1. Going Global with
Apple in the Classroom
Lucy Gray
Apple Distinguished Educator  Class of 2005
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
http://lucygrayconsulting.com
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2. Most references in this presentation are
clickable. Click underlined text and
images for links to additional resources.
Download these slides on my blog at
http://www.lucygray.org.
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3. Our Agenda
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Why Global?
My Global Story
What’s in your Global Toolkit?
Coming soon to iTunes U
Virtual ADEs
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5. The influence of new media
The push for 21st century skills
The need for developing global
competency in students
The “highly connected teacher”
The urgency presented by complex global
problems
Five Reasons
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6. 21st Century Students (and Teachers)
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New Connections
Connected
Individuals
New Communities
Virtual
Communities
New Content
Collaborative
Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways
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Imagine how effective it would be to educate today’s students using the tools they are using.
Are you connecting with your students the way they want to connect?
Facebook
• Top 10 site in US
• 8.5 billion page views monthly
• 6 million students
• 92% visit monthly
• 63% visit daily
• 8.5 billion page views monthly
• ccMixer
• They are Creating, tagging, & collaborating
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Today’s Students Want to Learn With...
With technology
With one another
Online
In their time
In their place
Doing things that matter
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9. The Global Achievement Gap
Critical Thinking and
Problem-Solving
Collaboration
Across Networks
and Leading by
Influence
Agility and
Adaptability
Initiative and
Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and
Written
Communication
Accessing and
Analyzing
Information
Curiosity and
Imagination
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11. From Educating for Global Competence: Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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The National Educational Technology Plan
The Highly Connected Teacher
(The Highly Connected Global Teacher)
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13. Urgency
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@oline73: Can you distill why globally
connected classrooms are vital in 2010?
We have urgent problems that need to be
addressed and, in order to prepare our
students to work on these problems, we
must connect them globally. We must teach
them how networked learning leads to
networked problem solving.
Photo by Fractal 00 in Flickr
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iTunes U > Apple Distinguished Educators
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19. Challenge Based Learning
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http://ali.apple.com/cbl/
October 19 webinar
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Apple Distinguished Educators will be part of a webinar on 10/19 to talk about the Challenge Based Learning Implementation project involving 19 schools globally (K12 and
HiED). The registration details for this webinar will be available soon. The New Media Consortium will also be releasing the research report during this webinar as well as some
exciting new resources for educators interested in CBL.
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Coming soon to the ADE channel
in iTunes U...
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Learning Through Global Collaboration, Exploration, and Innovation
Project Exemplars
and Directory of ADE
Led Global Projects
Interviews with Global Education
Experts
Teaching Toolkit Containing Suggested Apps and
iTunes U Content
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