Connect your classroom to the globe
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The document discusses the educational experiences at Hawkesdale P12 College, highlighting cross-cultural interactions between students in Australia and various countries through technology and collaborative projects. It emphasizes the importance of global citizenship, digital literacy, and community engagement in preparing students for a connected world. The author shares personal anecdotes and reflects on the differences in educational perspectives, showcasing the value of connecting students globally.
Connect your classroom to the globe
- 1. Connect Your Students to the Globe!
- 2. Hawkesdale P12 College, SW Victoria, Australia
- 4. Ally’s blog
- 5. I introduced myself first and they proceeded on asking me questions, a lot of questions. I did my best to answer all of them like what sports we play, how cold it is here, what we do on weekends, what our schools are like, what are homes are like, and many other things. We had a lot of fun talking with each other and I LOVE their accent. We ended up talking for an hour. I told them that I wanted to eventually go to Australia and they couldn’t figure out why. They also asked me about what it was like in university and why it was fun. I told them, and asked them if they were planning on going to university and they all said no which was very surprising to me. They said the nearest university was too far away..3 hours. I found this kind of funny because i know alot of people who live farther then that away from home. I live 2 1/2 hours away, but I guess their culture and stuff is just different. Anyways I found this experience so much fun and very interesting, it is so much different there than here, if you ever get the chance to do something like this, i believe you should definately do it.
- 7. A true global classroom – a student from Hawkesdale, two from China, two from Bangkok and one from USA are taught by an optician about the eye, using discoverE virtual classroom software.
- 8. Why? • Project based learning • Share cultures • Prepare for life, work and play in a flat world • Learn digital citizenship skills • Learnt netiquette, online responsible learning, plaguarism • Digital literacy • Increase knowledge of geography and history • Enable self directed learning • Skills for life long learning • Awareness of global issues • Parental involvement
- 10. Pedagogy • Years 9/10 students work at 6.75 of Community Engagement dimension – investigate responses to issues such as global warming, world poverty etc, examine the extent to which the international community is cohesive and able to manage conflict. • From the Global Citizenship strategy, “students are equipped with skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to prosper and thrive in a world characterised by global mobility and cultural, political and economic connectivity.” • “Learning connects strongly with communities and practise beyond the classroom.” (PoLTS)
- 11. How do we help children to come to terms with globalisation? • Involve and immerse them in collaborative, interactive global projects. • Establish personal learning networks • Work with other countries in real time • Compile codes of conduct • Follow appropriate netiquette • Understand how to work in asynchronous time
- 12. asynchronous connections • Blogging. • Wikis • Nings • Google applications • Online Mailing lists • Voicethreads
- 13. Synchronous connections • Liveblogging http://www,coveritlive.com • Videoconferencing www.skype.com • virtual classroom http://www.elluminate.com and DiscoverE • Back channels eg http://www.chatzy.com and http://www.tinychat.com • http://www.twitter.com • Google applications • Bridgit conferencing software which comes with Interactive White Boards • www.flickr.com an online image sharing site • Virtual worlds – reactiongrid in Open Sim • Etherpad • Edmodo
- 15. Boston
- 17. Bianca in China
- 18. Lost in Malaysia
- 19. Halloween
- 20. Developing a social conscience
- 21. Volunteers in Haiti – earthquake aftermath
- 22. Mt Rouse
- 23. Look at the beautiful sunset over my backyard. We had a severe drought this year. Our cows lost a lot of weight while the drought was on. My dad was awfully busy trying to keep water and hay up to them. Since the downpour of rain, they are in much better condition. We have a mountain in our backyard called Mt Buggery. It is really a volcanic tumulus and has 2 trees - a dead pine tree and a young pine tree on top. Flick, year 8 blog post
- 24. Comments!!! Your “backyard” is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with the world. Lori, California Thank you so much for sharing your backyard. When we all share like this, it makes our world just a little smaller and better. She Wolf
- 25. From me to you! • Projects by Jen:- http://www.jenuinetech.com/
- 26. ms1001tales • Read Kim Cofino’s blog post • MS1001tales: http://ms1001tales2009.wikispaces.com/
- 28. Students as experts:- Year 9/10 students answer questions from USA so students could develop Australian travel posters
- 29. Cross culture blogging! Examples of Blog Post Prompts • Use of technology • Free topics • Global warming • Favorite musician? • Illegal Immigration • Popular local tourist destinations etc
- 30. • There are plenty of illegal immigrants in australia and each day many are sent home. illegal immigrants tend to have a non valid visa. some people who come here dont have a visa at all. Illegal immigrants come from all over the world. what happens to all of the illegal immigrants once they have been found out is they get relocated back to the country they came from.
- 31. Melissa // Oct 18th 2008 at 2:30 pm • That is what happens here in the United States as well. Visas are really a big part of it because visas take a long time to get, and then people just come illegally. Where are the illegal immigrants that come to Australia from? Juliet Pham // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • How do you feel about the fact that the illegal immigrants are relocated? Do you believe that it’s fair? I don’t think that it is. I really think that it would depend on the reason. Are the immigrants doing any harm really? That’s pretty interesting that Australia does have illegal immigrants because I never thought a place like Australia would because of the fact that it doesn’t have any countries near it or any land bridges. Travis Bugge // Oct 18th 2008 at 5:21 pm • how do they get there? are they snuck on a plane or something? fur us, its pretty much peole crossing the border, or swimming over here. which part of austrailia do they go to?
- 33. Skype (www.skype.com) VOiP Live chat Audio conferencing Videoconferencing Bookmark and save chats Can record conferencing- eg powergrammo
- 34. Skype and slideshare to teach students from Canada about • Australia and Culture • School • Community • farm Student from Canada asks questionHow it all looked back in Canada
- 35. Should Australia go to India to play sport? • Foresee and sense cultural misunderstanding
- 38. Link with India
- 39. American School of Bombay
- 40. Boston Connections See my blog post
- 41. Moving on...... at school Students in grade 5 or 6 from UK, Thailand and Australia, share a voicethread and talk about what they are looking forward to in “moving on”, what they are nervous about and what they share in common.
- 42. discoverE – virtual classroom software
- 43. Wall wisher – see link
- 45. West Java Earthquake September 8th • 7.3 richter scale • 64 deaths, 37 people missing, and 27,630 people displaced in nine districts in West Java and one in Central Java. • Approximately 54,231 houses were damaged in 12 districts in West Java and one district in Central Java.
- 46. Speaking directly with earthquake victims 12 hours after the occurrrence using skype
- 47. Will Richardson quote on Learning is Now! • What a great model for the immediacy of learning that can happen these days, and the relevance. When you think about all of the things that your students could learn and practice here, interviewing skills, geography and geology, information research, retrieval, editing, organization and sharing, all in the larger context of perhaps assisting those in need who were thousands of kilometers away. I want to make the point, however, that it's all grounded in your own understanding of these technologies and the ways in which they can help us connect. If you didn't have that knowledge and experience, this probably would not have happened, and that really is the goal of what we're all trying to do here, get more comfortable in using these technologies to learn in our own practice. Thanks so much for sharing this great snippet of learning from your classroom.
- 48. Australian food – the meat pie with sauce Sharing Cultures
- 49. Traditional Costumes Students from Malaysia show national costumes
- 50. Street dancing from Malaysia Students from Malaysia ‘wow’ us with street dancing rendition
- 51. Sharing objects that are symbolic of our countries
- 52. A linkup with a school in Russia
- 53. Grades 3 to 7 listen to students from Singapore talk about racial harmony Racial Harmony Day with Singapore
- 55. Some useful sites • Tips on videoconferencing • Around the world in 80 schools • Wiki for skype in schools • Theedublogger
- 56. Elluminate Taman Burkitt Maluri School, Kuala Lumpur
- 57. Say hello
- 58. Favourite Foods
- 59. Technology used at home
- 60. What do you look for in a friend?
- 61. What skills are important to learn?
- 62. What symbol best describes your country? The emu
- 63. Across the World – Russian linkups http://acrosstheworld.wikispaces.com
- 64. Request from Ekaterina • The US Embassy and one of our local libraries are organising a competition of students projects under the general title "Russia nad the USA - Facing Each Other" . One of the projects category is Climate Change Issue. The school kids will have to present any kind of investigation on the Global Warming topic.
- 65. …..Thus, they will get their own statistics and as the result they will be able to compare the average opinion in our local area concerning Climate Change Issue with the average opinion from other parts of the world. To be honest with you, an average Russian person is not well-informed on this topic. My students will have to make this conclusion and they will try to suggest their own ideas how they can change the situation at least at the level of our school.
- 66. A tweet on twitter asked my online contacts to fill in the survey for the Russian students from Soglasie school in Western Russia. Many completed the survey for them – both teachers and students.
- 67. Further Twitter requests • paulbogush • @murcha @taniatorikova @sujokat 7th grade class in school looking for exs of current music being listened to by 12 yr olds in Aus-Any names?
- 68. Year 12 Mandarin LOTE student (distance education) talks to Malaysian student in Chinese using skype
- 69. Flat Classroom Projects • Flat classroom projects • Digiteen • Netgened projects • Eracism
- 71. Let’s walk a ning http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/
- 72. School’s in at 9pm!
- 73. Keynote speaker – uni lecturer from Doha, Qatar, speaks to students at Qatar Academy and Hawkesdale P12 College about citizenship journalism.
- 74. Listening to the citizenship journalism address
- 75. Awards Ceremony
- 76. This is a flatclassroom!
- 77. Challenges • Time management • Language • Time zone • Cultural differences and expectations • Infrastructure • Leadership • Exam and testing periods • Extracurricula activites • Firewalls/filters
- 78. Tips/advice to ensure that these projects run smoothly? • Start with small, short projects • Communication is of prime importance • Commitment and dedication are essential • Get to know the other staff prior to and throughout the project, to gain confidence in each other • Do not be frightened to ask for help or ask questions of any nature. • Be prepared to work hard (as hard as you may have ever worked in your life) and take risks • Work your blogs to the fullest giving step by step instructions to classes where possible for each lesson to clarify the tasks that need to be done in your own mind and also for student reference. • Give out check list sheets to ensure that students remain on track • Enjoy the journey into the best that 21st century learning can give.
- 79. What do I need to succeed? • Patience • Commitment and dedication • Determination to succeed • Risk taking • Willingness to work hard • Preparedness to work in a team • Enthausiasm • Sense of humour • Organisational skills • A passion for learning
- 80. Networking
- 81. Networking sites • http://learncentral.org • http://www.classroom20.com • http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/ • digitalcitizenship.ning.com/ • Digital citizenship • School Beyond the walls • Edna for Australian educationalists • Global projects • http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com • use a search engine as there are many
- 82. Where to find global partners? • Learn Central • Skype partners • Around the world in 80 schools • ePals • The Edublogger • Twitter And search online for more
- 83. Where to find global projects? •classroom2.0 •Flat classroom projects •Edna for Australian educationalists •Global projects •Flat Classroom Projects •Jenuinetech Projects •Global Education Collaboration •Blogging Challenge • use a search engine as there are many
- 84. Where to learn more • Tech Talk Tuesdays (3:45-4:45pm, Melbourne Aus time): goto http://guidetoinnovation.ning.com and look for Events listed on the right hand side or goto http://techtalktuesdays.globalteacher.org.au • eT@lking Wed 8-9pm (Melbourne Aus time): part of the Australia series in http://learncentral.org or read my blog at http://murcha.wordpress.com • classroom20LIVE • Look for twitter updates
Editor's Notes
- #35: ion