides at Charles Sturt University
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Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space | MIT News
"oday, a joint MIT and Harvard University research team published one of the largest investigations of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to date. Building on these researchers’ prior work — a January 2014 report describing the first year of open online courses launched on edX, a nonprofit learning platform founded by the two institutions — the latest effort incorporates another year of data, bringing the total to nearly 70 courses in subjects from programming to poetry."
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Norms of Online Global Collaboration
- Allow time for effective communication
- Communicating from opposite sides of the world means we need to allow at least 24 hours for partners to respond, and not become frustrated if in fact it is more than this, but obliged to nudge for a response beyond 48 hours. This is where collaborative tools such as Google docs or wikis have set the standard for what can be called ‘effective’ communication. New text, images, links, and comments can be left asynchronously for global partners to respond to on the document or page. The goal is to keep communication localised to the discussion and not in emails.
- Use clear, global language
- Remember at all times there is often more than one way to spell a word or to describe a thing or situation. Therefore global partners are not ‘wrong’ when they spell differently to you. Clarity is achieved by using common language such as referring to months rather than seasons, providing timezone conversion charts (e.g. http://timeanddate.com) for meetings, and being able to convert temperatures and measurements as needed, to mention a few.
- Question actively for cultural understanding
- Misunderstandings between global partnerships can be avoided with more careful questioning - either synchronous or asynchronous. Nations have unique cultural sayings that, although usually very funny, do not support understanding unless questioned and explained. For example, a typical Australian statement might be ‘I will put my case in the boot before we go’, meaning they will put their bag in the closed compartment of the car. How odd! Inquiry-based collaboration is encouraged at all times.
- Be reliable and visible online
- When collaborating around a table face-to-face it is almost impossible to not contribute as the norm is to allow for and request opinions from all. However in an online scenario it is VERY easy to be ‘invisible’ by not responding or contributing to online spaces.
- Make sure all members of the collaboration understand how and where to contribute and what the expectation is for doing this reliably (timeframe, frequency)
- Contribute and respond often
- To avoid the breakdown of collaborative relationships frequent and responses from all contributors will help make the collaboration productive.
- It is not only about contribution however, collaboration relies on interaction and responding. So, adding your ideas and material and then becoming invisible is also not acceptable in a collaborative environment. Responses to individual contributions fosters problem solving and co-creation of outcomes through ongoing discussion and knowledge building
- Share local and global data
- All global collaborators are encouraged to share local data - often one of the most challenging things to do. Seeing and hearing things familiar in daily life makes them almost too ‘normal’ to share and a feeling of disbelief that someone else would find it interesting or relevant. Sharing local images, occurrences, statistics etc. helps to build empathy between collaborators and to build a global data collection
- Share questions about global topics - do not be afraid to say you do not understand or do not know - this is where global partners, in true collaboration, will support new understandings via their frequent responses to questions and comments
- Aim for co-created output
- A well-designed online global collaboration is about co-creating something. This final norm aims for understanding about this co-creation and encourages all collaborators to work towards this. It may be a co-created statement or document that all have contributed to, or a co-created multimedia artefact
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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The Evolution of the Employee – do schools understand this? | Lucacept - intercepting the Web
The Evolution of the Employee – do schools understand this? http://t.co/8rq0JswFiM
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Twitter for the #GlobalEducator | Asia Society
#FF Special: Our list of who to follow to get started with #globaled. Who did we miss? http://t.co/BYOX07dZB9 http://t.co/aJBZ1gmEp9
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educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
tags: bloomstaxonomy digitaltaxonomy education
- Good for module-level objectives. - post by Rob Piorkowski
- From the website you posted I went into a lot of the PDF files that Bloom offers and they were very self explanatory and easy to follow. - post by Jamie McGinley
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KMRoundtable - April 2015 (with images, tweets) · boffin66 · Storify
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44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work
tags: education tools publishing Web2.0
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tags: education pew research socialmedia
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Flat Connections regularly needs volunteer teachers to help review students work. This is a great opportunity to be part of global collaborative learning and to extend your PLN. Volunteer today!
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Global Story Map | Digital Promise Global
This is an interesting approach to sharing global educators and their activities across the world.
tags: global globalproject education
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Using YouTube for Schools with your web filter - YouTube
Short screencast on how to set up YouTube for schools and filter only educational videos to your school.
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Well-known Global Education Advocate Joins VIF as Development Director
tags: VIF education globaleducation
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Finland Meets Florida | Yammer and Corinth Classroom - YouTube
Finland meets Florida - connected learners http://t.co/SKkgUvRczD @julielindsay #edtech #elearning #msftedu @Yammer
tags: edtech elearning msftedu microsoft education Finland globalproject globalcolaboration
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tags: free ebook education onlineteaching digital
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Anne Mirtschin: The World is My Classroom - YouTube
Revisiting Anne's keynote for the Global Education Conference in 2013.
tags: globaleducator education globalprojects globalcollaboration
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The one form of literacy you need most right now
-- according to LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman
tags: connected_learning networking education digitalliteracy
Sunday, April 05, 2015
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Learning {Re}imabined for education revolutionaries
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Learning (Re)Imagined: How the connected society is transforming learning. Graham is a huge believer in the fact that education will only change by getting more people involved.In this engaging and witty talk packed with images and quotes, Graham discusses his research in Learning (Re)imagined and some of his key conclusions around transformation and learning that include context, environment, engagement, technology and the future.
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Take a look at this innovative idea to connect classrooms gor global learning.
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Created by Jackie Gerstein - very useful overview and diagram to assess teacher skills and readiness for 21C teaching and learning.
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Sonya Van Schaijik shares her ideas and experiences to encourage others to join and create global projects