The document discusses the Flat Classroom Project, emphasizing the importance of global collaboration and the need for innovative teaching practices to integrate new technologies effectively. It highlights various projects and teaching strategies that foster community engagement and enhance learning experiences, advocating for the development of 21st-century skills. Additionally, it outlines different approaches to collaborative writing and the interdependent relationship between teachers and technology in education.

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
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up to fulfill the
request
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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.