Leveraging Technology to Connect to the World

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Leveraging Technology to Connect to the WorldChicago International Education Conference

November 9, 2012

Lucy Gray

Lucy Gray Consulting

lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com

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Slides available at:http://www.lucygray.org

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Social Media Review

“Online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.”

“Social media are works of user-created video, audio, text or multimedia that are published and shared in a social environment, such as a blog, wiki or video hosting site.”

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Why Tech?

Take charge of your own professional development and model learning for colleagues and students.

By developing a PLN, you can investigate best practices and target your needs and interests. Anytime, anywhere.

You’ll be able to find opportunities for global collaboration.

Our students are networking and we need to understand the spaces created by social media as well as how to engage kids.

We need to see ourselves as curators and creators of content.

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The Highly Connected Educator

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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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Millennials Want to Learn…

With technology

With one another

Online

In their time

In their place

Doing things that matter

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Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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Flat Classroom Project® & Book

Julie Lindsay & Vicki Davis

Steps to Flattening Your Classroom

Project Development

PD Toolkit

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Additional Resources

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Esther Wojcicki and Michael LevineTeaching for a Shared Future: American Educators Need to Think Globally

EdWeek: Global Learning blog by Tony Jackson

Example Projects

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Earth Day Groceries Project Mark Ahlness

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Projects By Jen

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Jen Wagner

The Classroom Teacher’s Toolkit

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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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Generic ToolkitStill 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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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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Slides with clickable linksavailable at http://www.lucygray.org

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Let’s Practice

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Join the Global Education Conference and explore conference opportunities: http://globaleducationconference.com

Join Twitter and start following people on Lucy’s global education list: https://twitter.com/elemenous/global-education/members

Join Skype in Schools and explore potential projects https://education.skype.com/

Join Apple’s Challenge Based Learning Community and identify interesting projects: http://www.challengebasedlearning.org

Contact Info

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lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com

http://lucygrayconsulting.com

http://globaleducation.ning.com

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