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Global Education Events - Home
New website by Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon to share and promote global events across the year.
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Humanities and Social Sciences teachers R-12 conference in South Australia Keynote: Julie Lindsay
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16 Ways to Destroy Higher Education — The Higher Education Revolution — Medium
Trite, but thought-provoking at the same time. Can apply to K-12 education as well.
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Think global, act local: World’s Largest Lesson
@julielindsay https://t.co/qPETDzNVWp #glocalisation #ClimateChange
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Into the mouth of the dragon - global collaborative learning with China. | Mandarin Pathways
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Teaching the Global Digital Citizen Honour Code [Infographic]
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Marc Prensky - Global Education for the Future - YouTube
According to Marc Prensky - The goal for students is global education and 'becoming' - learning is only a means to becoming.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Flat Connections - NEW projects and Teacher courses starting in February!
It is almost February and I want to remind you that Flat Connections global projects AND online teacher courses start again in the next 4 weeks. Please help us spread the word about these online collaborative (and global!) learning opportunities.
Global Projects
These projects are taking applications now from across the world. Come and join Nepal, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and more!
- K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow - yes! younger students can connect and collaborate as well. This global project brings teachers and students together for realtime and asynchronous exchanges and encourages collaborative learning through sharing daily life around themes and activities.
- A Week in the Life - for students of ages 8-11 (Grades 3-6) - This project explores global issues and brings students together to share, discuss and create new meaning. The theme this year is 'Health and Well-Being'. This is an exciting global project and often the first time students independently connect with others beyond their school - great to foster online learning and digital citizenship skills!
- Digiteen/Digitween - TWO projects - one for under 13's and the other for over 13's. Through online collaborative work students explore what it means to be a digital citizen and 21C online, connected and collaborative learner. Collaborative work leads to action projects that are shared with the world.
- Global Youth Debates - Do you have a debate team(s) in your school? Then share this exciting project with them. Online, asynchronous, global debating! Theme this semester is 'Education' - topic coming in February!
- Flat Connections Global Project - For students in Grades 9-12, this is a fully supported, student-driven collaboration where emerging technologies as described in the Horizon Report K-12 are explored and students collaborate to share new understandings. They also create personal multimedia to share via a final judging and awards process. This is a VERY flat project - perfect for high school students!
Last semester we successfully ran a pilot of this new project and have brought it back again this semester with some updated material and approaches. The Connect with China collaborative is offered in partnership with Mandarin Pathways and provides teachers and students anywhere in the world an opportunity to connect with students, teachers and community groups within China. Global teams allow participants to not only connect but work together and build understanding and well as artefacts for sharing. Our theme this semester is 'Climate Change'.
Read the CCC blog and explore the exciting adventures from our 2015 pilot!
Teacher professional learning
TWO courses are starting in February (pending numbers). Both of these online courses are based on material found in 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds' (Lindsay & Davis, 2012) and now with updated material fro the new book 'The Global Educator' (Lindsay, 2016).
- The Flat Connections Global Educator - for those teachers serious about learning how to bring global collaborative experiences to their classroom
- Flat Connections Global Collaboration Primer - for those serious about finding out more to work out next steps for their own students and to share with their colleagues and school community
REMEMBER!
When learning is ‘flat’ then global becomes possible and collaborative legacies are created.
We hope to hear from you soon! Let me know if you have any questions at any time.
Julie Lindsay
Director, Flat Connections
julie@flatconnections.com
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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21st Century Citizenship - P21
The 21st Century Citizenship Guide outlines a vision of citizenship that encompasses informed, engaged and active practices in three dimensions of citizenship—civic, global and digital. The different dimensions of citizenship will be explored, along with recommendations on actions that parents, local, and national policymakers can take to make sure that all students are able to develop into true 21st century citizens.
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Digital Citizenship Resources for Teachers from ETML
Links to interesting resources from the Global Digital Citizen Foundation blog
tags: digitalcitizenship education
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The end of ‘just Google it’: Why students need to be digitally literate - Innovate My School
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ISTE | Infographic: Citizenship in the digital age
Interesting infographic and information about the ISTE Digital Citizenship PLN.
tags: education digitalcitizenship
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Forget coding, we need to teach kids about digital citizenry
tags: education digitalcitizenship
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Developing digital literacies | Jisc
An interesting model for defining digital literacy.
tags: education digitalliteracy
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Into the mouth of the dragon - Global collaborative learning with China
The 'Connect with China' Collaborative successfully joined learners from Australia, the USA and China. Teachers, students and community organisations came together to learn from and with each other. Through careful selection of tools and learning design to support online collaboration participants explored the concept of 'My Community' and shared local ideas to create global outcomes. Cross-classroom teams of students researched thematic material and came together using a tool called Voicethread.
Highlights of the semester included real time linkups with China where exciting intercultural exchanges strengthened understanding between learners. One teacher in California shared at one of the regular synchronous teacher meetings that the conversation he had with his 6th grade class about the 'Great firewall of China' was illuminating and meaningful. The final online summit had classrooms from all three countries sharing their experiences in a virtual meeting room. Barriers such as language and connectivity issues melted into insignificance when participants realised they COULD in fact connect to others, and to China and communicate and share both synchronously in live sessions and asynchronously using online learning platforms.
Online global learning is imperative for all learners across the world. The Connect with China Collaborative is just one example of how meaningful exchanges lead to collaborative teamwork and ongoing construction of new knowledge. Every student at every level in every year of schooling should have a variety of online global collaborative experiences. If you are a teacher or and education leader, what are you doing to embed this into the curriculum and across the learning environment?
Explore the Connect with China 2015 pilot highlights - pictures, blog posts, co-created multimedia.
Join us in 2016 THEME - Climate Change
How is climate change impacting the world?
What is my responsibility to understand and share this impact?
How does my daily life affect climate change and how does this effect me?
All countries are invited to be part of the collaborative and make authentic connections with China.
Follow us on Twitter #ChinaConnects
Cross-posted with Connect with China Blog
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Case Study: Julie Hiltz, CTQ Teacherpreneur | CTQ
The Center for Quality Teaching shares case studies about the impact of teacherpreneur roles in schools.
tags: education Teacherpreneur
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Digital curation: Opportunities for learning, teaching, research and professional development
TL Forum 2014: Flintoff, Mellow and Clark
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The Advanced Google Searches Every Student Should Know - November Learning
Download this free PDF created by Alan November on how to do advanced Google searches
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10 understandings about digital citizenship… | What Ed Said
great blog post by Edna Sackson that shares key concepts through a PYP lens: form, function, connection, perspective, creativity, responsibility, causation, reflection, change, all
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Social Bookmarking with Diigo - YouTube
A relatively current tutorial on how to access and use Diigo for social bookmarking.
tags: education Diigo socialbookmarking
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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50+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media | Edutopia
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13 STAR WARS POSTERS FOR EDUCATORS | EDUWELLS
3 more #StarWars Edu Posters All 13 here: https://t.co/7bfrqQN5Gy #EdTech https://t.co/RFLtDrvDUP
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tags: education pedagogy learningtheory infographic
- CUBE CLUB,,http://fun5updates.blogspot.com/2014/01/cube-club.html - post by siya1calm
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Skype in the Classroom - Microsoft in Education
tags: education Skype globaleducator
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Celebrating 15 years of Read Around the Planet - February 22-March 4
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Julie Lindsay, Connectivism and Flat Classrooms | June Labs Report
Julie Lindsay, Connectivism and Flat Classrooms | June Labs Report https://t.co/5MchMNdjyO #edchat @julielindsay #flatconnections
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WISE Survey: "Connecting Education to the Real World"
Survey conducted by GALLUP for WISE in August 2015.
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Top TED Ed Lessons for Math Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
tags: education mathematics TED
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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Stories, thoughts and ideas dedicated to empowering teachers and students to be active contributors to their communities and our world.
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A Week in the Life Global Project - blog post
Flat Connections educator, Sonya Van Schaijik from New Zealand shares this reflective blog post about Newmarket School participation in the A Week in the Life online global collaborative project last semester. This is a MUST READ post!
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'Making' Does Not Equal 'Constructionism' | The Construction Zone
Excellent post by @peterskillen from Canada looking at the background to constructivism and constructionism in relation to the popular maker movement.