The Flat Classroom...a lead to quad blogging.
Flat Classroom Project is an award winning global collaborative project for students in Grades 3 -12, inspired by Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, and leverages Web 2.0 tools to foster communication and interaction as well as collaboration and creation between students and teachers from classrooms around the world.
The goal of the Flat Classroom Project is to create global collaborative projects and maintain workspaces for students (at all school levels) and educators around the world. The aim is to provide bridging between students, educators, trainee teachers, and post-secondary education institutions.
By "flattening" the walls of the traditional classroom, participating classes essentially become one large virtual classroom, co-taught by participating teachers, via the Internet and a combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. The project is designed to:
By "flattening" the walls of the traditional classroom, participating classes essentially become one large virtual classroom, co-taught by participating teachers, via the Internet and a combination of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. The project is designed to:
- develop cultural understanding;
- further skills with Web 2.0 and other software tools;
- provide experience in global collaboration and online learning;
- raise awareness of what it means to live and work in a globalised world;
- encourage research and discussion around the ideas developed in Friedman's core text.[4
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