Friday, June 11, 2010

The Flat Classroom Project, developed by Vicki Davis has fascinated and inspired me. It has continued since 2006. Davis's classroom broke down traditional walls, as students reached out to global partners in a collaborative journey of learning. Their project was named after and dedicated to Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat. An overview of this project and ideas on stretching one's digital classroom boundaries Navigate the Digital Waters can be found at http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vztth6
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  1. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher10:45 AM

    Thank you for sharing about the Flat Classroom project and let me know if you have any questions. It has been transformational for many of the schools who have jumped in. It has also been challenging for other school as it requires a pretty steep learning curve as teachers learn how to coach students as they create wikis, create videos and send video around the world to their partners in other classrooms! Thank you for the mention and I'm just a comment away and will be following the thread here if you have any questions! Thank you for the mention!

    We are taking this nonprofit since Ning is now charging so that we can keep it free for teachers and schools that want to participate.

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  2. tknudtson7412:08 AM

    I read the article about navigating the Digital Waters and it really resounded with me. I thoroughly enjoyed the analogy to a rafting trip where many of the big obstacles are right in the beginning. My High school is going 1:1 this year so all students will have a laptop. Many teachers are worried about this and digital citizenship is something we all agree we must teach kids. We have yet to decide how to do that so I am going to make sure it is something I incorporate into my classroom as we go. I would love to be able to download and add programs as necessary to my computer at school, but I have to have the IT department do it also. At this point we don't even have access to YouTube, which would be invaluable. This was a great resource I will go back to from time to time. Thanks for providing a link.

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  3. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher12:10 PM

    That is great tk! Thank you for the compliment!

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