From Pedagogy to Cosmogogy: Leadership for Online Global

Collaboration

Julie LindsayGlobal Education Leadership Week

April 2016

Julie Lindsay Founder and CEO Flat Connections

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What global education leadership skills and habits are needed to support and influence digitally

fluent, globally competent and collaborative life-long learners?

Global perspective

Global leadership

Today, a global education leader may be a…

….a leader who ‘takes all the best practices in education and latest advances in technology and uses them to blaze new trails in teaching

and learning that focus on connection and collaboration’

Teacherpreneur

‘Teacherpreneur’ Leadership….

A teacher gets an idea for learning

Fosters excitement amongst other

teachers

A group of teachers come together to

do something significant

TeacherpreneurInnovator

Pedagogy expert

Community builder Connector

Change maker

Integrates new

technologies

An outlier teacher is a K-12 educator who self-directed to create and develop an innovative pedagogy using emerged or emerging digital social media through collaborative and global

open networking. (Arteaga, 2012, p. 14)

Today, a global education leader may be an…

Outlier

An educator who supports knowledge construction in a non-hierarchical approach to

learning globally.

Learning Concierge

Today, a global education leader may be a…

Connect with China Collaborative: Some of our Learning Concierge’s…..

http://www.connectchinacollaborative.com/learning-concierges.html

Digital Technologies

Leadership to support ‘flat’ learning - Two directions

Learning fluency while

digital

Community action

Social change & new leadership modes

Leadership for global learning

Leading for pedagogical change

Leaders must demonstrate and model collaborative practices to support pedagogical

change.

The missing piece…..?

CosmogogyAndrogogyHeutogogyPeeragogyPedagogy

From Pedagogy………. ………..to ‘Cosmogogy’?

Cosmogogical leadership pertains to understanding how

to foster and support approaches to learning while connected to others in any part of the world.

(Julie Lindsay)

#ChinaConnects Trip 2016 *11 schools in 9 days

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China to Australia

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Helping youth break down stereotypes

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Three takeaways: Global Education Leadership

#1 #

2 #3

Become a global education leader by being a networked learner and teacher

– in a ‘flat’ learning environment it’s who you know not what you know

#1

Lead the way for new pedagogical approaches to online collaborative

learning!

#2

Go beyond the wow - we have the technology, we have the pedagogy -

it’s time to connect the world for meaningful co-creations!

#3

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Julie Lindsay@julielindsay

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