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
Image from BLC07 Conference, CC Share-Alike by Torres21 on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/848315727/in/set-72157600845034284/
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
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