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How to make online global collaboration work!
A webinar by Julie Lindsay, 'The Global Educator' author and Founder and CEO of Flat Connections along with other global educators. August 2016
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The Global Search for Education: Migration - The Millennial Bloggers
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Collaborative School Culture - this is the meeting that will challenge the thinking of all who are in attendance. There is a sharing of ideas - what works and that does not work, and why. It feels like action research is happening all the time. Teachers are taking notes, reflecting on what others are sharing. The shared stories affirm a vision that identifies the scope of relevant values and beliefs. All are driven by an intrinsic desire to see all students succeed. The weak teachers are uncomfortable. The meeting feels like a good workout.
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EducationHQ Australia - Maker movement gathers steam
Simon McKenzie - Makerspace article 2015 - A good read!
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Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own — Hybrid Pedagogy
From a keynote by Martha Burtis, featured on the Hybrid Pedagogy website. Martha concludes: "I can guarantee that if you have a domain of your own stuff will break. It will break in some predictable, easy-to-fix ways and probably in some totally weird, tearing-your-hair out kind of ways. Your students will experience this too. And it will be frustrating and terrible. And it will not be standardized or easily consumed. It will not be easily defined or put in a box. It will be gloriously, awfully messy. And you may have to switch directions or gears, and I hope that when you do you talk to your students about what happened and why it happened — and that you work together to try and figure this out."
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 | World Economic Forum
A diverse range of breakthrough technologies, including batteries capable of providing power to whole villages, “socially aware” artificial intelligence and new generation solar panels, could soon be playing a role in tackling the world’s most pressing challenges, according to a list published today by the World Economic Forum. These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016 https://t.co/H12QNbaNfR
tags: education technology research emergingtechnologies INF537
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New Models of Open and Distance Learning ~ Stephen Downes
Historically most learning that has ever taken place has taken place in a classroom with a teacher giving instruction and students reading books and writing on paper. Though the 20th century, however, more and more learning has been taking place outside the classroom, using technology to reach students at a distance. For example, Australia’s ‘School of the Air’ used wireless radio transmissions to send lessons to children growing up on isolated sheep stations.[ii] And of course institutions like Britain’s Open University became expert providing learning by correspondence.
tags: education distancelearning MOOC onlinelearning #INF537
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My Travelling with Web: Глобальний Освітянин
Look! A blog post reviewing The Global Educator from Margarita Kalyuzhna in the Ukraine! In Ukranian.....use Google translate to understand in your language
tags: education theglobaleducator
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Propelling Youth Voice Through Social Entrepreneurship - Panorama - Youth Media - TakingITGlobal
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It’s time to connect the world: How to become a global educator
A webinar I presented for the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration on August 12. In 25 minutes I cover the attributes of a global educator and how to get started with online global collaboration. Registration for my course 'The Global Educator' can be found on the CILC website at http://www.cilc.org/Professional-Development/Get-Certified-with-Courses/Global-Educator-Certification.aspx
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Digital Citizenship Summit #digcitsummit
This looks interesting - I am sure it will be worth following tweets #digcitsummit on this day and contributing ideas
Flat Connections - NEW online courses and global projects start September!
Let's talk about some upcoming opportunities with Flat Connections. We know many of you are starting your new school year - so consider these global projects and professional learning and share with your PLN.
"How to make online global collaboration work!"
Join the free webinar this week (August 22 USA, August 23, Australia). Julie Lindsay and global educators will share insights into strategies for successful online global collaboration in your classroom. READ MORE and register to receive more details.
Become a Global Educator, Be a Global Leader
Flat Connections online courses that support educators to understand global education, online global collaboration, global digital citizenship and design for global learning have now be redesigned using NEW material from Julie's new book, "The Global Educator: Leveraging technology for collaborative learning and teaching".
Make sure you review the 4-week and 10-week courses available! READ MORE on the Flat Connections website.
Are you an educator in the USA? You can also access Flat Connections courses through the CILC organisation - making registration payments easy!
Flat Connections Global Projects
Don't forget! Flat Connections provides online global collaborative provides for K-12. There are MANY opportunities for students from 5-18 years old to be part of a growing community of global learners.
READ MORE on the website - and plane to join in this year!
Don't forget about the Connect with China Collaborative as well! In conjunction with Mandarin Pathways - starts again September.
Flat Connections BLOG
Read updates, gather ideas and strategies and connect with other global educators.
Questions?
Connect with Julie Lindsay
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Global education: Leading pedagogical change in a flat world
The outlier global education leader
In an attempt to categorise emerging practices, new labels for global education leaders include the term “outlier.” According to Arteaga (2012) an outlier teacher is a K-12 educator who self-directs to create and develop an innovative pedagogy using emerged or emerging digital social media through collaborative and global open networking. We need to examine the outlier phenomenon as it applies to recent experiences in terms of education leaders who may be identified as outliers, and secondly, education leaders who need to be able to identify outliers in their learning environments in order to positively support them. Global education leadership either needs to emulate or be able to recognize and support this as a vehicle for purposeful professional action leading to ubiquitous learning. This also has implications for recruitment within a learning institution to ensure outliers are included and that innovation in global learning is being supported from within.What are some new pedagogical approaches?
Flat learning is part of an emerging pedagogical approach enabled by online technologies and has parallels with connected learning, but in many ways goes beyond just connecting.A global education leader must understand these three essential actions to flatten the learning:
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Connect the learning – it is the responsibility of the learner and education leader to connect through their PLN and PLC networks and to understand the consequences of these connections (cultural, social and political)
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Build global citizenship practices – a responsible, active learner will be a reliable contributor and collaborator
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Collaborate for shared outcomes and solutions – partnerships and new global learning opportunities are a lot closer through the use of emerging technologies
A global education leader has to know how to build virtual and real learning communities – and then blend them! Maybe the “real” (synchronous and face-to-face) is taken for granted…but its definition needs expounding here. It is one thing to build a working and learning internal (to the school or the organization) learning community, but another to then broaden this to include “significant others.” As a generalization, one thing educators traditionally have not been good at is sharing, and once the words “community” and “collaboration” are used it often sends them scuttling back to the classroom. Leadership is paramount in this scenario for building communities online, and cultivating to see them grow and expand.
A global education leader must understand online citizenship modes and behaviours and also model and promote a positive mindset for global connections. Being online as a leader with other learners is an essential requirement here and yes, often there are a myriad of other priorities on the learning landscape vying for time, however leadership = digital = online = citizenship for learning….it’s that simple! Individualistic approaches to Internet use often produce ethical blindspots and “disconnects”.
The missing piece?
An even newer concept, “Cosmogogy”, coined by the author of this post, refers to the study of learning while connected to the world by using online technologies, whereby the context of learning is “with” rather than “about.” This puts the learner at the center of the “universe,” a node on the network, with the capability of reaching out and connecting to anything and anyone in order to find information and build understanding, in order to collaborate and to co-create with anyone, anywhere, anytime. It also means learners approach problems and solutions from a more openly networked and in fact global perspective to the point that “unflat” learning feels strange and closed in.A global education leader knows how to foster and support approaches to learning while connected to others in any part of the world. The leader, most importantly, considers the benefits and advantages of who you work with and what you construct together.
About the Author
Julie Lindsay is a global collaboration consultant, innovator, teacherpreneur and author and is currently a Quality Learning & Teaching Leader (Online), and an adjunct lecturer for the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University in Australia. She is completing an EdD at the University of Southern Queensland with research focusing on online global collaborative educators and pedagogical change. For 15 years she worked as an education leader in digital technology, online learning, and curriculum across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Her new book, The Global Educator: Leveraging technology for collaborative learning and teaching, published by ISTE, shares many stories, approaches, updated practices, and case studies from K-20 on how to connect, collaborate and co-create, and take learning global. Find out more about Julie through her website and follow her on Twitter @julielindsay.References
Arteaga, Soraya. Self-directed and transforming outlier classroom teachers as global connectors in experiential learning. (2012): 1-226.This blog post first appeared on the Pearson Education Blog
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Excited to share - MBR Review of "The Global Educator"
James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Midwest Book Review
Julie Lindsay
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9781564843722, $39.95, PB, 272pp, www.amazon.com
"an outstanding work of seminal yet practical scholarship that will prove to be an enduringly useful resource for classroom teachers and school curriculum developers seeking to nurture a global learning experience for children and students"
In "The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning and Teaching", Professor Lindsay illustrates the need for intercultural understanding and collaboration to personalize learning, achieve curriculum objectives and bring the world to our students by answering these key questions:
- How imperative is it that educators connect themselves and their classrooms to the world?
- What emerging education leadership styles are shifting pedagogy and why should we be taking notice of this?
- What are the essential benefits of embedding online global collaboration into the curriculum?
- What are simple steps that educators in the classroom can take to become more globally minded and start to change their practice?
- How are emerging digital technologies supporting this move to online global learning and collaboration?
"Thoroughly 'user friendly' in composition, tone, and commentary, "The Global Educator" is unreservedly recommended for academic library Contemporary Education reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists."
Reviewer
A big thank you to the many Twitter followers and #theglobaleducator hashtag users who have let me know they have received and are now reading the book! I look forward to your reviews as well.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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PEERAGOGY HOWARD RHEINGOLD ON COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SD - YouTube
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Yes, Serious Academics Should Absolutely Use Social Media - Forbes
Excellent humour-infused article about attitudes and practices to do wth social media at academia #inf537 Digital Scholarship Yes, Serious Academics Should Absolutely Use Social Media via @forbes https://t.co/m3CEb2rAcz
tags: socialmedia education INF537
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Learning: It’s All About the Connections | User Generated Education
tags: education connection
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5 Approaches to Ensure Blended Learning Success
Blended learning is defined by these characteristics: A portion of the learning is delivered with digital or online media. Some of the learning is student-directed in terms of time, pace, path, and place. It provides a learning experience that is appealing and that delivers successful learning outcomes.
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Leading for pedagogical change in an online learning environment - YouTube
Recently I put together this video as a 'Thinkpiece' for the CSU theme of 'Leadership for innovation in Learning and Teaching' https://youtu.be/wwHqoE8hlWI I talk about the use of terms to help align with the goals of being global, connected and 'flat' while learning and describe the evolution from pedagogy to andragogy to heutagogy, the development of peeragogy and then my own term 'cosmogogy
tags: education jul cosmogogy Leadership
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Top Reads to Kick Start Your School Year
The Global Educator is shared in this blog post of top reads by Level Up Village Top Reads to Kick Start Your School Year via @ezziemur https://t.co/7fJQiqh8db via @jesslahey @danielpink @angeladuckw @julielindsay #EdChat
tags: EdChat TheGlobalEducator education
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What is Bloom's Digital Taxonomy? - YouTube
Common Sense Education released this video recently. A good overview of Blooms and it's development.
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Maker Education: Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy | User Generated Education
From Jackie Gerstien, based on the work of Jon Andrews - Traditionally, Pedagogy was defined as the art of teaching children and Andragogy as teaching adults. These definitions have evolved to reflect teacher practices. As such, andragogical and heutagogical practices can be used with children and youth.
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8 digital skills we must teach our children | World Economic Forum
The digital world is a vast expanse of learning and entertainment. But it is in this digital world that kids are also exposed to many risks, such as cyberbullying, technology addiction, obscene and violent content, radicalization, scams and data theft. The problem lies in the fast and ever evolving nature of the digital world, where proper internet governance and policies for child protection are slow to catch up, rendering them ineffective.Moreover, there is the digital age gap. The way children use technology is very different from adults. This gap makes it difficult for parents and educators to fully understand the risks and threats that children could face online. As a result, adults may feel unable to advise children on the safe and responsible use of digital technologies. Likewise, this gap gives rise to different perspectives of what is considered acceptable behaviour.So how can we, as parents, educators and leaders, prepare our children for the digital age? Without a doubt, it is critical for us to equip them with digital intelligence.
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A Model for Teacher Development: Precursors to Change | User Generated Education
Blog post addressing teacher development by Jackie Gerstein - My beliefs around teacher professional development are that it should be: driven by the teacher, him or herself. based on change models which result in deep, meaningful, lasting changes.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Global education: Supporting collaborative learning and teaching
Flat learning?
The term “flat” learning applies to a multimodal approach to being connected and learning with and from others in a global capacity. There is no hierarchy of learning as such because all voices are equal, and there is no one dominant group delivering the information to another group. All learners, through access to online technologies, develop an external network and bring the world into their everyday teaching and learning to be able to “learn about the world, with the world,”. This aids the student in working with others in a successful manner at a distance as well as in person.The role of digital technology
The use of technology promotes transparency and accessibility, for example the “Head of School” is now more accessible. Teachers are using multiple online technologies to brand who they are and what they do in their professional lives, and this practice creates local as well as global connections for daily interactions. A global education leader knows that digital technology is part of the solution in meeting the needs of today’s learners. This same digital technology also supports an individual’s vision and empowers learners through alternative and virtual networking capabilities, using both synchronous and asynchronous communication techniques.Innovative leadership
A new paradigm for educational leadership is emerging to support place-based learning, connectivism, and global outreach. A learning environment can aspire to have certain flexibility so that all participants consolidate as well as innovate within the community, so that they are able to break out of the “bubble” that constrains true global independence and collaborative learning.It is easy to say “visionary” leadership is required to support flat and connected learning modes. In fact, global standards include “vision” as an important attribute, for example, ISTE Standards for Administrators state: “a shared vision for comprehensive integration of technology to promote excellence and support transformation throughout the organisation.” However, in terms of implementing the vision, we need to question what the best manner is to support students as well as teachers in order to help all learners find their own voice and take charge of their learning. How do we promote a culture of sharing and collaboration and the mindset needed for flat learning that views change and the change process as normal? How do we redefine the role of the teacher AND the role of the student to embrace active as opposed to passive participation in learning?
A global education leader needs to move away from strategic leadership (where only leaders are encouraged to look beyond the organization for information and new knowledge), and move to a more flattened leadership approach. An astute global education leader understands that a flat, connected learning environment has less hierarchy of command, is more agile in approach, and encourages every educator to be looking out for critical information that supports learning.
Leadership actions aligned with these ideas include:
- Modeling learning fluency while digital
- Encouraging customization of learning experiences to local standards while being flexible to embrace meaningful connections
- Supporting innovation and encouraging pedagogical excellence
- Encouraging an agile curriculum that embraces community interaction and action outcomes
- Equipping teachers to investigate new global relationships and design solutions
- Creating opportunities from perceived difficulties
- Building a culture of success
Leadership for global learning
As leadership models evolve it is important to understand and share the importance of effective leadership in a connected and collaborative world as a mindset as well as a skill set. This involves a shared responsibility including collaborative planning as a school community to take advantage of global learning. Support must come from within the school for educators who, as global leaders themselves, want to take risks and try new techniques and ideas. Otherwise, serious and lasting change cannot be sustained. Connected learning promotes ownership of the learning pathway, and all stakeholders rely on effective leadership to not stifle creativity and collaboration.Above all, global education leadership relies on a flattened hierarchical approach for sustained capacity, and a scenario where in fact leaders “get out of the way of the learning” by fostering technology-supported and engaged methods rather than passive learning modes.
Julie Lindsay is a global collaboration consultant, innovator, teacherpreneur and author and is currently a Quality Learning & Teaching Leader (Online), and an adjunct lecturer for the Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University in Australia. She is completing an EdD at the University of Southern Queensland with research focusing on online global collaborative educators’ and pedagogical change. For 15 years she worked as an education leader in digital technology, online learning, and curriculum across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Her new book, The Global Educator: Leveraging technology for collaborative learning and teaching, published by ISTE, shares many stories, approaches, updated practices, and case studies from K-20 on how to connect, collaborate and co-create, and take learning global. Follow Julie Lindsay on Twitter.
This blog post first appeared on the Pearson Education Blog.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Become a Global Educator and Global Education Leader!
The full 10-week course provides the 'Flat Connections Global Educator' certification with 2 graduate credits from the University of Northern Iowa.
Part 1: Online Connected and Collaborative Learning for Global Understanding
Part 2: Leadership for Global Education
Part 3: Online Global Collaboration in the Curriculum
Each of these courses will have a global cohort and builds a community for learning around content, ideas and co-created understanding.
Important features of each course:
- Synchronous online meetings
- Asynchronous interactions
- Guest global educators who inspire and support learning
- Collaborative outcomes
- Opportunity to make lasting global connections with like-minded educators
Who should apply? Courses are aimed at educators and education leaders at all levels of learning, global organisation leaders, others in all fields who want to adopt skills, habits and attitudes for global competence, intercultural understanding and online collaboration.
READ MORE on Flat Connections
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Sunday, August 07, 2016
Global Education Highlights (weekly)
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From Should Be, Could Be To Data-driven Adaptive Learning | Another Byte of Knowledge
Interesting blog post by CSU student re Learning Analytics
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2016 GlobalEdCon Call For Proposals
The Global Education Conference 2016 is calling for proposals! Get ready to share and learn in November
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Become a Global Educator and Global Education Leader! | Flat Connections
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The style of work in businesses today is drastically shifting from individual, heads-down work to a more collaborative and innovative style where multi-person projects are the norm. We see this shift proving more and more successful as organizations start realizing that producing and offering goods and services that people actually want and need will yield a higher success rate than just playing it safe.
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Should Every Teacher in the World Really be on Twitter? - Read Write Respond
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3 Fun Design Thinking Starter Projects For Your Classroom
tags: designthinking education
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Conference in Philadelphia, October 2016. Lots of global speakers and influences for taking learning beyond the classroom walls.