Flat Connections Global News
Opportunities for K-12 schools not to be missed!
Time to celebrate - and collaborate!
It was time to celebrate on September 13 when I was conferred as a PhD graduate from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Over six years of work researching online global collaborative educators and pedagogical change finally came to an end.
As many of you know, my passion for connecting educators, connecting classrooms and connecting students has been strong for over 20 years. What I always knew to be a positive and essential curriculum-based practice in the classroom (online global collaborative activities) now has additional research to support the 'why' and the 'how'.
My challenge now is to take this research and apply it more fully to the work of Flat Connections in order to support schools globally. It is another beginning. Watch this space!
Dr Julie Lindsay
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Global Youth Debates - Grades 5-12
Registration as soon as possible - before October 7
Digital handshakes and introductions until October 7
Global collaboration through until December
Final farewells and project showcase the week of December 9Global Youth Debates is a global collaborative project created around research and formal debating that uses Web 2.0 tools to join students from diverse cultures for authentic debate.
Students in Grade/Year 5-12 debate on a global issue that will bring together diverse ideas, develop transferable skills and create lasting friendships. Debate topic for this semester will be determined once the final group of collaborating teams are known.
The topic is now set for this semester and aligns with current global issues around climate change.
"Children should have the power to affect global climate change"
Students/children are taking a stand -
- What do YOUR students want to share and debate around this topic?
- What localised issues can they bring to the debate?
- How can they collaborate to foster better global articulation and understanding around the topic of climate change action?
INVITATION - Information session - online meeting to discuss Global Youth Debates
Global Youth Debates Teacher Information Meeting
YOU are invited to join Flat Connections CEO and Founder, Dr Julie Lindsay, and Project Manager Amy Jambor for an information session about online global collaboration with a focus on the Global Youth Debates project that will run from October-December 2019.
WHEN
Friday September 27, 12 midday AEST (Sydney/Australia)
(Thursday September 26, 10pm EDT (New York, USA)
WHERE
Join us in the Flat Connections Zoom room -https://zoom.us/j/4492605901
Friday, Sep 27, 2019, 12:00 PM
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RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Global Youth Debates aims to foster better understanding of global issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals.
The debate topic this semester on climate change action relates especially to -
SDG 13 - Climate Action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
About Global Youth Debates subscription.....
Access to Flat Connections global projects is via subscription.
Global Youth debates requires a Teacherpreneur subscription for ONE debate team.
A debate team requires a minimum of TWO students. There is a maximum of three speakers per debate team, however the team can be larger with researchers and speech writers etc. Student speakers can be rotated between debates. Typically a school enters TWO - FOUR teams per class.
Don't forget the subscription details are in Australian dollars! (check your conversion with http://xe.com)
Scholarships to join Global Youth Debates are available. Contact Julie for more details, or complete the section on 'scholarship request' via the online form.
Connect with Julie to talk about how your school can embed online global collaborative learning into the curriculum.
Flat Connections CEO and Founder, Julie Lindsay, PhD
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Email: julie@flatconnections.com
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