Lucy's webinar for Schoolwires October 24, 2012

1. Going Global
Preparing Students to be Citizens of the World
Schoolwired • October 24,2012
Lucy Gray
Lucy Gray Consulting
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
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2. Slides available at:
http://www.lucygray.org
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3. Let’s Get in the Mood
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4. Where is Matt?
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5. Where’s Matt 2012?
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6. Agenda
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My Story
The Context
Vision and Mindset
Mapping This Space
The Global Education Conference & Network
Example Projects
The Classroom Teacher’s Toolkit

7. Lucy Gray
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Consultant
Co-Founder of the Global
Education Collaborative
and Conference
Apple Distinguished
Educator
Google Certified Teacher
Middle School Computer
Science
Primary Grades
Image Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/genista/6898950/

8. Apple Distinguished Educators
Global Awareness 2006
The World is Flat
A Whole New Mind
Berlin & Prague
Rethink. Global Awareness.
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9. Classroom 2.0
Link
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10. Global Education Collaborative & Conference
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11. Mission
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The Global Education Collaborative is a community of practice where
people connect and build the professional relationships necessary for
effective collaboration across borders. Via this social network, educators
and organizations from all over the world share conversations, resources,
projects, and initiatives with a strong emphasis on promoting global
awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards
solving real-world problems. Our ultimate goal is to help prepare students
for a rapidly changing and complex world.

12. Over 500,000 unique visitors
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13. Over 13,0009 members from 150 countries
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14. GEC Features
Groups
Searchable member list
Latest activity
Discussion forums and blogs
Links to resources
Events
Project database
Videos and photos
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15. Learning 2.012The Education Project
2010
Apple Asia Distinguished
Educator Institute 2008
Connecting Globally
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16. The Context
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17. "...the future belongs
to the nation that best
educates its
citizens…"
-President Barack
Obama
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18. Arne Duncan
Diane Ravitch
A NEW
NATION AT
RISK
MOMENT?
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Rahm Emanuel

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Factory Model = Compliance
Learning By Doing Model = Communication, Creativity, and Collaboration
Where do you
stand?

20. A world class education system should call for
globally connected schools
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21. @oline73: Can you
distill why globally
connected
classrooms are vital
in 2010?
Photo source
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22. We have urgent problems that need to
be addressed and, in order to prepare
our students to work on these
problems, we must connect them
globally.
We must teach them how networked
learning leads to networked problem
solving.
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23. The influence of new media
The push for 21st century skills
The “highly connected teacher”
The urgency presented by
complex global problems
Factors Within This Context
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24. 21st Century Students & Teachers
New Connections
Connected
Individuals
New Communities
Virtual
Communities
New Content
Collaborative
Communities
Connected in innovative and new ways
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25. Millennials Want to Learn…
With technology
With one another
Online
In their time
In their place
Doing things that matter
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26. “The Highly Connected Teacher”
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27. The New Media Consortium
The K12 Horizon Report
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28. The Global Achievement Gap
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
Collaboration Across Networks
and Leading by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing Information
Curiosity and Imagination
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29. Creating Innovators
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30. Partnership for 21st Century Skills
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31. CCSSO and
Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning
Comprehensive
resource addressing
global competence
Download a copy here.
Attend the PGL
conference
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32. From Educating for Global Competence:
Preparing our Youth to Engage the World
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33. High Noon
Issues involving
the global
commons
Issues
requiring a
global
commitment
Issues needing
a global
regulatory
approach
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34. Flat Classroom Project® & Book
Julie Lindsay & Vicki Davis
Steps to Flattening Your
Classroom
Project Development
PD Toolkit
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35. Additional Resources
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Esther Wojcicki and Michael Levine
Teaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to Think Globally
EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson

36. Vision & Mindset
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37. Edutopia
February/March 2008
http://www.edutopia.org/sage-advice-world-citizens
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38. First you help them define the term “citizen of the world”. Then
you help them learn what being a good citizen means -- to
themselves, to loved ones and family, to the school community,
to the surrounding community. One’s actions can be directly
linked to one’s values (beliefs, feelings, and actions that are
important to us), so starting with a basic understanding of
one’s values is essential to any meaningful discussions on
citizenship. The global context is meaningless unless students
are good citizens of their own nation.
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39. Right before our eyes, all that the education sector has
controlled, dismissed, manipulated, validated, embellished,
fictionalized, and ranked within an aura of tradition and ritual
may be accessed by point-and-click. We need to stop chasing
exponentially expanding content. Inquiry, problem recognition
and solution, creativity, knowing one’s strengths and
weaknesses, communication, and relationships are what
students must be prepared for.
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40. Becoming a world citizen requires knowledge and
experience of other cultures; U.S. schools do not provide
knowledge or experience. Rather, they provide a cursory
glimpse of others in order to exemplify how not to be American.
“Diversity Day” does not create world citizens, it patronizes
cultural difference and touts xenophobia, and always winds up
pandering American culture as Eurocentrically defined. Only
travel and immersion in other cultures creates world citizens.
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41. Prepare students to be citizens of the world by being one
yourself. Teach from a global perspective.
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43. Mapping This Space
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44. Connect All Schools
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45. The Global Education
Conference & Network
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46. Global Education Conference
http://globaleducationconference.com
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47. Steve Hargadon
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48. Closing Session
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49. 2010 - Brian Mannix
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50. 2010 - Polar Bears International
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51. 2010 - Catlin Gabel School
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52. 2011 - Pam Allyn - LitWorld
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53. 2011 - Greg Jacobs - Louder Than a Bomb
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54. 2011 - The Shoah Foundation
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55. http://globaleducationconference.com
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56. Example Projects
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57. Earth Day Groceries ProjectMark Ahlness
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58. Projects By Jen
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Jen Wagner

59. Around the World with 80
Schools
Silvia Tolisano
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The Writer’s ClubRob Sbaglia

61. Google Lit TripsJerome Burg
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62. Sample VideoValerie Becker
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63. WikiValerie Becker
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MyThologyMatt Cauthron

65. A Whole New MindKarl Fisch
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66. The iEARN Project Book
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67. The Classroom Teacher’s Toolkit
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68. Apple Inc.
Tools of the Trade
Photobooth (photos, video, greenscreening)
iChat AV (videoconferencing, desktop sharing
recording)
Garageband (recording, podcasting)
iPod, iPod Touch, iPad - apps
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69. Global Collaboration, Exploration
& Innovation on iTunes U
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70. Generic Toolkit
Still or video camera - Kodak cameras
Web cam - Logitech
Chat client - Skype (free)
Digital recording device or web site
Collaborative workspace - Think.com (Thinkquest), Google Sites,
Wikispaces
Networks - Twitter, iEARN, ePals, TakingITGlobal, Global Ed ning
Web 2.0 Tools - VoiceThread, Voki, Google Docs (Forms), Google Maps
& Earth
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71. Starting Points
ePals
Buck Institute for Education
iEARN-USA
International Baccalaureate
Facing the Future
Flat Classroom Project
Global Nomads
One World Education
Primary Source
Rock Our World
Roots & Shoots
TakingITGlobal
Voices Education Project
World Savvy
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72. Recommendations
Learn to network; network to learn
Keep it authentic
Start small and design very structured projects
Join an existing group project
Develop a customized vision of 21st century learning for
your classroom, school and district
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73. Where the h*** is Matt 2?
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74. Slides with clickable links
available at
http://www.lucygray.org
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76. Join our BrainPOP group within the
Global Education Conference Network:
http://tinyurl.com/BrainPOPGlobal
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77. Lucy’s Contact Info
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lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
http://lucygrayconsulting.com
http://globaleducation.ning.com
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