21st Century Citizenship - P21 The 21st Century Citizenship Guide outlines a vision of citizenship that encompasses informed, engaged and active practices in three dimensions of citizenship—civic, global and digital. The different dimensions of citizenship will be explored, along with recommendations on actions that parents, local, and national policymakers can take to make sure that all students are able to develop into true 21st century citizens. tags: 21centurylearning education digitalcitizenship A Guide for Making Any Question an Essential Question tags: education inquiry Digital Citizenship Resources for Teachers from ETML Links to interesting resources from the Global Digital Citizen Foundation blog tags: digitalcitizenship education The end of ‘just Google it’: Why students need to be digitally literate - Innovate My School tags: digitalliteracy education digitalcitizenship ISTE | Infographic: Citizenship in the digital age Interesting infographic and information about the ISTE Digital Citizenship PLN. tags: education digitalcitizenship Forget coding, we need to teach kids about digital citizenry tags: education digitalcitizenship Developing digital literacies | Jisc An interesting model for defining digital literacy. tags: education digitalliteracy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Happy New year from Flat Connections!It is almost February and I want to remind you that Flat Connections global projects AND online teacher courses start again in the next 4 weeks. Please help us spread the word about these online collaborative (and global!) learning opportunities.Global ProjectsThese projects are taking applications now from across the world. Come and join Nepal, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and more!K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow - yes! younger students can connect and collaborate as well. This global project brings teachers and students together for realtime and asynchronous exchanges and encourages collaborative learning through sharing daily life around themes and activities.A Week in the Life - for students of ages 8-11 (Grades 3-6) - This project explores global issues and brings students together to share, discuss and create new meaning. The theme this year is 'Health and Well-Being'. This is an exciting global project and often the first time students independently connect with others beyond their school - great to foster online learning and digital citizenship skills!Digiteen/Digitween - TWO projects - one for under 13's and the other for over 13's. Through online collaborative work students explore what it means to be a digital citizen and 21C online, connected and collaborative learner. Collaborative work leads to action projects that are shared with the world.Global Youth Debates - Do you have a debate team(s) in your school? Then share this exciting project with them. Online, asynchronous, global debating! Theme this semester is 'Education' - topic coming in February!Flat Connections Global Project - For students in Grades 9-12, this is a fully supported, student-driven collaboration where emerging technologies as described in the Horizon Report K-12 are explored and students collaborate to share new understandings. They also create personal multimedia to share via a final judging and awards process. This is a VERY flat project - perfect for high school students! NEW - Connect with China CollaborativeLast semester we successfully ran a pilot of this new project and have brought it back again this semester with some updated material and approaches. The Connect with China collaborative is offered in partnership with Mandarin Pathways and provides teachers and students anywhere in the world an opportunity to connect with students, teachers and community groups within China. Global teams allow participants to not only connect but work together and build understanding and well as artefacts for sharing. Our theme this semester is 'Climate Change'.Read the CCC blog and explore the exciting adventures from our 2015 pilot!Teacher professional learningTWO courses are starting in February (pending numbers). Both of these online courses are based on material found in 'Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds' (Lindsay & Davis, 2012) and now with updated material fro the new book 'The Global Educator' (Lindsay, 2016).The Flat Connections Global Educator - for those teachers serious about learning how to bring global collaborative experiences to their classroomFlat Connections Global Collaboration Primer - for those serious about finding out more to work out next steps for their own students and to share with their colleagues and school communityREMEMBER! When learning is ‘flat’ then global becomes possible and collaborative legacies are created.We hope to hear from you soon! Let me know if you have any questions at any time.Julie LindsayDirector, Flat Connectionsjulie@flatconnections.comhttp://flatconnections.com #flatconnections #ChinaConnects Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Global Education Events - Home New website by Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon to share and promote global events across the year. tags: GlobalEd education global events HASS SA :: Conference Humanities and Social Sciences teachers R-12 conference in South Australia Keynote: Julie Lindsay tags: jul education keynote conference 16 Ways to Destroy Higher Education — The Higher Education Revolution — Medium Trite, but thought-provoking at the same time. Can apply to K-12 education as well. tags: highered education future Think global, act local: World’s Largest Lesson @julielindsay https://t.co/qPETDzNVWp #glocalisation #ClimateChange tags: glocalisation climatechange ChinaConnects education 10 Recommendations for Improving Group Work tags: teams education 6 Powerful Videos For Talking About Cyberbullying With Kids tags: education cyberbullying video Into the mouth of the dragon - global collaborative learning with China. | Mandarin Pathways tags: ChinaConnects education Teaching the Global Digital Citizen Honour Code [Infographic] tags: education globaldigitalcitizen Marc Prensky - Global Education for the Future - YouTube According to Marc Prensky - The goal for students is global education and 'becoming' - learning is only a means to becoming. tags: education globaleducation Connecting Educators and Organizations Around the World tags: GEC education GlobalEd globaleducator Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

New Teachers Guide for Online Collaboration and Global Projects - iEARN Collaboration Centre Excellent downloadable book on global projects and global collaboration produced by iEARN organisation tags: education globalcollaboration iEARN globalprojects Reinventing Curriculum: The Underlying Challenge to Moving Education Forward -- THE Journal Interesting start to conversations about the future of education sans the textbook and plus mobile devices by Cathie Norrie and Elliot Soloway. tags: education future textbooks mobiles LearnHowToChinese - YouTube tags: youtube video education ChinaConnects language These 39 Sites Have Amazing Stock Photos You Can Use For Free — Vantage — Medium tags: photos free pics education Nominate now! ISTE Global Collaboration PLN Annual Award 2016 - ISTE Nominations open until the end of February! Are you a global collaborative educator? Consider nominating for the #ISTEglobalPLN award tags: ISTE isteglobalpln education globalcollaboration Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Toady I attended a global webinar with Michael Fullan (Canada),  Steve Munby (UK), John Hattie (Australia, and Viviane Robinson (New Zealand). The focused discussion was based on the paper written by Michael and Steve, 'Inside-out and down-side up: How leading from the middle has the power to transform education systems' (You can download a copy here! Thanks to Meg)Or read more on Steve's Education Development Trust website and download the paper from there. The essential discussion was about leadership for change and focused on middle level development of connected, networked and collaborative leaders. The reasoning? That bottom up and top down is not working in K-12 schools, therefore we need to be supporting the leader in the middle to affect this.Some panel comments:Michael Fullan: Good collaboration reduces bad variation - A school would join a network with a goal of reducing your own variationLeaders who do best participate as learners with others - when they do that they are learning a lot Need to develop a shared sense and depth of purpose about the work - by interacting on a regular basis Talking about FLAT organisation structures - organised collectively en mass - also connected autonomy Freedom in the middle to take initiative and work on agendas to improve the learningDemocratisation of leadership Steve Munby:Robust peer review - not about proving but about improving - challenges complacency - collective voluntary accountability To affect the three A's - Autonomy, Austerity, Accountability - the solution is 'collective autonomy' - neither bottom up or top down, voluntary but inevitable  John HattieVisible learning - new #1 influence - critical factor is teachers’ collective efficacy System-wide school collaboration Impact - what do we mean by this - needs some external engagement Network is successful when it is not geographical - school network through UNiMelb - 26 schools - finally shared their data Notion of collective autonomy - easy to setup, tough to maintain, but failed. Each school wanted to claim the success and not share it, and each one wanted to have their own data. The research base shows TEACHER collective efficacy, not LEADERSHIP collective efficacy As moderator Tony McKay suggested four areas of action: (in my shorthand)Need to go deeper and further for effective leadershipCan we think more deeply about the network systems, structures and processes?Accountability is a network-based system deserves a lot more treatmentNeed to be more explicit about the theory of actionMake sure you follow #globaldialogue to track ongoing conversations My brief response to the conversations and speakers:Leadership can come from any level and needs to be encouraged from all levels - the role of the Teacherpreneur, Outlier and Learning concierge is important to consider hereSystemic change will not take place until teachers / leaders have more autonomy to do what they believe is best for learning. The discussion about collective autonomy is fascinatingEducation leadership today is synonymous with the ability to network, form and manage communities, understand collaboration and enhanced learning outcomes for teachers and studentsThere is no point talking about leadership without assuming (do we all assume this now?) or at least referring to the need to be an online leader - digital fluency, networked learning, connectivist approach, online local and global collaboration - building online communities that function for better learning outcomes - these are all skills a 'leader' in education must have. This goes beyond knowing how to communicate online - it is deeper than developing a PLN and joining PLCs!BTW - read this excellent post by Tessa Gray on Reimagining Professional Learning 2016 - and this one by Derek Wenmoth, A new era of professional development. Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

The Dragon that Roars: The imperative of online global collaborative learning - 2016 Accepted Presentations - OZeLIVE The Dragon that Roars: The imperative of online global collaborative learning tags: education keynote globalcollaboration we don’t need better leaders tags: leadership education change Global Education as a Context for Leveraging Ed Tech in Schools - GEC Network Musings - Medium tags: education globaled globalleadership technology Reimagining Professional Learning 2016 | Excellent post by Tessa Gray about modern professional learning for edcuators. tags: education professionaldevelopment globaldialogue A new era of professional development? | Derek Wenmoth, Director of e-Learning at CORE Education, New Zealand shares his thoughts about PD. tags: professionaldevelopment education globaldialogue Twitter Rubric Could be useful! tags: Twitter education socialmedia assessment (Digital) Identity in a World that No Longer Forgets | open thinking Excellent blog post by Dr Alec Couros last year. Recently he has shared updates on Facebook about personal stolen identity via pictures online. tags: education digitalcitizenship ETL523 How Students Can Use Solution Fluency for Article Writing tags: education blogging digitalfluency Wood Shop Enters the Age of High-Tech - The New York Times Has tinkering become a new pedagogy - interesting article. tags: education makerspace pedagogy Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Compared in One Chart tags: backchannel education Climate Change - University of Exeter A free online course that explores climate change - challenges and solutions. tags: climatechange education globalyouthdebates MIT Dean Takes Leave to Start New University Without Lectures or Classrooms - The Chronicle of Higher Education tags: education highered future innovation Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

BrainRush | Home tags: games education adaptive_learning free online gaming Top Five Climate Change Videos of 2015 | Climate Reality tags: climatechange ChinaConnects education You are Invited to Global Leadership Week 2016 - Tackk April 25-29 http://globalleadershipweek.com tags: education globaled16 globaled globalleadership Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Digital Citizenship. #ETL523 starts here | Learn, do, teach... Thought provoking blog post by #ETL523 student https://twitter.com/hbailie How we approach the use of mobile and wireless learning in schools is a digital/global citizen piece. tags: ETL523 education digitalcitizenship Imagine If We Invented School Today on Vimeo schoolhouse.edu.au - promotion video - thought provoking tags: education future school video Schoolhouse Centre for Progressive Education An interesting futuristic non-profit group ideating a new model of schooling in Australia tags: education future Australia SOLO Taxonomy and English Language Learners Co-written by Sonya Van Schaijik and Pam Hook - launch coming on March 18! tags: education book SOLOtaxonomy Handshake - YouTube Students from Chicago introducing themselves to others in the Digiteen project (Flat Connections) tags: handshake digiteen education video youtube How to lead change on Intercultural Understanding tags: interculturalunderstanding education asiaed Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Library 2.016 : Privacy in the Digital Age - Library 2.0 Library 2.016 : Privacy in the Digital Age Free online conference March 16/17 tags: library education free conference online privacy digitalcitizenship Global education programs for teachers & students | VIF Learning Center Look! VIF have updated their website - lots of exciting things to interact with. tags: VIF education globallearning What do Globally Competent Students Look Like? | Getting Smart tags: globalcompetence education globaled Learning as social practice online: how can meaningful dialogue be nurtured online in the spirit of learning as social practice? | Higher Education Academy This case study illustrates opportunities afforded by recent developments in technology for students to learn through this type of social practice without needing to attend campus or indeed even meet during their studies. tags: technology onlinelearning education What are your digital rights? | World Economic Forum Good discussion points raised in this article. tags: education ETL523 digitalcitizenship Personalize Learning: Continuum of Engagement: From Compliant to Flow tags: personalizedlearning education ETL523 What is digital citizenship? | Taking Time… Excellent post by Trisah, ETL523 201630 student - shows how digital citizenship means participation and involvement and shares how this can be done in a meaningful way. tags: education ETL523 digitalcitizenship Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration