becoming a global educator - online collaboration and pedagogical change
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Becoming a Global EducatorOnline Collaboration and Pedagogical Change
Julie Lindsay@julielindsay
Keynote, April 2016
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The Tyranny of Distance
“My book is essentially about people and commodities, and for them the cost of distance has actually been high. But for ideas the freight has often been cheap. In the history of this land, ideas have usually leaped with relative ease across the ocean and even across inland.”
Geoffrey Blainey
50 years 1966
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The World has SHRUNK and FLATTENED and OPENED
Australia has a
unique advantage
• The global educatorPart
1• Concepts underpinning
collaborative learningPart
2• Online global collaboration
in practicePart
3• Shifting pedagogies for
online collaborative learningPart
4
The Global EducatorPart 1
….my global journey
Zambia
Kuwait
Bangladesh
Qatar
China
Ocean Shores
Melbourne
Third Culture Kid
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You do not need to leave home…
The Global Educator
You know you are a Global Educator when you……..
Connect and share
A short story about connection….
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‘Flatten’ the learningYou know you are a Global Educator when you……..Citizenship
CollaborationConnection
Encourage & model global ‘digital’ citizenshipYou know you are a Global Educator when you……..
Collaborate anywhere, anytimeYou know you are a Global Educator when you……..
Use online technologies to bring learners together
You know you are a Global Educator when you……..
You know you are a Global Educator when you……..
Design futuristic online learning environments
Before the Internet……..(Hanvey, 1982)
Perspective consciousness
‘State of the planet’ awareness
Cross-cultural awareness
Knowledge of global dynamics
Awareness of human choices
Yes! ….and……
Yes! I am/am not a global educator and …• want to……• think that……
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Concepts Underpinning Collaborative Learning
Part 2
Connected learningG. Siemens and S. Downes
“The pipe is more important than the content in the pipe.”
Connectivism – George Siemens
‘Connectivism’“…..draws upon the fact that
the very concept of knowledge and learning are changing before our eyes
with the advent of new technologies.”
Collaborative learning
“[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can
take credit for what gets created, and the project could
not come into being without the participation of many.”Clay Shirky, Here comes everybody
Community of Practice
(CoP)
Domain
CommunityPractice
Collective learning Practitioners
Relationship building Shared identity
Learning CommunitiesE. Wenger
Online Learning Communities
Online Collaborative Learning Communities
Tool: Padlet
Online learning
today
Impact of Technology Social, Interactive, Visible
What about – ‘Blended learning’?
Learning Design Balance
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Synchronous
Asynchronous
Blended learning modes to support online collaboration
Online Global Collaboration in PracticePart 3
Geographically dispersed
learners
Use of online technologies
Learning with not just about
Co-create new understanding
s and share work online
What is online ‘global’
collaboration?
Online global collaboration is imperative for all learners to
be globally competent
Online global collaboration
provides a focus for
digital online technologies
Online global collaboration is
a new paradigm for
modern learning
Online global collaboration
supports glocalisation
Online global collaboration
concepts
Building an effective PLN and PLCs
Finding reliable partners
Learning standards and frameworks
Curriculum design
Web 2.0 tools
24/7 learning for everyone
Technology infrastructure
Technology access
Technology fluency
Global digital citizenship skills
Curriculum conformity
Misunderstanding about embedded collaborations
Attitudes towards using digital technologies
Enablers and Barriers
Local to global learning modesIntraconnection
Interconnection
Teacher global connections
Managed student connections
Student collaboration
Online Global Collaboration TaxonomyExamples of successful global collaborations
Level 1: Online interactions
Level 2: Real encounters
Level 3: Online learning
Level 4: Community of practice
Level 5: Learning collaboratives
Online Global Collaboration Taxonomy
Blog posts, sharing online artefacts
Webinars, Skype, Online chat
MOOCs, Distance education
Specific collaborative outcomes
Global collaborative communities
Online Global Collaboration TaxonomyHow to use……
Determine online
learning objectives
Examine courses/curr
iculum
Map collaborative learning
Implement new
approaches
Stories of global connection…..
Flat Connections Global Project
Student leadership
Co-creation – research and multimedia
Global awards - celebration
Emerging technologies -the future of learning
Singapore American School International School of the Sacred Heart, Japan
Theme 2016: Climate Change
http://globalyouthdebates.com
Asynchronous global debates between classrooms
Tools: Voicethread & Padlet
Yes! ….and……
Yes! Online global collaboration is……• possible because……• a challenge because……
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Shifting Pedagogies for Online Collaborative Learning
Part 4
TeacherActivator
Institution Conduit to collaboration
Community Partners in learning
Student Active learner
Changing roles……
© Julie Lindsay, 2014
Evolution of online global collaboration
The missing piece…..?
CosmogogyAndrogogyHeutogogyPeeragogyPedagogy
The CSU Online Learning Model
http://uimagine.edu.au/the-csu-online-learning-model/
Small group support
Teacher presence Interaction with workplaces
Personalised support
Interaction between students
Interactive resources
E-Assessment
https://hbr.org/2016/03/work-in-the-future-will-fall-into-these-4-categories
Skills for the future
Make the shift…..
Three takeaways for online global learning
#1 #
2 #3
Become a global educator by being a networked learner and teacher – in a
‘flat’ learning environment it’s who you know not what you know
#1
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Don’t be held back by the ‘tyranny of distance’. Lead the way for new
pedagogical approaches to online collaborative learning!
#2
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Go beyond the wow - we have the technology, we have the pedagogy -
it’s time to connect the world for meaningful co-creations!
#3
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