Hello! My name is Julie Lindsay. I am an international educator, innovator in global learning, and leader in educational technology and curriculum. This portfolio will provide details about my professional experience and share past as well as current activities. I invite you to also read my blog at E-Learning Journeys.
Welcome also to my Learning Confluence. By this I am referring 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 is about choices, conversation, community and creativity. Let’s share our journey of learning together and change the world, one classroom and one school at a time.
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.
Learning Confluence is about:
1. Choices: Providing opportunities for inclusion into learning as the norm rather than the exception. Not to exclude learners because of misconceptions about the value of technology to support the confluence. Participation levels and self-appointed modes of immersion.
2. Conversation: Local and global interactions and discussions that have meaning and relevance to learners individually and groups.
3. Community: The socialisation of learning demands a community approach. It is through community establishments and with the community that individual learners can share knowledge for the benefit of all. A global synthesis of ideas is possible. This does not discount the power of the individual, however construction of new ideas and objectives is enhanced based on community learning.
4. Creativity: Being creative and creating new paradigms for learning, thinking outside of the box, ignoring the box altogether.
Dan Pink talks about the transition form the Information Age to the Conceptual age where the main characters are the creator and the empathizer.
A learning confluence supports creativity and building bridges from knowledge acquisition to creating new experiences for learning.
Read the full blog post – Learning Confluence: Where Philosophy Meets Practice in the 21st Century
View the presentation/video prepared for the K12 Online Conference, 2009.