in Which You Will Present:English (but can speak French if you have a question) Target Audience(s):
4-12 teachers, Distance Learning adminstrators, Technology Specialists, Anyone interested in Blended Learning, Short Session Description (one line):The Future Classroom Blending Online and F2F LearningWebsites / URLs Associated with Your Session:www.GlobalEd.caFull Session Description: This session will focus on how to create a “Blended Classroom” online - the Future Classroom. Based on our programs teaching International students in China, with the teachers in Canada, the teachers with www.GlobalEd.ca had to push their “online teaching boundaries”. We use a Moodle LMS, Flipped Classroom ideas, synchronous course structure, weekly f2f videoconferencing, interactive course design, web 2.0 tools and most importantly encourage a positive communicative digital learning environment. We also proudly developed an ESL program using the same model - TAL (Technology Assisted Learning). How do we do it? Please come and see how we can break down the four walls of the classroom and develop a new role for 21st Century Teachers together.…
ticed you and Cory there, in this very fast paced, perhaps overly-intellectual, and very large Elluminate conference in which a few points fell by the wayside - the concept of Heutagogy being one of them, hence my addition to this blog. Other significant issues were also easily neglected or brushed aside in the speed and excitement of this debate. Teaching or Learning of course never did take place in a minute, an hour or a day - it takes years to relate and is in a constant state of flux due to the perfecting or polishing process of continual improvement (CI) which is a highly collaborative benchmarking process.
What you have called teacher centred classrooms gave the medieval image of the priest and the pulpit where the congregation is forever still and silent; from where no doubt the early universities copied the lecturer and the lectern - an archaic hierarchical system (the pyramids are crumbling - flat all inclusive networks are now taking over this planet). Most Web 2.0 Tools are very simple to initiate and have very helpful support services - leave this task to the class - they need to learn how to select, set up and use these tools in forming their group wisdom. They are the managers, organisers and even the teachers of the future; they may even start a business and be friends for life.
In a lecture given by Prof Michael Wesch - http://umanitoba.ca/ist/production/streaming/podcast_wesch.html - and again I strongly recommend viewing (about an hour) - I picked up a quote (among much other learning):
Students (People) Learn -
what they care about
from people they care about
and who, they know care about them
Barbara Harrell Carson
This statement is as important to all teachers as the Hippocratic Oath is to all doctors.
Is this the difference between a good teacher and a not so good teacher given they have the same qualifications and teach the same subjects and levels?
Perhaps this is an invisible factor in teaching where the major factors are Content and Process. The content usually comes from a curriculum. The process is usually left to the teacher. Is this invisible factor blended within the process of delivery? Attitude usually has much to do with everything.
Kindly allow me to leap to a process being a Web 2.0 Tool. This tool of course lacks content and so is like an empty egg shell, the tabla rasa, or the Smart board without any power switched on. Elaborating on a previous addition to this blog - it is critical for teachers to know their students - their likes, dislikes, their families, cultures, dreams, needs and learning styles to name a few questions needing answers from them. Somewhere it has been said that people enjoy talking about themselves - so this vital quest is not difficult, yet so often ignored or neglected. Respect can only be attained by understanding - this is the both ways highway - also called sharing, caring or creating partnerships, relationships or alliances for every individual in the group or team with every other member of the group or class, including the teacher.
The first step is for any class to eliminate the barriers to learning and become friends - no excuses. Here the teacher may be the moderator in group policy making. The teacher can also be the mentor, the coach, the tutor but above all an accessible friend by being a motivator, encourager and unifier. Changing the seating of the class is called job rotation in the workplace. Without this initial effort in quality introductions the group can never succeed…
son. I wanted us all to have the convenience of the internet - click you are there. I wanted the advantages of living, human beings for him to interact with. Elluminate run by a teacher that values both the academic aspects of the class and the social aspects can add so much to a rich learning environment. I would want my son to be able to grow the friendships beyond the classroom time by being able to contact the other students - but publicly online in a moderated environment where all comments were visible to keep it safe. It would be fun if this social tool also gave him a member page that he could personalize to speak visually about who he is. I would want lectures that were engaging with lots of visuals, opportunities to interact with the screen, multimedia, the ability to text a question to the teacher and exchange on-topic chat with the entire class about what was being experienced. After the lecture time, he could take a quiz that let him be sure he caught what he needed, but that it could be taken over and over and only the best score sent to the grade book to encourage its use for practice and study. The quiz would have immediate feedback when possible with a timely hand score by the instructor for a sprinkling of more open types of responses. After the lecture sequence, some interesting hands on and creative exploration would be fun such as labs, mysteries for the kids to try to solve, and the opportunity to see and hear what it is like to work in the subject field as a professional via guest speakers and virtual fieldtrips. Though the class would have kids from all over the US, Canada, and beyond there would be a local core of kids to get together with for hands on time with single day and multi-week projects such as dissection, work with real lab gear, stream studies with an entire season's worth of data collected, etc. In the summer, going to a national camp experience where he could see his more distant classmates and get to do something like Greg Landry is doing with his cadaver camp. I would want a class where he would be inspired to make a song about the topic, send it off to his musical classmates for making a soundtrack and then and other one take the track and expand it with adding video elements and then they all enjoy it being published on the net. As much as all that synchronous stuff sounds like fun, I would also want a class where if we wanted to take a vacation we could, or if he needed to go faster or slower there was an asynchronous option in which all the lectures were recorded and he could access any of the resources, quizzes, and tests that he needed when he was ready for them. Add to this 24/7 access to the grade book, a teacher that is easy to get a hold of because she shares her e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and Ning links, and a course that never closes, and you have an ideal class.
To me, autonomy is the ability to make all that a reality without all the hastlles of the system's approvals, paperwork, and grant writing. You just do it because it makes sense and it meets the needs of the kids.
Brainstorming for the public school system, yes, but it is also the reality I have the pleasure of living both as an instructor and also as a parent every day. :0)…
Learning 2.0 is being held in the Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate) virtual teaching and learning platform. Presenters are responsible for being familiar enough with Collaborate to pre
bal collaborators Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis (co
founders of the Flat
ClassroomTM Project) are excited to announce the 2010
NetGenEd Project, another global collaboration to envision the future of
education and social action by inspiring today's students to study leading
technology trends and create their vision for the future.
This is the second NetGenEd Project collaboration between the two organizations
with the 2009 project announced at the Flat Classroom
conference in Doha Qatar 2009. The 2009 Net Generation Education Project was the replacement
for the Horizon
Project and included 10 schools with more than 300 students. The application process is now open for schools who wish to
participate in the project in March - May of 2010.
In this project, students will study and "mash up" the results of the
2010
Horizon Report from the New
Media Consortium and Educause
and Tapscott's book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World.
Students will study the current research and create wiki-reports with their
student partners around the world analyzing current trends and projecting
future happenings based upon this collaborative analysis. This project is
managed by the students who assume roles such as project manager, assistant
project manager, and editors of the various wikis.
After compiling their wiki reports based upon current research, and encouraged
by "expert advisors" (subject matter experts in the industry),
students will then create a video in one of two strands. Video strand I
competition will be the NetGenEd Challenge where students are asked to envision
the future of education based upon current global technological trends. Video
Strand II Competition is the Macrowikinomics Challenge where students envision
the future of global social action based upon their research in current global
technological trends. The video challenge
will be also be open to the public for submissions beginning March 1st.
"We are particularly excited about this year's project because we're not
only asking students to envision the future of learning and the classroom but
also how this media can be used to impact and improve society itself. This
generation is the Net Generation and they are uniquely suited to speak for
themselves in casting a vision for their own future," says project
organizer, Vicki Davis.
This project is unique in that Tapscott will interact with students in forum
posts throughout the project as they discuss Tapscott's research into NetGen
and also current research as being compiled for Tapscott's forthcoming book
(being written with Anthony Williams) MacroWikinomics. Additionally, he will
keynote the project via a Youtube video released in March along with a student
keynote to be recorded at the Flat
ClassroomTM Mini-conference at ASB
Unplugged in Mumbai, India in February.
Additionally, the Discovery Educator Network is going to host a series of
webinars demonstrating how to tell a compelling digital story as well as
leading a book club group for educators related to the NetGenEd project. The Flat Classroom
Projects are global collaborative projects organized by Vicki Davis and
Julie Lindsay and sponsored by Elluminate.
If you are ready to have your students collaborate globally and follow the best
practices as used in the award winning Flat ClassroomTM,
Horizon, and Digiteen
projects fill out this form before February 9th and apply now!.
NetGenEd Application
2010 Timeline
2/1- 2/12 - Application process for classrooms
2/12-2/18- Selection Process (classes will be notified as soon as they are selected)
2/15 - Ning, wiki, and google group are "live" by this date
2/18 - Final announcements of Classrooms
3/5 - Greeting from Don posted to the Ning via video
Weekly- discussions posted to the forum
2/20-3/5 - "Handshake process" - Students join Ning - post introductions
3/1 - Teams announce
3/15-4/10 Research phase of project
4/10 - Wikis complete
4/1 - Student Keynote
Some time in March, there will be a live session with Don Tapscott
4/10-5/8 - Movie Artifact phase of project (note that there will be some overlap between Research
and Movie Artifact)
*Storyboarding
*Outsourced video requests posted to the Ning by 3/10
5/10 - Final Deadline for All Movies to be posted
5/10-5/20 - Post project reflections, student summits, awards
If you are interested in participating please click in the NetGenEd Application link. Applications will close soon so be sure to apply soon. If you have questions please email me at kcaise@gmail.com. Thanks!Kim CaiseClassroom 2.0 LIVE Co-hostFlat Classroom Project AdministratorElluminate/LearnCentral Community Facilitator…
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hool training and training arranged by the principal. However, none of those experiences were very satisfactory. So, last year we created Lesson Design Worksession to work through designing engaging lessons and I could introduce technology opportunities throughout the time. We had heard from the teachers that they wanted training with like people. So we schedule high school together, middle school together and so forth. We even went so far as to schedule high school math only, hs science, etc. This worked extremely well for the primary and intermediate schools. Those days were packed with a waiting list. However, only a handful of high school teachers came and about 20 middle school teachers throughout the year. The day was set up so that the Board paid for 4 subs. Four teachers came from 8 - 11:00 and then went back to school while another four came from 12:30 - 3:30. Three hours was long enough to get deep with the planning but not so long that they became brain dead. I photocopied their lesson plan(s) to enable me to follow up with. Some requested that I teach the technology part of the lesson because they needed a model while others just wanted me there for support. If they wrote that they would create a wiki, then we did that before they left. This also gave content for our weekly publication in which we would always feature a lesson/unit by a teacher and then give them the directions to accomplish the same lesson or idea. Last year, we also purchased an online learning management system from How to Master which came with a ton of lessons on integrating technology and specific applications like Office 2007. So teachers were able to use these lessons 24.7.365. We did not offer any incentives to attend professional development at all. We are also very fortunate that our Superintendent believes strongly in the power of technology that she allows us to have a full professional development day when we come back from Christmas break. All teachers must attend these 6 hours of training. We have had three conferences and have changed each one to get better and meet the requests of the teachers. The teachers always have a choice in the sessions they attend up to 20 per class. The reserve a month a head of time. We struggled with presenters who were extremely qualified so we have looked to online resources such as the K12 Online Conference for the content to deliver. The TETC (Trussville Educational Technology Conference) has been a success because we are able to develop a common language with everyone to a certain degree. We also have develop teams at each school (pay a small stipend) who receive in depth training from the technology department to be the first line of help at their schools. Part of their responsibilities is to offer 2 afterschool or during school training. With up to 5 people on the team that is 10 additional trainings besides what I do. We have decided that nothing is perfect. We are always reflecting and making adjustments but feel we are on the right path. We also purchased 25 seats in Elluminate so some meetings take place online live. Skype is available to everyone in our district and some have taken to that to ask me questions during the day either in the chat or live. We want to offer every possibility to the teachers in the hope that at least one of the ways will hook them. We have also learned that competition is healthy which leads to others wanting training. At first, teachers mainly contacted me for help but after 2 years, they are seeking help from those around them that are using the tools and strategies.
Sorry, didn't realize how long it was.…
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