Outcome vs. Process: Different Incarnations of Personalization Yong Zhao shares his thoughts about personalized learning. Generally speaking, personalization can be put into two categories: process personalization and outcome personalization. Process personalization enables students to enjoy choice in the learning process, whereas outcome personalization allows students to define the end results of their learning. Process personalization is by far the most prominent version in education today because the current education paradigm has a predetermined outcome for all students. That is, no matter how one gets there, we want everyone to get to the same place: mastery of the knowledge and skills prescribed in the authoritative curriculum or standards. tags: personalizedlearning education Developing Pupil Competencies Through eTwinning Publication by eTwinning tags: globalcollaboration education globaleducator Global citizenship education: topics and learning objectives; 2015 - 232993e.pdf tags: globalcitizenship education 10 Awesome Apps for Teaching Global Awareness tags: globalawareness education Global Empowered Kids Initiative of Marc Prensky - supporting and sharing achievements of young people who are changing the world. tags: socialentrepreneurship education New Pedagogies for Deep Learning tags: pedagogy education Free Mystery Skype Curriculum for Schools | Jonathan Wylie: Instructional Technology Consultant tags: mystery skype education What Good Can Blogging Do? | Amy Carrier | LinkedIn tags: education Blogging Intercultural understanding | Asia Education Foundation The Asia Education Foundation Intercultural Understanding Toolkit has three categories: Definitions, Curriculum, Pedagogy tags: interculturalunderstanding toolkit education globalunderstanding Globally competent? You ROCK. - YouTube tags: globalcompetence education globaleducator Global Gateway Digital Badging System - YouTube VIF International share their educator professional development and digital badges. tags: digitalbadges education E-Learning Journeys: Global Adventures at ISTE 2015 tags: education ISTE2015 globalcollaboration Moving at the Speed of Creativity | Periscope Reflections from ISTE 2015 on the Soledad O’Brien Keynote tags: ISTE2015 education The Brainwaves - Tomorrow's History Today - The 200th Video - YouTube "Watch Thomas L. Friedman, Linda Darling-Hammond, Walter Mischel, Carol Dweck, James P. Comer, Deborah Meier, Sugata Mitra, Jack Andraka, Nicholas Negroponte and Noam Chomsky," tags: education brainwaves knowledge Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Taxonomy of a Skype Conversation » Around The World with 80 Schools tags: Skype Taxonomy education 6 TED Talks Educators And Students Should Watch Together tags: TED education What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years | MindShift | KQED News A timely review of the Horizon Report K-12 2015. tags: education horizon-k12 emergingtechnologies The Importance of Data Reporting in Learning Management - eLearning Industry tags: learninganalytics education 7 Things You Should Know About Analytics - ELI7059.pdf tags: learninganalytics education What is design thinking? Can it work in my classroom? | John Spencer tags: designthinking education Freedom to Fail Rubric tags: rubric education Scoop.It for SEO - A New World of Curation [Infographic] Scoop.it is now 2 years old. This infographic explains how it works and gives good tips for content curation. tags: curation socialbookmarking education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

 See more images at the cross-post on the Flat Connections Blog.We are about to start a new set of online global collaborative projects in September 2015 through Flat Connections. It is timely to consider highlights from last semester - and there were many!A Week in the Life - Student SummitsOne of the features of Flat Connections projects is the opportunity for students to come into a virtual environment and share their learning through a summit. We do these for the Flat Connections Global Project, Digiteen/Tween and the A Week in the Life Project.A highlight for me were the A Week in the Life Student Summits Images below show summits hosted by the Anglo-American School of Sofia, Bulgaria where Grade 3 students presented and talked about the global issues challenge they collaborated on with others across the globe. This gathering included parents from AASS, other classrooms from Australia and Thailand and Bulgaria and a guest educator from New Zealand. Thank you to Christine Szeryk in Bulgaria, Danielle Lawlor in Adelaide, Sonya Van Schaijik in New Zealand, Kate O'Connell from Thailand - and to the students!In addition, a big congratulations to the Lincoln School Nepal with teachers Sudha Rajouria and Brian Fawcett - wonderful student summit, despite many students having left Nepal after the earthquakes.Flat Connections Global Project  - Awards and Summits The Flat Connections Global Project culminated in an online Awards Ceremony (explore the BEST student videos via that link!) to recognise student achievement. Thank you to our set of judges and to our Meta-Judge, Terry Smith, Assistant Professor at Radford University, USA. Students also presented their learning via Summits  - the slideshow below captures some of this excitement. Thank you to all Flat Connections Global Project educators and supporters for another excellent globally collaborative project!Join Flat Connections September 2015Are you ready to join your class to an online global collaborative project this year?Flat Connections Projects are fully supported by educators just like you who manage and support all aspects of the collaboration.Please to join one of these Flat Connections projects:Flat Connections Global Project - Grade 8-12Digiteen/DigiTween - Grade 5-12A Week in the Life - Grade 3-6K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow - K-2Global Youth Debates - Grade 5-12APPLY today! Deadline is September 15, 2015.Follow Flat Connections on Twitter: @flatconnections, #flatconnections   Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Global Collaboration Highlights - Flat Connections - Flat Connections tags: education globalcollaboration flatconnections Why is Good Instructional Design More Important than Ever in the Modern World? | ReadyToManage tags: instructionaldesign education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

What Does "The World Is Flat" Mean for Education?: A Closer Look at Our Educational Globe | Edutopia A blog post from 2006 by colleague Chris O'Neal..... tags: friedman education Intentional Innovation in Education - A.J. Juliani Excellent blog post by A.J. Juliani about the need for innovation in education. tags: education innovation flatconnections #globaled15 Attendees at #ISTE2015 Look at all of the global educators who attended #ISTE2015 Global Ed day! tags: education globaled15 padlet Voice Dream Reader and Writer Excellent app for text to speech applications tags: education app speech text The Learning Revolution Blog: Hear from @julielindsay during #TEweek: 'Teacherpreneurship is about global leadership and having the...' Learning Revolution: Hear from @julielindsay during #TEweek: 'Teacherpreneurship is about global leadership and ha… http://t.co/5oCNKPbF47 tags: TEweek education Teacherpreneur CriticalThinking.org - Critical Thinking Model 1 tags: criticalthinking education Great Leaders Don't Have Followers: They Collaborate | Don Tapscott tags: education leadership collaboration Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

What does 'flat' learning look like Margaret Simkin shares thoughts about flat learning based on a short presentation I gave to the INF537 class Digital Futures Colloquium tags: education flatconnections pedagogy ISSUU - Global Digital Citizenship by Sonya Van Schaijik tags: digitalcitizenship education fcge14-2 Global Virtual Classroom Web Contest Open to Grades 1-7 and Grades 8-12. Teams of 3 schools join to collaborate on a website. tags: education globalcollaboration Global Virtual Classroom: A Free Online Educational Program tags: globaleducation globalcollaboration education Victorian schoolchildren learn Mandarin via Skype tags: education onlinelearning Quest Atlantis REBOOTED by AW3DU — Kickstarter Quest Atlantis provides educational opportunities within a virtual world. Exciting to see this program rebooting - consider supporting through Kickstart tags: education kickstarter Edcamp Gets $2M to Spread the Unconference Movement | EdSurge News Exciting to see this support for the unconference format. remembering of course that 'unconference' teacher initiatives started way earlier at Learning 2.0 events in China. tags: education edcamp unconference Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

The following is an excerpt from my new book, The Global Educator, being published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in early 2016. I share it here now to show how careful planning in conjunction with 'leaping into new learning modes' has started to transform teaching and learning in Berea District, Ohio, USA. This could be you and your school and/or district! Online global collaboration is imperative - when will you take that leap?My quest is to find the true global school and I am excited to share the work of global educators in Berea City Schools District in the USA who are embedding global collaborative learning across the curriculum. This started as a school-based approach, but over the years has become a district-based initiative with classes and students across K-12 levels participating in global projects. Over a handful of years school leaders and teachers have systematically supported new approaches to using digital technologies and online learning to embrace global opportunities. It has been steady and hard work for all involved, but the winners are the students. Now many grade levels take advantage of global projects that ‘flatten the school district walls’ and the question they ask, ‘How are we helping our students to achieve dreams they never imagined possible?’, is being answered.Berea School District - A story of online global collaboration success!The Berea City School District (BCSD) is located in Berea, Ohio, USA. Student enrollment is approximately 7000 students K-12 consisting of four Pre-school to Grade 4 schools, one intermediate school, one junior high and one senior high school. They advertise to the community that they want students to gain skills that will help them compete successfully in the global economy of the 21st Century. They want students to be prepared for jobs and fields that haven’t been created yet.Approaches to and goals for global collaborationBCSD encourages and supports the use of technology through BYOD and several one-to-one models as tools for learning throughout the district. Elementary to high school students participate in global projects to learn from and with each other. It is about connection, collaboration and co-construction. It includes technology-infused, challenge-based and project-based experiences across the globe through personalized approaches to learning for all.The goal of BCSD is that all students communicate, collaborate,  and create on a global scale; they experience the challenges and triumphs of working in an authentic global team environment; they are exposed to intercultural dynamics within a professional working environment.  Reaching these goals will prepare students for the challenge of the multicultural workplace. Flat Connections Global Project: Teachers and Student experiences For quite a few years now BCSD high school classes at Grade 10 or 11 levels have joined the Flat Connections Global Project (FCGP) through the high school computer curriculum which is based on the ISTE standards. The global project (create, collaborate, communicate, and critical thinking) helps fulfill the objectives in the ISTE standards and is embedded into the curriculum through this expectation. Teacher preparation for FCGP Teachers at BCSD have been prepared for the demands of global collaboration in the classroom through Global Educator courses offered through Flat Connections professional learning. They also learn with their students as they participate in the project - professional learning is embedded into the global collaboration. The Administration and Academic Affairs Department support teachers so they can participate in the regular online teacher meetings as part of being in the FCGP teacher community. Student preparation for FCGP Students are given time in their Integrated Technology (required high school semester computer class) to learn the tools used in the project. They are given time in class to research, create their documents, communicate with team members, and create their final products. Barriers and enablersBarriers to success include teachers and students who are not used to and are opposed to taking ‘risks’ in learning. They prefer to keep on the same pathway as before, and do not like to embrace change. Teachers can be an additional barrier when they are not willing to be transparent in their learning. Enablers to successful global collaboration include strong administrative support - making this project a priority; strong board office support - giving paid time off to participate in meetings and training; teachers willing to spend extra time to training and participate; and adequate technology devices and Internet access and speeds. Stories of student achievement and impact A student who had participated in the FCGP approached her teacher the next semester.  When asked how she was doing she replied, "Great Mrs. Jambor, however, I miss global collaboration.  I just don’t feel as connected as I did when I was participating in our global project." This comes as words of encouragement to other schools, districts, teachers if they are looking for reasons as to why should they do this as well. Students in a former FCGP presented at the Global Education Conference in 2014, confidently relating in a virtual classroom to a global audience how their learning was connected and collaborative and how it opened many doors and creative opportunities for them as learners. According to teachers at Berea….. "There is no greater or more authentic experience for teachers and students.  We learn by doing and Flat Connections allows students to do just that." "Participating in such projects creates a professional learning community that for many will consistently develop and grow." Empowering teacher leadersBoth Amy Jambor and Sheri Williams completed the Flat Connections Global Educator online course five years ago. Since then they have developed further skills as global project managers and have become empowered to lead and promote online global collaborative learning within Berea District and beyond."Global collaboration and online learning communities have helped me make a critical shift in my teaching.  I now feel confident in my ability to help students prepare for the world ahead.  Most importantly, students and I learn something new every day - together." Amy Jambor"I have met many colleagues and students from around the world.  That fact alone has added a dimension to my classes that I could not have received inside the walls of my classroom. This journey has shaped my teaching and learning, making me a better teacher." Sheri WilliamsMore Berea District updatesSince becoming a Flat Connections School, teachers at Berea have planned to implement global projects across schools and across grade levels K-12. There are systematic plans in place to train and support educators so that they are ready to embrace global opportunities for themselves and their students. THIS COULD BE YOU! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?Contact Julie Lindsay at Flat Connections today to discuss possibilities. Find out more about Flat Connections global projects for K-12 - all projects start again in September 2015.Find out more about the Flat Connections Global Educator online course - starts again in September! Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

The Classroom Dreaming Tree An interesting global project that asks for contributions - childrens dreams and hopes. tags: education globalproject VoiceThread’s Free Workshops: September-December - My VoiceThread - Blog and Webinars tags: education voicethread free workshops Archives Change Lives - YouTube tags: archive education history youtube Amazon.com: Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom eBook: Esther Wojcicki, Lance Izumi: Kindle Store tags: education moonshot blendedlearning NMC Horizon Report > 2015 Library Edition | The New Media Consortium Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less - Makerspaces- Online LearningTime-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years- Information Visualization- Semantic Web and Linked Data Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years- Location Intelligence- Machine Learning tags: horizonreport library education emergingtechnologies First annual Global Collaboration Day hopes to connect every school | eSchool News | eSchool News tags: globaled15 globaled education LemonAID Warriors tags: socialentrepreneurship education Back to School Global Perspective With Lulu Cerone of LemonAid Warriors | KTLA tags: socialentrepreneurship globaleducation education Julie Lindsay - Teacher Entrepreneurship Interview - YouTube tags: jul education Teacherpreneur 6 Tips For Creating Effective Student Groups tags: collaboration education teams learningdesign How Music Builds Better Student Brains You must read this article about the impact of music on personal development. Maybe it does make you 'smarter' if we can define what they really means. I like the way the author has listed how his personal qualities improved and how he 'performed' better academically because of his ability to persevere with music. At the same time I agree totally that is it 'passion' for something (music or other) that is the key here. tags: education music passion Digital Promise Global tags: education global globalcollaboration digitalstorytelling Project Zero Sydney - Global Connections in the Digital Age Just announced this week - a new conference coming to Sydney and Melbourne in March 2016. Project Zero Sydney registrations are live: http://t.co/IGPJxBiTox @mesterman @julielindsay @geoffchildsdec @pipcleaves @mylescarrick tags: education Australia conference projectzero global Coloring Books Are Perfect Gifts For Stressed-out Adults Here’s Why A Colouring Book Is The Best Gift For A Stressed Adult http://t.co/BR379IXffm via @lifehackorg #survivephd15 @thesiswhisperer tags: survivephd15 education What kind of Asian are you? - YouTube Funny! - and a good way to share intercultural understanding and breaking stereotypes. tags: education interculturalunderstanding Tales from a Loud Librarian: Symbaloo Helps Teachers & Students Get Organized Excellent review of the use of Web 2.0 for knowledge management in a learning environment. tags: education Web2.0 curation library Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Iain Hocknull's Blog | Digital Scholarship tags: digitalscholarship education INF537 Infographic: Bloom’s Taxonomy In Spanish! tags: education bloomstaxonomy Spanish Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Next week, on September 17, it is Global Collaboration Day. Organised by Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon from the Global Education Conference, along with advisors, this one day (nearly 48 hours - it is September 17 somewhere in the world for this long!) event brings together organisations, educators and creative ideas.READ MORE on the GEC websiteREAD the EDUTOPIA article co-authored by me and LucyI just wanted to update you on ONE (of many) ISTE Global Collaboration PLN initiatives for Global Collaboration Day....Educators at all levels and from all parts of the world are invited to be part of... The World's Largest Global Education Collaboration and Challenge  during ‘Global Collaboration Day, September 17, 2015.We are looking for as many educators as possible at all levels to participate, contribute and collaborate around the theme of ‘online global collaboration’ over the 24+ hours of the collaboration (see time conversion chart).The Challenge: "What do school/university communities and systems need to know about the benefits and processes of global collaborations for teaching and learning?  What’s the evidence and how do you do it?"To participate in The World's Largest Global Education Collaboration Start HERE: http://bit.ly/1isJFBvContributors are invited to fill in an online form, after which they will be directed to another Google doc where they can contribute in a number of ways within these parameters:Part 1: Telling the story of online global collaboration in educationVia Google doc or Voicethread (full instructions given for using this tool)Part 2: Online global education collaboration: An educational imperative?via Google docWe are excited to include K-12 and post-secondary levels of education and welcome contributions from across the world - and we really do hope this will be the World's LARGEST Global Education Collaboration!!Please plan to contribute! Please spread the word! http://bit.ly/1isJFBv  Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration