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Learning Confluence by Julie Lindsay
Global Educator, Innovator, Teacherpreneur, Author
Julie is a thought leader in online learning, and global collaborative pedagogy. She actively leads educators from around the world through carefully designed and customized learning experiences including virtual courses and live events to support global understanding for learning.
Julie is the Senior Education Technology Advisor, at the University of Southern Queensland, Academic Transformation Portfolio.
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Learning Confluence refers to a ‘place where things merge or flow together’ and a ‘coming together of people’ with the purpose of improving personal and institutional learning outcomes.
Learning cannot be in isolation, it also needs to be innovative, sustainable and pluralistic.
A learning confluence supports creativity and building bridges from knowledge acquisition to creating new experiences for learning.
Conversations
A collection of Julie’s featured blog posts, articles and resources. Click here to read more.
Ban Technology? No, let’s ban outdated learning and teaching instead!
This post is in response to an article in the Australian written by Natasha Bita and published March 26, 2016: 'Computers in class 'a scandalous waste': Sydney Grammar head' Brought to my...
What do students really think about global collaboration?
Today I hosted a Flat Connections Student Summit for two USA classrooms. It was a finale to the A Week in the Life 16-2 project from last semester. Both classrooms were on the east coast of the...
Into the mouth of the dragon
Global collaborative learning with China China is not a sleeping giant – these days it is a dragon that roars. Young people today need to understand more about China as a country, the Chinese...
Flat Connections provides unique approaches to online global collaboration. We ‘flatten’ the disconnected classroom to become a global learning environment of the future.
Flat Connections provides online global collaborative projects for all levels of K-12 and online courses for educators and education leaders who want to take their learning and their classroom global. Educators across the world join Flat Connections to learn about the world, with the world.