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A flat world - Flat Classroom Project - 11 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Everyone has different views, different things they are good at, and different things they know. In a classroom, the teacher used to stand in front of the students, and lecture all day long. Now many of those teachers have started to teach "horizontally". This means that the teacher doesn't necessarily stand in front of her class and lecture, but works with the class, not only teaching them, but allowing them to teach her new things as well.
  • I personally do not learn well by having someone lecture me, it is very easy to get distracted, and by learning horizontally, I can interact with my teacher and classmates, and I feel like I learn so much more, because not only do I pay attention, but the fact that I am interacting, and experiencing what she is teaching helps out a lot.
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Oct 09
     
    I love these views from my student and her use of the term "horizontal" teaching - I think she has inadevertently hit on a very important concept for us teachers to understand. "Everyone has different views, different things they are good at, and different things they know. In a classroom, the teacher used to stand in front of the students, and lecture all day long. Now many of those teachers have started to teach "horizontally". This means that the teacher doesn't necessarily stand in front of her class and lecture, but works with the class, not only teaching them, but allowing them to teach her new things as well. This video gave me different opinions and opened my mind to a flattened world. I agree in many ways with Mr Friedman, because I personally do not learn well by having someone lecture me, it is very easy to get distracted, and by learning horizontally, I can interact with my teacher and classmates, and I feel like I learn so much more, because not only do I pay attention, but the fact that I am interacting, and experiencing what she is teaching helps out a lot."
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Oct 09
     
    Love this phrase "horizontal learning"
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International classroom collaboration on the worldwide web - 6 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 28 Nov 11
     
    An overview of International collaboration on the World wide web. It does mention our Flat Classroom projects, although they left out our biggest projec t- "A WEek in the Life" elementary project which is almost topping 1000 this semester! 
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Virtual Participants for Flat Classroom Conference 2013 Japan - Sign up Here - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 22 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 22 Feb 13
     
    The Flat Classroom conference is coming up March 7-10. We have an option for receiving credit (if you're international) and also for full participation. Virtual participants are an important part of our face to face conference as we seek to create experiences that flatten the conference as we collaborate in a problem-based environment. You'll have a team and work with them to create a project that can be brought to the world based upon principles that WORK. Click on this link to learn more about how you can participate in the conference remotely FOR FREE. ;-) We want you.
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Education Report on Houston TV station about flat classroom - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 05 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 05 Dec 08
     
    A video about the students in Texas and their struggle to raise money to come to the Flat Classroom conference - this is a great piece and captures so much of the essence of what makes this project so special - it is so much bigger than any of us and a HUGE undertaking for any teacher - but is so worth it. I find it so interesting that so many schools don't have "room" in their curriculum for these experiences.
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E-Learning Journeys: Flattening the World Again: Flat Classroom Project 2008 Invitation - 0 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 21 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 21 Aug 08
     
    Flat Classroom Project hosted by Julie Lindsay of Qatar Academy in Doha.
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Flat Classroom Conference Website - 9 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Mar 10
     
    This is the website for the Flat Classroom conference. The 2011 conference will be in Beijing China and registration information will be posted within the next month. We are very excited about next year's conference. There are two strands which join together and separate at various times depending upon learning outcomes in this unique project based learning conference experience.
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Education Week: U.S. Schools Forge Foreign Connections Via Web - 3 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Suzie Nestico on 03 Feb 12
     
    Extensive examples of classroom practice for global education, with one being Flat Classroom Project.  
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Successful Online Presentation Skills for Students - 13 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 19 Sep 11
     
    With more than 30% of high school students now taking at least one class online and almost 20% of middle schoolers, it is time to understand the nuances of engaging in online classrooms and presenting online. As part of the Flat Classroom project, co-founder, Vicki Davis, has helped thousands of students learn how to present online. Learn the tips and tricks to help students engage quickly and be successful in online spaces (and make it easier for you to manage as well.) This free webinar is Tuesday, September 19, 2011 at 3pm Eastern Time. Register now and join us.
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flatclassroomproject2008 » Judges - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08
     
    Need 2008 flat classroom judges.
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Nov 08
     
    We need judges for this year's project!!!! Please learn more and join in and help!! You'll learn how a project like this works and many judges go on to make their own project -- you'll have 4-5 videos to produce depending on the number of judges that sign up.
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» And the 2008 winners are…. The Edublog Awards - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Dec 08
     
    2008 awards were so suprising to me. Thank you to those who voted for Cool Cat Teacher for best teacher blog and the Flat Classroom project 2008 for best educational wiki. Thank you so much! So many great award winners here AND great people who were finalists also. There are many new gems among the finalists and I hope you'll take time to look there as well.
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TEDActive 2011: Projects: Education - 5 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Suzie Nestico on 10 Mar 11
     
    #TEDActiveEDU How can we empower kids to reshape the education system?  Fantastic idea worth spreading started by Steve Hargadon on March 3, 2011 calling students to action in speaking up about their education. Our Flat Classroom Keynote from Mount Carmel Area High School "Student Perspective ~ Change Matters" was one of the top 10 videos.
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Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You - PC World - 2 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09
     
    Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.
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Project idea / help-- India and identity - Flat Classrooms - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 28 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 28 Jan 09
     
    Teacher wanting to connect from London, England.
  • Vicki Davis on 28 Jan 09
     
    This teacher, Kelly, is interested in starting a project focusing on India in mid-/February 2009. She's located in London. Anyone interested? She has 8th grade students. If so, please contact her on this page.
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"Unprecedented Force for Change"-Dan Tapscott's Keynote - Horizon Project 2008 - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Dan Tapscott, Horizon Project 2008’s keynote speaker, gave me insight and inspiration for the project. His knowledgeable comments on the baby boom generation were incredible and it amazed me that he decided to make his entire living on the study of the digital generation, the generation that I am a part of.
  • I am a part of the generation that is an “unprecedented force for change,” and we are actively inducing and creating change that will be beneficial and relevant to the world today and tomorrow.
  • I agree that technology must be at the center of this change in order for it to be effective.
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  • Enter technology; students can learn from each other by collaboration through technological advances such as wikis, blogs, You Tube, Facebook, and projects such as Flat Classroom and Horizon.
  • I really agree with both of what you two are saying, but my question remains, (in an attempt not to sound too cynical): how is this going to happen? I know that Dan Tapscott seeks to view change in the education system, but my question is, how is this going to happen?
  • with our advanced, technological world, we must not only acknowledge the new technologies emerging but we must gain knowledge on how to use them.
  • f school became an interactive place where both students and teachers put their two cents in: teachers teaching students, students teaching students, teachers sharing ideas and students executing these ideas-school would be great. If we all focus on change and ways to make interactive learning better we could reach so many people! Not only can we interact with each other but we can raise awareness and pose solutions on the many issues regarding education.
  • Teachers are no longer “transmitters of data,” but active participants in the student’s learning process.
  • but the real issue is, in so many places education is rigid and all about regurgitation of information. How do we look past that? Is it a mindset that we need to learn how to transgress, or is it a gradually changing aspect?
  • Vicki Davis on 15 Apr 08
     
    Students talking about trends on the Horizon report are amazing me!
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Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
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  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
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