This presentation outlines the importance of global education, the global learner and the some of the issues to be considered. What does it look like, what needs to be taught, new learning spaces required etc.

1. Beyond Classroom Walls – the 21 st century classroom

3. A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, Australia, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.

5. Students from Malaysia show national costumes

6. Students from Malaysia ‘wow’ us with a street dancing rendition

7. Sharing our Australian food – the meat pie with sauce!

8. Sharing objects that are symbolic of our countries – USA/Australia

9. A linkup with a school in Russia

10. Grades 3 to 7 (Australia) listen to grade 5 students from Singapore talk about racial harmony

11. Using skype, Endang from West Java, Indonesia walked us through the batik markets

16. Global travellers Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA students, so they could develop Australian travel posters Wikis – shared web pages for collaborative/ interactive work

18. onafrica Students from USA, Africa and Australia collaborate and work virtually on this wiki.

21. Moving on...... at school Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.

22. http://flurogreen.globalstudent.org.au http:skippy.globalstudent.org.au Student Blogs

29. Endang, an amazing teacher in West Java, Indonesia

32. Speaking directly with earthquake victims in West Java, 12 hours after the earthquake, using skype

36. Socialize on a ning

37. Flatclassroom wiki - http://flatclassroomswikispaces.com Students collaborate and build live web pages reflecting their findings by working in virtual teams.

38. http://netgened.wikispaces.com An example of a student collaboratively built wiki page

39. Students create digital movies for global judging Student movie on semantic aware applications

43. Breakout learning spaces Small areas for a group of students to podcast, videoconference or converse with global students

44. The virtual classroom Using elluminate virtual classroom software

45. Virtual worlds Virtual worlds

50. Communication literacy

54. A global/flatclassroom! Flatclassroom project students meet face to face in Doha, Qatar 2009

55. “ Building the bridges of today that the society of tomorrow will walk across.” Vicki Davis, co-founder of flatclassroom projects