As part of the Global Education Conference 2012, Flat Classroom co-founders Julie and Vicki presented alongside Flat Classroom teachers and Flat Classroom Certified teachers (project managers) on A New Learning Legacy: Important Stories from the Flat Classroom.

6. Flat Classroom
http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com

7. “was its own society itself”
“taught us a lesson in life”

8. 21st Century Skills
21st
Century
CONNECTIONS

13. P 79 – Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds

18. http://aweekinthelife12-2.flatclassroomproject.org/Class+Handshakes

19. Personal Greetings & Messages
http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/video?page=2

21. Teacher Growth
• Support for teachers new to global projects
• Fosters relationships and connections between
teachers
• Teachers work together sharing ideas and trying new
forms of technology
Skype with Betsye Sargent’s Tina Schmidt & Theresa
school Allen

23. Outsourced
request
Someone signs
up to fulfill the
request
Outsourced
request fulfilled
Inserted into
final video

24. “…you can’t just drop new
innovations into a
classroom and hope that
the instructor will invent
effective ways to use them.
To fully utilize a new
teaching technology, you
often need to invent new
teaching practices as well.”
 John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar,
University of Southern California
Flat Classroom Conference 2011
Beijing, China
“Web 2 Kung Fu” speedsharing invented

25. Fosters community (Elbow 373)
Helps see problems from multiple
viewpoints (Howard 10)
Co-authoring impacts the writing of
individual authors (Aghbar)
Improves Learning Experiences (wolf
2010)
“Ideal model for constructing,
reorganizing and acquiring new
information” (Janssen et all 2010)
Global collaboration is essential in
today’s workplace (Friedman)
Shorten time required to solve
pressing world problems (Tapscott)
Hong Kong 2011
Students edit wiki with virtual partners

27. 1. Concatenation
 discrete content
 Students don’t touch each
other’s work
2. Copy Editing
 Edit grammar, punctuation,
syntax or spelling
3. Co construction
 Substantively edit text of
another student through
addition, deletion
replacement
As quoted in
Chapter 1: Collaborative Writing in the Cloud
By Vicki Davis @eyeoneducation
Winter 2013

28. 4. Commenting
 Conversational move
 Doesn’t contribute to wiki
content
5. Discussion
 Comment back and forth on
a topic with at least four
conversational turns.
As quoted in
Chapter 1: Collaborative Writing in the Cloud
By Vicki Davis @eyeoneducation
Winter 2013

42. ©Vicki Davis and Julie
Lindsay
Taxonomy of global
connection p 54-56

44. Creating a
Connection
Strategy
p 51- 54

45. SYMBIOSIS
the relation between
two different species of
organisms that are
interdependent; each
gains benefits from the
other
wordnetweb.princeton.
edu/perl/webwn

50. http://k212-2bridges.flatclassroomproject.org/

51. OUR CHALLENGE:

52. Flat Classroom™
Global Projects
Flat Classroom® Project P10-11*
@flatclassroom
Digiteen™ Project P11-12
@digiteen
‘A Week in the Life…’ Project Gr3-5 P13-14
@flatclassroom
NetGenEd™ Project P12-13
@netgened
Eracism™ Project
P13
@eracismproject
Incubator Program
NEW!
@flatclassroom
K-2 Project Building Bridges to Tomorrow
NEW!
@flatclasskids
*See the frameworks for each model on referenced page numbers.