Students crossing global borders AEF 2014

Hot TopicNew World: Students crossing global borders

Meet Julie Lindsay…..Global Educator

Innovator

Leader

AuthorMA Music, MA Educational Technology Leadership

EdD Student, University of Southern Queensland

Adjunct Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education

Apple Distinguished Educator

Founder, Flat Connections

@julielindsay | #flatconnect | @flatconnections | about.me/julielindsay

http://flatconnections.com/

http://about.me/julielindsay



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Today’s Discussion…..

Part 1

Global Borders

Part 2

ConnectedLearning

Part 3

FacilitatingChange

Part 1

Global Borders

….my global journey

Zambia

KuwaitBangladesh

Qatar

China

Ocean Shores

Melbourne

Part 1Global Borders


Global ContextThird Culture Kid


What are these “global borders” we need to cross?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/31676942@N04/3144103410

http://www.flickr.com/

Leads to learning ‘With’Learning ‘About’ Part 1

Global Borders

Individual creationLeads to collaborative learning


Collaborative LearningLeads to intercultural understanding

Why Global Collaboration?

Global competency

International mindedness

Cultural awareness

Glocalisation!

The cross-cultural skills and

understanding needed to

communicate outside one’s

environment and to act on

issues of global significance.

Everyone is not like me.

Everyone is like me in some

way.

Think global and act local!


http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130715-reading-the-world-in-365-days

Global CompetencePart 1Global Borders

To what extent will a book help us cross borders?

http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com


Global CompetenceSkills for the future to cross borders?

http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/

Intercultural understanding in a global context…….


CONNECT



CONNECT

LEGACY



CONNECT

LEGACY

IMPACT



CONNECT

LEGACY

IMPACT



HOW?

CONNECT

LEGACY

IMPACT

DESIGN



CONNECT

LEGACY

IMPACT

DESIGN

CONSTRUCT



CONNECT

LEGACY

IMPACT

DESIGN

CONSTRUCT

AMPLIFY



Crossing Global Borders• What are the main benefits?• Who can you collaborate with?

• Global CONNECTION• What can you create together?

• Global LEGACY• What are some actionable

outcomes to change the world?• Global IMPACT


Let’s discuss!

Part 2

ConnectedLearning

Flat Connected Learning

Collaborative – Culture of

Sharing

Blended learning

Flipped learning

Inquiry based

Project / Challenge

based

Part 2ConnectedLearning

LeadershipPedagogyWeb 2.0Learning Design

We need to ‘flatten’ the learning

hierarchy. Students, teachers, ALL

learners, must have freedom to

communicate ‘across’ rather

than up or down

Connected Learning FLAT?Part 2ConnectedLearning

Students

School

You

Strategies for meaningful connections


Taxonomy of Global ConnectionPart 2ConnectedLearning

Going Beyond the

‘Wow’

Engaging learners and

leaders

Shifting traditional

pedagogies

Having realistic

expectations

Part 2ConnectedLearningChallenges of Global Collaboration

What is an Effective Global Collaboration?

An educational project that flattens or joins classrooms and people from geographically

dispersed places within a technology infrastructure built for a common curricular purpose.

Interactions foster cultural understanding and global awareness in the process of learning.

Local identity is maintained and celebrated.


Process/Actions to connect and flatten the classroom

Technology infused learning

Digital citizenship……

Just in time SKILLS, HABITS and

ATTITUDES for learning while digital

Synchronous

Asynchronous

Blended learning modes to support collaboration


Examples from Flat Connections Global Projects

http://flatconnections.com


“Designing a global collaborative experience involves transcending the obvious real time linkup,

fostering higher order thinking and providing opportunities for cultural understanding while

usually making a product that impacts others in a positive way. ”

Global Project Design & Management


Flat Connections Global Project

• 500 students• 20+ classrooms• 6 countries• 36 student teams• 1 Keynote• 24 Expert Advisors• 18 Judges and 3 Meta-judges• 213 Videos• 15 eBooks


February-June 2014!

Community for LearningPart 2ConnectedLearning

TeachersStudentsExtended community

Community Collaborative

Learning

Building working relationships


Project Content

Horizon Report K-12, 2013Emerging technologies impacting education and learning shared via a timeline of potential relevance.http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports/horizon-report-k-12-edition


http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project/horizon-reports/horizon-report-k-12-edition



Project Themes

OpenLearning futurist, David Price OBE, argues that ‘open’ is not only affecting how we are choosing to live, but that it’s going to be the difference between success and failure in the future.http://engagedlearning.co.uk/

• The future of learning and education• Emerging technologies and how we can and will use them• Connected and flat learning• Collaborative and social entrepreneurship• Global issues and actions to solve them


http://engagedlearning.co.uk/

Collaborative wiki leading to a published eBook

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by Anita Hart: http://flickr.com/photos/anitakhart/4586879133/


Educational Network (Ning) for community developmenthttp://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/


http://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/

http://flatconnectionsglobalproject.net/

Collaborative space (wiki) for team work and sharing process & outcomeshttp://flatconnections.wikispaces.com/

http://flatconnections.wikispaces.com/

http://flatconnections.wikispaces.com/

Student final video

Storyboard & planning

Outsourced content

Personal contentTopic subthemeVideo

specifications

Credits & citations

Personal Multimedia Response to TopicPart 2ConnectedLearning

Synchronous student leader meetings’

Flat Connections Global Project


Interact and Share with the World

Community Network

Spaces for Global LearningPart 2ConnectedLearning

Welcome to

Building Bridges to Tomorrow K-2 Flat Connections Project




Tool: Youblisher

Malaysia

Colorado, USA

Tool: Padlet


‘A Week in the Life…’A Flat Connections Project for Elementary School students

Grades 3-5, age 8-10


‘Handshakes’

USA

INDIA

‘A Week in the Life’, Global Project Grade 3-6

Tool: Edmodo


Co-creating a Popplet with students around the globe.

Student Co-creation Online

‘A Week in the Life’, Global Project Grade 3-6

Tool: Popplet


http://popplet.com/

http://popplet.com/

Co-Created Showcase Voicethreads

Tool: Voicethread


A Week in the Life ProjectStudent Summits

Tool: Blackboard Collaborate


Singapore American School International School of the Sacred Heart, Japan

“Using plastic water bottles

does more harm than good”

http://globalyouthdebates.com

Asynchronous global debates between classrooms

Tools: Voicethread & Fuzebox


http://globalyouthdebates.com/

Students Crossing BordersCasey & Cannelle – The two ‘C’s’


Students Crossing BordersAustralia to Qatar - 2009


Tool: Skype

Hua Shi Yi Fu Zhong High School, Wuhan

China - 2011


Crossing Global Borders

• What are some of the challenges presented by the technology?

• Would you do this in your school? Why? Why not?

• Are you doing this already? What is the project design? What are the outcomes?

Let’s discuss!


Part 3

FacilitatingChange

cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by Giulia Forsythe: http://flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/5617505546/

Pedagogical ShiftPart 3FacilitatingChange

What is ‘pedagogical shift’?

A change in teaching and learning beliefs and practices

from transmission paradigm to constructionist paradigm

Part 3FacilitatingChange

The CHALLENGE!

Teacher beliefs and dispositions

to do with technology and

pedagogical change

Wesley Fryer http://www.flickr.com/photos/31442459@N00/2516648940/


Technology must be the bridge, not the barrier to shifting pedagogy

Image: 'forward’ http://www.flickr.com/photos/99771506@N00/3036132944


“The pipe is more important than the content in the pipe.”

Connectivism – George Siemens


The future of connected learning includes collaboration online – how are we supporting this?


The change we need …….

• Community building as a prerequisite to learning

• Collaboration that leads to co-creation with other learners who are not in the same time and space,

• Pedagogical independence and leadership for change within a school/institution

• Curriculum re-design to embed global collaboration


We CAN work with the world


Join our Worlds Together

Cultural Understanding, Global Competence, International Mindedness


Change: Facilitate or Constrain?

• What are the barriers and enablers to students crossing borders?

• Are you a facilitator or a constrainer? Technology infrastructureCurriculum developmentLeadership

Let’s discuss!


Three things to takeaway…...

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YOU can be exceptional!

Image: 'Star pencil’ ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/29468339@N02/6097158569

Connect Students for Collaborations!

SHIFT ‘Content’ to ‘Context’

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29131777@N03/9528549446

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Teacher Network- http://flatconnections.net Contact: [email protected]

Learning about the world, with the world

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http://flatconnections.net/

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Learning Confluence

Julie Lindsay

Director Learning Confluence

Global Educator, Leader, Innovator, Author

@julielindsay

about.me/julielindsay

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