The World is Flat and Your Classroom Can Be, Too:Learning and teaching with

global peers in the Flat Classroom Project

Presented by Connor, Helena, Mia, Talia, and Honor

From The International School of the AmericasSan Antonio, Texas

Round One

• The World is Flat and A Whole New Mind (Honor)

• The 7 C’s of the Flat Classroom (Talia)• Educational Networking on the Ning (Mia)• Social Bookmarking using Diigo (Connor)• Creating Multi-Media Mash-Up Videos

(Helena)

The World is Flat and A Whole New Mind

Facilitator: Honor

Friedman’s Concept of a “Flat World”

“a global web-enabled platform for multiple forms of sharing knowledge and work irrespective of time, distance, geography, and increasingly even language”

Thomas Friedman, “The World is Flat,” MIT World video, May 16, 2005http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266

The “Six Senses”DesignStorySymphonyEmpathyPlayMeaning

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The 11 “Flatteners”Connecting the World OnlineWorld Wide WebWorkflow SoftwareUploading: Changing Shape of InformationWeb 2.0Globalization and OutsourcingGooglePLEs and Social NetworkingMobile and UbiquitousVirtual CommunicationWireless Connectivity

The Eleven “Flatteners”• Connecting the World Online• World Wide Web• Workflow Software• Uploading: Changing Shape of

Information• Web 2.0• Globalization and Outsourcing• Google• PLEs and Social Networking

• Mobile and Ubiquitous• Virtual Communication• Wireless Connectivity

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

• Agricultural Age (farmers) • Industrial Age (factory workers) • Information Age (knowledge workers) • Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)

“A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend . . .”

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Pink’s “Six Senses”

• Design - Moving beyond function to engage the sense. • Story - Narrative added to products and services - not

just argument. Best of the six senses. • Symphony - Adding invention and big picture thinking

(not just detail focus). • Empathy - Going beyond logic and engaging emotion

and intuition. • Play - Bringing humor and light-heartedness to

business and products. • Meaning - Immaterial feelings and values of products.

The Future is Now

“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.” (p. 309)

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Friedman, 2005, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The 7 C’s of the Flat Classroom

Facilitator: Talia

NEW SKILLS FOR A NEW AGEWhat students must master to succeed.

LEARN• Access, evaluate, and use different forms of information• Exercise critical thinking• Exhibit fluency with tech tools

CREATE• Use various forms of media when presenting ideas• Display originality• Employ problem-solving skills

COLLABORATE• Work successfully as a team• Demonstrate cross-cultural awareness• Communicate complex ideas effectively

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"collaborate-communicate-connect" CC by langwiches on Flicker

"What does Learning mean?" CC by langwiches on Flicker

Educational Networkingon the Ning

Facilitator: Mia

Popular Social Networking Activities

Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social—and Educational—NetworkingNational School Boards Association, 2007

http://www.nsba.org/site/docs/41400/41340.pdf

Social Bookmarkingusing Diigo

Facilitator: Connor

Creating Multi-MediaMash-Up Videos

Facilitator: Helena

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Round Two

• The Horizon Report and Grown Up Digital (Honor)

• The 7 C’s of the Flat Classroom (Talia)• Information Literacy and Research Skills

(Helena)• Collaborative Writing on Wikis (Connor)• Student Summits (Mia)

The Horizon Report and Grown Up Digital

Facilitator: Honor

Net Generation NormsFreedom (Choice)CustomizationScrutiny (Transparency)Integrity (Digital Citizenship)CollaborationEntertainmentSpeedInnovation

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Technology TrendsMobile ComputingOpen ContentElectronic Books  Simple Augmented Reality Gesture-Based ComputingVisual Data Analysis

The Digital Generation

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Digital Information Literacy and Online Research Skills

Facilitator: Helena

Collaborative Writingon the Wiki

Facilitator: Connor

Synchronous Student Summitsin Elluminate

Facilitator: Mia

The International School of the AmericasSan Antonio, Texas, USA

Flat ClassroomTM Project

Student Summit

21st-Century Global LeadershipTaught by Honor Moorman and Cassie Allen