1. Hi, Everyone
Welcome to
FlatISSN
Week 6: Choice!
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2. Tuesday, May 1, 2012

3. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
1 • Connect
2 • Communicate
3 • Citizenship
4 • Contribute & Collaborate
5 • Choice
6 • Create
7 • Celebrate

4. We want to hear your voice!
• What’s your favorite part of the book so far?
• How has this book challenged your thinking?
• What’s one insight or “ah-ha” you’ve had?
• What question has the book raised for you?
• If you’ve been doing the 15 challenges, how’s
it going?
• What would you like to discuss tonight?

6. Teaching in the Choice-Rich Classroom
• Teachers should be filters, not fact repositories
• Teachers should be pedagogical customizers, not
standardizers
• Teachers should see technology as enabling, not
replacing*
• Teachers should be coaches, not lecturers
• Teachers should be actively engaged*
• Teachers should be human, not perfect
• Teachers should have personality, not uniformity

9. 7 Spaces of Learning ~Ewan McIntosh
• Secret Spaces
• Group Spaces
• Publishing Spaces
• Performing Spaces
• Participation Spaces
• Data Spaces
• Watching Spaces

10. Choices That Increase Student Engagement
• To Question
• To Build
• To Invent
• To Connect
• To Have Meaning
• To Understand
• To Excel

11. “Digital Bloom’s Visual” by Mike Fisher, Feb. 27, 2009
http://digigogy.blogspot.com/2009/02/digital-blooms-visual.html

12. “The Networked Teacher” CC by langwitches on Flickr

13. Next Meeting
Wed., May 9th
Homework: Read Chapter 8
Step 6 – Creation
Flat Classroom Challenge 11
Tag blog posts & tweets #FlatISSN

14. Special Announcement:
ISA students who’ve participated
in the Flat Classroom Project and
are now student managers of the
NetGenEd Project will be joining our
discussion on Thursday, May 17th.
***You don’t want to miss it!***
You’re welcome to invite colleagues and
students from your school to join us, too.

16. Hi, Everyone
Welcome to
FlatISSN
Week 7:
Creation!
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19. Wednesday, May 9, 2012

20. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
1 • Connect
2 • Communicate
3 • Citizenship
4 • Contribute & Collaborate
5 • Choice
6 • Create
7 • Celebrate

21. How to create the FlatISSN mash-up
http://snapguide.com/guides/create
-the-flatissn-mash-up/
How to Find & Download CC Images
from Flickr
http://edcr8.co/Jg9sGs

22. Next Meeting
Wed., May 17th
Homework: Read Chapter 9
Step 7 – Celebration
Flat Classroom Challenge 12
Tag blog posts & tweets #FlatISSN

23. Special Announcement:
ISA students who’ve participated
in the Flat Classroom Project and
are now student managers of the
NetGenEd Project will be joining our
discussion on Thursday, May 17th.
You don’t want to miss it!
You’re welcome to invite colleagues and
students from your school to join us, too.

25. Hi, Everyone
Welcome to
FlatISSN
Week 8:
Celebration!
While we’re waiting to begin, please be
thinking of questions you’d like to ask
the students who are joining us tonight.

26. Thursday, May 17, 2012

27. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
1 • Connect
2 • Communicate
3 • Citizenship
4 • Contribute & Collaborate
5 • Choice
6 • Create
7 • Celebrate

28. Connor Mitchell
Zak Ziebell

29. Next Meeting
Tues., May 22nd
Homework: Read Chapter 10
Designing and Managing a Global
Collaborative Project
Flat Classroom Challenge 13
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31. Hi, Everyone
Welcome to FlatISSN
Week 9: Designing &
Managing a Global
Collaborative Project
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33. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

34. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
1 • Connect
2 • Communicate
3 • Citizenship
4 • Contribute & Collaborate
5 • Choice
6 • Create
7 • Celebrate

35. How Can We Flatten the ISSN?
• How might we share what we’ve learned
about “flattening” our classrooms with other
colleagues in the ISSN?
• What collaborative projects might we and our
colleagues want to implement next year?
• What steps do we need to take to turn these
ideas into reality?

36. • How might we share what we’ve learned
about “flattening” our classrooms with other
colleagues in the ISSN?

37. • What collaborative projects might we and our
colleagues want to implement next year?

38. • What steps do we need to take to turn these
ideas into reality?

39. Essential Questions from Ch. 10, p. 262
• Consider a global
collaborative project that
interests you and relate it to
the project design
essentials. Are there any
questions you have for
organizers?

40. Essential Questions from Ch. 10, p. 262
• How can we design learning
experiences that embrace
global education as well as
enforce rigor and relevance?
Are these the same?
• What role do social media
play in success of online
projects in today’s
educational environment?

41. Essential Questions from Ch. 10, p. 262
• Why are some projects more
“successful” than others?
How can we support the
needs of participants brining
different countries, systems,
and expectations?
• What are the characteristics
of the an engaged teacher
and classroom in a global
collaborative project?

45. Citizen 1.0 Citizen 2.0 Citizen 3.0 Citizen 4.0 Citizen 5.0
MDG #1 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E
MDG #2 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E
MDG #3 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E
MDG #4 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E
MDG #5 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E
MDG #6 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E
MDG #7 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E
MDG #8 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E

47. Mark Gerzon’s Five Stages of
Becoming a Global Citizen
• Citizen 1.0 – Worldview based on one’s self
(egocentric)
• Citizen 2.0 – Worldview based on one’s group
(ideocentric)
• Citizen 3.0 – Worldview based on one’s nation
(sociocentric)
• Citizen 4.0 – Worldview based on multiple cultures
(multicentric)
• Citizen 5.0 – Worldview based on the whole Earth
(geocentric)

48. The Millennium Development Goals
• Eradicate extreme
poverty & hunger
• Achieve universal
primary education
• Promote gender
equality and empower
women
• Reduce child mortality

49. The Millennium Development Goals
• Improve maternal
health
• Combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria, and other
diseases
• Ensure environmental
sustainability
• Global partnership for
development

50. TED Talks

51. TEDxChange

54. Mind the Gap!
The Gapminder website helps you analyse indicators of development: http://tools.google.com/gapminder
When you open up this link, you will see the following screen. Explore its features by reading and trying out the boxed descriptions.
The countries on the
graph are colour
coded by continent.
Click on any country
circle and its
continent will be
highlighted on the
world map. You can
colour the countries
by income group or
development
indicator as well
Select between
Chart and Map
view
Hover your
mouse over the
circle to reveal
the names of the
countries
Click here to
select the
indicator for the
y axis
Click here to select
the indicator for
the x axis
Select individual
countries here by
clicking the boxes
Remove all countries
other than those
selected by clicking
Deselect all
Watch the graph
change over time
by using these
buttons
Change the
speed of the
graph here
Zoom in on areas of
the graph here or
click 100% to see
whole graph again
Both the x and y axis scales can be
linear or logarithmic. Choosing the
log scale may make it easier to see
the trends on the graph
Change the size of
the circles here, or
make them
proportional to
another development
indicator
Click Trails to
track a selected
country while an
animation plays
In this view, the size of
the circles is
proportional to the
population of the
country, and the colour
represents the continent
Adapted from an original idea
by Val Vannet
www.juicygeography.co.uk

55. Project Design
• Global Citizenship Matters
• Interdisciplinary
• Global citizenship, contemporary issues of
global significance, service learning
• 21c literacies, global competence
• Grades 9-12, ages 13-18
• Outcomes: wiki pages, multimedia projects
• Optional: talks to be given at TEDxYouth event

56. Final Meeting
Wed., May 30th
Homework: Read Chapters 11 & 12
Challenge-Based Professional
Development and Rock the World
Flat Classroom Challenges 14 & 15
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58. Hi, Everyone
Welcome to FlatISSN
Week 10: Challenge-
Based Professional
Development and
Rock the World!
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59. Wednesday, May 30, 2012

60. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
1 • Connect
2 • Communicate
3 • Citizenship
4 • Contribute & Collaborate
5 • Choice
6 • Create
7 • Celebrate

61. FlatISSN Project Ideas
• Digital citizenship
• Skype conferences (Liz)
• 9th grade history course (Jesse)
• Technology access (Eric)
• Virtual world poetry slam (Bernadette)
• Global Citizenship Matters: MDGs + Gerzon book
(Honor)
• A day in the life (Bernadette)
• Global art exchange – writing about art around the
world (Laura)
• Service learning project – finding out about needs &
efforts in other communities (Mitzi)

62. Future ISSN Book Clubs?
• The Connected Educator by Sheryl Nussbaum-
Beach (Honor)
• Global Citizens by Mark Gerzon (Liz)
• Imagine by Jonah Lehrer (Judy)
• Out of Our Minds by Ken Robinson
(Bernadette)

63. Essential Questions from Ch. 11, p. 287
• What are the evolving
modalities of professional
development?
• What are the main obstacles
to embedded PD? How can
these be overcome?

64. Essential Questions from Ch. 11, p. 287
• What are the advantages of
combining students and
educators in the same
learning event?
• How has this chapter
influenced the way you think
about professional
development in your
learning community?

65. Essential Questions from Ch. 12, p. 301
• Describe the items in your
learning pathway
concerning global
collaboration in the
classroom. Which item has
helped you in the most
positive way?

66. Essential Questions from Ch. 12, p. 301
• What are your Big Three?
Which one will you start on
first and when?
• How could you create a
formal learning community
for ongoing improvement?

67. Well Done,
FlatISSNers!
Thanks so much for everyone’s participation
and contribution to our collaborative learning
over these last ten weeks.
Let’s stay in touch as we go forth to begin
Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds!

68. Act. Do. Be you. Choose three.
Your lifelong journey starts now.
Rock the world!