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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012) will be held in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan. Participants will be able to interact, discuss and exchange ideas with the aim of stimulating more exciting ideas for future research. The conference aims to promote a new line of research and practice that highlights both social and technological innovation in order to support and amalgamate contemporary social learning theories. The conference will be held jointly with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012).

HSBC Bank signing on as the sponsor of the Flat Classroom Conference.

So excited about HSBC bank signing as the major sponsor of the Flat Classroom conference - major kudos to Julie Lindsay and Qatar Academy!! It makes me exceptionally proud to see the STUDENTS in this picture as this conference is about reengineering the place of students in educational conferences and making them the part of the future of education. If you want to attend, sign up now, as the spaces will be limited!

I love this video that George Haines and the students made about the experience of having students from around the world come together at the Flat Classroom conference. This is what they said about the conference - a phrase that the students coined and carried through the conference. Boy, what a great experience.

When the students got together at the conference and came up with this saying. Learning not to stereotype and how to connect to solve our world's problems. This is what we are doing!

We are working towards this year's Flat Classroom Conference which will be held in conjunction with ASB Unplugged (since we are sharing opening ceremonies we are calling it a mini-conference.) The same powerful learning from last year's conference will be there and you as the teacher and your students will come away transformed! This is the application form and we do have some scholarships and host families for students although we do not have scholarships for airfare. This is in February and applications for scholarships and student attendees are due by October 31, 2009. This wiki has all the information.

This is my second resource to my flattener #10 research 

Flat Classroom® Conference heads to Europe (Germany December 6-8, 2012) and Asia (Japan March 8-12, 2013) - here's the information you need to get started to plan your trip!! Bring your students and join us! I'm taking a group of students to Germany so if you want to come early and tour with us, let me know! http://bit.ly/KchopE

The Ning for the upcoming conference in January -- it is REALLY Happening - I'm so excited!

The conference in January.

I love this reflection from the flat classroom conference. This is my favorite movie that I like to share.

This is what happens when students connect online. They learn to trust people.

Article written in India newspaper about the Flat Classroom and Flat Classroom conference held in Mumbai. I loved this quote: "To become what the project aspires won't actualise without delivering on imperatives of access and inclusion. Consequently, the idea 'How can I include those who are not like me' underlined most discussions at the conference. There, says Davis, Web2.0, far from being a cultural flattener, is "a culture enhancing tool. It lets students who don't travel, travel virtually, and makes them see where cultural disconnects are happening." For a first-hand experience of these gaps, participants visited Akanksha and Aseema schools that reach out to the underprivileged. One Australian participant came back and told her remote virtual classmates: "Today I stepped through the gaps between the rich and the poor, from Aseema to ASB.""

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor from its inception until 1999. He is currently completing a book for Viking/Penguin publishers called "What Technology Wants," due out in the Fall 2010. He is also editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

Announcement on the ASB website of our Flat Classroom Workshop/mini-Conference to be held at ASB Unplugged in Mumbai, February 2010

Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Offline software programs are connecting online.

This photograph snapped by five students from five different countries at the flat classroom conference says it all.

I love this article from Pennsylvania about Suzy Nestico's class participation in the Flat Classroom project and the Flat Classroom conference. Many in pennsylvania have struggled because of their restrictive rules. Suzy gets it done. "The Flat Classroom Project, cofounded by Julie Lindsay, Beijing, China and Vicki Davis, Camilla, Ga., speaks to the very heart of Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future initiative and 21st Century learning, Nestico said. It utilizes technologies such as a Ning and Wikispaces that allow students to collaborate with other students around the world to peer edit and design a variety of multimedia, despite location and cultural barriers, much like how the real world is starting to work. Each student works with an international partner to create a multimedia presentation based on one of the 10 "Global Economic Flatteners," as described by Thomas L. Friedman in his book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century." Nestico learned of the Flat Classroom concept while completing her master's degree in education at Wilkes University, and felt it would give her students an opportunity to explore cultural and political issues without ever having to leave home. After participating in the projects with multiple classes over the past year-and-a-half, new doors opened and, now, students are beginning to meet face-to-face, she said. Students are not just doing education, they are living it, creating it, and ultimately, reshaping what it will look like for others in the future, Nestico said." Great byline that gets to the heart of what we're doing.

Article highlighting Mount Carmel Area's participation in the Flat Classroom Conference in Mumbai, India

why virtual communication is helpful? examples are included

Click below to find online resources specific to these Cambridge titles: Click on a star to vote (14 Votes) Greetings, all. Hope life is treating you well. Just back from another stimulating conference so lots of ideas buzzing around my head.

this is a website I found that contains virtual conferences and shows us how the world is changing.

This talks about business evolution from phone conferences to virtual communication

This site has a selection of papers from the 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE)

Massively Open Online Courses are the discussion in Open Education -- I think the important thing is that students want to CONNECT around content - it is the relationships and connections that are so amazing more than just the content. People with a common passion are connecting through the content. The content becomes a conduit.  "Consider Stanford's experience: Last fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in an Artificial Intelligence course taught by Mr. Thrun and Peter Norvig, a Google colleague. An additional 200 registered for the course on campus, but a few weeks into the semester, attendance at Stanford dwindled to about 30, as those who had the option of seeing their professors in person decided they preferred the online videos, with their simple views of a hand holding a pen, working through the problems. Mr. Thrun was enraptured by the scale of the course, and how it spawned its own culture, including a Facebook group, online discussions and an army of volunteer translators who made it available in 44 languages. "Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again," he said at a digital conference in Germany in January. "I feel like there's a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I've taken the red pill, and I've seen Wonderland."