Flat Classroom Educator Group

Flat Classroom Certified teacher, Aaron Maurer, has designed an implemented this global project that shares the excitement of the Bald Eagle life cycle with friends around the world.

"This year Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK, has been awarded $1 million in seed-funding for his wish to design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. He hopes to build a School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online."

This is MUST READ article. Voicethread is an essential tool in the K-12 classroom - at all levels.

Vicki Davis talking about what 'flattening the classroom' means.

Great 2 min videos made by teachers for the K-12 Ambassador Project New Media Consortium.

Honor Morman, a Flat Classroom Certified Teacher, shares her thoughts about introducing global collaboration into the curriculum. "Here's what two of my students said about our participation in the Flat Classroom Project, a 12-week project in which we collaborated with 15 other classes in seven different countries to create a vision for the future of education and society based on emerging technologies and the characteristics of the net generation: "[I learned] how important it is to be a member of a global society-communicating globally and working together as a global community is the only way we can solve global issues and improve the lives of all of us. Communicating and collaborating via the web with global partners is how we will do it in future." -Lara "[Participating in this project helped me become] a global leader, able to communicate important global ideas and different perspectives across cultures and borders and share those ideas for the betterment of my community and the world." -Katherine"

Excellent blog post by @ToscaKilloran about coding using Scratch - from an amazing PYP teacher in Germany who really gets it! Great resources - video and websites - shared. Love it when she says, "However, the real goal rests not in the student's ability to code, but the complex network of skills that are contained within coding. Among other things, this entails thinking logically and algorithmically but also creatively, and collaboratively."

Announcing! Michael Furdyk Frank Guttler Anne Mirtschin Chris Betcher Kristina Stoney Ann S. Michaelsen Flat Connections Conference @mfurdyk @frankguttler @murcha @betchaboy @Kristinastoney @annmic

November 18-22. Great opportunities! I am keynoting!

Great guide!

Wonderful blog post about a teacher's experience with wiki collaboration. Everyone should read this - it's funny, yet true.

See more handshakes on the K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow project website - http://k-213-2bridges.flatclassroomproject.org/

Louis Morgan shares her discovery of global projects for her Gr2 class.

First graders from Dallas, Texas share their 'handshake' introduction via this video for the K-2 Building Bridges to Tomorrow global collaborative project, a Flat Classroom Project.

Free online course for 6 weeks starts Oct 15....looks interesting

Pinterest of global classroom projects across the world! You must explore this and go global this year. Thank you Wezie Morgan for compiling this!