Global Project Design essentials for success in the classroom
Presented by Julie Lindsay at the Global Education Conference 2011 and the Beijing Learning Summit 2011.
This session will focus on curriculum design and pedagogy to embed global collaborative learning experiences and projects into the classroom to enhance learning outcomes. Emerging technologies allow students to experience communication and interaction with others around the world, however designing a meaningful learning experience through a global project that is also part of the curriculum is an important part of developing global digital citizenship and intercultural awareness. Techniques used in Flat Classroom Projects from upper elementary level to high school level will be shared and discussed.
Embedding Global Collaborative Projects into the Curriculum
1. Embedding Global
Collaborative
Projects into the
Curriculum
Julie Lindsay
E-Learning and MYP Coordinator
Beijing BISS International School, China
Director, Flat Classroom® Projects
lindsay.julie@gmail.com
@julielindsay
2. Presentation outline
PART 1 - Exploring Global
Collaboration
PART 2 - Curriculum design for
global collaboration in the
classroom
PART 3 – Pedagogy and tools for
embedded global collaboration
8. Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat
"The more you have a
culture that naturally
glocalizes - that is, the
more your own culture
easily absorbs foreign
ideas and best practices
and melds those with its
own traditions - the
greater advantage you will
have in a flat world."
9. Defining the Global
Collaborative Classroom
A classroom that is:
• connected
• engages with multiple
audiences
• engages with diverse
resources, and tools
• creates authentic,
collaborative learning
outcomes.
12. Global Collaboration 3.0
• “Co-created” and multimedia rich products
• Engaged and connected teachers with all participants
• Use of social media tools for communication and interaction
• Classrooms merged into one
• Engaged students and collaborative expectations
• Extended community partners
• Student directed learning
13. Challenges of Embedding
Global Collaboration
Having Going
realistic Beyond the
expectations ‘Wow’
Shifting Engaging
traditional learners and
pedagogies leaders
15. What are the
CHARACTERISTICS of a GOOD
Global Project?
Brain Storm
16. What is an Effective Global
Collaborative Project?
An educational project that flattens or joins
classrooms and people from geographically
dispersed places within a technology
infrastructure built for a common curricular
purpose.
Interactions foster cultural understanding and
global awareness in the process of learning.
Local identity is maintained and celebrated.
17. Examples of successful Global
Projects
“Successful global
collaborative projects
start with planning
and designing
meaningful and
understandable
Brain Storm interaction.”
18. Am I willing to redesign my curriculum to
embed a global project into what my class does?
“Designing a global collaborative experience involves transcending the
obvious real time linkup, fostering higher order thinking and providing
opportunities for cultural understanding while usually making a
product that impacts others in a positive way. ”
28. Citizenship
OMG I JUST SAW
Sorry for THE HISTORY ON
accusing you, THE WIKI..Really
the history sorry for any
makes it look problems
like you
BTW I didn’t
delete
anything
Why did you
delete stuff off
the wiki?
34. Project Celebration: Student Summit
“In addition to the in-class
required assessment for a
global project, it is advised
that students are able to
celebrate and reflect with
others from the project,
including teachers and
students. ”
46. Social Media
and Global
Projects
How to Work
them Together?
•Project Website
•Project Blog
•Project hashtag#
•Use of syndication
•Facebook
•Press Release
57. Coming from
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January 20
2012
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Global competition for jobs means that today’s students must not only be well-educated, creative problem solvers but they must also be equipped to collaborate globally.
All students and teachers should conduct themselves in a professional and culturally sensitive manner. This includes the types of avatars they choose, the styles of language they use, and the quality of material they upload. Digiteen Project is a launching pad into this professional learning mode.
Homework, staying in touch with family, cultural understanding, blended learning
Develop strategies to measure and verify the quality and quantity of online participation using Web 2.0 toolsPractices for measuring student contribution - Ning and wiki. A group project using Web 2.0 tools now provides better transparency by being able to accurately record participant contribution. Both quality and quantity of contribution can be collected via history tabs on the wiki or revision history in Google docs.
Teachers are taught to:
1) Research the Technology and become connected themselves
2) Monitor and Be Engaged with the technology and the learning
3) Avoid the Fear Factor: Make a difference. Fear-based education is shown to be ineffective in changing student behaviors - this focuses on the methods that work with students and promoting teacher behaviors that must underlie such an environment.