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Global Connections in the Primary Classroom

Maria Knee, Kathy Cassidy, and Amanda-lee Marrinan

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Opening with video from the 3 different classrooms. First Maria Knee's kindergarteners in New Hampshire.

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We are seeing the kids in the classroom, reading, writing, working with math manipulatives, the interactive white board, and more.

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Now on to Amanda-lee Marrinan's year 2 classroom in Brisbane, Australia.

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We're getting to see the kids at work in their classroom, reading, working with math manipulatives, on the interactive white board, building with blocks, writing, and more.

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The students are showing off their classroom and explaining the different areas.

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The confidence and joy from these students is exciting to see. This is clearly THEIR classroom.

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Now we get to see Kathy Cassidy's first grade classroom in Moose Jaw, Canada.

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These three classrooms have worked together this year and had the power of learning across time zones and boundaries.

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The 2Gems in Australia are the same year as the first graders in Canada.

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Kathy – Kids are using technology all the time. We can’t have school being the only place they don’t have it. If they write on paper only I get to see it. If they write on their blog people around the world can see it and comment on it.

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Kathy – We wrote about volcanos and what we were learning on the blog and a class of 5 and 6 year olds in NZ wrote a comment that they have a volcano near their classroom. The kids were thrilled to be learning from other kids.

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Maria - Everything is exciting to 5 year olds. They look at Google Earth to find the various places and they are amazed.

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Amanda and Maria's classes learned about tapping trees for maple syrup. Maria's students made a VoiceThread about it and Amanda's kids were thrilled to learn and confirm what they had thought.

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Amada - people are always saying that these kids are too young to do this.

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She found that it actually inspires kids as well as offering them a wider audience.

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Amanda was without connectivity for a term. It was one of many challenges faced.

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Maria - the challenges are the same with primary students everywhere.We're just using these tools to address the challenges.

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Question: What about keeping these little people safe online?

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Maria – compares keeping kids safe online to keeping them safe everywhere else

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