One of my favouite bits about this sketchnote is the giraffe.  Can you find it? Julian had moments previous talked about a nephew or little boy and boy scout badges.  Then went on to something else and came to the thought "Who owns the badges?" we are distributing through learning.  The young boy & scouts stuck in my mind. my ...

We’ve all done the holiday exchanges things before I’m sure. This year I’d like to change it up. Inspired by a story seen the other day and a card received from a freind, I’d like to challenge everyone to PayItFoward this holiday season. Maybe you have already done something, maybe you are thinking of doing something, maybe it hasn’t occured to you ...

I create courses internally for an organization, so this questions might not apply to the freelancers here, but how do you encourage feedback on your courses? I ask this, because today I got a call from a learner that, after 1400 other staff took the course, was the first to question some of the content.  They had 3 questions.  One ...

I was presented with a challenge to come up with my own collection of resources where I find methods, tools, devices and people from which I continuously learn.  Instead of working through them A to Z, I started with those that came first to me.  This naturally lead to more and more sources and you can follow this progression of thought by ...

Based on an article from Fast Company we were asked this week to analyze our own PLNs.  Here are some thoughts I currently have regarding mine. 1) Start Basic: How Big Is Your Network? I started thinking about this question and jumping to my default Twitter account.  I have 4200+ followers and follow 2200+ people.  I took to the rule ...

Recently I’ve been increasingly aware of expanding my CPD and seeking out to new sources where I might be able to build my current knowledge on topics of interest and also find new areas to focus on. This self-enlightenment stems from several sources.  We have a mandate within our portfolio to do so and since we are on the edge of a new year and a ...

Here I sit on a Monday morning going through emails that were sent to me late Friday and over the weekend.  One of them is from a client that says "Any thoughts about this feedback?".  I just delivered a completed cousre to them and we pushed it out for testing to a group of users. My Monday Rant here is ...

I had a friend ask me this morning about what was on my podcast subscriptions.  After I had listed everything out it occurred to me what a fasinating and electic list I had accumulated.  I believe, after looking at my own, that a peak at someone’s podcast subscriptions is a little window into some of their interests. Here’s My Current ...

Online School for Girls tags: onlinelearning school education LA officials may delay school iPad rollout after students hack them in a week Yes - and they were not expecting this? tags: education ipads techintegration Blended Learning Implementation Guide tags: blendedlearning education Digital Citizenship Week | Common Sense Media tags: digitalcitizenship education Pause and Think Online - YouTube A wonderful video from @commonsensemedia for younger students to help think about using the Internet sensibly. tags: education digitalcitizenship Internet Idea 13 tags: conference education Australia Increasing Student Engagement By Grading Backwards tags: education assessment 12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: google education InoReader • Light and Fast RSS Reader tags: rss cmp education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Ten Tips for Becoming a Connected Educator | Edutopia tags: connected_learning education connection Resources for Connected Educator Month 2013 | Edutopia tags: connected_learning cem education connection VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! Great tool to watch videos and take collaborative notes! tags: global collaboration globalcollaboration video education Global Classroom Projects Pinterest of global classroom projects across the world! You must explore this and go global this year. Thank you Wezie Morgan for compiling this! tags: global globalcollaboration education globalproject collaboration Presenting at the Google Apps For Education summit Melbourne | ReconfigurEd. tags: gafesummit education Google Chrome: Jess Time - YouTube tags: gafesummit education 5 Ways To Make Students Better At Sharing Online - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: education sharing onlinelearning If you give a kid the web... - YouTube tags: gafesummit education Explorer Story: Andrew Vanden Heuvel [through Google Glass] - YouTube tags: google gafesummit education googleglass Flattening the World | reflectionsonedtech tags: flatclassroom education How To Use Augmented Reality In Education - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: augmentedreality education Kids & Dyslexia | ForDyslexia tags: dyslexia education Julie Lindsay on Daily Edventures "It is not just that technologies are becoming more accessible; it is more that global collaborative projects provide a vehicle for intercultural awareness and global understanding." - Julie Lindsay, Australia | Daily Edventures tags: jul education How To Teach Critical Thinking Using Bloom's Taxonomy - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: bloomstaxonomy education Flipping classrooms: Is Japan embracing new educational paradigm? ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion tags: education flipped Japan Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

8 Big Ideas of the Constructionist Learning Lab | Invent To Learn The first big idea is learning by doing. The second big idea is technology as building material The third big idea is hard fun The fourth big idea is learning to learn The fifth big idea is taking time The sixth big idea is the biggest of all: you can’t get it right without getting it wrong The seventh big idea is do unto ourselves what we do unto our students The eighth big idea is we are entering a digital world where knowing about digital technology is as important as reading and writing. So learning about computers is essential for our students’ futures BUT the most important purpose is using them NOW to learn about everything else.tags: education constructionism papert learning iTunes - Books - Twitter: A Cultural Guidebook by Keri-Lee Beasley & Jabiz Raisdana tags: Twitter education Tech Transformation: The SAMR Model - From theory to practice tags: samr education Seth Godin & Tom Peters on blogging. - YouTube Why blog? It's life changing....tags: blogging education Web2.0 Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students Free online course for 6 weeks starts Oct 15....looks interestingtags: free onlinelearning education blendedlearning SAMR in 120 Seconds - YouTube tags: samr education TechLIFE 2.0 Interesting opportunity - a conference for students by students - to be held at UWC Singapore next March Don't forget the Flat Classroom Conference 2014, Sydney June 18-20. http://flatconnections.comtags: conference education collaboration Flat Classroom Conference Documentary - A Vision for the Future - YouTube tags: flatclassroomconference education Julie Lindsay - Australia | about.me My newly updated portal on about.me !tags: jul education digitalportfolio Equinox Summit - Learning 2030 tags: futureofeducation education learning How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive tags: Google research education Higher Education in 2020 | Inside Higher Ed tags: highered education future The Digital Lives of Teens: Turning "Do As I Say" into "Do As I Do" | Fluency21 - Committed Sardine Blog Great article - I especially like this tip: "Make something together. Create a kooky, silly film or a photo collage after a family adventure. Turn the conversation to creation instead of consumption."tags: digitalcitizenship education 12 Things You Should Never Do When You Teach Online | Fluency21 - Committed Sardine Blog tags: onlineteaching education How Do We Raise Critical Thinkers? | Fluency21 - Committed Sardine Blog tags: criticalthinking digitalcitizenship education What Is Content Curation? | The Content Authority tags: content curation education digitalcitizenship - From Blended Learning to Creating Innovators tags: innovation blendedlearning education Learning to Learn (revised) - YouTube tags: 21centurylearning education viralvideo Project Based Learning: Explained. - YouTube tags: projectbasedlearning commoncraft education Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning Bring Your Own Device - whitepaper tags: byod mobilelearning education Project Tomorrow | Speak Up tags: personalizedlearning education How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education - The Next Web tags: Internet education change How 12 Countries Spend Education Money (And If It Makes A Difference) - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: statistics education global Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 analysis of tools we are using in and out of the classroom. Twitter is #1....but PPT is #5...? Wikispaces down 50?tags: techintegration technology tools education Who Is The Connected Educator ? ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: connected_learning connection education Is technology the ‘Superman’ that the education sector has been waiting for? - The Next Web tags: education future 21st Century Fluency Project tags: 21centurylearning education literacy digitalcitizenship Students Are 'Hacking' Their School-Issued iPads: Good for Them - Audrey Watters - The Atlantic tags: digitalcitizenship ipads mobilelearning education Connected/CEM Cafe | Connected Educators Make sure you catch some or all of this! Steve Hargadon chats to thought leaders from across the as part of Connected Educator Month.tags: cem educationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Global Youth Debates is less than 2 months old and already it has it's own website and logo and the debates start this week! The Advisory Board have been working hard in the background to bring a curriculum-based global experience to schools across the world. This year our theme is 'Sustainability' and our current topic - Using plastic water bottles does more harm than good.We are excited to launch into practice debates this coming week, organised by our Project Manager Eva Brown. See the timeline for the whole year flow of debates and celebrations. We also have our Collaboration and Community facilitator, Aaron Maurer creating a welcoming community within Edmodo for students across the world to connect and converse.In addition our Lead Teachers from Red River College have been preparing and running online bootcamps in how to use Diigo and Voicethread - both essential tools fro research and communication/debates in this project.This week our Debating Coach, Marcia Alessi, will be starting the first of 2 Judges Training sessions to prepare judges to evaluate each online debate and to provide rich feedback in a timely manner.Two major updates for consideration - please join us now!We are still accepting more debate teams from schools for this semester. Practice debates start this week.....but the main Round 1 bracket does not start until the end of October. We need more teams for both the younger (Gr 5/6-8) and the older (Gr 9-12) sections - it is NOT too late to join us!We are inviting interested judges to sign up again now and be part of the training. This is a good time to jump in again!APPLICATION FORM - for both classrooms/debate teams and judges. Judges please note, just put n/a on any question that does not apply to you.Questions? Please refer to our Contacts page and get in touch - we want to hear from you.Julie LindsayFlat Classroom Global ProjectsDirector Learning Confluence Pty Ltd Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Howard Gardner: ‘Multiple intelligences’ are not ‘learning styles’ tags: learningstyles multipleintelligences education Professional learning in the learning profession nsdcstudy2009.pdf tags: research professionaldevelopment education A Practical Guide For Teachers Who Just Got iPads - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: ipads education apps samr Digital Citizenship edWeb.net - Webinars tags: digitalcitizenship commonsensemedia education Blended Learning Needs Assessment Template (Public) - Google Drive tags: blendedlearning education 2 Simple Ways To Use QR Codes In Education - Edudemic - Edudemic tags: education qrcodes Connected Learning For Educators | Connected Learning tags: connected_learning education educators Teachers Guide to The 21st Century Learning Model : Connected Learning ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: connected_learning education InCtrl :: Cable in the Classroom Digital citizenship lessons and resources provided by Cable in the Classroom tags: education digitalcitizenship socialmedia digitalfootprint Global Competence Definition | Asia Society tags: globalcompetence asiasociety education Totally.Dot - Centralize your online presence with your own Social Frontpage and Boards tags: brandofme digitalportfolio socialmedia education Adventures in Online Learning tags: infographic onlinelearning education Australian Children's Cybersaftey and e-security Results of Teachers survey - March 2013 tags: education research digitalcitizenship cybersafety cyberbullying Australia internet safety Digital Education Research Network tags: research digital education Australia Surveys Synthesized: What Are Teachers’ Attitudes About Classroom Technology? | MindShift tags: education survey research technology the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra - YouTube tags: environment gses recycle music education video viralvideo Digiteen Handshake - Theresa Allen - YouTube tags: handshake digiteen education 10 Google Drive Tips & Tricks For Students tags: education Google Google Apps for Educators CA 2013 Published Resources tags: google resources education gafesummit apps Michael Graffin - Google+ - My #RSCON4 #globalclassroom presentation (video) tags: globalcollaboration presentation education Standing on the Shoulder of My Network | Langwitches Blog tags: netowrk PLN education CEM Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Teach Kids To Be Their Own Internet Filters | MindShift tags: digitalcitizenship filter curation education The App Gap - Where are the Apps for Middle School? Is this true? I think there are many apps already that support creativity, creation, co-creation and higher-order thinking skills. tags: apps education middle_school The Complete Guide to Twitter Lingo tags: education twitter socialmedia Mission Mobile Learning - YouTube Jennifer Simon, Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, created this video to share ideas about mobile learning. Love the creativity! tags: fcct13-2 video mobilelearning education Are "Teacherpreneurs" the Future of Education? | Education on GOOD tags: teacherpreneur futureofeducation Connected Educators, Leaders and Schools | Langwitches Blog tags: connected_learning education The Connected Educator Culture | My Island View "A connected 21st Century educator is an educator who is digitally literate, or at least open to learning the technology needed to basically connect and collaborate with others. It requires at the very least the same openness to learning as we ask of our students. It is a life long learning mindset. Connected educators find a value in, or even a moral imperative to share ideas and sources with others. They also trust enough to openly ask for help of other connected educators." tags: connected_learning education What 'Connected Education' Looks Like: 28 Examples From Teachers All Over - NYTimes.com Part of Connected Educators month 2013 - many excellent examples to explore for connected learning. tags: connected_learning CEM education George Siemens: Changing Schools, Changing Knowledge - YouTube Excellent discussion about personalized learning and the the future of education. tags: education connectivism personalizedlearning 21centurylearning constructivism learningtheory Certification | Common Sense Media Read about Common Sense Signature Schools and Educators Program: Digital Citizenship Certification 2013-2014 tags: digitalcitizenship certification education Innovation in Education is Easy, Unless You Make it Difficult | AJ Juliani tags: innovation education flatclassroom How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business | Wired.com "Juárez Correa didn’t know it yet, but he had happened on an emerging educational philosophy, one that applies the logic of the digital age to the classroom. That logic is inexorable: Access to a world of infinite information has changed how we communicate, process information, and think. Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down ones. Innovation, creativity, and independent thinking are increasingly crucial to the global economy." tags: education student pedagogy technology connected_learning AISC 1-to-1 Project Plan.pdf American International School of Channai - BYOD plan 2013 onwards tags: byod 1:1 mobilelearning education Stephenson Handshake on Vimeo First graders from Dallas, Texas share their 'handshake' introduction via this video for the K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow global collaborative project, a Flat Classroom Project. tags: handshake k2 education 12 Fabulous Academic Search Engines ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: searchengine academic research education Teacher's Guide on The Effective Use of Google Scholar ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: googlescholar tutorial video education Google research searchengine Awesome Videos to Teach Information Literacy | Deep Librarian tags: digitalcitizenship informationliteracy education video 36 Core Teacher Apps For Inquiry Learning With iPads tags: apps ipad education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Creating culturally responsive inclusive classrooms tags: culturalawareness culture education BBC - Future - Technology - Reinventing the classroom for the internet generation tags: sole sugatamitra education futureofeducation ‘Design Thinking’…and Why We Should Have a Course on Learning to Work in Groups | WGSI.org tags: dessignthinking collaboration education Donald Clark Plan B: Report on 6 MOOCs turns up 10 surprises tags: MOOC moocs education African MOOCs: unlocking a billion more brains tags: moocs wise2013 education What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools? tags: education teaching Finland Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

 Important UPDATE November 19 - Due to technical reasons this conference is now called the Flat Connections Conference.Finally I am able to bring the Flat Classroom Conference to Australia! YOU are invited!Mark your calendars now for June 18-20, 2014 to be held at SHORE school in North Sydney.The Flat Classroom Conference is an international event that joins learners of all ages (students and teachers and leaders from age 10 and above). It flattens the learning environment by providing an opportunity for team work and collaborative work across different learning areas. It is a process conference with set outcomes - students and teachers all produce products that can be used and implemented in the future. Experienced global facilitators will guide learners through the design thinking process to research, pitch, rethink, design and present their team products and solutions. There will be time for up-skilling with technology tools, mobile computing is the norm, and a virtual audience as well as virtual team members will be welcome.Details for the conference are being uploaded to the new Flat Connections website - Sydney 2014.The theme for the conference is 'What's the other story', which will encourage participants to look beyond the stereotype as they plan global connections and collaborations for the future.Don't forget! This conference is unique in the world - it brings students and teachers to the same challenge-based event to not only talk about flat and connected learning but to 'live' it as well through the use of emerging technologies and a conference format that allows teams to envisage solutions ot global problems.Last night I was part of the ACCELN Hangout where we had the opportunity to talk about Flat Classroom and the forthcoming conference. You will enjoy this discussion! REGISTRATION is open now for the Flat Classroom Conference Sydney, June 18-20 2014. We encourage you to register your interest NOW. Places are limited, do not miss out.Inquiries can be sent to: conference@flatconnections.comInnovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Official Google Australia Blog: Towards an Australian ‘innovation generation’ tags: education Google Australia Can MOOCs Democratize Higher Education? | WISE - World Innovation Summit for Education Debate that took place at WISE recently including George Siemens.tags: moocs wise2013 education Simple Sharing of iPad Images and Videos - iPads in Education tags: ipads education multimedia Hate Chalk: Learning with Tomorrow (Global Classroom) tags: globalcollaboration education Interactive Digital Citizenship image created with Thinglink ICT For Educatorstags: digitalcitizenship education infographic Be a Digital Citizen - YouTube tags: digitalcitizenship education viralvideo A Quick Start Guide to Participating in a Twitter Chat.pdf Great guide!tags: twitter chat education 2013 WISE Prize for Education Awarded to Ms. Vicky Colbert | WISE Press Room tags: wise2013 education global Teaching our children to code: a quiet revolution - Telegraph tags: education code UK Codecademy Supporting the UK national curriculum and all students must learn to code initiative.tags: UK code education C.PawlikGTA2013 - YouTube I love this video - Charles, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher from Singapore was accepted in the Google Academy in Stockholm this December due to this. It's funny! It is also true - Google and Flat Classroom - what a great combination!tags: Google education Wiki, Wiki, Whack! Why Wiki Collaboration Looks Easy...Wait! Maybe Not... - Flat Classrooms Wonderful blog post about a teacher's experience with wiki collaboration. Everyone should read this - it's funny, yet true.tags: fcct13-2 education collaboration wiki elearnspace › WISE: The world’s most important education conference George Siemens, Connected learning guru, reflects on his experience at WISE.tags: wise2013 education WISE Summit and My Takeaway | My Island View Social Media guru Tom Whitby reflects on his experience at WISE 2013tags: wise2013 education Mrs. McCormack 1st And 2nd Grade Handshake - Flat Classrooms See more handshakes on the K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow project website - http://k-213-2bridges.flatclassroomproject.org/tags: handshake education k-2 globalproject flatclassroom World Digital Library Home tags: digital library education 20 Questions To Guide Inquiry-Based Learning tags: inquiry learning education School Libraries Boost Student Literacy, Australian Survey Finds | School Library Journal tags: library literacy education The Frugal Teacher: Our Global Classroom Projects Louis Morgan shares her discovery of global projects for her Gr2 class.tags: globalproject education collaboration An Interesting Collection of Handy iPad Tips for Teachers and Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: ipad ipads tutorial educationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

iPad as the Teacher's Pet — Tony Vincent - Learning in Hand tags: ipad education infographic 5 Ways to Inspire Students Through Global Collaboration | MindShift tags: globalcollaboration education The Top 10 Skills for the 21st Century Young Professional [Infographic] | The Savvy Intern by YouTern tags: 21stcenturyskills education infographic Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE: Is There A Visual Thinking App? Charts, Graphs, & The 1:1 Classroom tags: visualthinking education graphs maps charts design designthinking Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to messenger apps just as their mums and dads get the hang of social networking | Technology | The Observer tags: digitalcitizenship facebook education The Global Education Conference Network - YouTube Highlights from the Global Education Conference 2012 - looking forward to 2013 in 1 weeks time! Starting Nov 18 tags: education globaled keynote http://www.setda.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=321&name=DLFE-1598.pdf Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age Created by www.setda.org tags: textbooks education opencontent online digital digitalcitizenship Mobile Education - Lessons from 35 Education Experts on Improving L... A wonderful resource sponsored by Citrix. Valuable information from educators who are out there doing it with mobile and online learning. tags: jul mobilecomputing education onlinelearning The 5 Rules of Storytelling Every Teacher Should Know about ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning tags: digitalstorytelling storytelling education Global Citizenship Education: An Emerging Perspective Outcome document of the technical consultation on Global Citizenship Education tags: globalcitizen education UNESCO charting the course of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization tags: globalcitizen education 2013 Global Education Conference November 18-22. Great opportunities! I am keynoting! tags: globaled13 globaled education jul 7 Tips for Encouraging Student-led discussions | Starr Sackstein, MJE, NBCT tags: studentcentred education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Skyping Across the Continent | elementaryflatclassroom tags: awl13-2 skype education globalproject Connected Coaching The key is listening - wish I rocked it!! Friend Heather Davis @heatherd1951 discusses her recent experience learning about Connected Coaching! tags: education connectedness GEC 2013 keynote Julie Lindsay 'How to Go Global: Lead, Learn, League' tags: globaled13 education Facilitators - Flat Connections Conference 2014 Announcing! Michael Furdyk Frank Guttler Anne Mirtschin Chris Betcher Kristina Stoney Ann S. Michaelsen Flat Connections Conference @mfurdyk @frankguttler @murcha @betchaboy @Kristinastoney @annmic tags: education flatconnectionsconference Sydney Australia Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

I had an interesting couple of hours at SHORE School, Sydney as part of my trip into the 'big smoke' this week. SHORE is just as Cameron Paterson described it - especially the part about views to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.Cameron at SHORE in Nth Sydney with view to the city A cultural icon - something to share next year with our global guestsPlanning and organisation for the conference is going well. We are delighted to announce the full global cohort of facilitators. These people not only come from different parts of the world, they are global in their outlook and approach to teaching and learning. We all have so much to learn from them! Michael Furdyk from Taking IT Global, Ann Michaelsen from Norway, Chris Betcher and Anne Mirtschin - both award winning teachers from Australia, Frank Guttler 'Mr Hollywood' from California, and Kristina Stoney, a social entrepreneur who is out there doing amazing things!The Conference Program is coming together - a full draft is now available online. As usual, it is packed with rich interactions and collaborations.Suggested accommodation options have just been posted this week as well. Sydney is a busy tourist destination - please make sure you book early for this event - or you will miss out on the conference discounts! A flyer is online for everyone to share, and below it is embedded into this post. Please pass this forward through your network! Tell the world to come to Sydney next June and experience connected and global learning.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Connected Culture Student Intro Video -- Our Connected Culture - YouTube tags: digitalcitizenship education video commonsensemedia 7 New Tools to Create Your Own Infographics - OEDB.org tags: infographic education digitalcitizenship Using QR Codes to Differentiate Instruction | Edutopia tags: qrcodes Differentiation education A Global Education Declaration The Global Education Conference Network created this during the Global Education Conference 2013. tags: globaled13 education globaleducation Global Education Conference Keynote 2013 My keynote slideshow: "How to Go Global - Lead, Learn, League" tags: jul globaled13 globalcollaboration education The Global Education Conference Network - YouTube Presentations and Keynotes on YouTube from Global Education Conference 2013. You do not need to miss out! tags: globaled13 education conference Flat Connections Conference | Smore tags: flatconnectionsconference education How (And Why) It's Time To Create Digital Student Portfolios - Edudemic Excellent ideas and reasons for supporting student digital portfolio work in schools. - building a digital legacy - empower students to create their own digital footprint - reflection - pushing the envelop of redefinition - a place to show growth, not just talk about it tags: education digitalportfolio digitalcitizenship Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future This article resonates with me - it is about learning environments and setting a mindset for opening the doors to global as well as connected learning for all. tags: pln network socialnetworking education futureofeducation Creating a Digital Learning Environment | eSchool News | eSchool News tags: dle education digitalcitizenship policy Margaret Riel: Improving your Skills as a Global Educator through Action Research - YouTube tags: education globaled13 research globalcollaboration Julie Lindsay: How to go Global - Lead, Learn, League - YouTube A recording of my Keynote for the Global Education Conference 2013. tags: jul globaled13 keynote video education Anne Mirtschin: The World is My Classroom - YouTube tags: globaled13 education global globalcollaboration High Techpectations: GlobalEdCon Gratitude #globaled13 Did you miss the Global Education Conference? All archives and recordings are available on the website now! http://globaleducaitonconference.com tags: globaled13 education global The Global Education Conference (globaledcon) on Pinterest tags: globaled conference education Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

Today was no ordinary day. As someone who works from home, and travels quite a bit outside of Australia, it is refreshing to be in a workshop with other Australian educators and learning more about their challenges and successes and needs. Being a Melbourne girl from way back I am also excited to hear more about the Queensland system - especially pockets of excellent. Today was no ordinary workshop. Organised by AITSL and their Learning Frontiers initiative a small group of us gathered at St Aiden's School just south west of Brisbane. Come from Ocean Shores it took me nearly 3 hours to get there via car and train - but I am always up for an adventure! The workshop was co-led by David Price, OBE from the Engaged Learning and Summer Howarth. David has a new book, which I purchased as a kindle version last night, called "Open: How we'll work live and learn in the future".The aim of the workshop was to work in teams and determine design principles and match them with learning practices for the new HUBS of learning being created now. Four principles of engagement were the focus: personal, connected, co-created, integrated.  Needless to say we had energized discussions, and although experienced educators we all found it challenging to come up with a set of principles that were unique and that no other school could say they were already doing them all. Our team chose 'authentic learning' and 'global collaboration' as well as 'community partners'. I did not take a pic of our writing, but I believe it is being shared via the AITSL website soon. We then worked on what our version of a learning HUB would look like. This could include schools as well as extended community people and organisations. Learning Frontiers aim to put together these learning hubs for next year and are currently working through logistics of what this will look like, including leadership and management structures and breadth of stakeholders. We decided the online community was the real core of the HUB, and that through this everyone could and in fact must be connected to everyone else. We also thought that students should be part of this structure as active leaders and have a voice in the community.I see this as a real opportunity to do something different in education in Australia. It is important for stakeholders in the learning process talk to each other. Technology can provide the conduit for this. However, after more than 10 years of building online communities I know that creating a virtual hub to support the physical hub will mean a lot of work to monitor, cajole contributions and develop a community of practice. 'Build it and they will come' is not guaranteed. The 90, 9, 1 principle applies here - 90% will lurk or not even join in most cases, 9% will be reasonably active and 1% will be very active and drive the community. What is needed is experienced online teachers and community builders to help build and monitor the online community. This task will be made doubly hard by the inclusion of community members who may or may not be familiar with online learning and responsibilities of belonging to a community. Not impossible, just challenging. I do see this online community as the core of the learning HUB. There is no other way to do it. It must be transparent, open to the world and freely share ideas, plans, actions, successes and more. Yes! I said 'open to the world'. Enough hiding behind a wall - what are we hiding from? Best practice in learning must be shared to the world. The learning hub could be monitored for membership and of course moderated membership is always needed to avoid spammers, but I would suggest the idea is also to let outside interested learners in as well to further proliferate the diversity of the community.One aspect of today was the general lack of 'global' thinking. Discussion was very localised and pertinent to individual school situations. Wonderful stories were shared about engagement in learning, however to me one of the key engaging factors in the schools and with the teachers and students I work with is the fact they are taking their learning global, they are building rich collaborative curriculum and embedding interactions that support cultural understanding and global mindedness across grade levels. This is something I believe these learning HUBS could be working towards - as they build their community and develop good practices based on the design and engagement principles.Creating the conditions for change is challenging but necessary. Preparing schools for change in terms of leadership, learning and pedagogy, school structure (timetable, disciplines, curricula and co-curricula), and technology infusion is even more challenging today with the connected, mobile and ubiquitous generation coming through. We need to make schools relevant, provide more diverse personalized learning choices and connect learners locally as well as globally. I know teachers in Australia are ready for this....well the colleagues at the workshop today certainly are - so the next step is to get out of the way of the learning and make this happen! Forge new Learning Frontiers! Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration

The Art Costa Centre For Thinking 16 Habits of Mind shared. Habits of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON'T know the answer. It means having a disposition toward behaving intelligently when confronted with problems, the answers to which are not immediately known: dichotomies, dilemmas, enigmas and uncertainties. tags: education learning thinking ISTE 2014 Awards and Recognition Nominate yourself or another educator tags: ISTE iste2014 education awards Cool Coding | Inquiring Minds Excellent blog post by @ToscaKilloran about coding using Scratch - from an amazing PYP teacher in Germany who really gets it! Great resources - video and websites - shared. Love it when she says, "However, the real goal rests not in the student’s ability to code, but the complex network of skills that are contained within coding. Among other things, this entails thinking logically and algorithmically but also creatively, and collaboratively." tags: scratch education code OPEN-SOURCE LEARNING Pinterest tags: education opensource PISA 2012 Results - Wikiprogress.org tags: pisa oecd global education 20 Ideas for Content That People Love To Share on Social Media tags: education socialmedia sharing content Arizona Technology Integration Matrix I like the clear and simple interactive layout. I have used the older Technology Integration Matrix produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology before and it was useful - this newer version really hones in on collaborative, constructive, authentic and goal directed design principles. tags: techintegration education 21stcenturyskills What kind of global citizens are teachers creating? | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional tags: globalcitizen education Future focus / Principles / Kia ora - NZ Curriculum Online "future-focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, and globalisation." tags: futureofeducation curriculum education Letting inquiry unravel naturally | Inquire Within Wonderful blog post from @nainisingh in Hyderabad, India. tags: PYP inquiry visiblethinking education 12 education guidelines from Alfie Kohn | Dangerously Irrelevant tags: education learning Engaged Learning Website of David Price OBE - his new book is also available! 'Open:How we'll work, live and learn in the future' tags: engagedlearning education learningfrontiers futureofeducation The Differences Between Pedagogy, Heutagogy, and Andragogy | Learn Egg tags: pedagogy heutagogy andragogy research learningstyles education Digital Dragons - Yokohama International School As part of our Connected Learning Community, we are highlighting the importance of balance, safety and responsible behavior online (generally called "Digital Citizenship") through a variety of events, lessons and activities. tags: digitalcitizenship digital citizenship education Digital Citizenship: The Forgotten Fundamental tags: digitalcitizenship digital citizenship education Yokohama International School: Global Citizen Diploma Reviewing the Global Citizen Diploma developed at YIS. It includes as an extended element Digital Citizenship - creation of a digital portfolio and video production with responsible use of technology. A good model to emulate. tags: globalcitizen digitalcitizenship education digital citizenship Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.Innovation, Leadership, Creativity, Collaboration