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Flat Classroom Energy Sources

Students' Intrinsic need to:

To work in responsive information environments,
To communicate,
To share personal experience & Identity,
To Ask questions,
To Accomplish,
To form community,
To invest themselves,
To safely make mistakes,
To have audience and attention.

Audience Chat, "Our Students • Our Worlds." Miami Country Day School. Multipurpose Room, Miami. 14 Aug 2007.

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Presentation Description

You can not attend any kind of conference today without someone standing in front of you and saying, "You must read The World is Flat," by New York Times columnist, Tom Friedman. This enormously popular and influential work has made the case for a world that is increasingly global, where industry is crossing political boarders, and not only purchasing the natural resources of other countries, but also contracting for the intellectual talent that is located any place where there is an Internet connection.

How do classrooms, that have traditionally assumed their dominance in producing the information age workers, adapt to an increasingly connected planet, where people can export their talent, regardless of the geography? ..and what does a flat classroom look like, where learning comes less from the gravity of hierarchy and more from the construction and maintenance of a well oiled learning engine.

Presentation Slide

New Story Sources

Her are some recommended readings for examining our Flattening world.

The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
Flight of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida
Got Game, by John Beck & Mitchell Wade
As the Future Catches You, by Juan Enriquez
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig
The Next Fifty Years, by John Brockman (editor)
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
The Search by John Batelle
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

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