The digital imperative: Connect learning with the world

The Digital Imperative:
Connect learning with the world
Julie Lindsay, @julielindsay, flatconnections.com

….my global journey
Zambia
Kuwait
Bangladesh
Qatar
China
Ocean Shores
Melbourne

Part 1: Connect learning with the
world - The ‘What?’ and the ‘Why?’

The World has SHRUNK and FLATTENED and OPENED

Learning does not happen in isolation

Impact of Technology
Social, Interactive, Visible

Connected learning
G. Siemens and S. Downes

“The pipe is more important than the content in the
pipe.”
Connectivism – George Siemens
‘Connectivism’
“…..draws upon the fact that
the very concept of
knowledge and learning are
changing before our eyes
with the advent of new
technologies.”

You know you are a Global Educator when you……..
Connect and share

‘Flatten’ the learning
You know you are a Global Educator when you……..Citizenship
CollaborationConnection

Learners are the best textbook for each other

China to
Australia
http://connectchinacollaborative.com/

Geographically
dispersed
learners
Use of online
technologies
Learning with
not just about
Co-create new
understandings
and share work
online
What is online
‘global’
collaboration?

Online global
collaboration
concepts
Online global
collaboration is
imperative for
all learners to be
globally
competent
Online global
collaboration
provides a focus
for digital online
technologies
Online global
collaboration is a
new paradigm
for modern
learning
Online global
collaboration
supports
glocalisation

Backchannel Jumps in!
https://todaysmeet.com/Digital_Imperative

Part 2: Connect learning with the world
- The ‘How?’ and the ‘Where?’

Building an effective PLN and
PLCs
Finding reliable partners
Learning standards and
frameworks
Curriculum design
Web 2.0 tools
24/7 learning for everyone
Technology infrastructure
Technology access
Technology fluency
Global digital citizenship skills
Curriculum conformity
Misunderstanding about embedded
collaborations
Attitudes towards using digital
technologies
Enablers and Barriers…..

Global education leadership…..
….a leader who ‘takes all the best practices in
education and latest advances in technology
and uses them to blaze new trails in teaching
and learning that focus on connection and
collaboration’
Teacherpreneur

Community
of Practice
(CoP)
Domain
CommunityPractice
Collective learning Practitioners
Relationship building Shared identity
Global education leadership…..Learning
Communities
E. Wenger

Using WeChat to build online
communities……
“(s)tudents take the lead in sharing much of
their learning and thinking seamlessly from
home to school. With every passing day it is
controlled less and less by the adults, and is
more a community focused on learning”
Beijing BISS International School
Head of Primary – Shannon O’Dwyer

EDMODO –
Team
Management
Asynchronous

Digital Handshakes…….
Starring: Rockford Christian School, Michigan, Singapore
American School, New Hope Christian Academy and Chipeta
Elementary in Colorado Springs, USA
http://aweekinthelife15-2.wikispaces.com/Digital+Handshakes Connect with China Collaborate with United World College,
Changshu, China
http://voicethread.com/share/7579650/

Global education leadership…..‘Blended’ learning

Learning Design Balance……
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Blended
learning modes
to support
online
collaboration

Teacher
Activator
Institution Conduit to
collaboration
Community Partners in
learning
Student Active
learner
Changing roles……

Stories of global connection…….
Synchronous

Learning Concierge’s…… http://www.connectchinacollaborative.com/

#ChinaConnects Conversations! Asynchronous

Team Collaboration: Voicethread Asynchronous

Team Padlet…….. Asynchronous

Connecting China with the world…..
Skype
Recording onto Voicethread
Recording video

Flat Connections Global Project
Student leadership
Co-creation –
research and
multimedia
Global awards -
celebration
Emerging
technologies -
the future of
learning

Level 1: Online interactions
Level 2: Real encounters
Level 3: Online learning
Level 4: Community of practice
Level 5: Learning collaboratives
Online Global Collaboration Taxonomy
Blog posts, sharing online artefacts
Webinars, Skype, Online chat
MOOCs, Distance education
Specific collaborative outcomes
Global collaborative communities

Online Global Collaboration Taxonomy
How to use……
Determine online
learning objectives
Examine
courses/curriculum
Map collaborative
learning
Implement new
approaches

Digital Brainstorming…..
“A Week in the Life” – Project for Grades 3-6

Student Summit – presenting to the
world…… I was thrilled for our students to have the opportunity to
interact with students from around the world in conversation
about topics that were of high interest to them--health and
well-being issues. Students logged into Edmodo and
VoiceThread for the first time and learned not only from the
research but from the conversations.
Rockford Christian School, Michigan USA

Teacher at Bali Island School: “Four
year old kids become the masters of
iPad and iMovies, ‘give it to me’ ‘you
can’t do it miss’. They have a better
understanding of filming, voice-overs,
other multimedia work”

Part 3: The Digital Imperative - The
‘What now?’

How did you go??
Teacher Technology Challenge!
Your task was to “Test all
technologies by next meeting”
Use Padlet
Use Voicethread
Use WeChat
Use Skype
Photobucket

The CSU Online Learning Model
http://uimagine.edu.au/the-csu-online-learning-model/
Interaction between students Teacher presence

Think globally, celebrate locally
Will You be ready when Africa comes online?Glocalisation…….

“How often do our
teachers as students have
the opportunity to share
their learning
achievements with the
world?
Sharing, not marks, is
surely the foundation of
global postgraduate
education”
(Judy O’Connell, Australia,
@heyjudeonline)
Teacher education……

The level of
control,
autonomy and
power a student
experiences in an
educational
situation.
Student autonomy in learning…..

Global educators – social &
pedagogical change…..
Leaders must demonstrate
and model collaborative
practices to support
pedagogical change.

The missing piece…..?
Cosmogogy
Androgogy
Heutogogy
Peeragogy
Pedagogy

The Digital Imperative – Final Actions

Become a global educator by being a
networked learner and teacher – in a
‘flat’ learning environment it’s who
you know not what you know
#1

Don’t be held back by the ‘tyranny of
distance’. Lead the way for new
pedagogical approaches to online
collaborative learning!
#2

Get involved in building global
understanding today
Redesign, rethink, remove obstacles
There is nothing going to stop this!
#3

The dawn of a new era….?
We have the technology, we have the
pedagogy, its time to connect the world!

Julie Lindsay
Founder and CEO Flat Connections
@julielindsay
http://www.julielindsay.net
http://flatconnections.com
http://theglobaleducator.net
#theglobaleducator

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