Saturday, February 18, 2012

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/18/2012

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/18/2012

  • Lots of commotion over Friday's wall street journal report that Google and other advertisers were circumventing Safari's privacy settings on mobile devices and computers. After being contacted by WSJ, Google disabled its code. Basically this means that Google "hacked" safari to track users. This doesn't bode well for Google and people are already talking about lawsuits, especially since Google had said that Safari allowed private browsing (on a site that has since had the language removed.)

    tags: Google news safari

  • Jeff Bransburg has a marvelous collection of cartoons about education and technology on his board. I particularly like Innovation revisited. The internet of things is coming - learn about these new tools like pinterest.

    tags: education news

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/18/2012

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/17/2012

  • This lesson has me intrigued as it uses a mobile phone and Microsoft Tag. I make sure all my students have a windows live id and a google id (using our google apps for domain) so this wouldn't be a problem for me. I like the idea of using mobile phones in esafety lessons.

    tags: teaching digitalcitizenship digiteen mobilelearning

  • Teaching effective writing requires a lot of proofing, editing, feedback, and revision. What if you could harness the power of students, peer review, and Web 2.0 tools to supercharge your writing? You can. In addition to the traditional writing taught in classrooms, a new form of writing is here. Collaborative writing is fundamentally different from traditional essay writing in that students should know how to create content, edit, and discuss to produce authentic, collaborative work. As a teacher who coordinates wikis where thousands of students edit and co-create, Vicki can show you how collaborative content creation looks and how it aligns with the Common Core State Standards.

    tags: teaching writing education freeconference onlinelearning wikis

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/17/2012

  • This lesson has me intrigued as it uses a mobile phone and Microsoft Tag. I make sure all my students have a windows live id and a google id (using our google apps for domain) so this wouldn't be a problem for me. I like the idea of using mobile phones in esafety lessons.

    tags: teaching digitalcitizenship digiteen mobilelearning

  • Teaching effective writing requires a lot of proofing, editing, feedback, and revision. What if you could harness the power of students, peer review, and Web 2.0 tools to supercharge your writing? You can. In addition to the traditional writing taught in classrooms, a new form of writing is here. Collaborative writing is fundamentally different from traditional essay writing in that students should know how to create content, edit, and discuss to produce authentic, collaborative work. As a teacher who coordinates wikis where thousands of students edit and co-create, Vicki can show you how collaborative content creation looks and how it aligns with the Common Core State Standards.

    tags: teaching writing education freeconference onlinelearning wikis

  • Free online conferences are an amazing part of the new learning landscape. I'll be presenting at Eye  on School Success in March on Tuesday, March 20 at 4:15 but this is the link to many different presenters at this conference. Todd Whitaker is keynoting this one and Barbara Blackburn is also presenting as well as many other great authors who I don't know personally yet.

    tags: education news success learning bestpractices

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Count the Opportunity Cost of Teacher Tasks (Big Little Thing #4)

We talk about cost in monetary terms all the time. No one talks about opportunity cost. Education should start now. This is definitely a very little thing with BIG implications for turning around schools.

Opportunity cost is the opportunity you give up when you or your employees work on something else. Teachers have a certain number of hours to work in a day. There is a finite limit to the number of hours they have. Do we ever consider the cost of what we're asking teachers to do?

Here are some examples:


  • When a teacher spends one hour completing paperwork that no one will read.
  • Attending a meeting that no one wanted to have and no measurable outcome was attained for a person who justifies his existence by having meetings.
  • Putting lesson plans in an extensive format that have no measurable improvement in how the lesson will be delivered in the classroom.
  • Paperwork that no one will read.
  • Having teachers file paperwork.
  • Forcing a teacher to use a system (like a word wall) that they don't feel applies to their curriculum and takes them away from their focus.
  • Did I say PAPERWORK THAT NO ONE WILL READ, USE OR EVEN LOOK AT EVER AGAIN?
  • Constantly shifting priorities into opposite directions causing a complete overhaul of classroom systems and pedagogies.
  • Causing a teacher to wait incessantly for approval to move their furniture or gain approval for improving their own classroom in even small ways.
  • Paper work? (Let's just call it Paper waste, shall we?)

There are many teachers who are great paper pushers and poor teachers. More commonly, there are great teachers who hate the paperwork and are in constant trouble for not turning it in.

Some poor administrators often choose paperwork over face to face supervision and monitoring of what is happening in the class. In today's world, we could video what is happening in the classroom as documentation of what is going on with a student. 

Lawmakers never count the opportunity cost of putting more paperwork on schools but good administrators do. Paperwork costs money. It also costs opportunity. 

Right now we need every opportunity to improve teaching in the classroom that we can get. Let's start by counting the opportunity cost and using technology to save time.

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/17/2012

  • Free online conferences are an amazing part of the new learning landscape. I'll be presenting at Eye  on School Success in March on Tuesday, March 20 at 4:15 but this is the link to many different presenters at this conference. Todd Whitaker is keynoting this one and Barbara Blackburn is also presenting as well as many other great authors who I don't know personally yet.

    tags: education news success learning bestpractices

  • I'll be speaking at this conference in New Jersey in October 2012. Just booked. Edscape is the school of @NMHS_Principal - Eric Sheninger.

    tags: education news

  • Teacher shortages are going to be looming in our future. Here is an article from the European Commission. The number of graduates specializing in education is falling. Honestly, I think that many are going to regret the many tirades that society has had against teachers and will realize that perhaps that we have more systemic issues than we care to realize. (Part of which is often, that poorer teachers cannot be fired, however, to blame all of education's ills on that one fact is like blaming a fly flitting in front of your eyes for the reason you ran into a house.)

    tags: education news teaching retirement

  • This is a fun tool. You can upload your handwriting (mine is pretty awful) and turn it into a font. Of course, this has all sorts of issues with the authenticity of whether something was written by a person or not, however, you can do interesting things with this. (Students could as well, but I guess for now, a laser printed item looks laser printed and not hand writing, however, they could bring in something they say is a copy and it was copied and converted to handwriting font.) Just know this is there.

    tags: education news graphic design font

  • OK, so if you're looking for an amazing resource on Pinterest, Megan is it. With over 2703 followers, she's got a lot of classroom ideas for almost everything. A definite go-to person. I'm following all of her boards. If you want to see a pinterest-expert in action, this is it.

    tags: education teaching news

  • Nice explanation of Pinterest. There are many tools for sharing but pinterest won't even let you share if there isn't a photo on it. Photos are more important than ever. Have you learned by now?  Don't let me explain it, experience it. Ask friends on Twitter to get an invitation, that is the easiest way.

    "There's a point where connection becomes clutter, where the networking that seemed fun and convenient a few years ago now feels like a social uzi."

    tags: education pinterest socialmedia news

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/16/2012

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The Age of Encouraging the Aged to stay in education (Big Little Thing #3)

Too many educational leaders are ageists. With life expectancy growing, some of our most productive, wise, caring professionals are going to be older. It is unfair and just wrong to stereotype the "young" as the best teachers and the old as "irrelevant."

Grace Adkins, 83 year old Learning Lab Leader who rides her bike 12 miles a night
Mrs. Adkins is one of the greatest teachers I know. She is head of our learning lab and close to 83. She bikes 12 miles a day, takes home the testing folders of 3 children a weekend (just to think and pray over them) and is unafraid to call anyone about a problem. I want to be like her.

If she had retired eighteen years a go, two of my own children would have missed her attention and pondering. I'm thinking of my friend Heather Davis who is getting ready to move from Beijing, China to Guatemala to teach there next year. She is 63 (and won't mind me telling) and has hit the age that one is unwelcome to stay in China if you are from another country. She has to move and doesn't want to.

Betsy Caldwell, my teacher and my children's teacher
I teach next door to Betsy Caldwell who is by far, one of the best literature teachers I've ever known. She taught me how to write (and fixed almost everything but the comma splice and my use of effect/ affect - which I'm working on still) and has produced almost 10 published authors and counting. I don't know how old she is and don't care. I hope she teaches forever. She's better than ever.

I can thrive after 65
I know that someone a while back came up with 65 as "the age" to retire and I have friends here in Mitchell County who are getting ready to retire in their 40's from the public school system and start their lives over.

Many teachers are becoming eligible to retire. (I had heard that 1/3 of Georgia public school teachers would be eligible to retire by 2021 but am looking for that source and a recent European Commission report says this is a problem overseas as well.) Push them out the door to your hurt.

Many great things come with age. I am a better teacher because of the balance of older and younger at my school. There's something about having perspective from many different people and multiple generations.

I do not like the "digital immigrant" "digital native" metaphor because I think it promotes ageism. I'm 42 and have been using computers since I was 7. That would make me native. I know a child who has never used a computer and is in the eighth grade -- what is she? It is not when you were born but what you did with your life that determines your fluency with technology or your expertise as a teacher.

Keep the welcome mat out
We may even find that some teachers retire only to find that they want to come back. There are many hurdles in education that have made it an unfriendly place for teachers who care about kids. If a teacher is retiring, do yourself a favor, and have a reflection session with that teacher to hear directly what the obstacles are to learning. See if they have any desire to volunteer. They will tell you.

And make sure they know that they are welcome to come back and volunteer, mentor, or teach again. Burn bridges with the aged and your school will suffer.

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Big Little Thing #1: The student bathroom
Big Little Thing #2: Marry the percentages till death do you part
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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/16/2012

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/16/2012

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Big Little Thing #2: Marry the Percentages till Death do you part

When schools (or businesses) brag about percentage increases, I always think:
"You'll regret the day you take this course of action."

For example, Flat Classroom projects have sustained a 300% growth rate of project participants for the past few years but we stopped counting. Why? It just isn't sustainable. In the first year we had 23 students, then over 100, now over 3000 a semester just six years later.

The larger question should remain: are students learning? Are we helping teachers transform and improve their practice? The focus isn't the numbers for us. Children aren't numbers. Teachers aren't either. If we work passionately hard to help every child and classroom connect effectively then, IF THE TEACHER is willing to put in the effort, then we will accomplish something.

When you start talking about percentage increases, you'll reach a brick wall at some point and you'll kick yourself, especially when dealing with test scores which have a natural ceiling.

Additionally, if you look at how testing companies make their money, they make more money when kids have lower test scores because then their "official preparatory" content is needed. By nature, not everyone can be at the 100th percentile but they also know that educators and parents won't be happy until 100% of the kids are at the 100th percentile.

Percentages are the devil.

Big Little Thing #1: The student bathroom

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/15/2012

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Perspective Detectives

I looked up Cynthia Sandler's email in my gmail this morning and found that on February 14, 2011 she was emailing to see if she could join the Digiteen project. I feel like I've known her for much longer. She was already incredible in her technology prowess and I'd hesitate to stake claim to any of Cynthia's excellence - she did all that on her own. But her knowledge of how to integrate global collaboration into the classroom here - just 365 days later blows me away.

Perspective Detectives
Yesterday, she pitched her global project idea to the Flat Classroom Certified Teacher Group. It was at 10 am Eastern so I was working frantically at our junior class Valentine's booth about that time, but have been taking time to review the final project designs of the teachers who have successfully made it through the course. Cynthia's video is Perspective Detectives:
 

Cynthia (and many of the others) nailed it. Catchy name. Clear story of why we need this project. Strong multimedia "pitching" the project to other teachers. And she also has the knowledge to know the pitfalls and challenges of creating a massive project.

Yes, we've used the draft manuscript of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds as our training material for these teachers (as a result the book is really on its 8th or 9th version but that is a good thing.)

Time to birth new, excellent projects
The goal of our certified teacher program is the birth new projects. Some of them that really want to go global will ask us to provide them with resources and tools as part of our Flat Classroom incubator program and others will just head out and do it on their own. We're not super flashy but those who participate and excel in our projects have a very strong content knowledge coupled with an incredible work ethic.

It is hard to complete this course. It is not something you can just do in a minute or two on your spare time. The teachers go through the book, attend weekly meetings, reflect in their journals, and finally, they produce their own project proposal that they pitch to the group for feedback based upon what they've learned about project design. We want to help work through the kinks in our support group of co-learners before pitching to the world.

Can't hide my pride. To me, teaching is not about the teacher it is about seeing those you teach do incredible things. That is what it means to build a legacy. Many of you build legacies every day because you teach and share.

Just think about this. We don't give tests in our course. What is the point? But you do have to participate, engage in conversation, complete 15 challenges (the Flat Classroom 15) and design your own project. If you can do that, I think you've learned something.

Past Graduates
I have to brag on all our graduates, the class roster of graduates has some of the most incredible collaborators I've ever known so take a look at their bios.

You can do this!
Expect to hear many more of their stories in the future. I know that many of you out there aren't able to participate in the certified teacher program and I still think you're great! Excellent teachers who are strong in content knowledge, love kids, work hard, and behave nobly will always have my admiration. Just pick up the book, join our network, and do the challenges on your own. You can do this.


I hope that Cynthia will find others to join with her to make Perspective Detectives a reality!



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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/15/2012

  • This online Turbotest can be taken on computer or ipad using the browser. I'd like to see the final results in it. The biggest question is that if it is that predictive, why not use this sort of adaptive test for the ACTUAL SAT. It would save time and frustration.

    "To create a more efficient assessment tool, Kaplan Test Prep has teamed with Testive, an adaptive test development company, to create the first-ever adaptive 90-minute practice SAT that can reliably predict a test-taker’s score level.  Using computer adaptive algorithms developed at MIT and built upon decades of academic research on adaptive testing, the “Kaplan SAT TurboTest,” powered by Testive, can help students understand their current score without having to sit through a full-length 4-hour practice exam.

    The first and only computer-adaptive SAT practice test, the Kaplan SAT TurboTest creates an individualized test experience for each student by adjusting the difficulty of questions as the test progresses.  If a student answers a question correctly, the test difficulty level increases.  If a student gets a question wrong, the test gets easier.  By adapting to the test-taker’s ability, the SAT TurboTest is able to create an accurate picture of his or her predicted performance more efficiently, using fewer questions."

    tags: education adaptivetesting sat collegeboard news

  • Kaplan has released a free SAT turbo test. In 90 minutes, they say that you'll know approximately what your score will be on the SAT. This could be something you could do with students. They've made it so you can use your web browser and take this on the ipad. I'd like to see the output that comes at the end of it.

    tags: SAT teaching testing collegeprep edu_news

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/14/2012

  • President's day is next Monday in the United states. Here is an excellent collection of resources for students of all ages about the United States Presidents. There is also some great information for those who teach about the US government and how the electoral process works. This is perfect timing with the elections coming up. Monday would also be a good day to focus on government. 

    tags: education teaching presidentsday february

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Monday, February 13, 2012

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Big Little Thing #1: The Student Bathroom

Tom Peters is right. You can tell a lot about an organization by looking at the bathroom. The first chapter of The Little Big Things: 163 ways to pursue Excellence, Tom says:

"To me a clean and attractive and even imaginative loo is the best..."

He's talking about retail shops and he goes on to say that a nice employee restroom is even more indicative of the pride in an organization. I'm thinking back on the school's I've visited and I think this applies to schools as well.

A nice school bathroom shows how willing you are to seek excellence and pride even in the small things. In our school, although there is sometimes drawing on the bathroom walls, we as the faculty go in there enough that if it is there, it is usually gone pretty quickly. This is so hard to deal with, especially in the elementary boys bathroom (I'm sorry but there's no delicate way to talk about this.)

Think about it, besides the cafeteria, it is the one place that every student visits every day. Some schools have "wall paper" or school news posted behind stall doors. Others have paintings and inspiration. Others are not a fit place to have a mud fight.

Take the Big Little Challenge today: Inspect your school bathrooms
But I'd like to challenge your school administration to grab your clothes pin and take the plunge (not literally, please.) Some time between classes go into the bathrooms of your school and look at them. What do they say about your students? If a visitor came in and used the bathrooms, what would they think about your school? What do they say about your school?

Letting the little things go causes big problems
I think a big thing about education today is that the big things are a problem because we as educators have let so many little things go? We let things slide because we have plenty of excuses.

If we don't teach students to clean up after themselves and if we don't get these bathrooms clean to begin with, what will the bathrooms in society look like in 20 years. We know that many parents don't teach children to keep things clean, but we should teach it in schools in a kind, but positive way.

The little things in your classroom make a big difference
For me, it is my room. I've had a clean room for a year and a half now. My equipment is in pristine condition largely because of the message I'm sending my students. In my daily routine, I schedule in a 5 minute room clean up every day and a deeper clean 15 minutes a week. 

"But Vicki, the janitor is supposed to do that."

Sure, the janitor is in my room and does that. But he doesn't wipe around my electrical equipment and he certainly can't be expected to clean my desk. I get out the 409 and wipe everything down and use my microfiber cloth to get the dust off my computers once a week.

Although some students don't clean up after themselves, more of them do clean up in my classroom. It is because pride begins with me. It is such a little thing but it makes a big difference.


I'm also going to take a tip from Tom Peters and start talking about these big little things on my blog too.

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/13/2012

  • The 2012 horizon report is out. It reveals the trends for higher education in the next 1-4 years.

    "This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Game-based learning and learning analytics are seen in the second horizon of two to three years; gesture-based computing and the Internet of Things are seen emerging in the third horizon of four to five years. View the work that produced the report on the wiki."

    tags: education news

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/13/2012

  • Debate is something that many schools have removed from their curriculum. This is a simple way to pull in debate to compete with other schools around the world asychronously using voicethread. It is free and open to middle school classrooms around the world. Here is the application form.

    tags: flatclass eracism debate

  • There is a great opportunity to be a virtual participant for our Flat Classroom workshop at ASB Unplugged. Virtual participants will skype in (if possible) but if not, will participate asychronously by leaving thoughts on the wiki and interacting with participants on the Ning. This is a great way to "meet" students from other countries and participate as a full participant in the workshop while not leaving your school or home. Some teachers sign up their classes as participants. Applications due Friday, February 17, 2012

    tags: education flatclass globaled

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/12/2012

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 02/11/2012

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 02/10/2012

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Learning about Learning: Research and Edreform News and Views 02/10/2012

  • This "nerdy" handshake by two Ivy leage basketball players now in the NBA is making rounds. One player opens a book,the other flips imaginary pages, they put on their glasses and put them in their pockets -now ready to play. I like this in many ways. I'm going to study and learn and then put up my glasses and get out there and DO. (My paper or pavement post a few days back.)

    tags: education news popculture sports learning

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/10/2012

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Education needs paper and pavement people

Pavement rubber band
Pavement rubber band (Photo credit: nicolasnova)
When surveying writers, I always scrutinize their resume to see if the person is a paper or a pavement kind of person.

A paper person has read a lot of paper and perhaps written a lot of paper. He knows the theories and how things should work.She read a lot of studies and may know a lot of people. There is certainly a place for paper.

A pavement person hits the pavement every day. She is doing it. He speaks from experiences that are real and that happened yesterday or today. She is very practical.

I think that the most successful educators are paper and pavement. I know college professors who are always talking to teachers. Who are looking at research studies for practical applications. These professors care about their own teaching practice as well and are on the pavement teaching in their own class.

Paper Tigers can devour learning
When we have to be afraid is when paper rules the day. We have too much of this. WE literally have "paper tigers" (pardon the pun but it fits) who are telling us to do things in the classroom that we know won't work. I've seen lesson plans in books that I wouldn't dream of doing. All neat and tidy, I wouldn't even try it with my students.

Pavement people can be a bit more messy and kind of dirty. Their lesson plans may be messy but full of rich learning.

Misapplication of best practice
The danger of best practices is to lose the context of the teacher, student, and local school in the implementation. I may dive perfectly according to a best practice, but if I'm pointing the wrong way on the diving board, I'm going to hit the cement.

Questions for those who spend more time with paper:

  • Do you have pavement in your paper? Are you reading relevant, practical examples from those DOING what you're studying?
  • Are you reading across a wide variety of people doing the job (not just award winners)?
  • Do you talk to or know people who do this job and listen to their thoughts?
  • Are you willing to listen when people doing the tasks tell you that your paper doesn't line up with the practice they see every day?
  • Do you treat "pavement" people in your profession with respect?
Questions for those who hit the pavement every day:
  • Do you read paper and learn about best practice from others?
  • Are you willing to integrate and learn from others?
  • Do you look at the research and see what you can do better relating to that research?
  • Do you know or talk to those who are "paper" experts who can help you see the big picture?
  • Do you treat "paper" people in your profession with respect?
On paper... bumblebees can't fly. In the real world, they fly every day. 

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 02/09/2012

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K-2 Project Forming Now


ANNOUNCING!

Flat Classroom K-2 project ‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’


Note: As part of our mission, we are piloting new projects with our Flat Classroom certified teachers running as lead innovators. Our goal is to make global collaboration simple and part of what we do. We had kindergarten teachers saying they are ready and we believe them. This is a pilot project this semester and teachers may want to be a bit more proficient as this is in "pilot" mode and lots of innovation, discussions, and working out best practices with K-2 will happen at this point.


Press release, February 7, 2012

Announcing, the Flat Classroom K-2 'Building Bridges to Tomorrow' Project! Co-founders of Flat Classroom, Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, are excited to be able to offer this global collaborative project to classrooms around the world. This project will run as a pilot for the coming semester, March-April 2012 and be open to Prep/Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 classrooms (4-7 year old students).

Can very young students effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate in a global project? What does this look like? What products can students in mixed classroom teams co-create? What activities and structure can we design and implement to scaffold this collaboration? There are many wonderful opportunities out there already for students to connect using technology tools. However the aim in this project is also to encourage students in different places to collaborate, not just communicate, and to enhance understanding of cultures and life styles beyond the immediate environment.

We invite teachers who believe global collaboration has a place in their classroom. We invite those who want to improve digital citizenship and cultural understanding, leading to global competency amongst students and teachers. We invite teachers who have some digital fluency and access to digital tools who want to use them in meaningful ways to connect with others and learn together.

The ‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’ call for applications is open now! Classrooms will be selected for the pilot and announced before the end of February. Following a teacher kick-off meeting, classrooms will work collaboratively through March and April with final products and celebrations taking place late April and into May.

We are looking for teachers who are creative and able to work collaboratively to help us build a meaningful experience for the classrooms and the wider school communities. Apply now!  

‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’ is part of the series of Flat Classroom Projects created by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. Find out more from the Flat Classroom website, and from our recently released book, “Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time”.

Application Form for Building Bridges to Tomorrow: http://tinyurl.com/flatclassK-2 
Flat Classroom Projects: http://flatclassroomproject.net
Flat Classrooms Teacher Network: http://flatclassrooms.ning.com 
Contact us: fcp@flatclassroom.org
Directors, Vick Davis and Julie Lindsay
For more about the pedagogy and benefits of adding global collaboration to your curriculum, buy Julie and Vicki's book Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds from Pearson Publishing.  www.flatclassroombook.com
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