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.
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
22.
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
26.
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
45. SYMBIOSIS
the relation between
two different species of
organisms that are
interdependent; each
gains benefits from the
other
wordnetweb.princeton.
edu/perl/webwn
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.
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Julie: Our aim is to create projects and opportunities across all levels of education. Right now we have FCP and NetGenEd for high school, Digiteen for upper ES, MS and HS, AWL for upper ES, Eracism for MS HS and our new pilot this semester is Building Bridges to Tomorrow for K-2 level – over 40 classrooms from about more than 10 countries