2. Introductions
• Handshake via your introduction
• What do you do?
• Why are you here?
• Something about you not related to
education?
3. San Antonio – In the news today
Technology enhances life, health of seniors, studies say
“Many people, as they age, don't want change in their life. But they have to
embrace change, and the technology that comes with it, because keeping the
mind active and learning new things is very important. It's the key to living a
long and interesting life.”
Studies have shown that seniors who use computers report fewer depression
symptoms than seniors who don't log on. What's more, according to a 2012
study conducted by the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, computer use, coupled
with moderate exercise, may protect against memory loss late in life.
http://thepoint.usatoday.com/hilton/en_us/news/front_page/local/news-
article.L2NvbnRlbnQvZ2xvYmFsL2VuX3VzL25ld3MvbG9jYXRpb24vbm9ydGhfYW1lcmljYS91cy9zYW5fYW50b25pb19fdHgvS
0ZfR05MXzA2MjAyMDEzMzU4OA==.local.html
June 20, 2013
4. Places and Spaces
Getting set up to collaborate
• Join wiki – add name to participants page
• Join Flat Classrooms Ning
• Join Backchannel
• Virtual participants
7. SCHEDULE Day 1
• PART A
– Getting started with Flat Classroom pedagogy
– Defining global collaboration
– Getting started with Global Projects
• PART B
– Skype call – Conversations about Flat Classroom Pedagogy
– 7 Steps to Flatten your Classroom
– Reviewing existing projects
– Web 2.0 Bootcamp
– Quadblogging activity
• PART C
– Designing, Pitching and Evaluating Global Projects
• Flat Classroom Projects Part 1
• Action Project
8. SCHEDULE Day 1
• PART A
– Getting started with Flat Classroom pedagogy
– Defining global collaboration
– Getting started with Global Projects
10. Connected Learning…….
Connected learning applies to skills, attitudes and behaviors
for the 21st century. It is about how we receive, share and
ultimately create and publish content. It is also about how we
approach learning through the use of technology. Connected
learning focuses on the building of networks and developing
personal learning resources through the interaction with
personal learning networks and professional learning
communities. A face to face community, or regular
classroom, is often the starting point, but then, supported by
technology, the learner connects with other ideas, resources
and communities online. The term 'connectivism' is often
used and refers to the metaphor of a network with nodes and
connections, and where learning involves creating these
connections.
12. Flat learning…….
‘Flat' learning refers to the working relationship between
all learners - teachers, students and others - so there is no
real hierarchy for learning. A 'Flat Classroom' connects
and engages with multiple audiences, resources and tools
to create authentic, collaborative learning outcomes.
Information flows freely from one to the other as the
quest for knowledge, constructed through
interaction, continues. This is scaffolded by the efficient
use of a variety of tools, especially Web 2.0 tools, for
learning management, collaboration and co-creation.
PLN - Personal Learning Network
PLC - Professional Learning Community
23. P21C Skills
Communication & Collaboration
Communicate Clearly
• Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication
skills in a variety of forms and contexts
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
• Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)
• Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori
as well as assess their impact
• Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)
Collaborate with Others
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to
accomplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions
made by each team member
http://www.p21.org/overview
27. What is a Flat Classroom®?
Transforming Education through Global Collaboration
28. Wiki-centric Global Collaboration using Web 2.0 Tools
Authentic Problem Solving using Real-World Topics
‘Flat’ learning – teacher to student, student to student
30. Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
"The more you have a
culture that naturally
glocalizes - that is, the
more your own culture
easily absorbs foreign
ideas and best practices
and melds those with its
own traditions - the
greater advantage you will
have in a flat world."
37. Defining the Global
Collaborative Classroom
A classroom that is:
• connected
• engages with multiple
audiences
• engages with diverse
resources, and tools
• creates
authentic, collaborativ
e learning outcomes.
40. Challenges of Embedding
Global Collaboration
Going
Beyond the
‘Wow’
Engaging
learners and
leaders
Shifting
traditional
pedagogies
Having
realistic
expectations
41. What is ‘Global Collaboration’?
Not an
‘add on’
An approach
to pedagogy
42. Evolution of the Traditional
Classroom
Learning
is Social
Social-educational
networking
New
media
Peer-to-
peer
learning
44. Discuss!
What makes a successful global
collaborative project?
Why are some projects more
successful than others?
What are the characteristics of an
engaged teacher and classroom in
a global project?
45. What is a Teacherpreneur?
“A teacher who sees an opportunity to
make a profitable learning experience
for students through the forging of
partnerships with other classrooms with
common curricular goals and
expectations”
“The teacherpreneur accepts the
responsibility and risks for the endeavor
and is accountable for the outcome”
http://flatclassroombook.com
46. What do Teacherpreneurs do?
Teacherpreneurs take all the best practices in
education and latest advances in technology and
use them to blaze new trails in teaching and
learning that focus on connection and
collaboration.
See Teacherpreneurs - http://tinyurl.com/teacherpreneurs
47. The rise of the Teacherpreneur Leader
• Champions for change – realizers of the vision
• New methods of publication and sharing
information – keep on teaching!
• Building and facilitating communities
• Researchers
• Pedagogical excellence
• Innovate from within
• Working within and beyond the school culture
• Managers, directors, mentors, guides
48. Teacherpreneur Leadership
A teacher gets an
idea for learning
Fosters excitement
amongst other
teachers
A group of teachers
come together to
do something
significant
50. How do school leaders foster the
Teacherpreneur Leader?
• Encourage customization of learning
experiences to local standards while being
flexible to embrace the world
• Support innovation and encourage
pedagogical excellence
• Encourage an agile curriculum
• Equip teachers to investigate new global
relationships and design solutions
51. how do you…..
go flat?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31167076@N07/5471047557/
53. SCHEDULE Day 1
• PART B
– Skype call – Conversations about Flat Classroom Pedagogy
– 7 Steps to Flatten your Classroom
– Reviewing existing projects
– Web 2.0 Bootcamp
– Quadblogging activity
59. What is a PLN?
An extended
community of
people that you
can interact
with regularly
A personally
chosen
collection of
resources you
can go to when
you want to
learn
something
Photo credit: http://flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2060090675/
60. Foster conversation and
social learning through
connectivity and interactivity
Ongoing professional
development
Make important professional
connections globally
61. Encourages a global
perspective
Acts as a lifeline for quick
fixes
Caveat: A network is only as valuable and
useful as what participants contribute
Photo credit: http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2112632514&size=m
Scaffolds educators
sharing, communicating
and collaborating
73. Communication Challenges
• Timezones
• Connection issues – technical and human
• Perception and application of synchronous vs
asynchronous
– Blending learning across the world
– ‘Classes’ outside of normal school hours
– Students and teachers connected outside of
normal school hours
85. Global Awareness
• Different countries have different laws
– Copyright, legal
– Taboo subjects
• Nationality transcends culture
– Every nation has multiple cultures
– Never stereotype a nation
P 101
86. Citizenship
Why did you
delete stuff off
the wiki?
BTW I
didn‟t
delete
anything
Sorry for
accusing
you, the
history
makes it
look like you
OMG I JUST
SAW THE
HISTORY ON
THE
WIKI..Really
sorry for any
problems
89. If Collaboration is a needed &
required 21st Century skill,
educators need to not only
teach it, but employ & model
it as well
90. “The weakness is that if there is a problem, and you e-mail
them, they can just ignore the email, or they can just do their own
thing and not listen to what you ask of them.”
Student in the Horizon Project
98. Discuss!
What are the reasons for giving
students choice in their
learning?
What are the characteristics of
teachers in the choice-rich
environment?
106. ……to account for the new
behaviours emerging as
technology advances and
becomes more ubiquitous.
Why Revise?
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+
Digital+Taxonomy
Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Andrew Churches
112. Why Celebrate?
Ongoing Improvement – Kaizen
A thought about Retrospection…….
• It would be sad to retire and
have it said, “she didn‟t teach 30
years, she taught 1 year 30
times.”
113. Project Celebration: Student Summit
“In addition to the in-class
required assessment for
a global project, it is
advised that students
are able to celebrate and
reflect with others from
the project, including
teachers and students. ”
122. Flat Classroom®
Global Projects
Flat Classroom® Project
Digiteen™ and Digitween™ Projects
‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5
NetGenEd™ Project
Eracism™ Project
Incubator Program (you can do this after certified!)
K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
@flatclassroom
@digiteen
@netgened
@eracismproject
@flatclassroom
@flatclasskids
P10-11*
P11-12
P13-14
P12-13
P13
NEW!
NEW!
@flatclassroom
*See the frameworks for each model on referenced page numbers.
#flatclass
123. ‘A Week in the Life…’
A Flat Classroom® Project for Elementary School students
Grades 3-5, age 8-10
124. Project Tools - Teachers
• Flat Classrooms Ning – Our ‘social’ educational
network
– Join the AWL group
– ‘Handhake’ – introductions
– Share ideas, converse, solve problems
• Google Group
– For emails and more private communication as needed
• Google docs
– Teacher admin doc
– Team Grids – student teams and class information
125. Essential Questions Which Will Be
Answered as part of the project
• What are the similarities and differences
among children around the world?
• How can we connect with each other through
our commonalities?
• How does your geography where you live
impact your topic?
126. 1. Do some research on a week in the
life of children in your school around
these NINE topics:
• School time
• Languages
• Clothing
• Housing
• Transportation
• Leisure time
• Holidays
• Celebration
• Environment
127. 2. Collect multimedia and share with
team members
• Multimedia choices:
video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.
• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages
• Discuss differences and similarities between
multimedia
128. 3. Complete a final project
demonstrating your information to
the rest of the group.
• Each classroom will be responsible to
assemble a number of team projects
• Upload finished projects to the wiki
• View all the group projects and compare and
contrast the results.
129. Project Tools - Students
• Edmodo – Our ‘social’ educational network
– Students in teams
– ‘Handhake’ – introductions
– Share ideas, converse, solve problems
• Wikispaces - Our collaborative working area
– Co-create wiki pages with material share for each
topic
130. Workflow AWL 12-2 – Part 1
Multimedia Collection
Wiki, Edmodo Sharing raw multimedia
Team Formation
Edmodo Organize by Teams
In Teams, individual
handshake
Classroom Handshake
Edmodo Join the AWL 12-2,
Class Handshake, teachers’
comment, interact
131. TeamTopics
FLAT CLASSROOM TEAMS 2009
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6
School Time 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
Languages 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
Clothing 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Housing
4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F
Transportation 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F
Leisure Time 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F
Food 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F
Celebrations 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F
Environment 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F
Student TEAMS
„A Week in the Life...‟ Team Grid
133. Project Workflow:
AWL 02 - September-December
• Application Deadline: September 1
• Online Teacher Information Meeting: before
September 15
• Classroom and Student Handshake: September 15-30
• Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 1-30
• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15
• Media Collation and Product Development: November
15-30
• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-
December 15
134. Please join our
View from the Window Youblisher
It’s not too late.
Patty Hoyt, California
Anne Mirtschin plus page
of captions
Sonja Dasopatis, captions
below each picture
Possible layouts, but I can
use anything. I can turn
anything into a JPEG.
136. AIM: TO BUILD UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE BEYOND
THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT AND ALSO BUILD
COMMUNITY THROUGH REGULAR CONNECTION
AND COLLABORATION AND BY SHARING BETWEEN
CLASSROOMS.
BUILDING BRIDGES TO TOMORROW
137. TO CONNECT CLASSROOMS AROUND THE
WORLD IN MEANINGFUL DISCUSSIONS AND
COLLABORATIONS AND TO SHOW THAT CO-
CREATION OF IDEAS AND PRODUCTS IS
POSSIBLE AT THIS LEVEL OF EDUCATION
OUR CHALLENGE:
138. WHY ARE YOU HERE?
You believe global collaboration has a place in your
classroom
You want to improve digital citizenship and cultural
understanding
You want to foster global competency amongst
students and teachers
You have some digital fluency and access to digital
tools
You want to use tools and skills in meaningful ways
to connect with others and learn together
139. CREATING THE HANDSHAKE
Handshake phase
In your groups of 5-6 reach out and „shake hands‟ over
the next week.
Share this handshake experience with the rest of us via
the wiki and Ning
Tools for the handshake?
You decide!
Skype?
Google Earth?
Another Web 2.0 multimedia tool?
Share ideas and surprise us
140. Project Tools - Teachers
• Flat Classrooms Ning – Our ‘social’ educational
network
– Join the K-2 Building Bridges group
– ‘Handhake’ – introductions
– Share ideas, converse, solve problems
• Google Group
– For emails and more private communication as
needed
• Google docs
– Teacher admin doc
141. Essential Questions Which Will Be
Answered as part of the project
• Can very young students effectively connect,
communicate, and collaborate in a global
project?
• What does this look like?
• What products can students in mixed
classroom teams co-create?
• What activities and structure can we design
and implement to scaffold this collaboration?
142. 1. There are 7 possible topics:
1. How We Play,
2. Celebrating Together,
3. Going to School,
4. Part of a Family,
5. Making a Meal,
6. Sharing Stories,
7. The View from the Window
(landscape, geography) – Everyone does this
143. 2. Collect multimedia and share with
team members
• Multimedia choices:
video, audio, slideshow, cartoons, etc.
• Share multimedia online via team wiki pages
• Discuss differences and similarities between
multimedia
144. 3. Complete a final project
demonstrating your information to
the rest of the group.
• Each classroom will be responsible to
assemble a number of team projects
• Upload finished projects to the wiki
• View all the group projects and compare and
contrast the results.
145. PROPOSED OUTCOMES
Co-created product from mixed classrooms
E-Book creation - to be shared via a variety
of devices
Multimedia product eg
Voicethread, Glogster (Gr 3-5 project use
these)
Parent/school presentation - school
assembly? Parent conference session?
Open classroom?
146. Workflow K-2 12-2
Multimedia Collection
Wiki Sharing raw multimedia
Organising into
communication format
Team Formation
Multimedia and Individual
handshakes
Organize Topics
Select Tools, Plan
collaboration
Classroom Handshake
Teacher Ning Join the K-2 12-2 Wiki Class Handshakes
147. Project Workflow:
K-2 12-2 October-December
• Application Deadline: September 15
• Online Teacher Information Meeting: before October 1
• Classroom Handshake and Kick-off: October 1-15
• Team Formation and Project Discussions: October 15-
November 1
• Projects to be started by November 1
• Multimedia Collection and Sharing: November 1-15
• Product Development and Co-Creation: November 15-
30
• Celebration, Summits and Reflections: November 30-
December 15
150. What is the Digiteen Project?
There are 2 parts to this project for students who
are 13 years and older:
• Global collaboration on research and sharing
resources via a wiki, including ongoing discussion
and interaction between global classrooms via the
wiki and Ning
• A school-based local project that takes the new
knowledge about Digital Citizenship and
implements something within the school
community that will raise awareness and make a
difference
151. Digiteen Project Features
• Continue with the rigorous research and wiki-
co-creation
• Continue with mature discussion
opportunities on the Ning, sharing ideas and
practices to do with digital citizenship
• School-based action project
152. Workflow Digiteen/Digitween Pt 1
Research
Wiki, Edmodo
Sharing raw
multimedia/wiki editing
Discussions
Team Formation
Edmodo/Ning Wiki/Team Grid
In Teams, individual
handshake
Classroom Handshake
Digikid = Edmodo Digiteen = Ning
Class Handshake, teachers’
comment, interact
153. Project Matrix (11x5) = 55 groups
Areas of Awareness/Core
Competency
1.Technical
Access &
Awareness
2. Individual
Awareness
3. Social
Awareness
4. Cultural
Awareness
5. Global
Awareness
A1 Safety 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E
A2 Privacy 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E
A3 Copyright, fair use & legal
compliance
3A 3B 3C 3D 3E
B Etiquette & Respect 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E
C1 Habits of learning and
managing online activity:
Health
5A 5B 5C 5D 5E
C2 Habits of learning and
managing online activity:
Social media
6A 6B 6C 6D 6E
C3 Habits of learning and
managing online activity:
Virtual worlds
7A 7B 7C 7D 7E
D Literacy & fluency 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E
Digital Citizenship
Perspectives: Parents &
Community
9A 9B 9C 9D 9E
155. Collaboration Primer
• 2 or more people working together
– Higher order thinking skill
• Local:
– geographical proximity
– more opportunity for synchronous communication
– often cultural and linguistic differences minimized.
• Global:
– Collaborators geographically dispersed (eg cultural
and linguistic differences or different time-zones)
– requires more of an asynchronous approach
156. Discuss!
What are the CHARACTERISTICS
of a GOOD Global Project?
How can we design learning experiences that
embrace global education as well as enforce rigor
and relevance.....or are these the same? Is it
essential to have rigor??
157. What is an Effective Global
Collaborative Project?
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.
158. Getting Started with Global Projects
Find like-minded educators
Design Outcomes
Select Tools
Manage for Success
159. Examples of successful Global
Projects
“Successful global
collaborative
projects start with
planning and
designing
meaningful and
understandable
interaction.”
160. Am I willing to redesign my
curriculum to embed a global
project into what my class does?
“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. ”
161. How do I define criteria for
evaluating global projects?
162. Discuss!
How can we design learning
experiences that embrace
global education as well as
enforce rigor and
relevance?
Are these the same?
165. Julie Lindsay
Director and Co-founder, Flat Classroom®
Flat Classroom® Conference Chair
Global Educator, Leader, Innovator, Author
@julielindsay
learningconfluence.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Schools want to go global, teachers want to connect their classrooms with the world, but what are the strategies and skills needed to 'flatten' a school and launch it into the future. In fact, the future is now, the vision needs to be articulated now, and global learning should be planned across the curriculum now, not as an add on or as something too hard to access.
What is flat learning and why is it important
Teacher to student, student to student, student to teacher. Expert advisors, sounding boards, opportunities to learn from and with anyone
Use of mobile technologies, blended learning
More than ½ a billion mobile phones in Africa now
It is not in the future….it is NOW!
Flipped classroom a form of blended learningWhere are the collaborative models?
Understand that flat classrooms are based upon things you already understand – Research Based Best Practices such as differentiated instruction, authentic assessment, cooperative learning, and project based learning. The only difference is that your classroom is merged with other classrooms and your student’s partners are in other time zones and locations.
Julie: We describe global collaboration in stages. GC 3.0 = more emphasis on co-created multimedia products, use of social media tools for communication, high expectations to connect in an ongoing manner, student-centered learning
Global competition for jobs means that today’s students must not only be well-educated, creative problem solvers but they must also be equipped to collaborate globally.
Teachers have the potential to exercise new and dynamic leadership in schools, thereby enhancing the possibility of social reform
What leadership skills are needed? What decisions need to be made? Strategic planning?
Connect yourself, connect your school, connect your students!
Vicki:
Connected to a PLN or PLC is a 21C skill for all learners. This is not about social media as such, but about using networking tools in responsible and thoughtful ways to support learning objectives. This is about using the technology to make sustained and meaningful connections. This is about professional use of social media for teachers and students.
Include different connection experiences across the curriculum
Become a teacherpreneur! Find opportunities through your PLN and bring them to your students and your school. A teacherpreneur is a teacher who sees an opportunity to make a profitable learning experience for students through the forging of partnerships with other classrooms with common curricular goals and expectations.
Information - where does it comes from? How is it vetted?Location - we need local and global connections to produce well-educated studentsGeneration - how can learners connect across generations?Communication - it is important to include both technological and non-technological pathways of communication
Vicki:Julie:?
Hidden curriculum – can be opened by those with technology accessLearning capital – Learning experience of new implementations – success involves both teachers and students
Pull technologies bring the information and updates to you.
Connect yourself, connect your school, connect your students!
Number two http://flickr.com/photos/spilt-milk/357015070/ - yoppy's photo stream accessed 4/5/2008 6:08 pm Defining Asynchronous and Synchronous Communications The two types of communication are asynchronous and synchronous.
So, the flat classroom removes the barriers of time and space, allowing students to collaborate across the world and even across time with legacy projects… our student’s grandchildren could literally contribute to a project that today’s students did in gradeschool.
Vicki:
Although technology is used in communication, digital citizenship is still squarely about relating to people.
Vicki: - talk about Areas of AwarenessJulie: Cover Rays of Understanding
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All students and teachers should conduct themselves in a professional and culturally sensitive manner. This includes the types of avatars they choose, the styles of language they use, and the quality of material they upload. Digiteen Project is a launching pad into this professional learning mode. Here is an example of students solving communication problems themselves.
Educational networks are for community building and collaboration.Wikis are for disruption and collaboration
Julie: And it is more than just students, it is about educators, preservice teachers, and experts merging together in a flattened learning environmentVicki: Where students and educators work together as one with mutually beneficial outcomes for all. Literally, the classroom has become…
Julie: The 3R’s – without these there is no true collaboration or co-creation
How do teachers learn to collaborate?How do students?What are the best tools?How do you teach collaboration?
Educational networks are for community building and collaboration.Wikis are for disruption and collaboration
Educational networks are for community building and collaboration.Wikis are for disruption and collaboration
As we talk about creating it’s not the typical words of the past. Extracted methods of creating using technology ….how many of these would have been used 20 years ago?
Educational networks are for community building and collaboration.Wikis are for disruption and collaboration
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