Flat Classroom Conference Leadership Workshop, Beijing 2011
What is the Leadership Workshop?
The Leadership Workshop will allow educators to explore methods and strategies that provide a fuller understanding of what it means to flatten your classroom and lead and/or support an international global project and associated pedagogical approach. Instructional design for authentic collaboration and assessment, use of emerging technologies, and interaction with the Student Summit are key characteristics of this project-based event.
The 3-day 'Flat Classroom Leadership Workshop' has these essential aims:
The 3-day 'Flat Classroom Leadership Workshop' has these essential aims:
- To promote academic excellence through the use of leading technological tools.
- To simplify and document pedagogical best practices for such projects.
- To duplicate successful flat classroom practices and encourage the open proliferation of such projects as a standard part of global education and digital citizenship.
- To focus on challenge-based learning ideals within a Web 2.0, global collaborative context
- To promote leadership skills for 21st century learning amongst participants of all ages with an increasing leadership role for students in education practice
Who should attend?
Educators from K-12 and tertiary levels, administrators, technology directors, curriculum coordinators, pre-service educators and anyone interested in learning more about Web 2.0 tools and pedagogy that will provide opportunities and support for embedded global collaboration.
What will you do?
The Flat Classroom Conference Leadership Workshop is project based and product based and each ‘cohort’ will develop products that can be implemented back in their own school.
It is designed as a professional development course eligible for graduate credit with time allocated to:
Cohort Overview
It is designed as a professional development course eligible for graduate credit with time allocated to:
- explore methods and strategies that provide a fuller understanding of what it means to flatten your classroom and lead and/or support an international global project and associated pedagogical approach in the 21st Century
- develop skills with Web 2.0 tools and multimedia
- interact in a collaborative learning environment with the Student Summit
- participate in other opportunities to learn from and with other conference participants, both real and virtual
Cohort Overview
- The Leadership Workshop will divide cohorts, and within in these teams of 4-5 people will come together
- All cohorts will be working towards team-based products involving developing global collaborative curriculum
- Each cohort will be led by a presenter who has strengths and expertise to provide a certain focus for the ongoing work that will potentially include digital storytelling, film and multimedia, instructional design, 21st Century learning, digital citizenship
- Each cohort will be co-facilitated by an ADE and Instructional Design Graduate student from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Over the first 2 days cohorts will spend about 5 hours together
- Teams will present their curriculum ideas to an international audience (real and virtual)
