becoming a global educator - online collaboration and pedagogical change

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



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



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……

….share with the person next to you



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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

TPACK

http://tpack.org

http://tpack.org/

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


supports glocalisation


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

http://globalyouthdebates.com/

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……

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

https://hbr.org/2016/03/work-in-the-future-will-fall-into-these-4-categories

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



Don’t be held back by the ‘tyranny of distance’. Lead the way for new

pedagogical approaches to online collaborative learning!

#2



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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