A Vision for LearningJulie Lindsay

E-Learning Coordinator

BISS August 2010

Backchannel today: http://tinyurl.com/flatchat

Backchannel“a live chat that accompanies a live presentation or workshop”

Google JockeyA person who watches the backchannel and

posts information and hyperlinks in response to questions that are posted.

Backchannel Moderator

A person who monitors the backchannel chat and informs the speaker of predominant questions

and issues arising from the conversation.

Backchannel Netiquette #1

1. Answer with @

2. Get a Roomteachkids: I need help

with differentiated instruction.

Joanne: I need help with my reading program

Hamid: @teachkids I have a great program to share with you.

Backchannel Netiquette #3

1. Answer with @

2. Get a Moderatorteachkids: I want to ask Julie a Question.

Joanne: I’m the backchannel moderator, type your question in and when it is time, Julie will ask me what is happening in the backchannel.

Backchannel Netiquette 4

1. Answer with @

2. Get a Moderator

3. Be yourself but not a fake

teachkids: I want to ask Julie a Question.

julielindsay: I’m not really Julie, I just thought it would be fun to impersonate her.

Backchannel Netiquette #5,6

1. Answer with @

2. Get a Moderator

3. Be yourself but not a fake

4. Be a link dropper

5. Be up front about self promotion

teachkids: Anyone know a great blog that helps teachers.

julielindsay: I have a blog that I write for teachers, you can find it at http://123elearning.blogspot.com– I also love Jo McLeay’s at….

Our Backchannel

Today

http://tinyurl.com/flatchat

What is E-Learning?

How is E-Learning supported at BISS?

What are the advantages of E-Learning?

Revised 2001 by Lorin Anderson

……to account for the new behaviours emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous.

Why Revise?

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy

Blooms Digital TaxonomyAndrew Churches

Digital Taxonomy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flissphil/62362241

StudyWiz is the doorway to……..

Communication

http://www.flickr.com/photos/flissphil/62362241

Wikispaces and other Web 2.0 tools are the doorway to……..

Collaboration & Creation

21st Century Learning

21C Learning @BISSWhat does it look like?Share some examples

BackchannelJumps InHere!

V-BISS Day September 2009

Grade 5 PYP Exhibition Goes Virtual!

Digital Portfolios

BISS IT Dept Updates

• Purchase, install of 45 netbook computers for ES.• Research on VPN and acquired 40 licenses before school open.• Upgrade Wireless to provide seamless access to whole school and

improve the connection speed.• Change Internet Service Provider to improve internet connection.• Remove and reshuffle classroom computers. Decommission more

than 40 computers • Yearly servers and classroom workstations maintenance.• Replace projectors to ES LAB/DT LAB/SS LAB/ES Music and

several classrooms.• Upgrade Email Server to allow Windows Outlook client direct

remote access (Fine tuning is going on and on and sometime has to work in the evening/weekend.)

Condemn old hardware: 49 desktops will be 7+ years old by July 2010

IT Services: A New Era

Virtual Private Network

IT Integration: A New Era

A View of Students Today

•Wired differently, neurologically different•Have developed hyperlinked minds•Brains able to process information in parallel not linear fashion

The Digital Generation

21C Teaching Practices

• DL prefers receiving multiple information sources

• DL prefer parallel processing and multi-tasking

• We prefer receiving slow, single source

• We prefer linear processing

Ian Jukes: The Digital Generation

21C Teaching Practices

• DL prefers processing pics, sound, colors, video before they process text

• DL prefer random access to hyperlinked multimedia info

• We prefer to process text

• We prefer to provide linear material

Ian Jukes: The Digital Generation

21C Teaching Practices

• DL prefer to learn 'just-in-time’

• DL prefer and looking for instant gratification and immediate rewards

• We prefer to teach for 'just-in-case'

• We prefer deferred gratification and delayed rewards

Ian Jukes: The Digital Generation

21C Teaching Practices

• DL prefer to network and collaborate simultaneously with many others

• We prefer them to work independently before networking and interacting

The Internet is a natural space, it does not exist removed from the physical world. Learning based on intuition, discovery,

and is experientialIan Jukes: The Digital Generation

John Palfrey & Urs Gasser

Addresses issues such as: SecurityPrivacy CopyrightGaming

Eight ‘NetGen Norms’:•Freedom•Customization•Scrutiny•Integrity•Collaboration•Entertainment•Speed •Innovation

Technology is like the air……….

Digital Citizenship“…the norms of behavior with regard to technology use” Ribble and Bailey

NETS.S 5 - Digital Citizenship

Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

ISTE NETS.S – Revised 2007 See http://www.iste.org/nets

© Julie Lindsay & Vicki Davis

BackchannelJumps InHere!

Digiteacher!

“are connected to digital citizenship resources and create engaging learning environments to help their students form educated opinions and behaviors for online learning ”

Julie Lindsay

Be a DigiTeacherIn Three Steps

Research the Technology Connect Yourself

#1

Monitor and Be Engaged

#2

Avoid the 'Fear Factor'Make a Difference

# 3

http://flickr.com/photos/breakdennis/

Wiki-centric Global Collaboration using Web 2.0 ToolsAuthentic Problem Solving using Real-World Topics

‘Flat’ learning – teacher to student, student to student

What is a Flat Classroom?

Julie Lindsay (Beijing, China)

http://123elearning.blogspot.com

Vicki Davis(Camilla, GA)

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com

The result has fundamentally changed the way we as individual educators approach what we do in the classroom…..how we do it…..and who we do it with……

Taking IT GlobalCollaborative Project Contest First Place 2007

ISTE SIGTel Online Learning Award Winner

2007

What is a Flat Classroom?

Global Collaboration 3.0

Cultural UnderstandingDigital CitizenshipOnline Learning Environments

http://flatclassroomproject.net

Traditional Classroom

Flat Classroom

Separated by LOCATION

Unified by the INTERNET

Separated by TIME

Unified by ASYNCHRONOUS communications tools

vs.

You Know Your Classroom is Flat if…You and your students expect to have regular, if not daily, conversations with teachers and students from other classrooms around the world.

You Know Your Classroom is Flat if… You and your students communicate, collaborate and create products that make a difference to the world with other people from different countries and cultures.

BackchannelJumps InHere!

Flat Classroom Projects- Some Influences

CQ + PQ > IQ..when the world is flat, curiosity and passion

for a job, for success, for a subject or even a hobby are so much more important than they once were. Because in the flat world you have

so many more tools to take you and your curiosity so much further and so much deeper.

Thomas FriedmanThe World is Flat, 3rd Edition 2007

Flat Classroom ProjectsBest Practices that Go the Distance

Flat Classroomhttp://flatclassroomproject.net

Digiteen Projecthttp://digiteen.org

NetGenEd Projecthttp://netgened.org

Eracism Projecthttp://eracismproject.org

Flat Classroom Conference

and Workshop

Flat Classroom Conference 2009Doha, Qatar

Flat Classroom Workshop 21CL@HK 2009

Flat Classroom Workshop/Mini-Conference 2010

ASB Unplugged, Mumbai

Collaboration: The ConceptConnectedReliable communicators ‘Flat’ classroom walls

Power to change the world, one classroom at a time.

Collaboration: The Power

Transferable Skills

Collaboration: Magic

Finding a voiceTaking charge of learning

Choices and ownership Empowerment

Collaboration: The Magic

Students as meaningful contributors and participants

Conversations with real authors:

Thomas Friedman and Don Tapscott

Community of Learners

Project-based learning as a conference format

Cultural Understanding

Flat Classroom Conference 2009 Documentary

http://flatclassroomconference.com/past-events.html

Flat Classroom Conference 2011

Beijing, China

Leadership WorkshopStudent Summit

February 25-27, 2011http://flatclassroomconference.com

Andrew Churches

“…edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator”

•Blooms Digital Taxonomy•Digital Citizenship•Media Literacy’s•ITGS Workshop leader•Co-author ‘Digital Diet’

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com

Kim Cofino

“…enthusiastic and innovative globally-minded educator”

•Global collaboration•MYP Technology•Apple Distinguished Educator

Blogs at ‘Always Learning’http://kimcofino.com/blog

Vicki Davis

“…innovative mobile learning and Web 2.0 teacher and IT Director”

•Google certified teacher•Discovery S.T.A.R. Educator•Co-founder Flat Classroom

Blogs at Cool Cat Teacher Bloghttp://coolcateteacher.blogspot.com

Frank Guttler

“…Producer by Trade - Educator by Accident”

•Film/video educator•Founder and 'lead learner' of Lights, Camera, Learn!•Google Certified Teacher•Past TV/Film Producer and Associate Director of the American Film Institute K-12 Screen Education Center

Bernajean Porter“…the application of systems thinking and chaos theory to deal with the challenges of change and re-culturing efforts in education today”

•Digital Storytelling•Technology literacy•ISTE Consultant of the Year

http://www.digitales.us/

Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootsteps on the sands of time

Henry LongfellowA Psalm of Life

Footsteps on the Sands of Time…….

http://flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/

Julie LindsayE-Learning CoordinatorBeijing (BISS) International School

Resources:http://julielindsay.wikispaces.com http://123elearning.blogspot.comGet connected: http://flatclassrooms.ning.comEmail – lindsay.julie@gmail.com