7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom
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How to lead your classroom and school into global collaboration as presented by Vicki Davis, cofounder of the award winning Flat Classroom projects which have connected more than 3000 students from over 20 countries in massive collaborations using wikis and video.
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- 1. Slides and Links posted at http://coolcatteacher.wikispaces.com
- 2. ISTE SIGTel www.flatclassroomproject.net Online Learning Award Winner Net Gen 2007 Education (with Don Tapscott) Eracism Project Collaborative Project Contest Flat Classroom™ First Place 2007 Conference
- 4. • What is Flat Classroom?
- 5. Teacher and Information Technology Director, Westwood Schools, Camilla, Georgia, USA VICKI “COOL CAT TEACHER” DAVIS
- 9. BANGLADESH
- 10. CAMILLA GA USA
- 14. 10 “FLATTENERS” 1. Collapse of the Berlin 8. In sourcing Wall 9. Informing 2. Netscape (Web 10. The “Steroids” Browsers) • Mobile, Ubiquitous 3. Workflow Software Computing 4. Open Sourcing • Virtual Communications 5. Outsourcing – Instant Messaging 6. Off shoring – VOIP (Skype) 7. Supply Chaining
- 15. Wiki Editing
- 16. TEAMS “Working with people across the world has challenged me.” “The majority of my partners wanted to contribute something meaningful to the project.” Horizon Project Students http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com
- 17. Student Produced Video Student Video (Producer) Final Video Explaining Topic Outsourced Video (Partner)
- 19. Flat Classroom All project links are at http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
- 20. Horizon Project All project links are at http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
- 21. Digiteen Project http://digiteen.wikispaces.com All project links are at http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
- 22. All project links are at http://www.flatclassroomproject.org
- 24. 30+ countries
- 25. 3000+ students
- 27. Teachers Peer Students Review Classrooms Learning Spaces The Internet Expert Judges Advisors (Educators) (Educators)
- 28. 10/13/2010
- 29. What are the steps to a FLAT Classroom ?
- 30. KAIZEN = Slow, steady improvement
- 31. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom 1.CONNECT 2.COMMUNICATE 3.CITIZENSHIP 4.CONTRIBUTE & COLLABORATE 5.CHOICE 6.CREATE 7.CELEBRATE
- 32. Step #1 A.Yourself B.Your Organization C.Your Students
- 33. Connect Yourself
- 34. “Pull is the ability to attract people and resources to you that are relevant and valuable, even if you were not even aware before that they existed.” Brown, J. S., Davidson, L., & Hagel III, J. (2010). The Power of Pull (Kindle Edition ed.). USA: Basic Books. Loc. 172-73, 183-85.
- 35. PULL Technology #1 The RSS Reader
- 37. (PLN) iGoogle Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 10/13/2010 38 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 38. NETVIBES Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 10/13/2010 39 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 39. Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 10/13/2010 40 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 40. PULL Technology #2 Tablet-Sized Devices
- 41. “The bit-literate approach involves creating and maintaining a , a constantly pruned set of publications (digital, print, and other media) that keeps us informed about what matters most to us professional and personally.” Hurst, M. (2007). Bit Literacy. (Kindle ed.) New York: Good Experience Press. Loc. 782, 786.
- 42. 6 Pull Technologies 1. RSS Reader 2. Tablet-Sized Devices 3. Handheld Devices 4. Social Bookmarking 5. Joining Online Conversations 6. Networking Organizations
- 43. Step #1 A.Yourself B.Your Organization
- 44. There are safe ways to do what some consider dangerous.
- 45. 1) Analyze Your Context • Local School Policies and Procedures • Laws of the State and Nation • Relationships • Site Blocking and Unblocking • Parent Communication & Permissions • Past Experiences • Local Mentors & Advocates for Global Collaboration
- 46. 2) Coordinate with Curriculum • Project Organizers: – Agree on mandatory outcomes and cooperation aspects • Local Curriculum – Standards Alignment – Augmentation of Project on Customized Basis
- 47. Flat Classroom ™ Project Mandatory: Collaboratively Edited Wiki Digital Storytelling Artifact with Outsourced Clip Optional Outcomes: Pre-project and Post-Project Blogging Forum Discussions and Responses to Keynotes Student Summit Presentations in Elluminate Diigo Social Bookmarking and Research
- 48. Digiteen™ Project Mandatory: Collaboratively Edited Wiki Local School Off-line action Projects Action Wiki Reporting Outcomes with Documentation Optional Outcomes: Reflective Posts from Project Introductory Videos Post-Project Reflections Diigo Social Bookmarking and Research Unique projects assigned by the teacher as part of the action project based upon curricular objectives
- 49. Step #1 A.Yourself B.Your Organization C.Your Students
- 50. What are you bringing IN?
- 52. What does the best education in the world look like? “What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart” The Wall Street Journal By ELLEN GAMERMAN February 2008 10/13/2010http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120425355065601997.html Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 53 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 54. Phase one - Intra-connection (within your own class) Taxonomy of Global Connection Phase two - Inter-connection Five Phases (within school/ district) of Flattening Phase three - Managed global connection your classroom Phase four - Student to Student (With Teacher Management) Phase five - Student to Student (with Student Management) Flattened – “Leveled” Learning Environment ©Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay
- 56. Appointment Scheduler (Timebrige) Published Calendar (Google Calendar) Team Grids (Google Docs) Collaborative Editing (Wikispaces) Social Educational Network (Ning) Video Posting / Sharing (Ning) Synchronous Meetings and Presentations (Elluminate) “Official Website” (Weebly)
- 57. “I feel that it will become abundantly clear to our generation, how important it is to be web-literate. The simple use of email and word processing will be considered givens in the near future – what will distinguish the successful from the unsuccessful, is the ability to network and reach new markets through the Internet. Bridging the so-called “digital divide” is a necessary task for the near future.”
- 59. Step #2
- 64. Traditional Classroom Austria Qatar USA
- 65. Flat Classroom Student in USA student Austria writes responds a blog post Group Blogging Platform
- 66. Traditional Classroom Austria Qatar USA
- 67. Flat Classroom Social Educational Network Cooperating Wiki Teachers
- 69. Design Concept! The effective FLAT classroom structure has BOTH ASYNCHRONOUS and SYNCHRONOUS communications methods.
- 70. Examples • Educational Network - http://ning.flatclassroomproject.com • Wiki - http://wiki.flatclassroomproject.com • Bookmarking Group - http://diigo.digiteen.net • Elluminate – presentations http://flatclassroomproject2008.wikispaces.com/ Student+Summits • Don Tapscott Interacting with Students http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/forum/topics/is -this-the-dumbest-generation
- 72. Step #3
- 73. Digital Citizenship “…the norms of behavior with regard to technology use” Ribble and Bailey
- 74. Digital Citizens
- 78. Citizenship OMG I JUST SAW THE Sorry for HISTORY ON accusing THE you, the WIKI..Really history sorry for any makes it problems look like you BTW I didn’t delete Why did you anything delete stuff off the wiki?
- 79. Troubleshooting is higher order thinking.
- 81. 5 Steps to Internet Safety 1.Stop 2.Screenshot 3.Blog 4.Tell 5.Share
- 82. 7 Steps 1.CONNECT 2.COMMUNICATE 3.CITIZENSHIP 4.CONTRIBUTE & COLLABORATE
- 83. Contribute & Step #4 Collaborate
- 84. “The weakness is that if there is a problem, and you e-mail them, they can just ignore the email, or they can just do their own thing and not listen to what you ask of them.” Student in the Horizon Project
- 85. Wiki history
- 86. Flat Classroom Conference 2009 Qatar
- 87. Collaboration: The Concept Flat Classroom Conference 2009 Qatar
- 88. Collaboration: The Power Flat Classroom Workshop 2009 Hong Kong
- 89. Flat Classroom Mini Conference 2010 India
- 90. The Evolution of Global Collaboration Stage Connection Speed Connection Type of Content Frequency Connection Information 1.0 Slow Intermittent Classroom Exchange Intermittent or Information and 2.0 Faster Classroom Artifact Exchange ongoing Information and 3.0 Faster Ongoing Classroom and Artifact Student Co-Creation
- 91. 7 Steps 1.CONNECT 2.COMMUNICATE 3.CITIZENSHIP 4.CONTRIBUTE & COLLABORATE 5.CHOICE
- 92. Choice Step #5
- 93. Would the potential in Helen Keller be unlocked or ignored in your school?
- 94. Every student learns differently! 10/13/2010 Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 95 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 95. Different = Different iated Learning Our Classes & Libraries 10/13/2010 – Licensed Istock Photo Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com 96
- 96. Personal Interest Projects Deep Research “Invention” projects projects (proposed by student) Dramatic Backchannels Projects Opinion Oral Debates “voice” w/ follow up opportunities
- 97. Wikis •Reflecting •Wiki Composition •Opinion •Writing •Reporting on •Research group issues •Discussion mgt •Programming •Cell phone enabled •Organizing Blogging or pics, twitter •Widget finding •Live streaming •Mentoring •Outdoor dig storytlng •Record audio files or photography •Audacity editor •Maps •VoiceThread •Environmental •Animoto research •Camera •Acting •Photography •Presenting •Graphic Design •(Get on film) •“looks”
- 98. Social Network (Ning) •Reflections •Blogging •Reading & •Forums opinion •Debates •Forums •Cell phone enabled •Administration Blogging or pics •Organizing Site •Discussion facilitators •Linking sharer •Photography •Record audio files •Outdoor video •Audacity editor •Gcast remotely •VoiceThread •“Roving” reporter •Animoto •Google Earth •Photography •Acting •Camera Op •Presenting •VoiceThread •(Get on film) •Animoto
- 99. Digital Storytelling •Reflecting •Script Writer •Status Reporting •Journal process •Acting •Ideas •Call Sheets •Directing •Production •Movie Ideas Schedule •Vision Casting •Asst Director •Scene Scout •Audio Editing •Scene set up •Music Selection •Storyboarding •Sound Capture •Acting •Camera •Presenting •Editing •Lighting •Lighting •Flow & •Storyboarding movement
- 100. Flat Classroom Conference 2009 Eracism Project
- 101. 7 Steps 1.CONNECT 2.COMMUNICATE 3.CITIZENSHIP 4.CONTRIBUTE & COLLABORATE 5.CHOICE 6.CREATE
- 102. Create Step #6
- 103. 21st Century Learning Objectives To be able to CREATE
- 104. Revised 2001 by Lorin Anderson
- 105. Why Revise? ……to account for the new behaviours emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Blooms Digital Taxonomy Andrew Churches http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+ Digital+Taxonomy
- 106. The Story of Salvador • “Wow this flat classroom thing has me a little happy. I think its gonna fun working with other kids from different schools and different places around the world. But communication is gonna be key to success in this project. I'm in Mobile and Ubiquitous, which i have no idea is, and I'm suppose to do social entrepreneurship. Can't wait. “
- 107. 7 Steps 1.CONNECT 2.COMMUNICATE 3.CITIZENSHIP 4.CONTRIBUTE & COLLABORATE 5.CHOICE 6.CREATE 7.CELEBRATE
- 108. Celebrate Step #7
- 109. Celebrate New friends New achievements A sense of accomplishment Enhanced cultural understanding Making the world a better place
- 110. Student Summit and Awards Ceremony http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Student+Summit
- 111. LACHSA Summit Presenter Vicki Davis Westwood Schools http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/Summits
- 112. Flat Classroom Conference and Workshop
- 114. Project-based learning as a conference format
- 115. Flat Classroom Conference 2011 Beijing, China Leadership Workshop Student Summit February 25-27, 2011 @flatclassroom
- 117. There are safe ways to do what some consider dangerous.
- 118. Don’t change me! 10/13/2010 Vicki A Davis, Cool Cat Teacher - 119 http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com
- 119. Pick three The power of Three!
- 120. Thomas Carlyle “Our job is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
- 124. “Cool Cat Teacher” Vicki Davis
Editor's Notes
- 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom Vicki Davis 5010 Spotlight Connecting your classroom to other classrooms in the world need not be overwhelming. Learn the seven steps to successfully and safely connect your classroom in meaningful ways that will enhance your curriculum and excite your students.Madera Wyndham Hotel
- Hi my name is Vicki Davis
- Julie: Flattening means we all participate, we are all part of something that becomes bigger than ourselves. Vicki: So, (click)
- Vicki: Well, we all know that the world is not really
- Julie: But we do know that the Internet has connected us in powerful ways so that we can work, collaborate,And literally merge our
- Julie: When I was located in Bangladesh
- Vicki: and I was in Camilla, Georgia
- Vicki: I wrote a blog post in October 2006 called “My students weigh in on Friedman’s Flat World.”
- Julie: I read her blog post and commented that we should join our classrooms together. At the time, My students were Bangladeshi and Indian nationals and had a perspective from the ‘other side of the flat world.’”
- Vicki: So, we merged together to create one
- Julie: We studied the trends that are making it possible to collaborate anywhere, anytime, that are literally leveling and flattening the playing field in business and now education.Julie:
- Julie: We used wikis as research documents and modeled wikipedia editing…Julie:
- Julie: as the students worked in teams with others throughout the world.Vicki:
- Vicki: and the students produced multimedia while outsourcing a clip to their partner in another part of the world…
- Vicki: and, Thomas Friedman included us in his book, The World is Flat, as a best practice in global education and we won several awards. But it was time to grow… and many others joined with us, so we made
- Julie: In addition to the Flat Classroom project other teachers joined us and the
- Horizon Project
- Julie: Digiteen ProjectVicki:
- Vicki: The NetGenEd Project with Don Tapscott and
- this past year, the Eracism project was added as we have included more than
- Vicki: Thirty countries and Julie:
- Julie: more than three thousand students, we are asking you today toVicki:
- Julie: Open your eyesVicki: and Open Your School to the
- Julie: And it is more than just students, it is about educators, preservice teachers, and experts merging together in a flattened learning environmentVicki: Where students and educators work together as one with mutually beneficial outcomes for all. Literally, the classroom has become…
- Vicki: OK, so let’s get started and show you how
- Today, we’re talking about the steps to flatten and globalize your classroom.http://flickr.com/photos/extranoise/350901033/ - Green Stairs by extranoise accessed 4/8/2008 –In this workshop we will teach how to “flatten your classroom” and you may ask – “Why would I want to do that?”
- Vicki: We know that the only way to change is slow, steady change. The Japanese call this Kaizen
- Vicki: When we’re talking global collaboration – it is almost impossible to follow a pattern. As Heraclitus said, “you cannot step in the same river twice.” Once you’ve stepped in the river, your simple stirring of the mud at the bottom has changed the nature of the river itself. We must be careful and realize that each of us has a different story. Each school and district will have a slightly different story of how they moved into global collaboration. This is why.
- First you must connect yourself! Learn to pull resources to you that will help you learn.
- Brown Davidson and Hagel Call this the Power of Pull
- Did you know that you are here because of Web 2.0?
- Did you know that you are here because of Web 2.0?
- And remember that there are safe ways to do what some consider dangerous. So,
- Did you know that you are here because of Web 2.0?
- Did you know that you are here because of Web 2.0?
- If we look at arguably the best education system in the world, the Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they shape students to national standards. "In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000.
- What is teacherpreneurship? You have been selected because you have demonstrated experience leading professional development and are able to reach large numbers of teachers. Let’s talk about teacherpreneurship and take it to the next level with our conversation today.
- Seven countries and more than
- Horizon Project – Three Years LaterIt has now been three years since I participated in the Horizon Project. In that time, I amsure that all of the participants have changed, and in that time, the technology we used hasevolved. Now, with the proliferation of Facebook, social networking on larger scales has beenmade even easier. I recall having a letter exchange with students in Barcelona, and being able totalk to them in the evenings while they were in class, or before they left for school. Indeed, thisexplosion of international networking is helping to dissolve the physical barrier of space thatseparates people.The Horizon Project also taught me a lot about the importance of communication andsocial networks. Even though my group was dedicated to 3D computing, I have found that theskills I used in managing the group and researching have carried on into other disciplines. I amnow in a leadership role in the marching band, and I am constantly using social networking toolslike Google Groups and Facebook, to check up on different sections, and post information aboutupcoming rehearsals, sectionals, football games and marching competitions.Though the technology that we utilized for the project may be a little out of date, (forinstance, who still uses Second Life?) the skills and tools that we utilized are still very much arelevant portion of my life. As we continue as adults, I feel that it will become abundantly clearto our generation, how important it is to be web-literate. The simple use of email and wordprocessing will be considered givens in the near future – what will distinguish the successfulfrom the unsuccessful, is the ability to network and reach new markets through the Internet.Bridging the so-called “digital divide” is a necessary task for the near future.
- What does a flat Classroom look like?
- Number two http://flickr.com/photos/spilt-milk/357015070/ - yoppy's photo stream accessed 4/5/2008 6:08 pm Defining Asynchronous and Synchronous Communications The two types of communication are asynchronous and synchronous.
- Sychronized Swimming http://flickr.com/photos/krhamm/171302038 by KRHamm accessed 4/5/2008 5:52 PM Synchronous means doing things at the same time and in the same place such as these synchronized swimmers. The classroom is a synchronous environment – we are synchronized and all inhabiting that classroom in the same time and space. We are together. Schools are already good at enriching our synchronous classroom environment using tools like video conferencing, webinars, and live broadcasts from around the world. However, synchronous is no longer enough.
- http://flickr.com/photos/seatbelt67/502255276 Brian - Progressive Spin's Photostream on Flickr accessed 4/5/2008 Asynchronous means NOT at the same time – for example this famous statue by Rodin was created by him over 100 years a go and we enjoy it now. We did not get to enjoy it or interact with him while he worked.
- The traditional classrooms is also separated by time. This has made classroom to classroom cooperation between the continents difficult if not impossible because while one set of students is in class, another is at home eating dinner or asleep. This has made it difficult to videoconference and communicate directly, however
- With the advent of asynchronous communication tools like blogs and wikis, time has become less of a factor. For example, a student in Austria can write a blog post and later on that evening as the student in Austria sleeps, a partner in the USA writes a comment.
- The traditional classroom is separated by location… after all we are in different places. However, using technologies on the Internet, the flattened classroom
- is unified by internet tools like wikis, blogs, social networks (which I prefer to call educational networks) and cooperating teachers. The classrooms may then cooperate with objectives, projects, and assignments created on these common platforms.
- Likewise students may write a group report together using a wiki as shown by the history of this wiki page from the Flat Classroom 2007 project. - http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/page/history/Connecting+the+World+Online?o=20
- http://flickr.com/photos/extranoise/350901033/ - Green Stairs by extranoise accessed 4/8/2008 –The effective flat classroom has both of these methods.
- Julie – so we’ve covered Connecting – yourself, to your organization, and your students, communication, both sychronous and asychronous and now, the third step is…
- Julie: Citizenship (Julie): Digital citizenship - how to be a Digiteacher
- Ribble and Bailey define……..thanks to Mike…..
- Slide 1 - What is digital citizenship? What does it mean to be a responsible and reliable online learner? How can this be promoted within a school environment and extended to the whole school community?
- What is your definition of digital citizenship?Our Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar saw students presenting about the Digiteen project and their digital citizenship journey virtually from Australia in their summer vacation.
- We stress to our students and to the participants in our Flat Classroom projects that an educational network is a professional group of people coming together for the purpose of sharing experiences in a focused and monitored environment.
- All students and teachers should conduct themselves in a professional and culturally sensitive manner. This includes the types of avatars they choose, the styles of language they use, and the quality of material they upload. Digiteen Project is a launching pad into this professional learning mode. Here is an example of students solving communication problems themselves.
- Troubleshooting is higher order thinking
- Here is an example of a student who used asterix to bleep out a profanity. The person who discovers the offensive material makes a screenshot of the item, such as a picture or comment, shares it with the student’s classroom teacher, and reports it to space administrators, who remove it.
- The classroom teacher decides the appropriate action, which may include asking the student to apologize to the educational network or, in some cases, suspending or even banning the student from the network. One of the advantages of working as a global team on these projects is that the networks are monitored 24 hours a day, and RSS feeds make it easy to see new content as soon as it’s posted. It is very rare that a student deliberately or maliciously sets out to be offensive when collaborating online as part of a project. In fact, we’ve suspended or banned fewer than 10 out of 3,000 students in more than three years.
- Be visible online –
- Develop strategies to measure and verify the quality and quantity of online participation using Web 2.0 toolsPractices for measuring student contribution - Ning and wiki. A group project using Web 2.0 tools now provides better transparency by being able to accurately record participant contribution. Both quality and quantity of contribution can be collected via history tabs on the wiki or revision history in Google docs.
- Understand the difference between cooperation and collaboration. Collaboration is an essential 21st Century skill. However you do not have to collaborate to learn but the learning can be greatly enhanced through effective collaboration. Collaboration enhances cultural understanding. This picture was taken in Qatar….ask them to cooperate but to take this they had to collaborate
- Collaboration: the working together to create a new and improved product
- Power to change the world one classroom at a time: Synchronous and asynchronous working modes
- Global Collaboration 3.0: Where full online engagement using Web 2 and other tools supports learning objectives Finding a voice,Taking charge of learning,Choices and ownership, Empowerment
- The successful are increasingly individuals who take risks, are good at what they do, and are persistent. This is what we need to create in our classrooms.
- This is what our student must be. But what must our teachers be?
- Project methodologies and outcomes can be aligned to promote higher order thinking and cover essential twenty first century literacies.
- Celebration cements the learning, particularly the cultural learning
- Vicki: Building Bridges Today that the society of tomorrow will walk across.
- But, remember just as this child is climbing a very high rock climbing wall – that there are safe ways to do what some consider dangerous. This is being done. Get past the fear and learn vicariously through others by reading their blogs and watching their videos at the k12 online conference to let them prove it to you. If you’re a technology phobic person remember that you become like who you hang around – start letting yourself learn from what others are doing to move forward your creativity – you may also find that you’ll save money!
- But the question remains, why do we need to change? My husband always says that the only people who like change are babies with dirty diapers and even then, they cry the whole time! (click on the baby for the Movie.)
- And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
- ?So, we want to ask you a question. Since is is late, will you please stand for this closing
- Julie: Make
- Vicki: Make
- So, when I came back to Camilla, I started using wikis with my students immediately and sat down in my classroom to begin blogging. I turned to a student and said, “I have to create a blog and I have to name the thing – what should I name it?” The students sitting there said, “Well, Mrs. Vicki, you’re cool and we’re the wildcats, so, why don’t you call it the cool Cat teacher blog