This document discusses King's Academy's involvement with the Global Online Academy (GOA). It describes GOA as a network of top private schools collaborating to offer online courses taught by expert teachers. The document outlines GOA's mission of providing rigorous, engaging online education and promoting global understanding. It explains that King's Academy joined GOA to enhance learning opportunities for students and prepare them for university through online coursework featuring scheduled flexibility.
2. New learning structure
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“This is not a conversation about technology, but
about a new-generation learning structure”
Mark Milliron, former deputy director of post-secondary
education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and GOA
Board member
3. How to use technology in class
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• Technology
is not a end unto itself – it is a
means to enhanced student learning , creativity
and engagement.
• Too
often we get it backwards. We talk about
how to “integrate technology in the classroom.”
Wrong question.
• Right
Question: How can we use technology to
deepen inquiry, engagement, and student
creativity.
4. Independent, creative, responsible
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“…Our students will learn to be independent,
creative and responsible thinkers within an
ethical community” – from the Mission Statement
of King’s Academy
King’s Academy technology plan
• Rubicon Media Lab – arts and technology
• Online Learning (Global Online Academy)
5. Global Online Academy
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• Founded in 2011
• Ten Founding Schools
• Albuquerque Academy | Albuquerque, NM
• Catlin Gabel School | Portland, OR
• Cranbrook Schools | Bloomfield Hills, MI
• The Dalton School | New York, NY
• Germantown Friends School | Philadelphia, PA
• Head-Royce School | Oakland, CA
• King's Academy | Madaba - Manja, Jordan
• Lakeside School | Seattle, WA
• Punahou School | Honolulu, HI
• Sidwell Friends School | Washington, D.C.
• Schools – Expanding to 30-40 in 2012-2013
7. GOA Mission
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The GOA mission is to replicate in online
classrooms the intellectually rigorous programs
and excellent teaching that are hallmarks of its
member schools; to foster new and effective
ways, through best practices in online education,
for students to learn; and to promote students’
global awareness and understanding by creating
truly diverse, worldwide, online schoolroom
communities
Using technology to humanize learning and
education
8. GOA and King’s: Why?
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• King’s Academy involvement in the GOA –
Why?
• Consistent with our mission – we are a fully
wireless school, a one-to-one laptop school in
which teachers are encouraged to use
technology to provide new content that
enhances student engagement, discussion, and
inquiry
9. Combined resources
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Combined resources – network of
schools/teachers committed to educational
excellence and academic rigor
•Global network of master teachers dedicated to
best practices in online education
•Shared expertise
•Professional learning – deepens faculty
conversations
10. Enhanced learning
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Enhanced student learning and love of learning:
“Teaching is not about access to knowledge.
Teaching is about engagement, making subjects
relevant and interesting.” – Bill Gates on the
GOA
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date GOA Course Offerings at King’s
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• An Introduction to Bioethics
• Comparative Government: Campaigns and Elections
• Declaring Our Humanity: Applying Philosophy to Modern
Global Issues
• Digital Photography: Global Perspectives Through the
Lens
• Grassroots History of China
• The Hispanic Experience
• Japanese Language Through Culture
• Medical Problem Solving
• Multivariable Calculus
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date GOA Course Offerings (cont.)
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• Using Geographic Information Systems to Solve Global
Issues
• 9/11
• Environmental Economics
• French Hip-Hop
• Global Health
• iPhone/iPad App Development
• Media Studies
• Modern Ethical Dilemmas
• Urban Studies
• Playwriting 2.0
13. Scheduled Flexibility
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Independence, responsibility and flexibility:
strengthens students’ ability to manage time;
students work closely with teacher and fellow
classmates but with greater flexibility.
•School’s greatest challenge? Time. Online
classes create time, because students can work
on their own time at their own pace – “scheduled
flexibility”
•Online summer courses
14. Preparation for the future
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Preparation for university and work: an approach
to learning and communicating they will need in
post-secondary education – our goal is to have
every student at the school take at least one on-
line class.
•45,000 in 2000; 3,000,000 in 2009, 6.1 million in
2010
•One in three students in higher education now
take an online course
15. Global classroom
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Global citizenship and the global classroom: a
digital classroom is intrinsically more powerful
than a brick-and-mortar classroom
•Diversityof perspective and outlook
•A new kind of seminar based on new
technologies
•“Imagine students from Jakarta, New York and
Jordan studying the media’s response to 9/11” –
Bill Gates, NAIS, Seattle 2012
16. Civic engagement
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Our civic life has moved online
•Need to teach digital citizenship
•Skills of respectful discussion, attentive listening
•“Kids participating in a respectful learning
process with other students under the guidance
of a master teacher is the gold standard of
education” – Bill Gates