Global Collaboration Projects can be an authentic and meaningful way to engage students in deeper learning. By working collaboratively with peers around the world, students are challenged to think critically and communicate effectively while drawing on multiple perspectives to solve complex problems and addressing real-world issues. Join us to participate in a simulation of a global collaboration project designed to help you experience and understand how they contribute to deeper learning.

1. Deeper Learning through Global
Collaboration Projects:
A Simulation
Honor Moorman
http://www.slideshare.net/hmoorman/deeper-learning-through-global-
collaboration
https://bitly.com/bundles/hmoorman/e

2. “Expand your Global Connections” CC by langwitches on Flickr

3. 21st Century Global Leadership Class

6. Essential Questions
• To what extent do global collaboration
projects help students experience deeper
learning?
• How can global collaboration projects be
facilitated to maximize deeper learning?

7. What is Deeper Learning?
• Mastery of Core Academic Content
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Effective Communication
• Self-directed Learning
• An “Academic Mindset”
~Hewlett Foundation Education Program

8. 7 Steps to Flatten Your Classroom

10. The 4 C’s

24. Flat Classroom Teams 2010
Story Design Meaning Empathy Symphon
y
Play
Connecting
the World Online
1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
World Wide Web 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
Work Flow Software 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Uploading 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F
Web 2.0 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F
Globalization &
Outsourcing
6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F
Google 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F
PLE’s Social
Networking
8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F
Mobile & Ubiquitous
Computing
9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F
Virtual
Communications
10A 10B 10C 10D 10E 10F
Wireless Connectivity 11A 11B 11C 11D 11E 11F
Video Categories: The 6 Senses from A Whole New Mind

25. Mastery of
Core
Academic
Content
Critical
Thinking
and
Problem
Solving
Collabora-
tion
Effective
Communi-
cation
Self-
directed
Learning
Academic
Mindset
iEARN
Global
Nomads
Group
Skype in
the
Classroom
PenPal
News
Taking IT
Global

26. Global Collaboration Project Simulation
Asia
iEARN
Asia
iEARN
Africa
Global
Nomads
Group
Africa
Global
Nomads
Group
North
America
Skype in
the
Classroom
North
America
Skype in
the
Classroom
South
America
PenPal
News
South
America
PenPal
News
Europe
Taking IT
Global
Europe
Taking IT
Global

27. Round 1: Connect/Communicate
Classroom Activity
(synchronous)
• Choose who will focus on
which Deeper Learning
topic
• Add yourself to the team
grid at
http://tiny.cc/teamgrid
Collaborative Activity
(asynchronous)
• Go to the doc for your
Deeper Learning topic team
• Introduce yourself – as if
you’re from your assigned
country - and respond to
your teammates’
introductions

28. Deeper Learning team docs
• http://tiny.cc/mastercontent
• http://tiny.cc/thinkcritically
• http://tiny.cc/workcollaboratively
• http://tiny.cc/communicateeffectively
• http://tiny.cc/learntolearn
• http://tiny.cc/academicmindset

29. Round 2: Communicate/Collaborate
Classroom Activity
(synchronous)
• Share what you learned
about your teammates
• Review and discuss your
case study
Collaborative Activity
(asynchronous)
• With your teammates,
discuss the following
question with a special
emphasis on your Deeper
Learning topic:
To what extent do global
collaboration projects help
students experience [your
focused aspect of deeper
learning]?

30. Round 3: Communicate/Collaborate
Classroom Activity
(synchronous)
• Share and discuss what you
learned and what you’re
thinking now about the EQs
• Continue to review and
discuss your case study as
needed
Collaborative Activity
(asynchronous)
• With your teammates,
discuss the following
question with a special
emphasis on your Deeper
Learning topic:
How can global
collaboration projects be
facilitated to maximize
deeper learning?

31. Round 4: Collaborate/Create
Classroom Activity
(synchronous)
• Find images or compose
words/phrases to express
how Global Collaboration
Projects relate to your
Deeper Learning topic
Collaborative Activity
(asynchronous)
• Contribute your
words/phrases and/or
images to the presentation
http://tiny.cc/collab
oratecreate

32. Round 5: Celebrate
Classroom Activity
(synchronous)
• View the completed
presentation
Collaborative Activity
(asynchronous)
• Provides warm feedback to
your classmates &
teammates using the
comment tool

33. Global Collaboration Take-Aways
• What?
• Why?
• How?
• So What?
• Now What?
“Cube-shaped bag from Jin”
CC by misocrazy on Flickr

34. Global Collaboration Project Resources
• Slides with more examples
• Articles & blog posts
• Resources and tips, plus annotated list
• http://www.slideshare.net/hmoorman/global-
collaboration-projects
• https://bitly.com/bundles/hmoorman/8

35. [I learned] how important it is to be a
member of a global society—
communicating globally and working
together as a global community is the
only way we can solve global issues and
improve the lives of all of us.
Communicating and collaborating via
the web with global partners is how we
will do it in future. ~Lara

36. [Participating in this project helped me
become] a global leader, able to
communicate important global ideas
and different perspectives across
cultures and borders and share those
ideas for the betterment of my
community and the world. ~Katherine