ISTE 2018 - Global Education Day Notes

The 5th C - cultural awareness

Bill Harrison

• Stdnts need to communicate and collaborate with Stdnts all over world
• Global immersion transforms schools
• Stdnts can talk about their global audience as learning happens through a global lens

Empatico Website

• Forming a COL (communities of practice) through online communication, collaboration and a shared u/st 
• Tchrs in different states used a shared lesson plan to connect classes through Skype-meant stdnt needed to come up wtith qu and be able to respond to qu in a stdnt led conversation - chn saw states through the eyes of the local chn so gained a deeper u/st as chn had a strong connection to the learning - not a T driven lesson

Virtual exchange and global citizenship

• Failures of QFI - Quatar Foundation International
• Virtual exchange - Arab stdnts connect with US stdnts to discuss issues (eg: women driving) - aim to grow peace and justice - diversity of ideas = diversity of solutions
• Connected classes undertook a shared project (eg: growing the same plant - reflect/on shared growth rates and possible reasons why eg- climate
• Stdnt opinion needs to be valued as it will -ref to pic of girl and quote about the importance of her voice being heard

Table 21: Enhancing 21st Century Literacies and Global Collaboration through Student-Exchange Program

• This is a discussion thread for those at Table 21 and will be facilitated by Nandita Gurjar. Ref to pic of handout
• Discussion with T from Haiti, USA
• The focus of this roundtable will be how student-exchange program builds students' communication, collaboration, creativity, inter-cultural understanding, and appreciation of one's humanity that is crucial in today's world. Through field trips, informal cultural events, and an immersive socio-cultural, linguistic experience with the host family, inter-cultural understanding is enhanced and respect for one another is generated. Social media communication following the program strengthens continued global connection and collaboration. 
• Important to connect T and Stdnts thru global collaboration and cross cultural bridges thru social media eg: twitter
• 21C literacies continue to evolve to allow access to social media
• Value cultural capital - connections can be made thru cultural storytelling - compare same/diff in stories that have a similar purpose
• Immersion allows for strengthened connections as builds intercultural u/st
• Zoom.us - for collaborative online discussionhat carried out online but monitored 

ISTE 2019 - Hack Education Unconference

Met some great people today at the Hack Ed Unconference. Thank you to everyone who shared their ideas. 

Visual Connections

Yesterday I was in Karen Ferguson’s class at Tech and was immediately drawn to the display she had on her back wall. Karen has created a 5ft x 3ft google drawing that breaks down the structure and language features of an explanation. Her display is specific to her graphics class but as I could see the potential connections that could be so easily made by my learners I immediately asked Karen if I could use her template to create an example specific to my learners. I have seen a lot of displays in classrooms and online that teachers have created to help their learners make connections, but the content, layout and size of this one completely nailed it!

                                    

The link to Karen’s blogpost where she explain her thinking behind this resource is here. As always Karen was happy to share work so my next step is to create my own version to help my learners cement their own connections to the structure and language features needed in explanation writing.

Creativity in LS2...

This term our Manaiakalani staff meeting reminded us about the importance of creativity in learning. Miki and Josh used their creative skills to create this image for the title page of a DLO they are in the process of creating. 

The DLO is at the moment a work in progress but when I saw what they had done so far I wanted to share it because I think it is a great example of creativity. Miki and Josh are happy for me to share their work and emailed me this to add to my blogpost:

'We are creating an animation about the muscular system. This is a Google Presentation and we used different shapes and lines to create an arm which shows you our muscles. We have used the same drawing of the arm muscles to create a GIF that shows what our muscles look like when we move our arms on the next slide. To get it to look like this we tested some shapes and lines to try to make it look real.' - Miki and Josh

I am looking forward to seeing their finished DLO because the language the boys used when they were explaining to me how they have used lines and shapes to show how the muscular system works was rich and really showed the deep learning that has taken place.