Flat+Classroom+Project

The  [|Flat Classroom™ Project] is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded. The project was co-founded by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. The Project uses Web 2.0 tools to make communication and interaction between students and teachers from all participating classrooms easier. The topics studied and discussed are real-world scenarios based on '[|The World is Flat]' by Thomas Friedman. Students in this project will experience a deeper understanding of the effects of technology on our world that leads students to not only study but actually experience the flatteners,students are grouped with global partners to explain trends, give personal viewpoints and create a video containing an outsourced video segment from their global partners use a ning for social networking, blogging, posting photos, videos etc and and a wiki, to plan their topic and build a web page on the topic, assessed on a common criterion based rubric, has real-life flavours of deadlines, accountability and interdependence completed videos are judged by global judges,student summit, using Elluminate, to complete the project.
 * FLAT CLASSROOM PROJECT.**