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Infusing Global
and
Technology Education
into
Teacher Education
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
Presented by
Red River College Teacher Education
Sarah Brown, Anita Lesage,
Janis Ollson, Maddie Wolff
Pre-service Teachers
Eva Brown, Instructor

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What We Have Learned
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Introductions
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Program and Purpose
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Global Education in the Curriculum
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Projects to Practice PBL
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Pedagogy/Methods
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Summary

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Connect With Us
@essbrown4
@anitalesage7
@wolffmaddie
@janisollson
@ebrownorama
http://flippingpd.wikispaces.com

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Anita Lesage
Anita Lesage is an after degree Pre-Service Business
Information Technology Education major at Red River
College. Her second teachable is Français and
Psychology obtained from her Bachelor of Arts from
University of Manitoba. She is a self-motivated
professional, excels in a leadership roles and welcomes
new challenges. An avid iPad user that embraces all that
technology encompasses. She is dedicated to infusing
technology into the curriculum and is passionate about
being a lifelong learner. In 2013 Anita has participated in
the Flat classroom Conference in Japan, presented at
MANACE TIN, Riding The Wave to Change,
DenApalooza, Global project with Southern Methodist
University in Dallas Texas and the SAGE conference on
infusing technology into your curriculum.

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Janis is a pre-service business and
technology teacher in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada at Red River College /
University of Winnipeg. She is a cancer
survivor who now operates out of a
wheelchair; she is motivated by the
challenges life offers and the rewards
received by overcoming those challenges.
Janis is interested in providing her
students with real world experiences of
culture and learning that can be gained
through flattening classrooms.
Janis Ollson
Business / Technology Major
Biology Minor
Twitter: @JanisOllson

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Eva Brown, Instructor
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Flat Classroom Certified Teacher
Microsoft Innovative Teacher
Lifelong learner
Modelling is key to teaching
Emerging Technologies Certificate
Studying Chinese Mandarin to gain a
better understanding of the importance of language
learning and globalization
• Educator for more than 30 years
• Currently pursuing an EdD in global
and technology education.

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Teacher Education @RRC

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Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to
Hit the Ground Running
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Teacher candidates must be globally competitive and skilled to
infuse technology into any curriculum
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ISTE Standards
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Horizon Report
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Provincial Curriculum Requirements
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Red River College Strategic Plan – International Education

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Global Education in the Curriculum

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Flattening Classrooms Engaging
Minds - Textbook

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Flattening Classrooms Through
Global Collaboration
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Global collaboration as an approach to learning, not an “extra”
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Benefits of global collaboration
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What does a global collaborative classroom look like?
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Project Examples:
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The Flat Classroom Project
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Global Youth Debates
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Digiteen
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NetGenEd
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A Week In The Life

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Impact on learning: Research in the
Global Collaborative Classroom
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What students and educators say about global collaboration
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Measuring the impact
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Transforming research
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Five Phases to Flatten Your Classroom
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Tweetable: Connect one person at a time, build trust, and move
forward. Connecting people equals change. #flatclass

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Connection - Chapter 3
How do we obtain our information, technology and
connection with others efficiently.
Pull/Push Technologies
Learning Pathways
Twitter
Fuzebox
Symbaloo
Diigo
Scoop-It
Voicethread
Knowing where to search and how to search efficiently.

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Preparing to Connect Globally
Level 5: Student to student
(with student management)
Level 4: Student to student
(with teacher management)
Global
Connection
Level 3: Managed global
connection
Level 2: Inter-connection (within
school/district)
Level 1: Intra-connection (within
your own class)

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Communication
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Flat classrooms depend on global
collaboration.
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Success requires harvesting opportunities
presented by it, and overcoming
challenges created by it.

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Project Based Learning

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Frontier School Division PD

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Frontier School Division PD
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Delivering Professional Development to teachers in the
Northern Manitoba Frontier School Division
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Teaching techniques and tools for infusing technology into their
classrooms and curriculum
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Google Drive, Symbaloo, Voicethread, Prezi, Animoto,
Smartboards, Wikispaces
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Collaboration - Blackboard Collaborate and live streamed
videos

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Global Youth Debates
Lead Teachers

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Special Area Group Educators
(SAGE) Provincial Conference
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Janis - SAGE

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iPads @ RRC Project
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As a class we collaborated to present Red River College
math & science instructors with innovative ways to use
iPads in classroom instruction

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Tech in the Theatre
 Symbaloo
 Google
Drive
Classroom Organizer/ Planboard
Diigo
Prezi

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Pedagogy/Methods of
Leading and Learning
So why is all of this learning important for
pre-service teachers to be globally competitive
ready to hit the ground running to
infuse global and technology education
into any curriculum?
Horizon Report and ISTE Standards - Maddie
PLN - chats, etc. and ePortfolio - Janis
MOOC learning - Sarah
PBL inquiry project - student centered projects - purpose, we experienced
this, sharing is important - Anita

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Horizon Report
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Cloud Computing
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Mobile Learning
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Learning Analytics
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Open Content
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3D Printing
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Virtual and Remote
Labratories

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ISTE Standards
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Creativity and Innovation
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Communication and Collaboration
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Research and Information Fluency
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Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
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Digital Citizenship
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Technology Operations and Concepts

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PLN
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Janis

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PLN continued
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Janis

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MOOC: Surviving Your
Rookie Year of Teaching
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The “Teacher Brain”
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Improving consistency & automaticity in teacher decision
making
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Improving student participation & thinking ratio to foster high
level student engagement

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MOOC: Surviving Your
Rookie Year of Teaching
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Opportunity to communicate with other educators via
discussion groups and message boards
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Learning in a MOOC approach makes
it easy to continue your learning on your
own time, from anywhere – a must for
teachers – who all need to stay current!

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Project Based Learning (PBL)
• Choice - By allowing students to make
choices at various levels in
projects/assignments, you are expanding
their creativity which aligns with ISTE nets.
• Students take ownership for their
learning – Pre-requisite
learning, frustrations, challenges, celebration
s, etc.
• Sharing - each others’ work is key for
collaboration, therefore you can learn from
one another.

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Summary &
Acknowledgements
Thank you to many people!
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Kathryn Mcnaughton, Dean, TEIR
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Kurt Proctor, Chair
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Paddy Burt, Library Director, Theatre and Equipment
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Daryl McRae, Program Coordinator
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eTV and ITS Departments @RRC
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Frontier School Division
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Manitoba Association of Computing Educators (MANACE)
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Math and Science Department, RRC, Todd Thompson