Creating Learning Opportunities for

Student Positive Online Identity

Connecting students globally using digital tools.

Presented by Ann RooneyHead of Business Enterprises and Innovation

A strength based approach to being online

Complex Globalised

World

How can we use social media in the classroom?

SKYPE

Creatingrespectfulpersonal

connections

Social and Emotional Learning

Insightful cross-cultural inquiry and exchange

POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS 

“Increasing social and emotional skills in

order to create and promote

compassionate, kind, friendly and hospitable individuals who form and maintain healthy

and fulfilling relationships.”

STUDENT REFLECTION ON

SKYPING NORWAY

 ”I think that it was an amazing experience to be able to

connect over the Internet with students in another country

and to learn about their different cultures and values.”

How does good digital collaboration start?

“It’s not about the technology …it’s

about the relationships.”

Projects are driven by young people’s natural curiosity.

“I’ve found

someone just like

me.”

POSITIVE CITIZEN

Understanding and serving something greater than yourself

as a responsible, respectful and generous global citizen and leader, who acts with

integrity for a socially just world and a sustainable future for the

Earth.

Global participatory

culture is empowering

• Padlet• Google docs and slides• VoiceThread• Skype: Google Hangouts• WikiSpaces• Schoology, Edmodo• Edublogs• AudioBoom• Slideshare• Thinglink, ScoopIt

COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

STUDENT & CLASS EDUBLOGS

Moving from Digital Citizenship to

Digital Leadership

How can Teachers Model Positive Digital Identity?

Ways to become a connected teacher:

1. Start your own Edublogs Classrom2. Join a Global Project

- ‘Flat Connections’- ‘Taking It Global’

- ‘Out of Eden Learn’3. Follow Educator blogs

(George Couros & Silvia Tolisano)

How can you find other educators

who are committed to collaborative

projects?

Find a reason to connect.

How can we support youth

to use technology in meaningful

ways?

3 THINGS STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE BEFORE THEY LEAVE

SCHOOL

1. A professional social network2. A Digital Portfolio3. An About. Me Page

George Couros – The Principal of Change

STUDENT REFLECTION

“I have discovered that learning has no time or space limits. Most importantly we truly experienced a global classroom.”